Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-05-10


Thousands were encamped in the fields. Ru-
mors were current in London on the Goth
that Of number of persons whose curios-
ity had led them too near the volcano, sixty
were killed and wounded by a shower Of
lava.
A private dispatch received in New York
on the 25th from Rev. s. II. Calhoun and Rev.
DR.. Jessup, missionaries in Syria, reads as
follows; "Antoch and villages are destroy
ed, and the survivors are perishing. Con-
trlbutons are imperatively needed. Send
relief by telegraph"
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius continued
with unabated violence on the 9th. A dis
patch from Naples on that day states that
only twelve persons had so far been killed
and twenty injured by running lava. The
villages OF San Sebastian and Massadissom-
ma had been almost entirely destroyed, but
the inhabitants had succeeded in getting
away safely The lava was advancing to-
ward the villages of Ponticelli, Ccrcola, st..
George snd Portici, which had been aban-
doned by their inhabitants.
Miss Nellie Grant was presented to Queen
Victoria on the Goth.
The Tichborne claimant, in q recent letter
| to the public, returns his thanks for previous
subscriptions in his behalf, and asks for an
additional $4,000 to enable him to continue
his contest for the possession of the Itch
borne estate.
A proclamation signed by Don Carlos was
circulating in Madrid on the goth, in which
the prctender exclaimed "Thank God
am once more permitted to kiss the sacred
soil of my country, and be again among
spaniards.n
An official decree has been issued at Paris,
warning all Frenchmen against participating
in the insurrectionary movements in Spain,
and providing heavy penalties for all viola
tions Of it.
Miss Nellie Grant and party arrived in
Paris on the Goth.
A Naples dispatch of the Goth says the
view of Mount Vesuvius from that city was
the grandest tAat had been witnessed since
1851. Asheswere falling in the streets OF
Naples like snow, and had already reached O
depth Of two or three inches Rumbling in.
side the volcano continued, but no fresh era
ters had opened, and the lava had ceased
flowing. Lightning darted incessantly from
the summit of the volcano, and the qual1ings
of the mountain were still violent and fire
quent.
The London Times OF the 30th, in an edito
rial upon the present phase Of the Alabama
claims question, congratulates the United
States Government for proposing that the
liabilities of neutrals shall never extend be
yond the direct consequence Of the breaches
of neutrality "thus," says the Times
"paving the way for satisfactory settle
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England and America"
A Madrid dispatch of the evening of thu
30th announces that battle had been fought
at Taudela, Navarro, between the Govern
ment troops and insurgents. The latter wer'
defeated, with loss of 300 in killed anC
wounded
A Berlin dispatch of the Goth pronounce
positively untrue the report that Bismarl
had expressed approval of the claims for in
diree damages.
Ees.s from Matamoras on the 30th was t,
the effect that the Revolutionists were &C
lively besiegiIg that city. Brownsville
Texas, was overhowing with women ant
children from Matamoras.
letter from Emilio CASTELAR,, received IL
New York on the lst, explains the trouble
in Spain, and the cause of the election out
RACES. He says the opponents of the Minis
terialists were outraged by arrests and i'm
prisonment The polls were surrounded b,
Ministerialists to prevent opponents reach
ing them. The forces of the army and nav,
went to the polls in regiments in line Of bat
tie Their votes were given them by thei
officers. Besides this the returns were falsi
fed, and in some districts the Judges o
Elections turned enormous Republican ma
lorities into minOrties by a system o
false counting.
It was officially reported at Madrid on tn
lst that the Carlst bands had disappeared
altogether from the Departments of Guipuz
Goa and Huesca.
It was announced on the 1st that subscriI
tions were being solicited in London for th
relief of sufferers by the recent earthquak
at and near Antioch, Syria. Parties VIII
have the matter in hand remit all the fund
they obtain to the American missionaries i
the desolated city.
In the British House of Lords, on the I'd
Earl Granville, in reply to an inquiry fror
Earl Derby. said the reply of the America
Government on the subject of the Alabam
Claims had been received and considered i
Cabinet meeting. 1t gave grounds for hop
of settlement of the entire matter satisfaC
tory to both parties. He begged the Hous
not to ask for the paper at present.
! kilograms have been recently received /
London, from Bombay, announcing tn
safety Of DR.. Livingstone. The steame
Abydias, which carried the English Living
stone.search Expedition to Zanzibar, had al
rived at Bombay from that place, with il
telligence that Livingstone was safe wit
Americans at Stanley.
A cable dispatch of the I'd says Genera
Cessey, French Minister of War, had inform
I ed the Committee of the Assembly that tn
! Government had decided to court-martii
Bazaine.