Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-17

after "a rest of about five hours left for
Saint George on the southern border of
the Territory. He was escorted by twelve
mounted men of the Nauvoo Legion. ]
am told that he has bade final adieu to
Salt Lake City"
A telegram from Washington on the
4th says "The instructions of the Pres
ident TO the authorities in Utah were to
the effect that there should be firm yet
judicious enforcement of the law. No
compromise with criminals. Latest re-
ports from officials represent that all dan.
ger of collision has passed.
Colonel David Stanton, Auditor General
elect of Pennsylvania, died suddenly at
his residence in New Brighton, on the
morning of the 9th. He was in the 42d
year of his age.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention is to be held in Concord,
December 13. The Labor Reformers
win hold theirs at the same place, De
cember T.
The news Of the disaster to the whaling
fleet advanced whale oil at the East from
60 cents to 81 per gallon. The Boston in
surance offices had little if any risks.
The New Bedford offices lose 81 ,000,-
000
In Louisville, Ky, on the night of the
9TH, the giving way of column in the
lower room of the African Baptist Church,
corner of Fifth and York streets, created
a panic among the congregation in the up
per room, and the whole body rushed,
iammed crushed down two narrow stair.
ways on each side the door, the men
trampling over the women and children in
their fright Eleven were killed outright,
two of them children and number more
or less wounded. The scene was terrible
and acknowledgements screaming
over their dead childred, and husbands in
agony over their wives. The column or
pillar which gave way proved to have
been set on the lower floor between the
iosts, with nothing under it but thin
inch flooring
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, has writ.
ten letters to Attorney General Bushnell
and Charles H. Reed, States Attorney for
the Seventh District, advising the indct-
ment of General Sheridan, Frank T. Shcr-
man and II. b. Mason, Mayor of Chicago,
under whose instruction young Treat was
doing patrol duty in Chicago at the time
he shot Colonel Thomas W. Grosvenor for
refusing to halt when commanded to do so.
In his letter to States Attorney Reed, the
Governor says 1t would be simply dis.
honorable to you and to the State to prose.
cute young Treat alone, to conviction,
when you and every one besides, that are
supposed TO know what the law is, are
bound to confess that if he is guilty of a
legal oflense, so are those who placed him
in position to do mischief, and neither
you nor the State authorities can find le-
gal excuse for discharging Treat without a
trial. No course is open to us hut to
boldly and squarcly stand up to the line of
duty"
A Washington dispatch of the 4th says
g II is said in official circles that the Pres
idcnt has no intention to suspend the
habeas corpus in any Southern State
other than South Carolina, unless a condi-
tion of things shall occur similar to that
in the proclaimed counties to render such
course necessary"
Postmaster General Crcswell has issued
an order prohibiting the letter carriers in
the cities from issuing New Years ad-
dresses, or substitutes therefor, intended
or calculated to induce the public to make
them donations, and also prohibiting the
soliciting of presents by any means what.
ever
The Green Bay Advocate says careful
census shows that in Humboldt, Brown
County, thirty-nine families were burned
out, and lost houses barns, crops, etc. In
the town of Green Bay siXty,cight farmers
were burned out. Most of these lost every
thing they had, part saved some of theil
grain, and some few saved part of theil
buildings In the three towns, alone, OF
CaSco, Red River and Green Bay, the re
turns show that ] 1928 persons have beer
left destitute.
The Governor of Wisconsin has appoint
ed the 30th of November as day of pub
lie thanksgiving. The Governor of Utal
has also designated the same day to be oh
served in that Territory.
In the municipal election in Chicago, OF
the eth, the Union Fire-Proof Ticket,
made up irrespective of party, with Josepl
Mcdill at its head for Mayor, was choseI
by majority of about $4,000.
Bevcridge's Republican) majority fol
Large from Illinois is owe
&c, 900.
The President and Secretary of Wa
have had conference relative to til,
squatters on the Usage lands. If they dt
not move in compliance with the motto,
of the Secretary of the Interior they viii
be elected by military force.
The State organ of the Administration
at Washington makes an official denial O
a statement that Secretary Fish is going t,
retire from the State Department,
Returns from the Land Office show tha
over 1872 600 acres have passed from til,
/ government to individuals in the August,
1 and Humboldt, Kansas, land districts alon,
| during October The cash receipts wer
nearly $4,000 Some settlements wer
under the Homestead act.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th say
General Schofeld would be placed by III,
Indian Bureau in control of the Indians o
Arizona, with Instructions to bring then
all in upon reservations and keep then
! there.
A New York telegram of the 9Th says
" In all but four Assembly Districts of til,
city, either Republican or Reform candi
dates are elected Sgcrs (anti-Tammany
majority for Register, is $4,000 Barrett
for Supreme Court beats Ledwith, tn,
Tammany nominee, by heavy majority
Tweed is the only Tammany candidate TO
the Senate elected. Eighteen Republican