Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-11-14

| over the Niagara River, at Buffalo, WAS laid
on the first. A train with officials passed
over the bridge on the I'd.
1t was thought in New York on the LIST that
the house Of ClaGin & Co. would not be COM
PEELED to suspend. Members of the firm had
positively asserted that the institution was
entirely solvent, and, although suffering a
little temporary embarrassment, would come
out all right A proposition had been made
by the members Of all the firms with which
the Spragues are connected to protect their
creditors by trust-deed, and thus prevent
proceedings in bankruptcy.
Official returns to the Bureau of Statistics
show that during the quarter ending septem.
| Der 80, 1878, there arrived at New York 6S, ,5SS
emigrants, of whom 3S,6l3 were males, and
29,970 females There died during the voyage
40 males and 81 females. The total arrivals
from England were 15,399; ireland, 13, 100;
Scotland, 2,79l; Wales, 257; Germany, 24,3Sl
Austria, 926; Sweden, 2139; Norway, 2,024;
Denmark, 526; France, l, ,740; Switzerland, $40;
Spain, 90; Italy, 1,O29; Holland, S5l; Prussia,
1,20S; Poland, 5Sl Hungary, 313 born at sea,
90.
About 500 Chinese left San Francisco for
their native country on the lst Among
them were twenty-seven women recently i'm
ported.
A letter received in New Orleans on the LIST
from Judge Charles j. Merrill, dated Colfax,
Grant Parish, October 90, gives the details of
horrible outrages alleged to have been perpe-
trated by the Metropolitan police of New Or
leans, (sent there by Lieutenant Governor An
tome Dunning in the absence of Governor Kel-
logg), or at their instigation. The Judge says
| n Uaa haliaved thara tbof n,,nnipp bad sapf
the Metropolitan forces up there to give the
negroes chance for revenge, and it was re-
ported that Colonel De Klyne had said at
colored ball that now the negroes could do as
they pleased, as they were under the protection
of his soldiers.
The Washington Star of the Sd says
it had been asserted that the house of
Jay Cooke & Co., which borrowed from
the First National Bank of that city
nearly $S00,OOO, had since their failure
withdrawn 5000, 900 in railway bonds and de-
posted them with the Secretary of the Treas
ury as security for $500, 600 advanced by the
Secretary few days before their failure.
The creditors Of the First National and Jay
Cooke & Co.'s Bank are complaining of this,
saying they would like to know why the Gov
ernment should be preferred creditor. They
say If the Cookies have $500, 600 it belongs to
them, and the Government has no right to
| deprive them Of their pro rata dividend.
The forthcoming annual report of the Di-
rector of the Mint shows the total amount of
gold coined during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1878, to have been $35, ,249, ,337; of silver,
81, 945, 775 The total amount of gold in the
country is set down at sl35, ,0OO, 600; of silver,
s., 100000. During the month of October
last the gold coinage approximated Sl4, 900, 900,
and since April last the coinage has maintained
a steady increase.
Mrs. Schultz was burned to death at
Jesup, Iowa, few evenings ago, by the over
turning Of lamp.
An official announcement was made on the
Sd that the Illinois and Michigan Canal would
be closed on the Doth of this month.
The case OF Rafferty,, twice tried and COM
victed of murder for the shooting of a Chi
cago policeman, has been remanded by the
Supreme Court for another trial, on the
ground that the court below erred in ruling
out the offering of the warrant with which the
two policemen were seeking to arrest, as evil
dence, and all testimony in regard to it, the
Supreme Court holding that, if the warrant
or the serving of it were illegal, then the Of
fense was manslaughter and not murder.
Official returns from ninety-two counties of
Iowa give Carpenters majority at % 236.
Ex-Acting Mayor Cicallo, of Memphis (who
oflicated during the illness of Mayor Johnson)
has been accused of drawing supplies contrib
uted for the yellow-fever sufferers, on the pre-
tense that they were for a widow lady, and
then appropriating them to his own use. A
dispatch of the I'd says he had admitted the
facts charged, but would shield himself in the
law giving power to the Mayor to control the
distribution of the supplies. On learning that
the matter would be made public, Cicallo took
an armful Of ill-gotten articles to the lady's
house, and offered them to her, but she re-
fused to take them.
A Selma, Ala, telegram of the Sd announces
that quarantine restrictions against all points
had been removed.
The recent municipal election in Chicago
was very exciting one, and resulted in the
triumph of what was styled the "People's
Ticket" as opposed to the "Citizen's Law
and Orderp candidates. The victory is thus
with the antl-Sunday Liquor Law party. The
majorities range from 5000 to 10000. H. D.
Colvin, agent of the United States Express
Company, is the new Mayor of the city. His
Mayor Medilps departure for Europe.
1t was thought in Milwaukee on the evening
of the 4th that the Reformers had carried the
Wisconsin State election, and that Taylor's
majority for Governor would be about 5000.
The returns also indicated that the Democrats
and Reformers had carried the Legislature.
The -Monopolsts elected their tickets
in several counties in Illinois and Kansas at
the recent elections.
The Conservative ticket in Virginia is elected
by large majority.
The Democratic majority in Baltimore is
about $4,000. The State is also Democratic.
The New York election has resulted In
victory for the Democrats. The Tammany
Democrats carried the city by a majority of
$1,000 to 10000. S. s. Cox is elected to Con-
gress to fill the unexpired term of the late
Congressman Brooks. The Democrats and
Liberals claimed the StatSon the night Of the
election by $1,000 to $4,000 majority.
Louis Gaylord Clark died at his residence at
Piermont, N. Y, on the night of the Sd, afteI
an illness of only few hours. Mr.. Clark was
the editor of the Knicker6Oeker Magazine from
1882 till it ceased to exist
A Washington dispatch of the 4th says At
torney-General Williams had "received tele-
gram from Governor Kellogg, saying that the
military in Grant Parish, La, aiding the civil
authorities to arrest the perpetrators of the
Colfax massacre, did not arrive until after the
Grant Parish outrage ia alleged to have taken
place. The telegram also says that the latest
advices indicate that the outrage is a fabrca-
tion." A New Orleans dispatch of the same date
says: "The account of the Grant Parish out
rage, telegraphed hence November l, as shown
by all accounts, was perpetrated after the ar
rival there of the Metropolitans, and had been
fully confirmed by the publication in Sundays
papers of the proceedings of the public meet
ing held in Alexandria to consider the subject.
The above facts should have been known to
Kellogg when he sent his dispatch of the 4th
to Attorney General Williams"
1t having become OBVIOUS that the strength
of the Canadian Ministry WAS falling of. and