Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-12-13
elevator. An investigation was had and the
charges were sustained.
The National debt statement, December /,


Company, interest payable in law
ful money, principal outstanding. 64623, ,512
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,6t5,5S7
Interest pad by United States. ...... 16,570,575
mails, etc. ....:...............,... s,9ss,55O
States. r . iO6i7,14
The National Democratic Committee have
issued the following.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE, New York, Dec. g.
The Democratic National Convention did in Ju-
ly, 1872, with an unanlmity unprecedented in the
history OF the party nominate rs their candidate
for the office OF President of the United States
Horace Greeley, Of New York. Six States cast
their Electoral votes for him at the late election,
and millions OF men in other States where we
failed of success testified their appreciation Of his
noble character and the great service he had rem
dered the country, by voting our Electoral ticket
But Horace Greeley is dead, and the spendor Of
the political victory achieved by his opponents is
now diminished by the sorrow which this sad event
has cast upon the people whom he loved, and who
regarded him as one Of the best truest and braves
Of men.
The lessons Of his pure and blameless life will
long remain impressed upon the age in which he
lived. Every beat of his great heart was in sym
pathy with humanity In its broadest form. He
loved the Government, he loved his felow-men,
and the labors of his whole life were to elevate
the condition of mankind. No struggle for lib
erty, civil or religious, was ever made on the sur
lace OF the earth, since his manhood began, with
which he failed to give faithful and powerful aid
Every day of his life abounded with acts of kind
ness, of charity, of forgiveness, and of love- Not
his stricken family alone, but a stricken people
sorrow for loss wholly inscrutable and almost
unparalleled The National Democratic Commit.
honor by their faithful effort to elect him to the
first office in the Government, will do all in their
power to honor his name and memory.
Chairman National Democratic Committee.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the Cd says: "a
well-known diamond broker OF this city,
named Will, is said to be the party who,
with Harpending, of San Francisco, and Ar
pold, put up the infamous diamond swindle.
Efforts are making here, by legal process, to
bring the guilty parties TO justice. Janin is
generally condemned. The victims at Salt
Lake lose over 100000
The following letter, written by Horace
Greeley to Hon. Charles Lanman is at this
time peculiarly interesting
New YORK, June 81, 1872.
Friend Lanman:
Received yours OF 25th instant. i have all my
life been doing what people called vastly foolish
and lmpolitc acts, and do not dispute their judg-
mcnt. only said that what did seemed to me
the right thing. III should die before election
be beaten therein, please testify for me that do
not regret having braved public opinion when
thought 1t wrong and knew it to be merciless.
(Signed), HORACE GREELEY.
Az ReneTdl IuetIlnS OF lne centennial
Commission in Philadelphia, on the 4th,
Commissioners from twenty-seven States
were present. The report from the Execu-
tive Committee was accepted, and design
for seal adopted.
Mr.. Ward Hunt, who has been appointed
to the Supreme Bench Of the United States to
fill the place resigned by Justice Nelson, is
prominent lawyer of Utica, n. Y, where
he was born in 1910, and where his whole
life has been spent. He is a graduate of
Union College, and of the law school at
Litchield, Conn.
The Presidential electors, chosen at the
recent election, met at the capitals Of their
respective States on the 4th, and voted for
President and Vice-President of the United
States.
The funeral of Horace Greeley occurred in
New York on the 4th. The funeral services
were under the direction of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher and DR.. Chaplin. President
Grant, Vice-President Colfax, Vice President
elect Wilson, prominent journalists, distin-
guished Senators, the Governors Of New
York and adjoining States, members of
Congress, and of the Municipal Government
of New York, and countless thousands of
citizens formed the procession that followed
the remains to the grave. The ceremonies
were very solemn and impressive.
AT recent meeting of prominent educa-
tors of the State of Ohio, it was decided to
take the proper steps for having the system
of education as practiced in Ohio fully rep
resented at the Vienna Exposition.
A bill has been passed by the Cherokee
National Council banishing all white men
from the nation.
The Maryland Electoral College, on the
4th, cast a unanimous vote for Hendricks,
of Indiana, for President. Suitable resolu,
tions were passed on the death of Horace
Greeley. The Electoral vste of Georgia is
as follows: For President-B. Gratz Brown,
s. Herace Greeley, 8; Charles Jenkins,
Georgia, 2. For Vice-PresidOnt-B. Grat2
Brown, 5; General A. Fl. Colqult, Iowa, 5
General N. P. Banks, Massachusetts,, /.
The Secretary of State of Arkansas, on the
4th, declared the Grant electors elected by
msiorities ranging from 5000 to 1000.
Judge Merrimon, whe was defeated as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of NORTH
Carolina,in September, has been chosen Uni
ted States Senator, in the place Of Mr.. Pool
by the Legislature of that State.
Mr.. Spencer, Republican, has been re-elect
ed United States Senator by the Legislature
of Alabama.
The President sent the following nomina
tions to the Senate on the 5th: Ward Hunt
of New York, Associate Justice OF the Su
preme Court; James L. Orr, of North Caro-
lima, for Minister to Russia; s. +. Phillips
Solicitor General, rice Bristow; Lucien Haw
| ley, Supervisor of Internal Revenue, New
York; Brlgadler General Irwin Mcdowell, t.
be Major General; II. X. Knowles, Justice o
the Supreme Court of Montana Territory
United States District Attorneys-N. Tan
ster, for the Western District Of Indiana
VIM, Patrick, Eastern District of Missouri
VIM. Pound, Dakota Territory. United
States Marshall. Fl. Burdick, for Dakoti
Territory. r..r
The Protestant Episcopal Churches o
Massachusetts recently held a special con
vention and elected Rev. Benz. 1. Hight, o
New York, Bishop, to I'LL the vacancy caused
by the death of Bishop Eastburn.
A terrible accident occurred on the Penn
syivania Central Railroad, near Mifiin, Pa, ,ol
the evening Of the 5th. The second section
of the Cincinnati express, bound east, raj
into car of the first section, and telescopet
the Pullman cars. The names of the killed
are Matthew Knowles and j. W. Bacon, o
Chicago, and w. w. Dantz, wife and child
of Green Bay, Wis. Five other persons wer'
injured, but none Seriously Every person
on the second train escaped uninjured.
The Republican State Convention OF New
Hampshire is to be held on the 14th o
January.
The New York Herald proposes a pres
fund for the endowment of the children o
the late Mr.. Greeley, and offers 81 600 as I'll
own subscription.
reception was given in New York OF