Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-07-12
TIE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
l139s@1139l.
The Secretary Of War has issued an order
directing that, pursuant to act of Congress,
June 10, 1872, the Bureau of Refugees, Freed
men and Abandoned Lands, will be discon-
tnued from and after the 30th of June, 1872,
and after that date all business relating in
any way to said Bureau, exclusive of the
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum at Wash
ington, with all accounts and claims con-
G.-fe- or whenever incurred, will Be conduct
ed through the Adjutant General of the
army.
The conyicts confined at the Auburn On.
" State Prison, over one thousand in num-
ber, indulged in an incipient insurrection on
the 9th The firmness of the officers,
backed by the promise of immediate military
interference, soon brought the mutineers to
terms.
President Grant and wife arrived at Long
Branch on the 2sth.
Mr.. Storey, of the Chicago Times, broke
his leg just above the ankle while getting on
the cars at Springfield, Ill, on the evening of
the 26th.
The passenger train from Springfield for
Chicago, on the Chicago IL st. Louis Rail
road, on the night of the 26th, met with OBJ
structiGns on the track about six miles
north of the former city, which came near
causing a fearful wreck. The cars were
loaded with delegates on their return from
the recent political conventions al Spring
field. 1t seems several ties had been placed
upon the track, with the evident intention of
throwing the cars from the rails.
The fourth trial Of Mrs. Glen, for the
| murder of Jacob and Mrs. Young, was ter
minated at Indianapolis on the 2Sth, the
jury rendering a verdict of guilty of murder
in the second degree, the penalty being i'm
prisonment for life. The finding of the jury
contained recommendation for Executive
clemency.
1t was stated in New York on the Goth
ult. that the Spanish authorities had pro
mulgated orders for the release of DR.
Houard.
! Ex-Governor Seymour was, on the evening
of the 29th ult., installed as Tammany
sachem. In his address he indorsed the
Cincinnati ticket and platform.
Letters from the American missionaries il
Persia, recently received in Chicago, STATE
that the famine still continued. Rev. G
W. Coan writes "The poor people hav'
eaten up their substance, and nothing Il
left but roots and herbs for large multitude
till harvest, four months hence. The dis
tress is great in this city and the villages
Some of our helpers write us that the.
themselves go with but one meal day
in order that they may have little t.
give to those who throng their doors
While / write nearly hundred ar
about our doors stretching out thei
hands for bread. Hundreds have come fror
the South, hungry, naked and houseless
Multitudes are quartered on the poor vi
layers about, who have not bread enoug
for their own children. The death rate
Teheran is from $50 to 200 or more daily.
An appeal has been published, signed by tn
pastors of several of the leading churches
Chicago, asking for contributions for the n
lief Of the suffering Persians. Contribution
can be sent to any of the Presbyterian mil
isters in Chicago, or to j. V. Farwell u Co
or Field, Letter & Co.
The monthly public debt statement on IL