Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-05-12

Jndn mali OF WnOm are WOmen-Were dis
charged from the Printing Bureau il
Washington on the 1st
The decision of the United States Su.
preme Court on the legal tender question
was promulgated on the 1st, declaring
first, that the act of Congress known as
the Legal Tender act is constitutional as
to contracts made before its passage; and,
second, that it is valid as applicable to
transactions since its passage.
Enthusiastic German peace celebrations
were held in several Western cities on the
1st.
The following is the statement of the
public debt for May /:
Debt bearing coin interest ........s1 ola 12s $50
Interest. 4S,632 064
Debt bearing currency interest . 5iO23,OOO
interest .........- ....s............. 81, 1876
hatured debt............. ........... 3,098,012
Debt bearing no interest ........... 417,f5i .Sas
Unclaimed interest st.................. s,2O2
Total debt principal. ,s72, ,39s $50
Interest .......................... 49,435, ,522
Grand total. g, ,421 1894 1872
Coin in Treasury. ........ .$i06, ,463,gT9
currency. ......--......... 12,T96,SOO
- 1i9,asO,779
Debt, less cash In Treasury. e. s., ,s03 57s, ,543
Decrease during April. .......... 6,124,o53
Decrease since March1, 1871 ........ Sl7,135, ,3O3
Decrease since March 1, 1862. 29f ,SS9, ,T16
The following bonds were issued to the
Pacific Railway Companies;
Principal outstanding .......... So. .Bfs s32
Interest accrued, not yet paid ..... l. 29a, $40
Interest paid by the United States IL, I53, $40
Interest repaid by the transportation sof
~
Balance interest paid by the United
stA'fS ----.......-.....---- ---.." f,V<-,'oo
The subscriptions to the new loan on
the lst were $613,0O0.
The following proclamation was issued
by the President on the 4th:
The act of Congress entitled IAN act to enforce
he he ii constiraiioaaf af be e sARspdmsnt TO
other purposes" approved April 30, A d. 1871 be-
ing law Of extraordinary public Importance,
consider IL my duty to issue this, my proclamation.
calling the attention of the people of the United
States thereto, enjoining upon all good citizens,
and especially upon public officers, 10 be Jealous
in the enforcement thereof, and warning all per-
sons TO abstain from committing any acts thereby
prohibited. The law of Congress applies to all
parts of the United States, and viii be enforced
every where TO the extent OF the powers invested
in the Executive.
But inasmuch az the necessity therefor Is we'll
known to have been caused chiefly by persistent
violations Of the rights of citizens of the United
States by combinations of lawless and disafTected
persons in certain localities lately in state of in
surrection and military conflict, 1 do particularly
exhort the people OF that part OF the country to
suppress all such combinations by their own vol
untary efforts, through the agency of the local
laws, and to maintain tho rights of all citizens of
the United States, and to secure TO all such cti-
zens the equal protection of the laws.
Fully sensible OF the responsibility imposed up
on the Executive by the act of Congress, TO which
public opinion is now called. and reluctant to call
into exercise any extraordinary powers thereby
conferred upon me, except in cases of imperative
necessity, do, nevertheless, deem II my duty to
make known that l Will not hesitate to
exhaust the power thus vested in the Executive,
whenever and wherever 1t shall become necessary
to do so, for the purpose of securing to all cti-
Of the United States the peaceful enjoyment
Of the rights guaranteed to them by the constitu-
ton and laws. IL is my earnest wish that
peace and cheerful obedience TO law may
prevail throughout the land, and that all traces
of our late unhappy civil strife may be speedily
removed.
These ends can be easily reached by acauies-
cence in the results of the late conflict, now writ
ten in constitution, and by the due and proper
enforcement. OF equal, just, and impartial laws in
every part of our country. The failure of local
committees TO furnish such means for the attain
ment of results so earnestly desired imposes upon
the National Government the duty of putting
forth all its energies for the protection of its ci
zens of every and color, and for the restora-
ton of peace and order throughout the entire
country.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
May, In the year OF our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, and of the independ-
ence Of the United States the ninety-fourth.
(Signed) U. s. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
There was a formidable strike on the
4th among the laborers employed at the
break in the Erie Canal nine miles from
Rochester. All work was suspended, and
the contractor and Sheriff had called for
military aid, and two companies had gone
forward from Rochester. Riotous pro-
ceedings up to the evening of the 4th had
not been of serious nature.
A tornado swept over Baton Rouge, La,
and vicinity, on the I'd, causing great de-
struction of property. Several colored
persons were injured, some fatally.
There were five inches of snow at Farm,
ington, Me-, on the 9th.
A Washington dispatch of the 9TH says
"The Joint High Commission will not
probably sign the treaty until Tuesday
next. Among the few things positively
known concerning it, is that it will pro,
vide only for the adjudication of the
claims of both the United States and
Great Britain arising from 1861 till the
close of the war in 1865"
.