The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-05-27

Presbyterian General AssennbIy.-U.
$. District Court--IYho'Il be Cow
ernor!--Business, Crops, &c.
CLEVELAND, 23d June, 1857.
The General Assembly of the Presby
terrain Church (New School) commenced
its session in this city on Thursday last
1t is composed of a remarkably fine body
of men, and its proceedings attract muol
interest. 1t is expected that the slavery
question will engage the attention of the
Convention on Tuesday next. The
champions of both extremes of sectiona.
opinions and prejudices, are thoroughly
prepared for the conflict, and the more
conservative members have fears that til:
Church may founder upon the same
rock of fanaticism that has produced
such division and Generalization among
other Christian churches. If these fears
shall DO realized, another of those pow
erful yet delicate chords, referred to by
Mr.. CALHOUN, by which the Union oil
the States has been maintained, will be-
come severed, and these soldiers of the
Cross will return to their several homes
and enlist under the dark banner of con,
t%ention, hate and civil war.
The District Court, Hon. II. V. VII
SON presiding, is o in session. The
Grand Jury were dismissed this morn
ing. They found some ninety bills Of
indictment against parties for having
made free with Uncle Sans mails,
"making faces" after his. coin &c.-all of
which disturbed the old gentlcman's
" dignity" as alleged ia the bills afore-
said. Some five or six of the gentlemen
thus arraigned, were brought into Court
this morning, attended by Marshal Frrcu
and his Assistants. The bills found BY
the Grand Jury were read to them by
Hon. r. P. RANNEY, the new District
Attorney, and to all and each of the al
legations therein contained, the gentle
men thus charged pleaded "not guilty"
The District Attorney and Court, how
ever, from ONE cause unexplained, de-
olined to receive their positive assever-
atoms of innocence as satisfactory, and
the "defendapts," having shaken the
dust of their feet against the Court
Room-took their leave, accompanied by
the Marshal and his corps.
If the Democratic sentiment here re-
fleets to any considerable extent that of
the State, there can be no question Gs to
the nomination Of Mr.. PAINE at the 9th
of August Convention. You hear of no
one else talked about. One pleasing
has marked all these discussions,
through the press and otherwise, SO far
as We have obserYed--and hat is, a
courtesy and forbearance, and disposition
to do full justice to the merits of all the
by the friends of each. If
this course is persevered in, there will
be no heart burnings after the Conven-
ton.
The spring business among the job
bers of Cleveland has been unusally
profitable. They have gathered q fine
from the general emberrassmcnts
which have oppressed the business in
of the whole country. They
have had an immense number of new
chiefly from Ohio and Indi-
ana, made up of men who were ashamed
to face their credi tors in New York, be-
cause of their inability to pay, but who,
in the hope of keeping their business
afoat a few months, against the day
when something would turn up" have
gathered up what cash they could, and
their stocks in Cleveland.
It is not improbable that many of these
new customers, a large portion of whom
are really among the b est business men
of the West, although temporarily en-
barrassed, may become regular and prof.
table customers of Cleveland.
The trade and industry of Ohio have
suffered immensely in consequence Of the
drafts which have been made upon her
BY the allurements of the West, and
which have exhausted her for the time
Of much of her population and wealth.
One good harvest will relieve our bust
ness interests of much of the embarrass-
nents under which we are now suffering
rom these causes-and such a harvest
We have every prospect of realizing. A
breadth of ground was sown in
wheat during the past year han ever in
one year heretofore, the quantity now up
,n the ground reaching nearly two mil
ions of aeres,-snd one has only to "tra-
as we have been doing the last
several days, to assure himself that the
prospects of the wheat crop were rare
!y better IN the month Of May of any
year-a month that generally deter
Che fate of the wheat crop. We
have no hesitation in predicting that the
wheat harvest of Ohio, in 1857, will
ct least thirty-fve millions of
bushels. The croakers will laugh at this
prediction, we know-but never mind
them. Sixty days since they laughed at
the idea that We would have any har.
vest, in consequence of the drought in
the fall, and the sew Gritty of the winter
and spring weather. They now fall
back upon tho fly and weeyil, which are