Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-01

The following appointments were made
by the President on the 21st Francis A.
Walker present Superintendent of Cen.
sus, is Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
NJ w. Reynolds, Receiver of Public Mo
neys at Humboldt, Kansas.
Treasurer Spinner reports that the re-
ceipts of the fiscal year, including a bal.
ance of $40, ,502, All in the treasury June
30, 1870, were $0SO904 ,840 expendi.
lures, $3.50, 9S6,S72; balance in treasury
June 30, 1871, $1O9, ,S17477. The total
number of National Banks June 30, 1871,
was 1 $3.50.
Governor Palmer has designated No
vember 30 as Thanksgiving Day in ILL
nois,
The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court
in Chicago, in a report on the Goth, say
they fully indorse and commend the
action of Mayor Mason and General Sher.
idan in taking the means they did to pro
tect the city at the time of the fire. They
also refused to indict young Treat for the
shooting of Col. Grosvenor while the for.
mer was doing patrol duty under com.
mand of Frank Sherman.
Acting Governor c'onley, of Georgia,
has vetoed the bill ordering a special cleo
tion to fill the vacancy caused by Governor
Bullock's resignation.
Recent dispatches from Matamoras say
the revolutionary movement was becom-
ing general in Mexico. General Rocha
was marching to the relief of Saltillo. The
place was severely pressed by the revolu-
tionists, so that a speedy issue of the con-
test at that point was imminent Mexican
citizens had subscribed money for the re-
lief of Chicago and for the aid of sufferers
by the fire in Wisconsin.
A st. Thomas dispatch of the 18th says
the Captain of the steamer Florida, then
in that port, had called upon the American
Consul and demanded protection, stating
that he was ready to proceed to sea, but
was afraid on account of the Spanish war
vessel.
The Solicitor of the Treasury decides
that any passing steamboat carrying
petroleum contrary to law is subject to
seizure but the oil itself is not also, that
when carried according to law, all
petroleum must be marked at what degree
of Fahrenheit it will ignite, and the trans
portation of coal oil on passenger steam
ers is entirely forbidden.
j. +. White, of Illinois, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Superintendent of the
railway mail service, Fifth Division,
vice George w. Wood, resigned.
The Grand Duke Alexis arrived in
The depot was thronged with large
crowd anxious to see him. He was the
guest of Minister Catacazy.
The freight and passenger steamer City
of New London, from New York for
Norwich, Conn, was burned on the morn
ing of the 22d, in the Thames River.
There were seven passengers on hoard, nf
whom Wm. T. Norton, c. b. Rogers and
Harrison r. Aldrich, of Norwich, were
lost The officers and deck hands known
to be lost are William p. Ely, Hamburg,
Conn, second mate; NJ. w. Baker, Nor
wich engineer; Henry Dugan, New Lon
don, steward; Webster Cooper, second
cook; Frank Flowers, waiter; Warren
Mitchell, oiler; Driscoll Sullivan, Patrick
Mahoney and Thomas Rourke deck
hands.
Henry ]. Stebbins was, on the 22d
sworn in as Tweed's successor to the Com
missionership of the Department of Public
Works of New York city. The Commit
tee of Seventy approved of the acceptance
by Stebbins of the appointment
Official returns of the recent Illinoi,
election for Congressman-at- Large, from
all the counties in the State but Lawrence
give Beveridge, Republican, 1876, 441
Hayes, 1864; majority for Beveridge
1857. Lawrence County would proba
bly, reduce Beveridge's majority few hun
dred.
There are twenty-three colored men il
the Legislature of Georgia-four Senator,
and nineteen Representatives.
Lieutenant Governor Dunn died at New
Orleans ON the 22d The business of the
city was suspended on the Esd out of re
spect to the deceased.
The Georgia Legislature has passed the
Election Bill for Governor over the acting
Governors veto, by more than two-third
majority.
A dispatch from Washington to tn,
New York Herald of the 23d says that re
liable information of the real object o
the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis to tn,
United States reports that "he is charged
with mission of an important anC
delicate character to our government, /
being nothing less than proposal for al
alliance, offensive and defensive, between
the two nations. A European war is ap
pretended, and Russia believes that will
the active aid of the United States, or as
sisted by an extensive privateering fleet
under Russian letters of marque, sh,
could defy all Europe"
The Grand Duke Alexis was formally
received by the President, at the Whit
House, on the 23d.
The Union Republican National Com
} mittee has been called to meet in Wash
ington city at II o'clock in the forenoon
of Thursday, January II, 1872, to fix tn
time and place of holding the next Re
publican National Convention.
} The grand total of subscriptions re
ceved up to the 23d by the New Yorl
, Chamber of Commerce Committee for tn
J Relief of Chicago and the Northwes
foots up 5000, ,S1067,
Rev, Alexander Ellis (colored), of Bos
ton, has recovered $40O damages from tn
NaTagansett Steamship Company for re
, fusing him seat a. the table of tn
steamer Providence.
The Illinois River, at Peoria, froze owe
on the night of the 22d, and navigation
for the season was thought to be closed
Robert b. Prentiss, Grand Master o
Odd Fellows of Virginia, died on tn
= night of the 22d.