Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
EPTToME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from YslsgnmS Of Accompanying Dates

pehh powers IA Spanish affairs are denied
by a recent London dispatch Tho founda-
tion for these reports was that the German
Government had sent note to the Versailles
Government protesting against the Pyrenees
being made Carlist arsenal, Ind
declaring that unless France maintained neu-
trality IN Spanish affairs Germany would ask
the other powers to interfere. In eonse-
quence Of this note the French troops on the
frontier had been ordered 10 prevent uni.
formed Carlists from crossing the boundary
....In letter TO the Beecher Investigating
Committee on the Sd Mr.. Tilton states that he
will hold no further communication with
them, for the reason that the committee is
composed Of Mr.. Beecher's friends, appointed
by himself and expected to act In his behalf,
assisted by attorneys employed exclusively
for his vindication; he expects no Justice,
either from the tribunal, since IL cannot com
pei witnesses to testify, nor from its reporters,
since they do not give impartial reports and he
further thinks that the committee has come
at last to be as little satisfactory to the pub
lie as to himself, and that its verdict could
not possibly be based ON the full facts, since
the committee have no power to compel wit
nesses nor to verify their testimony by oath,
nor to sift II by cross-examination. He then
concludes; For these reasons, which ought
to have moved me earlier, have at last in
structed my counsel to proceed at once, at
his discretion, to carry my case from your
jurisdiction to tPcourt Of law; and in view
OF this instruction from me he has in turn
instructed me to hold no further communi-
cation with the committee except this
present letter Of courtesy. -. The Chi
cago Times says that at an important
council of Western railroad managers, held
in that city, it has been resolved, after con-
siderable discussion, to restore ante-panic
rates for the transportation of grain from
the interior to Chicago. This is an increase
of from 10 to % per cent. over existing
rates ....A dispatch from Omaha on
the 4th says intelligence had been
received at military headquarters
that Clusters Black Hills expedition
was returning, having fulfilled its orders....
AT the election recently held in Vicksburg,
Miss, the whites elected their entire ticketby
$50 majority. There was no disturbance of
any kind. Both whites and blacks polled
their full registered strength. About forty
colored men voted the white ticket and four
whites voted with the blacks.
THURSDAY, Aug. 6.-Mr. Gaynor, the
complainant in the suit against Mr.. Tilton.
charging him with libeling Mr.. Beecher, with
drew the complaint on the 5th, stating that
the promotion of truth and justice was the
only motive which actuated him i'm bringing
the suit, but since the case was taken to a
higher court he would retire from the prose-
cution. The case was then dismissed. Frank
Moulton appeared before the Beecher In
vestigating Committee on the evening
of the same day, and was examined about an
hour 1t was stated that, in compliance with
the request of both Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. Til
ton, he would appear before the committee on
the evening of the Sth and produce all the
letters and documents in his possession bear
ing on the case IA st. Joseph (Mo.)
dispatch of the 4th says the grasshoppers
have entirely destroyed the corn crop
of Western Kansas and Nebraska.
1t is doubtful if 1000 bushels of corn
will be raised in Kansas or Nebraska west
of a line passing from the Platte River in
Nebraska, through the towns of Humboldt,
Seneca and Manhattan to Wichita, on the
Arkansas River. Hundreds of new set
tiers in Western Kansas and Nebraska are
selling their cattle and household goods
for whatever they will bring and pre-
pairing to leave the country. AS there
is good crop of wheat and other
small grain there will be no starvation, but
a great drawback on the business of the
country. -. The Executive Committee of the
Wisconsin State Grange has issued an ad-
dress to the Oranges of the State, warning
them that an attempt will be made in the
next Legislature to secure the repeal of the
Railroad law, and urging them to resist the
effort. On the 5th the steamboat Pat Rogers,
running on the Ohio River in the Louisville
Mail Line, when near Aurora, Ind, caught fire
and burned to the waters edge. The origin of
the fire is attributed to careless smokers
dropping their cigars upon cotton bales. OF
the 100 passengers and crew on board the
steamer from twenty to thirty were lost, and
several others were seriously injured.
FRIDAY, Aug. 7.-Spain is said to have
sent a circular note to foreign powers in
which it is claimed that the Carlists, under
guilty of incendiarism, assassination and
pillage. The recent Reform State Conven-
tion of Kansas nominated: For Governor,
j. c. Cusey; Lieutenant-Governor, f. II.
Ewington; Secretary of State, Nelson
Abbott; Treasurer, Charles F. Rooster;
Auditor, G. P. Smith; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, II. b. Norton;
Attorney General, j. B. Hallowen; AS
sistant-Justice of the Supreme Court, w.
p Donthitt. The following are the main feat
ures of the platform adopted: Maintaining
the inviolability of the right of the State to
control its own domestic Institutions; con-
demning the present Administration for its
bold defiance of public sentiment and disre-
gard Of the public good; insisting that the
public debt shall be paid in strict compliance
with the law under which it was contracted;
demanding the repeal of the National Bank
ing law, and the issue of legal tenders inter-
changeable for Government bonds bearing a
low rate of interest; favoring the repeal of
the tariff on lumber and on the necessities
of common life; demanding such legis-
lation in regard to railroads as will Sc
cure the industrial interests of the coun-
try against monopoly and extortion;
denouncing the Poland law of the last
Congress as an outrage against the liberty of
the press and the individual; protesting
against the Indian policy of the Administra-
tion, and favoring the election Of President,
Vice President and Senators by direct vote
of the people. e. The election in North Caro-
lima for Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Congressman, Judges and Solicitors, men,
bers of the General Assembly and county Off
GERS took place on the 9th. A Raleigh dis
patch of that date says the election passed off
quietly as far as heard from. 1t was con-
sidered certain the State had gone Demo.
cratic by vote variously estimated at from
5000 to 10000, with seven Democratic Con-
gressmen out of eight...,A State Reform
Convention was held at Lansing, Mich, on
the 9th, at which series OF resolutions
was adopted-favoring the organization of
a National Reform party; in favor Of a
currency that shall not be susceptible to
such contraction or imitation as shall result in
injury to the business interests of the country;n