The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-25
NeWs bY the Maffs.

* In the course of about four weeks,
elections are to take place which will de-
termine the political character of the
next House of Representatives in Con-
Rress. The elections occur in the fol-
lowing order: New York, November Il
New Jersey, November T; Michigan,
November Z; Wisconsin, November 4
Massachusetts, November Is. Besides
Representatives, nearly all these States
are also about to elect a Governor.
E One of the escaped seamen of the
Arctlc shipped on board the atlantic
on Saturday. just as the steamer
was about to sail he was discovered by
Capt. West, who took him by the collar
and marched him ashore, saying he wish
cd no such men to go to sea with him.
SoUTH CAROLINA EEECTIoN.-Messrs.
Aiken, Keitt, Orr, Boyce and Mcqueen
have been elected to Congress in that
State
There is probably a majority in the
lower branch of the Legislature in ia
vor Of giving the election of Presidential
electors to the people.
FnE. FARE OF Mas. CoLLINs.-The
Following is the opening paragraph in the
letter of Capt. LUCE to r.. K. COLLINS,
Esq. 1t was omitted in the first publ
cations:
g 1t becomes my painful duty to III
form you of the total loss of the Arctic,
under my command, with many lives;
and I fear among them must be inclu-
dcd your own wife, daughter and son, Of
achone I took q last Lca0e Tic moment tie
ship 4cts going dozen, without ever ex-
apectiDg to see the light of another day,
to give you an account Of the heart-ron-
ding scene"
81 r. In Pennsylvania PoLLocK's
majority for Governor, in At counties, is
30, 2e7. McTT, the Democratic Know
Nothing Canal Commissioner, will-haye
about 100 ,0o0. The State Senate, it is
said, viii be composed of I6 Democrats,
Is Wings, Independent Democrat, and
/ Independent Wing and the House of
Al Democrats, and 50 opposition.
The official returns elect John Cad
Wallader, Democrat, from the fifth Con
gressional District, by eight votes
The Governor of Kentucky, like the
Governor of Maine, has designated the
.30th of November as Thanksgiving day.
E9By the late foreign arrivals, we
have the following sanguinary item from
Italy a military man was in love
with a young lady whom he could not
obtain in marriage. Incensed at her
refusal, he resolved on vengeance. Arm
ing himself with four reVolvers, he re-
paired to the mansion of the fair one
The first person that appeared was her
mother-he shot her the next was her
father-he shot him her came the
young lady herself-he shot her then
came the uncle and aunt-he shot them
then he shot himself.
The alarmists are right Let the
free Jemigrants turn back on their route.
The fate of the territory is decided against
them One of the greatest shareholders
in the world has made a settlement in
!. Kansas. We have the dreadful fact
sfrom,the Kansas Herald, which says:
"We are informed that the celebrated
: Hiram Powers has given directions for
the purchase of real estate in our new
city of LeaYenworth."
sERev. Thomas ChiIten, alternate
ly a lawyer politician and clergyman,
recently died in Kentucky. In 1919
was a member of the, Kentucky lcgisla-
ture, then a clergyman, and subsequent
sHstWice electeda member of congress, as
a jackson man. Afterwards he, became
q friend of Mr.. Clay; and being a can
didate a third time was defeated. This
was I'M 1881, but in 1888 he was again
sent to congress, and in 1885 to private
life, and ended his days as a clergyman.
F The Potatoe crop has been gath
erred in throughout Montgomery and
Bucks counties, Pa, and is said there
has been a full average, one, notwithsand-
ing the recent severe dranght. The corn
is also a much better crop than was an
ticipated it would be a month ago..
EaEEsTbe San Diego Herald publish,
es the following, written upon a young
man, who was accidentally shot =;
1sherelies the body of Jeems Hambrick
who was accidentally shot
.a. on the bank of the pacus river
by a young man
he was accidentally shot with n of the
large colts revolver with no stopper for
she cock to rest on it was n of the old