Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-09-26

day for examination, which he waived, aid
was committed to the Territorial Jail to await
his trial for the murder at the October term OF
the United States District Court, at which
Judge Barnes will preside"
A Washington dispatch says a member OF
Congress, who was member of the Banking
and Currency Committee Of the last Congress,
states that he shall advocate a system In the
next Congress which shall permit unrestricted
free banking, conditioned only upon adequate
bonded security for the circulation.
The National Executive Committee of the
Radical Democratic party met in New York on
the nth, and adopted an address to the Oranges
Of the Patrons of Husbandry, asking their
support in efforts to secure responsible repre-.
sentation.
The New York State Prohibition Convention
met in Syracuse on the 18th. After the adop-
tion Of resolutions arraigning the Republican
party for faithlessness to its pledges to the
temperance cause, and declaring want of
confidence in either political party, the Conven-
tion nominated a State ticket as follows:
Secretary of State, Rev. B. /. Ives;
Brownell; Attorney General, Walter Farring-
toni Canal Commissioner, Thomas Edgerly;
State Engineer, J. c. B. Wallace; Inspector Of
Prisons, Rev. Isaac Harrs.
The Americans engaged in kidnapping Lord
Gordon Gordon were tried ut Fort Garry, on
the 10Th, found guilty, and sentenced to tweu-
ty-four hours mprisonment.
There was something like stock panic in
Wall Street, on the 18th. Rock Island and
the Western fancies reached the lowest point
within five years.
Rev. DR.. Benjamin II, Paddock was conse-
Grated as Bishop of the Diocese of Massachu-
sets, at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th.
The seventh annual reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland Society was held In Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th. Generals Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished
officers were in attendance.
On the 10th, Professor King, accompanied
by four newspaper correspondents, made
balloon ascension from Buffalo, n. Y. At four
o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th he was
over Whitney's Point, n. Y, moving in
southeasterly direction.
Another destructive connagration occurred
in Chicago on the afternoon of the
nth Four acres were burned over and
about 200 families rendered homeless.
There was au intense excitement among
business men, and for a time fears
were entertained that he "Great Blaze" was
about to be duplicated. The conditions
seemed favorable for such an event. The
wind blew almost gale from the southwest:
the buildings were mostly wooden affairs, drya as
tinder, and almost as infammable as gunpow-
der, so that there really seemed occasion for
the general apprehension that existed. Owing
to the character of the buildings the loss was
comparatively u small one, not exceeding, 1t
is estimated, S25O,OOO.
The propeller Acorn, Of the Vermont Cen
trail line of steamers, en- route from Ogdens-
burg TO Chicago, was burned to the waters
edge on the evening of the 18th, at Collins
dock, about five miles above Alexandria Bay
The fire caught In the fre-hole. The passen.
gers, fifty in number, and the crew were all
saved with difficulty. She was heavily laden
with cargo Of general merchandise, which
was lost.
The Pacific mail steamer Costa Rica, from
Honolulu, was wrecked at Dablo Point, at the
entrance of San Francisco harbor, on the night
Of the nth. She was trying TO come in with a
full head of steam, but dense fog prevailed
and she struck the land with tremendous
force, making a hole in her bow through
which the water rushed in torrents. The pas
sengers took to the boats, and all eventually
reached the docks in safety.
Jay Cooke & Co., the well known bankers
and brokers Of Philadelphia and New York,
have suspended payment. Stocks took tum-
BILE as soon as the intelligence reached
Wall street, caused more by apprehen.
sons of the future than by the existing
condition of affairs. Prominent Wall street
men attribute the suspension of the firm not
50 much TO sustain their Philadelphia house us
to their operations In Northern Pacific, which,
it is said, they sought to carry beyond their
strength. 1t is reported that the life insu-
rance company with which Jay Cooke IL Co.
are connected, may have to go under, but this
lie denied. Shortly after the suspension of Mr.
Cooke, the house of L. w. Clarke Il Co., of
Philadelphia, suspended. In New York, the
failure Of Richard Schel and Robinson
u Suydam, stock brokers was announced.
second "Black Friday" occurred in
the Gold Room and stocks of all kinds be-
gan to weaken, everybody manifesting fever
ish desire to get rid Of everything IN the form
ofspeculative security. Western Union declined
Sper cent; N. Y. Central, 8; Pacific Mail, 4;
st. Paul, common, 4; Rock Island, s; Erie, IL;
Union Pacific, 219; Lake Shore, 81 Indiana
Central, 3; Ohio q Mississippi, 81; Toledo Il
Wabash, ~; Northwestern, 2Sl, and Harlem
2per cent. In all about 394, 200 shares of stock
changed hands. The aggregate losses were
immense. The effect on gold was to advance
1t to 1l213 to ll2%, The London house Of
Cooke, McCulloch Il Co., is thought not TO be
compromised by the failure of the present
house. The embarrassments of the house are
said to be directly traceable to its connection
with the Northern Pacific Railway.
The German bark Malvina Schott arrived ut
Wilmington, N. c., on the 18th, bringing six
survivors of the bark Vorwarts, which was
lost during the recent storm. Captain
Schrebbs and three seamen were lost The
survivors were without food or water for three
days, and suffered terribly.
Carl Vogt, the alleged murderer of Cheya-
lier Bois du Bianco, in Brussels, Belgium,
was, on the 18th, discharged from the custody
of the United States Marshal, by whom he had
been held to await eXtradition, but was i'm
mediately arrested on a Civil suit to recover
property stolen from the murdered Cheyalier.
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"Yes, Why :"
THE Albany Journal asks, "Why should
In 10 Il Al =.