Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-05-16

| to explain the matter. While doing 80 his car
riage at the door was Immediately surrounded
| by large and excited crowd, who commenced
denouncing him. Just as Kellogg's carriage
was being driven of some one in the crowd
fired pistol The driver Immediately piled
his whip, and drove up Natchez alley at O
| furious pace"
A dispatch from New Iberia (La.) 7th, re-
ports three Metropoltans killed and -four
| wounded, within two squares of the Court
| House at st. Martinsvile, where Colonel Bad
ger had concentrated his forces. Citizens
were collecting from every portion Of Attaka-
pas. Captains of steamboats, had been warned
not to transport Metropolitsns, and conse-
| quently did not bring those at the bay, know
ing that their boats would be blown up. The
entire Bayou Teche was under surveillance by
well-organized bodies Of citizens, and Kellogg
troops could only reach st. Martinsyille by
fighting their way up the bay.
The New Orleans Picdvtne had the follow.
ing special dispatch from New Iberia, 7th: "a
sharp engagement took place to-day at ST.
Martinsville. The police at about 2:15 p. m
made sortie from the town, and attacked the
forces of Colonel De Blanc who fell back be.
fore them. The police fired both solid shot
and shell from their cannon but without effect.
They advanced about a mile and half beyond
the town, and made a stand, but retreated
after brisk skirmish before the advancing
forces of Colonel De Blanc"
| Cbief-Justce Salmon p. Chase died in New
York on the morning of the 7th. The tele-
graph gives the following account of his
death:
| The Chicf-Justice came here on Saturday
evening to visit Mrs. w. s. Hoyt, his daughter.
| He was in unusually good health and spirits.
| This favorable state of things Continued until
| yesterday morning, when al ten O'Clock servant
sent to call him TO breakfast, on entering his
room, found Mr.. Chase lying in a state Of un-
conscious stupor. His daughter was summoned,
| and servants were dispatched for medical aid.
| When the physicians arrived, the unconscious
| ness was found to have resulted from the re-
currence of paralysis, of which he has had
several strokes. All efforts to relieve him
proved unavailing, and it was evident that his
vitality vas ebbing away. Gov. Sprague and
| his wife, daughter of Judge Chase, were sum-
moned, and arrived in the city last evening.
| His two daughters remained by his bedside
until ut 1890 this morning, he breathed his
last He remained totally unconscious from
the time his condition was discovered until the
end.
Edward s. Stokes, sentenced to death for the
murder of James Fisk, Jr., has been denied a
new trial by the Supreme Court OF New York.
A Farmers Cheap Transportation Conven-
| ton was recently in session in New York. Hon.
Josiah Quincy, of Boston, was chosen Presi-
dent A constitution and bylaws were re-
ported, providing that the organization shall
be known as "The National American Cheap
| Transportation Association" whose object
shall be the cheapening and equalization of
trap of oh hn
United States, and to make provisions also for
subordinate associations in each, and regulate
minor matters for guidance and govern
ment of National and State associations.
A series Of resolutions was adopted, and the
following committee was appointed to draft
an address TO the people The Hon. Josiah
Quincy, Boston; NJ. d. Wilbur, Michigan;
Horace II. Day, New York City; r. II. Fergu,
son, Troy, n. Y; Henry Bronson, Kansas; j.
A. Noonan, Milwaukee, and w. II. G. Price,
New York. The convention adjourned to
meet in Washington, January, 1874, at the call
of the Executive Committee.
Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut, was in
| augurated at Hartford, on the 7th, with I'M
posing ceremonies.
An official call has been issued for the meet
ing of the Maine Republican State Convention
at Bangor, on the 10Th of June.
Hon. Oakes Anes, NJ. c., died at Easton,
Mass, on the Sth, aged sixty-nine years.
There was general adjournment Of the
courts throughout the country, on the Sth,
out Of respect to the memory Of the late
Chief-Justice Chase
President Grant left Chicago ON the morning
of the Sth, for Washington.
A grand five days jubilee is to take place in
Chicago during the first week in June, on the
occasion of the formal opening of the new
passenger depot of the Michigan Southern and
Rock Island Railroads and the Inauguration Of
the new Pacific Hotel.
The Iowa State Christian Conference will
meet at Legrand, June 4.
A Dixon Qll) dispatch of the Sth says three
persons, who were reported victims of the re-
cent bridge calamity had been found alive and
well. Their names are Mrs. Peter Carney, Mrs.
Mary Sullivan and Miss Catharine Foley, They
had gone out of the city, and were not on the
bridge when it fell. This leaves thirty-nine
killed.
A Parsons (Kan.) telegram of the says Sth
eight dead bodies, including one of a child
eighteen months old, had been found under
the house of the Bender family, thirteen miles
west of there, in Labette County, and near
which the body Of Senator York's brother was
found. The Bender family left the country
about two weeks before, but the excitement
was so great, and the determination to bring
the guilty parties to justice so strong, that
no effort would be spared to effect their arrest.
According to the FL Paso (TeIas) Sentinel of
April 90, that section Of the State, and north
of there, along the Rio Grande, had just been
visited by the severest snow storm ever known
there. Heavy SHOWS covered all the noun
tains around Santa Fe, and the fruit was
ruined
A New Orleans dispatch of the Sth says that
the following had been telegraphed by Senator
West from Washington to Kellogg; "lf you
are threatened with violent combinations, too
powerful to be overcome by your State forces,
and you think it necessary to require the aid
of the forces of the United States, make a
requisition upon the President in accordance
with the Constitution of the United States,
simply stating the fact, and that your legisla-
ture cannot be convened, and / know that
every means will be placed at your dis
posal to fully maintain your authority
The following dispatch is also made public,
and it is stated that the troops at jackson,
Miss, and other points had received orders to
proceed to Louisiana at once, in accordance
Herewith:
WASHINGTON, May s, 1S73.-GEN. w. II. EMORY,
Commanding the Department of New Orleans, La
| II in your Judgment more troops are needed IN
Louisiana, make your call clear and specific, and
wv '''' ", T. SHERMAN General.
The news from st. Msrtinsville, La, Sth, is to
the effect that skirmishing had continued all
the day, but with no serious results. Wagons
and supplies were coming in to the citizens
from all quarters, and they felt confident
of capturing the town. The Mayor of the
town has been imprisoned for high treason.
A consultation was held at Washington on
the Sth, between Gen, Sherman, Acting Secre'
tary of War Robson, Attorney General viii
liams and Senator West, of Louisiana, the sub
ject being the condition of affairs in Louisiana
1t was decided to instruct Gen, Emory that he
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