Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-03-22
TIE NEM WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 14th at
ll0k.
News from the City of Mexico to the 1st
was to the effect that the Government was
confident of crushing the insurgents. The
Revolutionists had been defeated in Sinoloa.
William Cullen Bryant was at Vera Cruz,
and would proceed Immediately to the cap
ital.
Quite commotion was caused among his
former associates in New York City by the
appearance in court on the 7th of Andrew j.
Garyey, the plasterer, who had returned to
this country from Europe and rendered his
evidence in the trial Of Hall Garyey's return
is said to be due to the negotiation of his
wife, several weeks ago, with the Attorney
General and Samuel J. Tilden, by which Gar.
vey was promised immunity from prosecu-
ton on his turning States evidence and re-
turning some of his i'll gotten moneys. 1t is
said that Ingersoll will also turn informer.
The house of Captain Bryant, at Machias-
port, Me-, was burned on the morning of the
sth, and Captain Bryant, together with his
wife and two grand daughters, perished in
the fire.
President Grant was present, on the night
Of the Sth, at a banquet given by merchants
to John W. Forney, on his retirement as
Collector OF the Port of Philadelphia.
The Liberal Republican State Central
Committee OF Arkansas have called state
Convention, to assemble on the 18th of June
at Little Rock
The report of the Chicago Relief Com
mittee shows that the sums contributed
throughout England for Chicago sufferers
reached q total of 9l62,00O
A Quebec dispatch states that at mass
meeting of the National party, on the 7th,
the administration of Canadian affairs was
strongly denounced by the speakers, and
| two speakers advocated annexation to the
United States.
| A Washington dispatch Of the 9th says
out OF forty eight National Banks in Bos-
ton, nineteen were deficient in their re-
serves of fifty-one New York banks, TWEEN
ty-four were deficient in their reserves.
In the trial of Mayor Hall, on the Sth, Gar
vey's testimony was to the effect that Tweed
and the Tammany Ring had been receivers
of the greater part of the sums drawn on his
vouchers. For work amounting to $264 $50,
| including $4,000 for ''profts," he drew
a bill for $685. OF this amount
he got 35 per cent, Tweed got
| $50, 900 for electioneering, 100000 were spent
on buildings at Greenwich, Conn, $4,000
went to Woodward, $1,000 for plastering the
house Of Walter ]. Roche, and 5000 were
spent in politics. Garvey swore that the
claims were neither just nor honest.
Mrs. Jane Madden has recovered 5000
from the Staten Island Ferry Company for
the death of her husband by the Westheld
explosion, last June.
A fearful hall-storm ragged at Helena, Ark,
on the Sth. Hailstones, some Of them three
inches in diameter, fell, knocking out win
dows and even making holes in tin roofs.
James McNeale, aged so, was killed at
Shelby City, KY, on the 7th. He was stab
bed, and his head mashed with an ak. His
wife escaped by locking herself up. Two
negroes, found with a knife and bloody
hands, were arrested.
The President on the 11th sent to the
Senate the nomination of John II. Harris as
Postmaster at Kansas City, Mo.
A revolution occurred on the 11th In the
Directorship of the Erie Railroad, Jay Gould
being deposed, and General John A. Dix
taking his place as President Of the corpora
tion, with General Mcclellan as Vice
President.
The Now York Sun, Of the 9th announces
a new ticket For President of the United
States, Lyman Trumbull; for Vice President,
Horace Greeley.
Francis G. Warren was elected Mayor Of
Biddeford, Me-, on the 11th, without opposi-
tion. The Democrats elected all the city
government, except two Couneilmen.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
General Sickles had been granted extended
leave of absence from Spain. Nothing fur
ther had yet been done by the Administration
in relation TO the mission.
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate on the 12th John @. NJ. Porter,
Surveyor of Customs, New Orleans Joseph
b. Levin, Associate Justice Of Washington
Territory, Postmasters--Jobn II, BaFtenl