Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-06
Robinson and @. L. Derandemie, secre

A Salt Lake dispatch of the Gath Gays:
"The Grand Jury has adjourned until
Tuesday. There are exciting rumors that
high dignitaries of the Mormon Church
are to be indicted. Squads of men are
arriving tonight, said to be the Mormon
militia. 1t is generally thought there is
crisis. The Mormons laugh and keep
their own counsel"
A dispatch from Raleigh N. O., On the
23d, says ten Ku.Klux prisoners were
convicted of assault, and the Justice SEN
fenced them, two to six years imprison-
ment and a fine of $4,000 each, and the
others TO terms ranging from six months
to FIVE years, and a fine in proportion.
Judge Underwood, United States Dis
trict Judge for Virginia, has written let
ter, in which he says he feels very conf
dent that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution, together
with the enforcement act of May 81, 1871,
have secured the right to vote to the fe.
male citizens of Virginia as fully as now
exists and enjoyed by male citizens
The smallpox has been prevailing to
considerable extent at Lowell, Mass. The
Board of Health reports eighty-three new
cases during the week ending September
23, and five deaths.
1t was reported in New York on the
25th that ANDY" Garvey, the celebrated
Tammany plasterer, had disappeared, and
left for parts unknown. The examination
of Hagerty and B ilch, charged with steal.
ing vouchers from the Comptrollers Office,
was resumed on the 25th Mary Conway
was examined at length, but no new de-
velopments The case was adjourned un-
til the Goth.
The Democratic elements opposed to
Tammany had meeting on the evening
of the 29d, and perfected arrangements to
inaugurate formal campaign against the
present system of the city government.
The Chairman of the meeting, Samuel G.
Courtney, in his address, declared that
the auspices under which the work had
been begun foreshadows its success.
TIE subcommittee for the examination
of witnesses in reference to the condition
of affairs in the Southern States, on the
25th examined William G. Whipple, of
arkansas, and adjourned sine die. The
subcommittee, appointed 10 procure sur-
ther documentary and official information
in regard to the financial administration,
taxation, election laws, etc, in the South
ern States, organized and agreed upon a
circular letter calling for such infOrma-
ton, which will be addressed 10 the ex-
ecutive officers of State governments and
several of the principal cities. This sub
committee then adjourned, to meet again
in Washington on November i.
The extra encsmpment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, Department of IL
linois, originally called to convene at
Springfield, September 81, has been post
poned on account of the State Fair, to
October II.
The amendment to the Constitution of
California, prohibiting an appropriation of
money by the Legislature for any pur
pose whatever for longer period than
two years, was ratified at the late election
by large MAORI Y. The act proposing
the refunding of the State debt in new six
per cent twenty year bonds was lost
The case OF Mrs Wharton came up, at
Baltimore, for trial, on the 25th, but was
postponed, as Mrs. Wharton was too i'll to
appear.
The New Orleans Bee publishes letter
from Professor Agissiz denying that he
predictei tidal wave would occur along
the Gulf coast in October.
According to dispatches of the 25th,
cases of yello " fever had occurred at New
Orleans, Nstchez, Miss, Vicksburg, and
other points in the South.
A New York telegram of the 26th says
the steamer Humboldt was detained at
quarantine, having, it is reported, case
of cholera on board.
At meeting of the Tammsny Society,
at New York, on the evening of the 25th,
the present officers were re. elected, includ.
ing Tweed as President.
There was terrible powder explosion
at Rsnd's powder mill, four miles west of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, on the morning Of
the Goth. One ton and half of powder
was burned. One man, Augustus Schultz,
was killed, his body being horribly man.
gled. Several persons made miraculous
escapes. The report was heard in Pough.
keepsie, and in Rhinebeck, on the Hudson.
In the former place, bulldogs were shaken
and doors slammed.
A Santa Fe, N. NJ, dispatch of the 28,h
says the official uniting of votes shows
that Gallegos, Democrat, received 1870;
Chteves, Republican, 5,2S5; Sena, Inde-
pendent 1854. -Four precincts thrown
out for informalities would probably have
increased Gallegos' majority. The Legis-
lature stands: Senate-Democratic, g.;
Republican, 8; Independent, 2. House
Democratic, III Republican, II; Inde-
pendent, 4. Both parties claim power.
Recent gales on the lakes have caused
great loss of vessels and in some instances
loss of lives. The bark O. H. Hurd Cap
tain w. o. Harrison, was wrecked off the
Manitous. There were twelve persons on
board nine men, the captain and his wife
and child, and all perished except the cap.
tain, who managed to clutch a floating spar
to which he held on until he was drifted
ashore on the Southern Island, where he
was picked up in an exhausted condition
by some of the inhabitants. He was re.
suscitated, but it is feared he would not
live long.
President Grant and family accompa.
MED the chicsgo & Southwestern Rail-
road excursiouists to Kansas ON the Goth,
The excursion was given in honor of the
formal opening of the Chicago & South
western Railroad from Chicago to Leaven-
worth.
An Omaha dispatch of the Goth says
"ofIicial and unofficial returns have been
received from all but fourteen counties
upon the vote upon the new constitution,
showing that, without a doubt, the docu-