The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-11-08
for the arrest Of the Offender, but I hav,

not heard Of his capture.
Barnum is about to sell out his st6ci
in trade. or at Least a portion of it. H.
offers for sale two Giraffes, eleven Ele
plants, and an extensive general assert
ment of "va-mints.n His Autobiogra
ply, is out of the market, having beer
purchased by James Redfeld, for $751;
600. So much for Barnum's book and
Barnum's beasts? The former can
hardly fail to prove valuable to all who
have a taste for playing upon human gul
libility, and are in search of valuable re.
ceipts for the manufacture of CANNON.
The sale to Redfeld, has all the ap.
pearance of callusion with Barnum, for
the sake of advertising the book. After
the reported disagreement, Redfeld con
tinued the work, as if nothing had hap,
pened.
The trial of Nicholas Beehan, at Riv
er head, l.. I. for the murder of the
Wickam family, has terminated in his
conviction. A lame attempt was made
to set up an alibi, but it failed utterly
The hardened scoundrel on being sen
fenced by the Court exclaimed-"Thanl
you Judge, I'll be dead in a week, and
leave you my hair for a wig" If ever
death was righteously inflicted through
the ins~trumentality of the law it will
be in his case.
Business continues in a depressed con.
dition-speculators in fancy stocks, and
this includes but two many of our mer-
chants, are decidedly in a tight place. .
and the stringency of the money market
is increased by the non-arrival of the
! California mails with the usual semi.
monthly remittances, of the pewter
Al things considered, however, we are
not half so badly off as the croakers pre-
dicted we should be, and although the
November payments may break a few
weak backs, the mercantile community
will wether the storm much better than
was anticipated some months ago.
The character of the news by the
Niagara, indicates that the struggle be-
tween the western powers and Russia:
will be a long and desperate one. II
seems somewhat doubtful whether Sebas.
topo1 can be taken before the approach
of Menschikoff, with a sufficient force to
risk another battle. He appears to have
made a mastery retreat from the Alma.
and a few more such costly victories as
that of the goth of September, might
place the victors in an awkward predica-
ment.
Nothing has yet been heard of the
missing boats of the Arctic, n of which
is supposed to have had women ON board
indeed, Mr.. Rathbone, states positively
that there were from ten to fifteen fe
males in it, and Mr.. Baalham reports
that it was amply supplied with provis
ions and water. There is every reason
to hope that this boat has attracted the
attention of some outward bound vessel
and that its precious freight has beer
saved.
Close upon the catastrophe of the
Arctic has come, the news of the fate O.
Sir John Franklin, and his brave associ.
ates. Terrible as was the doom of those
who went down with the noble Steamer.
it was merciful as compared with that Of
the helpless adventures, who persisted
of starvation in the region of perpetual
ice.
The Geo. Law arrived at one o'clock,
this P. NJ, from Aspinwall, having on
board 81, O62, 644, and 500 passengers.
A company of ~emigrants bound for Cali
fornia, had been murdered by the In
dams, and six hundred head of cattle car.
ried off. Twenty-Five Americans had
persisted for want of water.
ST. CYR.