Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-18
General News summary,
THE OLD WORLD.


Louis Joseph Buffet President, rice NJ. Grevy
resigned.
The Parliament of New South Wales ha
voted 5000, 900 to aid immigration.
The official report of the surrender of Berga
| Spain, charges the commandant OF the tow
with treason and attributes the disaster TO tina
cause alone. II also confirms the statemen
that the Carlists bayoneted 67 prisoners. Tn,
Federal Republican committee at Barcelon,
has sent circular TO Catalonian towns, order
ing the inhabitants to place them In state o.
defence and force the Carlists to cncamp In tn
fields, where the volunteers and regulars car
exterminate them. Each local committee Il
directed to send to headquarters at Barceloni
for what arms they may require.
The Madrid correspondent Of the Tndepepdeno
Beige says the reports published in the Frencl
and English papers of popular disturbances
aud military insubordination In Spain are great
ly exaggerated.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, 9th, states
that the Russian forces, in three detachments,
had taken the field against the Khivans.
The French Assembly, on the 7th, passed the
bill reimbursing the city of Paris its war con.
tribution Of 100000 francs, and granting
ments to the amount Of "a, 900, 900 francs. The
Chamber adjourned until May 10.
Paris adyices state that the Republicans had
carried the municipal elections in Nantes and
Marseilles.
1t is stated that the exhibitors at Vienna will
be divided into groups according TO the charac-
ter Of the contributions. Each group will have
president and two vice-presdents. Minis
ter Jay has been advised that the presidencics
of the groups of education and Of the trade
and commerce of the world, and the vice
presidences of the groups Of civil engineering
and public works, and architecture, and farm
houses have been assigned to the United
States. In the department of art a fine dis
play is promised. England sends paintings
valued in the aggregate at s2,OOO,0O0. France
will contribute 500 paintings and Italy 300
statues
1t is stated in London dispatch that Rev.
Charles SpuTgeon has been offered $4,000 TO
deliver fifty lectures in the United States.
A dispatch from Bayonne, France, states
that ten officers and sixty privates belonging
to a huzzar regiment in Gen. Pavias' command
had gone over to the Carllsts. Several artillery
officers had also left their regiments and Joined
the Carlsts. 1t was also reported that Me
motif Garibaldi had arrived at Barcelona, and
offered the Republicans his services against the
Carlists. The latter had received batteries of
artillery and resumed active operations in
Navarro. They destroyed with gunpowder an
arch of the railway bridge at Puebla, inter
rupting communication between Miranda and
yittoria.
In a conflict at Kinsale, Ireland, on the 9th,
between some fishermen who were on a strike
and several injured.
The inhabitants of Salamanca, Spain, have
expelled the Jesuits from that city.
A Berlin dispatch of the 9th states that the
Emperor William, Prince Bismarck, and Gen.
Won Moltke, accompanied by a brilliant reti-
nue., will leave for st. Petersburg ON visit TO
the Car on the 25th inst The Crown Prince
Frederick William and wife will take their de-
parture for Vienna on the following day.
1t is stated that at the examination into the
Bank of England frauds before the Lord Mayor
of London, on the 10th, it was conclusively
shown that the forgeries were committed by
Austin Bdwell, now under arrest at Havana,
and whose surrender has been ordered by the
Spanish Government; George Mcdonnell, held
for extradition in New York; George Bidwell,
whose arrest in Edinburgh has already been
announced, and Noyes the alleged clerk of the
parties, who was the first person taken into
custody George Bidwel and Noyes were both
before the court, and after examination re-
manded to Newgate.
Spanish advices of the 10th state that Gen
eral Mires, at the head Of a considerable force
of insurgents, had levied contribution of TO-
600 francs on Villa Franco, and demands its
immediate payment by the municipality,
threatening the town with the fate Of Berga if
the money is not forthcoming. The place was
being well defended, and the authorities refus-
ed to yield
Great distress for want of food is reported
in the islands on the Irish coast off Galway.
Sheep are even starving. Subscriptions had
been opened in England for the relief of the
islanders.
Paris letters say that of the 20,0O0,0 900 francs
subscribed in France for the construction of
the imaginary "Memphis and Ell Paso Rail-
road" Is, SOC, 600 francs went into the pockets
of those who were engineering the scheme,
and the remainder was used to make extra
VACANT contracts, that the sale of the bonds
might be further stimulated.
Spanish advices of the 10th say that the
Carlists had bombarded the town of Puegcer-
da, and that although the garrison was making
an heroic resistance, their position was critical.
Relief had been sent from Corona.