Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-31

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s had died
The Commission Of United States Engineers
8 fappolnted by the War Department, some time
+ ago, to examine and ascertain whether the
I Ibridge now In process of construction across
I the Mississippi River at st. Louis will, when
a finished, obstruct navigation, have made a
: very elaborate report. They find that the
: bridge, as at present designed, will prove a
, very serious obstruction to navigation, and, as
. 1t is impracticable to change the plans of the
, bridge or to raise 1t, except at an enormous
!, cost, they recommend canal, or open cut, be-
: hind the eastern abutment of the bridge, 100
feet wide, extending from point 500 feet
above the bridge to 800 feet below it, with a
draw of the same width. They also recon-
mend that arch trusses, like those of this
bridge, be in future prohibited in plans for
bridges overnavigable streams.
q A Washington dispatch Of the 22d says the
commanding officer of the Southern Pacific
fleet had written to the Navy Department ask
ing for threesbips of war to be sent TO Panama
for the purpose of keeping the Isthmus road
open and safe. There were troubles in that
region, revolution being in full blossom
} The object-gass for the Naval Observatory,
the largest and most perfect glass in the
world, had been shipped TO Washington, by
water, to avoid accident. The vessel had be-
comeedue for'more than day, and there was
considerable u1easiness at, the Department in
consequence. The authorities feared that the
recent storm on the coast had caused the loss
of the ship.
A Yankton, Dakota, dispatch of the 22d
says the Grand Jury of the Territorial Court,
after being in session for aweek, had returned
an indictment against 7. Z. Wintermute for
tho murder Of Secretary McCook, charging
him with manslaughter only
Postmaster Stewart of Pittsburgh, charged
with being a defaulter to the Government,
had had n delegation at Washington for the
last few days, according to n dispatch of the
22d, seeking the withdrawal of the charges
provided the deficiency in his accounts be
covered. The President hid declined to in
terfere, and there was a prospect of the ac-
cused going to the penitentary.
The United States Grand Jury, at Spring
field, Illinois, on the 22d, returned bills against
ex- Collector John T. Harper for embezzlng
sl4,6l9. prisoner confined in the Spring
field jail had offered to reveal and secure the
conviction of the murderer of the late Hon.
Sharon Tyndale, once Secretary of State, pro-
fense for which he is now confined.
A New York dispatch of the 22d announces
that the New York Central and other bond
forgers had been arrested. Their names were
Frank Gleason, George Wilkes, Andrew Rob-
erts, and George c. Olmstead.
Dispatches from Texas of the 22d say the
yellow fever is raging terribly at Calvert,
Bryson, Marshall and Columbus, in that State.
IN
lated. At Memphis the mortality continued,
and there seemed TO be little hope of an early
abatement of the scourge. The victims num-
bered twenty-seven on the 22d
On the 22d Goldsmith Maid trotted against
time over the Dexter Park track, Chicago, for
purse of 5000. She took the purse in
2l71<. This was the best time ever made in
| that city.
The National Convention of the Patrons of
Husbandry met in Chicago on the 22d, accord
ing TO announcement, and organized by the
election of James NJ. Allen, as President; S.
NJ. Smith, Secretary, and S. L. X. Prime, AS
sistant Secretary. Delegates were present |
from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, New York, In |
! diana and Minnesota, numbering about 800 |
committee was appointed to consider and |
report upon all resolutions offered. Several |
were thus offered, discussed, and then referred |
under the rule.
The National Board Of Trade was in session |
in Chicago on the 2lst, 22d and 23d. On the |
latter day the Convention discussed, in all its |
bearings, the question Of transportation. An |
able and exhaustive address was made by w. |
NJ. Grosvenor, Of st. Louis.
A Washington telegram of the 23d states |
that statement Of the operations of the let
ter-carrier system had been prepared for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1878, which showed |
that the carriers had handled 315 ,315 613 pieces
of mail matter, and that the aggregate cost of
the service, including all incidentals, had been |
81 422, 495, or $40 mills per piece, the lowest
average being iu Chicago, where the cost was
4-10 mills.
At the opening of the Supreme Court on the
23d, Attorney General Williams presented the
resolutions of the bar in respect to the memo
ry of the late ChiefJusticc Chase. Associate
Justice Clifford responded in an eloquent re-
view of the public career of the deceased.
The October report Of the statistician of the
Agricultural Department had been published
on the 23d. In regard to the corn crop, that
officer had estimated the average at l6 per
cent. below the normal crop, or $4,000, 600
bushels less than the crop Of last year.
The second and concluding session of the
National Convention Of the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry occurred in Chicago on the 23d. The
gathering was entirely harmonious and earn
est. Railway monopolists were critically de-
nounced. The following resolutions, among
Others, were adopted;
WHEREAS, The duty of governments 10 protect
its people. Capital, directed by inscriptions
minds, reaps the profits of their labor. Men Of
great wealth reyel in luxury, while those who earn
the money are destitute Of many OF the comforts Of
life. Our State Legislatures have made laws de-
priying us OF Our lands from which we have title
from the General Government for the benefit OF
railroad companies, because IL seemed FOR the pub
lie good. Subsidies have been granted them, and
Congress has, with lavish hand, given them pub
Tic lands-the peoples inherltance-and the result
is eXtortiOn ana oppression; therefore, be 1t
EsRSs0ired, BY this convention that we most re-
spectfully, bu earnestly request Congress to, with
passage law, regulating trafics between the States
and our Legislatures law regulating IL within the
States; and we hereby protest agaisnt the further
granting OF any subsidies whatever TO private cor
pOrati0ns of any kind
Res0tDed, That expert uee has proved that
freight by water is the cheapest, and we most re-
specfully ask that Congress, to relieve us of our
burdens, speedily take measures TO open water
routes from the Mississippi TO the seabOard.
ResOt0ed, That we demand the construction of
railroads, and the improvement OF water COM
munication between the interior and the seaboard,
the same to be owned and operated by the General
NONSlHlnthlf loI thc puIposC VI uhOiulnE NhShp
and ample transportation, and to protect the people
from the exactions Of monopoly. --
I ReS0tUed, That debt should ever be held as one l.
Of our greatest enemies that Il deprves OF man
HRess and in measure makes slaves; that 10
live within our means however small, TO pay we
GO will contribute to our success; recognizing the
fact that the people are In earnest, we would urge
them to free themselves Of this curse, so that II
final struggle must come between the people and
monopoly our houses may be in order, and we the
better able to Withstand it.
Resolved That no one industry can be protected
by legislation, except at the expense OF all other
industries, and that we are opposed to all special
legislation.
Res0lUed That we recommend the thorough or
ganizatiOn OF the farmers Of the country in local.
county, and State organizations, Tor thepurpose OF
reforming the great abuses and dealing out equal
justice TO all men.
A dispatch from Memphis of the 23d says
there had been no sensible abatement in the