Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-21

days. On the 18th the Governor instructed
the State Treasurer not to pay the members
1t was rumored at midnight that lhe Presi
! dent would support the Governor against
the Legislature.
A Washington special to the New York
Times of the 18th says that yice-Prcsident
Colfax has informed many prominent Re
publicans, who have questioned him on tn,
subject, that he cannot withdraw his refusal
to be considered candidate for renomina
tion.
1t was reported in Washington on the 1871
that General Schcnck, our Minister to Eng
land, having accomplished his purpose will
reference to the Treaty of Washington, and
regarding his personal interest here as imper
ative, had requested the President to name
his successor, and call him home.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention met at Concord on the 18th, and
renominated James A. Weston as candidate
for Governor. Henry Calory was nominated
for Railroad Commissioner.
The suspension of the Eighth National
Bank of New York city was announced on
the 18th.
A Columbia, s. c., dispatch of the 18th
says: "In the Ku-Klux court to-day, wit.
ness confessed that he was member of the
Klan, which, he said, was formed in 1868, for
self-defensc, and to prevent incendiarism.
The town of Yorkville was threatened to be
destroyed by negroes, and many gin-houses
had already been burned. The defense pro-
duced witnesses to show the urgent need OF
an organization for defensive purposes"
Advices from Mexico, received on the 14th,
were to the effect that in Sonora the Federal
troops had quclled the revolt against the
Juarez Government, routing the revolution
lists at Puerto Cito, capturing all the officers,
and one hundred men, arms, equipage and
supplies. The revolutionists still held Ma
zatlan, and were fortifying to resist attack.
The advices from the Pacific coast of Mexico
were, on the whole, favorable to the Juarez
Government.
The President, on the 18th, sent to the
Senate the name of George H. Williams, of
Oregon, to be Attorney in place of
AkermaR, whose resignation had been ac-
cepted to take effect January 10.
The War Department, in general orders,
announces to the army the death of Briga-
dier General Robert Anderson, of Fort Sum-
ter memory. On the arrival of his remains
issued to do them honor.
A. P. Collar, Republican, has been re-elect-
ed Mayor of Allegheny City, Pa, by about
1000 majority.
The bill to repeal the law of Wyoming
giving women the right of suffrage hav-
ing passed in the House, the Governor
veto to the contrary notwithstanding, was
lost i'm the Council for want of a two-thirds
vote.
A new counterfeit fifty dollar greenback
of the new issue was recently passed at Lit
tie Rock, Ark, by a man from the Indian
country, and detected at one of the banks.
The bill is one-eighth of an inch shorter
than the genuine, and of an inferior paper,
1t is well executed, and calculated to de
ceive in commercial circles. Both vignettes
are good, but the eyes of the female figure
in the counterfeit look obliquely to the left
instead of to the front.
The Comptroller of the Currency says he is
satisfied that none of the National Banks in
New York were implicated, or suspected OF
being implicated, in any effort to produce
any artificial stringency in the money
market.
1t is stated that the Grand Duke Alexis has
contributed 5000 to the poor of New York
5000 to the poor of Boston, and that he
contemplated adding 5000 to the Chicago
relief fund.
The execution of John Ware, for the mur
der of his father, took place at Camden, n
J., on the 18th. He maintained a stolid de-
meanor and exhibited no agitation. He wrote
a long confession, which he gave to his coun.
sci, and in which he says he killed his father
because he ill-treated his Gohnss) mother
He accuses several witnesses who testified on
the trial, of perjury.
Both branches of the Alabama Legislature
have resolved to extend the session beyond
thirty days. A bill has passed both houses
authorizing the Governor to issue 81 900, ,OOi
of Alabama S per cent. bonds, to be used a:
necessity may require.