Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-07-14

Intereet. Id OH A1S
Debt bearing currency interest:
Principal .,,...,..,,.............. 4e,563oOo
Interest, .....,..................... 42gS53
Matured debt ................. -. 1,glS902
debt bearing no interest ......... 416,Ss $50
Unclaimed interest. st.................. 11,2B9
Total debt principal. ......"... 81, s,21l 9s2
Interest. .....................,. 45,OS6,766
Total.......................... $a,8ss. s,L93
Cash in Ire isury y................... 96,6S3,ab
Corrency In Treasury. y............... 9,oo3,363
Total al.......................... $lOe,q17,s1s
Decrease in debt during past month. f7,1O3,240
Decrease since March I, 1859. ..... 233, ,4s2, ,425
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
companies, Interest payable In lawful
Principal. .$64. .61s,ssQ
Interest accrued, not yet paid ......., 1,93S,664
Interest paid by the United States. 10, 7b3, ,910
Interest repaid by the transportation Of
mails .........,..............S. S,bI3,St1
Balance interest paid by the United
States. ST,7oO,O49
The eight negroes, who threw the ex-
press safe off the train near Meridian, Miss,
and then robbed it, have been arrested,
and all the money, $4,000, recovered.
The beer question was decided at Bos.
ton on the 1st, by majority of 5,9l6 in
favor of beer-selling. There was light
vote, and very little interest was mani
tested. the result was: Yeas, 7,411;
nays, 1,495.
Three hundred Mormons, just from Eu
rope, left New York city for Salt Lake
on the Both ult,, in charge of Brigham
Young's son. -Four hundred more were
at Quarantine.
Ex-senator Grimes, of Iowa, who has
recently returned from Europe, will spend
the summer with his family, in New Eng
land. His health is nearly restored.
A large bust of Washington Irving
was unveiled in Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
on the 1st, in the presence of $4,000 per-
sons.
A woman named Mrs. Lydia Sherman
has been arrested at New Brunswick, N.
j., charged with having poisoned at differ
ent times three husbands and two step
| children
The Democrats of New Mexico have
nominated Joseph NJ. Gallagos for Dele
gate to Congress by acclamation.
The Postmaster General has appointed
Elias Smith, Of Galveston, as Special
Agent of the Post Office Department for
the State of Texas on mail depredations.
A letter recently received at the Execu-
tive Mansion, in Washington, from the
United States District Attorney at Salem,
N. c., states that the grand jury of that
county had found bills of Indictment
against twenty-one persons engaged in
Klu-Klux outrages on Mr.. Justice, member
of the Legislature, and eighteen indict-
ments against persons engaged in outrages
on Ar. Biggstof. He writes that the per
sons indicted were all in jail awaiting
trial
An Augusta Ga, dispatch of the Sd says
that on the 1st twenty-five armed negroes
went on the plantation of August Reed,
about twenty-five miles below Augusta,
on the Savannah River, and fred volley
into Reeds residence, killing Thomas A.
Lowe, and seriously wounding Reed and
his wife and mother. One of the parties
was arrested, and states that the affair
grew out of an attempt by Reed and Lowe
to chastise negro for stealing from the
premises of the former.
Hon, Mr., Tratch has been appointed
Lieutenant Governor Of British Colum-
bia
At Newark, N. j., on the morning of the
I'd, Mr.. Oliver S. Halstead, extensively
known under the name of "Pet" Hal
stead, was shot and killed by George Bolts,
his rival in the affections of woman in
whose room the murder was committed.
The father of the murdered man, Hon. O.
8. Halstead, was formerly Chancellor of
the State of New Jersey. His grief on
hearing of the murder of his son was very
great
At Troy, N. Y, on July 4th, James K
Allen made an ascension in small bal
loon. He landed at Putnam, distant 100
miles, in two hours after his ascent
President Grant issued proclamation
on the 4th of the Treaty of Washington,
closing as follows; "Now, therefore, be
it known that I, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi-
dent of the United States of America,
have caused said treaty to be made public,
to the end that the same and every clause
and article thereof may be observed and
fulfilled with good faith by the United
States and the citizens thereof"
Secretary Belknap left Washington on
the night of the 4th for the West, to be
absent several weeks.
A Washington special to the New York
Post of the 9th says: at is generally
thought here that the President will per-
nit Commissioner Pleasanton TO resign
rather than lose Secretary Boutwell, from
his Cabinet; and those who best under.
stand the true situation of affairs predict
that the Presidents return will be fol-
lowed by the immediate retirement of
Pleasanton."
Martin Mera, aged forty-four years, a
resident of Iroquois County, ILL.,, was
taken from the Jail at Watseka, ON the
night of the 9TH, and hung on tree,
just west of Sugar Creek, by mob
of $50 men, with men, women and chill
dren following-amounting, in the aggre-
gate, to 1000 persons. Mera was charged
with burning his son, a lad of feleven years,
on the stove, till the skin came of his
feet and body, and then whipping him to
death and burying him in his garden.
Professor Steiner made a balloon ascen-
sion from Milwaukee at p. m, on the 4th,
and landed at Kalamazoo, Mich, at 10
p. m.
ave are heartily glad" says the Day
ton, o., Herald, of the Both ult, ''to record
the fact that Mrs Vallandigham is now
in hopeful way of recovery. She is
able TO sit up during portion of the
day."
The testimony in the Oxford, Miss, Ku
Klux trial was closed on the 3D., and the
argument commenced ON the 4th.
BY an accident to passenger train on
= the Nashville s. Northwestern Railroad,