Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-10-13
THE NEW WORLD.


Gold closed in New York on the 9Th
at HAS,. ..
1t was reported on the 1st that Ingersoll
had been served with summons in suit
for the recovery of $6,0O0OOO belonging
to the taxpayers, alleged to have been
fraudulently obtained during 1859 and
1870
A New York dispatch of the 1st says
"The last issue of certain weekly pic
torial paper printed i'll this city contained
large cut, representing Hall, Tweed,
Sweeney, and Connolly in convict dress
and heavily MANAGED. The police, by
direction of Mayor Hall, seized the whole
edition"
The Secretary of the Treasury has in.
structed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to buy s2,O00,OO0 in bonds on each
Wednesday, and sell 100000 in gold on
each Thursday during the month of Oc-
tober.
Paymaster- General Brice authorizes a
denial of the statement recently tele-
graphed from Washington to the effect
that another heavy defalcation had been
discovered in his department
President Grant and family arrived in
Chicago from Galens on the 30th ult.
A Washington telegram of the 1st says
information had reached there from York
vile, S. c., that several days before, under
warrants issued by the United States Com
missioner, eight or nine persons were ar
rested on charge of having whipped a
negro woman. The prisoners were brought
to town by a squad of United States sol.
diers and lodged in Jail. After an investi-
cation by the Commissioner, they were
required to give bail in the sum of $4,000
each for appearance before the United
States Circuit Court. The arrests are
said to have been made under the Ku
Klux act.
A Pottsville, Pa, dispatch of the Cd says
an explosion of sulphur had occurred il
the Otto colliery, by which Patrich
McMichael, George Dunlap, Jacob Yos
and Thomas Hays were killed, and George
Bainee seriously injured. One miner wa
missing, and there was no hope of recover
ing him alive.
According to New York dispatch o.
the I'd, the small-pox was raging in Brook
lyn.
A New York city evening paper of tn,
I'd announces that Judge George @. Bar
rett had made application before Justic,
Bixby, of the Fifty-seventh Street Polio,
Court, for a warrant for the arrest o
Mayor A. Oakley Hall for alleged grosl
misdemeanor in converting public funds
or permitting the same to be diverted from
legitimate use by signing warrants for tho
payment of millions of dollars for worl
that had not been done, said moneys having
been paid to Ingersol, Garvey, Miller
Smith, Ballard and others. The iustic,
did not feel authorized to grant the war
rant, as some respect should be shown tn,
official position of the Chief Magistrate o
the city. He would send notice to tn,
Mayor to appear the following morning
and should he neglect or refuse TO appear
a warrant for his arrest would subsequent
ly be issued.
A New York dispatch OF the 2d says
"Secret accounts giving the expenditures of Tn
civil government for the first quarter of the pres
ent year were published to-day. These mclud
the costs for appropriations, tue special and trus
account, and revenue bonds The city payroll
show that Immense sums were paid to hctitlou
names. In many instances the persons receiVin
salaries never performed any SERVICE and som
were incapable of doing It, The names OF fe,
professional business men are TO be seen upon III
pay-rolls. Jim Cusick and Joe Coburn are said 3
receive their monthly stpends under assume
names. Michael NautOn, State Senator, Is said b
have no less than twelve OF these lucrative sine
cnres- rhe investigation OF these matters ha
caused the greatest CONSERVATION among the cit
'pay'Feoelyers,, The salaries for the Department