Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-15

Intense cold weather is reported as pre-
vailing in all sections of the West on the
4th and 9Th. 800
In his message to the Common Council
the new Mayor of Chicago places the
money value of the property destroyed
by the Great Fire at $3.50, 600, 000 or more
than one-half the total wealth of Chicago
at the time. The public debt of Chicago
is set down at little over fourteen mil.
! lions of dollars.
| Lieutenant-Governo Powers, of Mis-
sissippi has been sworn in as Governor
of the State, Ex-Governor Alcorn taking
his seat in the Senate at Washington.
AT a meeting of the depositors of the
Stuyvesant Savings Bank, New York city,
on the 9th, it appeared that the bank had
only $53 in cash at the time of its suspen-
sion. It's liabilities were $590,O00
Alexis sent five hundred copies of each
leading New York newspaper to his
father the day after his reception in that
city.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says
the total loss of Chicago National Banks
by the fire was s1OO5, 200, leaving them
with capital unimpaired, and a surplus of
81 800, 900 still available.
Hon. j. NJ. Smith, Speaker of the
Georgia House, was nominated for Gov
ernor by the Democratic Convention at
Atlanta, on the 9th
The Missouri Legislature met on the
7th
Ex-Governor John Bigler, OF Califor-
MIA, died in Sacramento on the Both ult
aged 81 years.
The Virginia Legislature organized at
Richmond on the 9th.
A postal convention has been conclud.
ed with Ecuador, going into effect i'm
mediately, letter postage to be twenty
cents per half ounce Also, a con-
vention establishing and regulating the
exchange of correspondence between the
United States and Denmark has been
concluded and will be carried into opera
ton on the 1st of January next. The
rate of prepaid letter postage is fixed at
seven cents per half ounce, but unpaid
or insuificiently paid letters will be for
warded charged with unpaid or deficient
postage, in addition to which fine of four
cents will be collected on delivery
1t was reported in New York city on
the 9Th that the smallpox was decreas-
ing.
The Directors of the German Immigra-
tion Society report that, during the past
month, $3.50 German immigrants landed
in New York-an increase of $500, as
compared with same month last year.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has just affirmed the judgment of
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in what
was known as the Bank tax cases" be.
ing an action brought by N. B. Van Slyke
against the State, and one by Benjamin
Bignall against the State, to test the valid
ity of the law imposing taxes upon shares
in the National Banks for the years of
1865 and 1866. The Supreme Court of
Wisconsin held that the law in question
was valid, and the Supreme Court of the
United States, in an opinion delivered bv
the Chief Justice, and in which all the
Judges concurred, has affirmed the iudg.
ment. The case involves between $50, COO
and $4,000.
AT Crbana, Ohio, on tho. 7th, soldiers
monument, one of the largest in the State,
was dedicated. Nearly 5000 persons
were present.
A Columbus, S. c., dispatch of the sth
says: I'm the Ku-Klux trials to-day. four
of the prisoners pleaded guilty to the
charge of conspiring to deprive citizens
of their night to vote. They reserved the
right of reading affidavits for the mitiga-
tion of their punishment"