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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26
From the Chicago Press and Tribune.
PIXIES PEAK.

The Hannibal and st Jo. Railway will
land passengers some four or five hundred
miles above st. Louis, in twenty-six hours
from Chicago Regular fare $l7 For
parties Of Fifty or upwards a reduction of
50 on each passengers will be made
John NJ. Hockday & Co (prcsent carriers
of the Salt Lake and Cherry Greek Mail)
will run line Of daily stages from St. Jo,
seph and Atchinson to the gold mines, and
that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railway will be authorized to ticket pas.
sengers from Chicago to the mines for 81 49,
including board, west of the Missouri river
Messrs. Hockiday & Go. have made the
Distance from Salt Lake from the Missouri
river in fifteen days, aud state that they
will convey passengers through from Atch-
nson, Kansas, to the mines in ten days.
! Their line will be stocked with covered
coaches and run with six mules 10 each
coach Relay stations are to be establish
ed every twenty miles. The Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy Railroad Co. will sell
by this line six tickets per day through to
the mines.
In addition to this line, Messrs. Challis
& Co, of Atchison, will start every ten
days, beginning the lst of April, an ox-team
express from Atchison, by which passen
gers will be ticketed through from the Mis-
souri, river, and boarded for $50-making
from Chicago 500 to the mines. An un
limited number of tickets can be sold by
this line. BY this arrangement the bag
gage of the men will only be carried, witt
the women and children and such as hap
pen to be sick. Time thirty days. Fcl
the convenience of those who may want t
furnish their outfit here, including teams
arrangements have been made for teams
and all the incidentals for an outfit, iron
Chicago to ST. Joseph, at $llO per car, it
quick time, and one man will be passed free
10 lake care of horses, etc This will b,
; popular aud expeditions route.
BY the Burlington & Missouri Rive
: Railroad passengers will be tcketed l.
Plattsmouth, at the mouth of Platte River
!. for $25, and this will include 100 pound
baggage on railway and so pounds on stage
Distance TO Agency City 10y rail 279 miles
= thence to Plattsmouth by stage 1913 miles
Q An association has been formed, of whic
g prominent gentleman of this city is meu
!. ber to run line of stages through froI
II Oreopols, at the mouth Of the Platte,
the mines, and there is no reason to dout
that all arrangements will be completed
time for early travel For the benefit
those who may wish to make their outf
: here, the price per car to Agency City hi
been fixed at $55, and one man will
4 passed free 10 take care Of the stock Pa
: sengers are also ticketed through to Cou
= ell Bluffs by this route, taking stage |
% Agency City, via Des Moines
ie We have now three prominent liues fro
IN this city whose arrangements are perfect'
~ 70 accommodate Che rush for Pixies Pea
however great i may be.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

selling. Without war, Great Britain and France
viii not permit its forible seizure The United
states arc not ready, either TO seize Cuba, for
the shortcomings and impertiueuces Of Spain,
or to Eight those powers In fact, we regard the
project now on foot, and under the present cir.
cumstances, as mere scheme Of politicians for
moving the political waters in this country
Mr.. Slidell and other presidential aspirants will
derive Incidental prominence by leading pop
ular current Of feeling. no matter how idle and
vain. Douglas, too, in bis treacherous designs
against the South, strives to exc out his miser-
able short lions skin Of spurious democracy. by
the additional patching Of this cheap vulpine
utraism OF an impracticable hobby. But the
great object sought is to raise new issues--to
assuage sectional reeling--to change, ir possible
the front Of parties--or at any rate, under the
clouds Of confusion and distraction, 20 effect
once more party triumph without the hazards
of the fatal issues of the past
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

esThe Buchanan aud Gore ousley program
for Ccntrnl American naalrs has been carried
cut Minister Ousleys treaties Tor EnB'ena
with the several governments Of Central Amer
ica reliuqish tie Mosquito pro'cctorAte and the
Ran,an Islands at Honduras, aud all other pre-.
ten,iuus to English possession and control il
tbu, region. Thus Great Britain lits herself tC
accept the American version of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, aud can insist on our govern
ment maintaining its provisions with lorcC
difficult to be resisted 1t was through Mr.
Ousleys influence that Nicaragua has cou6rm
ed the Cass treaty with the United States, and
then the United States is bound, hand and foot,
to fair play and equal rights in regard to politi
cal and commercial affairs in Central America
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

Adviees from Jacmel, says the n. Y .T'ri-
bnne, state tia, all the excitement Of the revo.
luton had passed by, and business had revived
to its former briskness. Coffee was coming in
freely from the coast and the interior. The
most enthusiastic demonstrations followed the
abdication of the Emperor Crowds went thro'
the streets shouting Down with the Emper-
or !" "Vive lie President Geffrard !" The
Governor of Jacmel one of the Emperor's Off
cials, had been deposed. The new Government
was looked upon with much favor by the peo.
pie. One Of its first acts was to repeal the ex
orbitant export duty on coffee; but, upon ex
animation OF the finances, they we're found tC
be in such disordered condition that the ole
duty was Immediately restored. The old Law
would continue iu force until such time as i
could be conveniently taken off
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

S, CARoIIEA OPINION OF THR CUBA SCHEME
TO our understanding, says the Charleston
Mercury the whole scheme now before the
country is improcteabIe and visionary. How
ever disposed the North might be to obtain
q the ever faithful isle" on account of its ad-
yantages, commercial and for defense, that anti
slavery section, having control Of our govern
meot is not prepared to buy and annex Cuba.
as additional slave states 10 the Union, and new
er will be- Spain, too, is bitterly opposed to
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

When The Union forsakes the principles
Of JsFFKRsoN, which is the "old Virginia
school Of politics. we may all despair Of
the Republic. National Dcmocrat.
In allnsion 10 the principles Of Che cold Vir-
ginia school Of politics." JEFFERSON said, al
tremble when remember that God is just
The leading principle in that school Of politics
now is--a negro has no rights that white
man is bound to respect"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

The two Kentucky Senators, CRITTESDEN and
TuoNFsoS, have both given expression to their
opposition to tho Cuba corruption fund scheme
Of Buchanan, Slidell g. Co, in able and effective
speeches. The speech Of Mr.. Thompson, for
the sharpness Of lis rebuke, is represented to
have had no rivals, and Mr.. Crittendens has GER
tainly had no superiors for the manliness OF its
dictiOn, and the power and conclusiveness Of its
| orgumpnts
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

The Washington correspondent Of the T'ri-
LWne says the House is in favor Of tariff but
the Committse of Ways and Means are not
AT meeting of the latter on Monday 2lst. Mr..
Letcher and Mr.. Maclay backed down, and re-
fused to permit Mr. MOrrill's bill, with modif-
cations to suit Mr.. Phillips to be reported
and the Committee voted, FIVE to four, to report
bill to reissue Treasury Notes without any
tariff. This decision determined Messrs. Nor
rfll. Howard Davis and Phillips TO allow the
latter to offer in the House Mr.. Morrill's bill
with some slight notifications and a Treasury
Note rider, which was done, to the consterna
tion Of the Free-Traders. Objection was made
to the consideration OF the bill, and suspen.
sion Of the rules was asked for and refused by q
vote Of 172 to 81. The vote shows the House
to be decisiVely in favor of Tariff. When
the Committee of Ways and Means report there
measure, asking permission TO issue Treasury
Notes, the same tariff bill will be moved agail
as an amendment, unless the Treasury-Note bill
is put as rider on the Civil Appropriation bill
1t is generally conceded that the Treasury n otl
bill cannot pass without tariff, aud the latte
cannot be had unless the Committee of Way
and Means back down. An extra session Q
next Congress is quite likely to happen from tn
present state of things
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

eg- John Quincy Adams Ward, the sculp-
tor DOW resident in Washington, has just finish
ed his model Of the bust OF the gallant "Old
Giddings" The likeness Is pronounced excel.
lent BY The friends Of The stout Republican and
by artists Mr. Ward Is soon 10 commence
work upon.a head Of Senator Wade, and Of
busis Of John r Hale and RepresentalIy,
Mott.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26
The earnings of the Cleveland & Erie II. r.
for January, 1857, are as follows compared with
those of the corresponding month last year:

New Posr-O -OFFlcE.-A new Postoflice
has been established in this county, at Crook
er's Corners, which is to be called Steam
burg. Mr.. CHARLES @. Town is appointed
Post Master
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
AshtabuIa, Ohio, Feb, 26, 1853.

The ways ard means question for Keeping
the wheels Of government IN running order, is
vastly perplexing one, aud ecits q deal Of com.
ment aud conjecture, as well out side, as with
the government officials themseves--none more,
perhaps, than sec'ry Cobb who fears that Con
gresz does not appreciate the true condition OF
the Treasury, and says that the Government
must go to aprotest" before the lst of June
unless means are provided to meet the pubic
liabilities A change Of the tariff willnot meet
the case Stephens and others say, Yet the adj.
ministration try their hands at economy, and
disburse wba, revenue may be received to the
best advantage They deny the necessity for
Treasury notes, and also that there will be any
necessity for an extra session OF Congress. The
best informed men in Congress Of all parties ex-
press the opinion that there is no hope of an
agreement on any 6nnpcial measure.
TUE CoMMoN SCBooLs OF 0uIo-There is no
subject Of more general interest to the people
Of this country, than that of the RISE progress
and development Of the Common School sys.
sem. All classes are directly interested in facts
which relate TO this important question: and
hence we give the figures presented in the fifth
annual report of the State Commissioner Of
Common Schools of Ohio, for the year 1853
From this report, we learn that the amount o.
money received for school purposes in the State
during the year. was S3,35T,67S IL, while The
total expenditures for the same period was 81,
739,93T OF. The number Of white youth be
tween the ages Of five and twenty one years wa
s30.665, of which 425,9l9 were males, and 4O5,
BAG females. OF colored youths there are l2,
567, making grand total of S43,227. Th,
number Of schools is; Common, 1924; High
l39 Schools in which English aud German or
taught, ITO; colored, l29; total, 1902. Th
total number Of pupils enrolled in the schoo
during the year was Gil, ,72O, while but 352 IA
were in daily attendance. This is a fact we
worthy of consideration by those who desii
the masses to receive the full benefits of the Con
mon School system. On an average, the Schoo
have been kept open six months and seven da!
during the year. The number of teachers en-
ployed in the State is 20,240. OF these, 1867
were males, and 9,612 females, at an averae
compensation Of S27,s9 for male, and sl29
for females. This makes an average of 1854
per month in Ohio, while in Pennsylvania, tn
average is S2O,73. The compensation in Penr
sylyania is, We think, more just and REASONABLE
especially the pay Of fcGale teachers, which
nearly FIVE dollars per month in advance of thi
Of our own State. There are 1884 scho
houses in the State, erected at a cost of 1926
500. There are 6,497 school libraries, the boo
OF which are valued at Sl35,95s, and numb
245,sST volumes These are the main facts
th0 Report, and from these the growth a
health of the Common School system Of Il
State may be fairly judged.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26
PROTECTION FIRE Co. No. -
tho Members Of is Conptny hereby notified 70 A.
nq eeung on Wednesday Evening the % of March, 1850
o"ocs At The Engine House w order Of the Foreman
A. W. STEELE, Secretary
Cali and Settle.

WOULD Respectfully request oil per-
a sons having unsettled accounts prev,ous 10 ths
First Of January, 1859,
(vhether in my favor not TO call and ,ee IN. sam, i'm.
mediateiy ~ -
hope all interested viii give tho matter their .,r, alton
ton As have one or two persons giving their whole Tins 10
this object
n B. The Notes and Accounts of Willard wen, q ,,st
also be settled immediately they win be left with nrooer
persons FOR collection Very respectfully, NC
Ashtabula January l2 1859. GEORGE WILLARD.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

The SLAVE TRADE ALREADY RE-0PENED.-
1t has been stated that several vessels had sail
ed and were about to sail from Florida for the
coast Of Africa for negroes, it being considered
there that the trade is already opened and safe.
Many of the southern papers talk as if the
Wanderer case had settled the question in that
way Says the Eagle of the South, published
at jackson, Miss, after mentioning the profits
made on the Wanderer negroes -
"Why. it is n most exhorbitant profit
The Congo fellows who sold them to the
Wanderer did not ask more than thirty
dollars per head But the profits, we sup
pose, are necessarily large on the first re-
opening of the trade, inasmuch as there
was sort of quasi terror Of being hanged
as pirates That is all over. No jury al
The south ,oW conriet, or darss comrict, al
honest merchant of being felon and We
have the pleasure to announce that tn,
trade is re-opened already"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

QUTcKER FOREIGN News PRoMsED.-The
n. Y. papers say that, Tin consequence Of the
uncertainty attending the operations of the At
lantic Telegraph company melancholy joke
--tbe associated press have arranged for autici-
pating the steamers of Cape Race with more
eestainty, SO that we shall soon probably receive
the news quite regularly from Europe in FIVE to
seven days. The Cape Race dispatches have
hitherto been so meager as to be Of no sort oI
consequence, but we presume boat will now
be used capable Of containing over "a stick full
Of news
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

figure, unless you do good deal OF work. win
out involving the company, the present year. !
am not certain but Stockholders views are no'
far from the mark about salaries.
And nov Mr.. Stakeholder, word WITH you
don't know but may be doing your con'r'ou-
,ion injustice, but while reading il smeed a li'-
tie Of an efIiuyium, which il | am not mistaken
and hope am, is as offensive to you as me.
I use the word efIluvium hgurativeiy. The
better word to express my meaning, suppose
is o Croak y or Croaking,' both nouns from
the verb Croakp Then there is "Crooker
belonging to the same windy family. Webster
defines Crook 1.-THE noun) the low harsh sound
uttered by frog or raven" &c. "Croak," the
verb ITO cav as a raven or crow" and +" "croak
ker" "one that crooks. murmurs or grumbles.'
If your contribution smells Of the. family, as
l think it docs, quite likely you did not intenc
| it. l suspect as much. Warm, but over-anx
ious friends of the most laudable undertakings
not unlrequently, but inuocenty fall into sucl
ways; SO let it pass, while improve the oppor
tunily TO say that, if you will enquire fperson
who know much practically about building
turnpike plank, or railroads. they will tell yol
that 10 their progress they have invariabl
found more or less OF this troublesome gas. au
that in the case Of ruil roads, especially. the ID
Dor or expense of expelling or neutralizing th
abominable thing, generally costs the compan
more than salaries and ucidentals combined
In the case OF our road, this nuisance has bee
rampant; has fed bountiGuly upon drowth, ba
crops, money panics, and biting hard times
the very kind Of food it likes
Should the effects of last years crisis in bus
ness, pass off this year as seems now almo'
certain, and the country be again blessed wit
ordinary crops it will be hard times with I'll
gentlemen croakers. see not but they mu
starve. Poor fellows Respectfully,
groC Dru No Q
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

PARAoUAY.-The latest accounts from Para
quay state that the Sabine, the flagship Of the
u S. feet, with four steamers had arrived 10 the
river Plata. Commissioner Bowlin was pre-.
paring to 60 up to Ascension 10 the Fulton. II
pevenied, hostililies would ensue, but the gen.
eral impression was that Lopez would arrange
all 8iIheuIties amicabIy.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

~ There are rumors Of dissolution Of the
Cabinet. One is that the President has request.
ed Mr.. Toucey to resign in view Of the coming
report against him Of the Sherman Investigat.
ing Committee.
ssvN Both Judge Mclean chief justice Taney
1t is believd will shortly resign their seats upon
the supreme court bench. The latter is 50
years old, the former &c. and both quite feeble
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

The House on Wednesday 10th, eOncurred
in the Senate's amendments TO the bill donating
to each State Public Lands IN aid of the estab-
iishment and maintenance therein Of seminaries
for instruction in Agriculture, Mechanics, and
the Natural Sciences auxiliary thereto. Each
Stpte is to hare 10000 acres for each Senator
and Representative which it is entitled to send
TO the present Congress those which shall
have an additional Member under the census Of
1860 will be entitled to 10000 acres for each
additional Member. II was carried by the de-
cisive vote Of lIs to 95--2s majority. So the
bill is now through Congress.
Mr. Stanton Of o, the other day. moved, in lb,
House Of Representatives. to strike out the ap
preparation OF million for the army recruiting
service. This proposal he aVowed to be intend
ed to Fedece the army. not only because it
now unnecessarily large, but because it is use
as an iastFrment Of Exsentive tyranny. III
question bad not been taken whea the Houi
adjourned; but whatever may be the result.
Is certain that common Sense and patriotism al
on the side Of Mr.. Stanton. Some day we sha
have no standing army at all. aud only imite
body Of officers ready to drill the volunteer
xao may be enlisted 10 any warlike emergene
The opening 81 che Hannibal and 81 JOSEF
RAiraad was 20 have been celebrated at S
Joseph on The 22d iust Asihat work connec
the extreme Weaf Of Missouh with the northe
lakes, aud the Atlantic and Gsf coasts at
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STIRRING THE CAULDRoN.--It is in evidence be-
fore the Select Naval Investigating Committee,
that Mr. Buchanan sent letter to Mr.. Toucey
in September last, urging that contract for
building the machinery Of the Philadelphia soop
of war be taken from the Novelty Iron Works
New Y ork who were the lowest bidders and
given to Merrick & Sons Philadelphia the only
old Wings in Col. Florences District in favor of
his reelection and it was so awarded. BY this
Presidential job, 450 mechanics were kept en-
ployed iu Florence's District for electioneering
purposes. 1t is also in evidence before the same
Committee that j Clancy Jones, when mem
Der of Congress was agent for procuring con-
tracts with Government for the Reading Forge
in Pennsylvania, receiving ten per cent for his
services. 1t is said that this report will make
some startling disclosure concerning the manner
10 which George n. Sanders, Navy Agent oi
New York has disbursed S4,OOO,000 annually
1t exposes the political villainy of this corrupt
Administration, especially in New York and
Philadelphia, with great clearncSs.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

gv- Reports arc very rife at Washington
compromising Lord Napier, the British minis
ter, and more than Que lady Of position, with
whom he has been intimate lie is said TO have
neculiar Vaccinations for the fair sex.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

MASSACRE or MISSIONARY FANLY.-The
facts of the Tollwing horrible massacre Of mis-
siOnOry family by the Indians in Oregon, have
been laid before the Senate in a communication
from the War Department: THE Rev. MIR.
Klifman, u Methodist Missionary who had been
preaching to the Indians Of Oregon since 1888
was murdered with his family not long since,
under singular and appalling circumstances =
The small pox having broken out among the
savages while the missionary's family were not
attacked, the former thought that the pestilence
had been introduced by the whites with the in-
tention Of exterminating tic red race. Acting
upon this horrible suspicion, their next step was
revenge. A bold chief was selected for the
deed, who stole into the chamber Of the sleep
ing family, and buried his tomahawk in the brain
Of the missionary and that of his wife, and then
other Indians rushed in, and helpless children,
male and female employees were butchercd, and
the house RACED to the ground, fences destroyed,
and every vestige Of once happy home disap-
! peared.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

The STEAMER BLACK WARRIOR, which left
Havannah on the 18th inst, went ashore on
Rockaway Bar while in charge of pilot on
Sunday morning last. Her passengers and mails
were brought to New York on Monday evening
by pilot boat
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26
New York Store in Ashtabuls.

GYDNEY BOOTH. Agent for n New
- YORK JOBRING HOUSE, will hold forth in the Village
OF Ashtabua for 80 Days, with
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-26

Cash is what he wants very much and the
Goods he don't want very mnch Consequently any one vhe
has Cash and Wants goods get hem at his 6gure
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-18


interve4tion--we presume he viii BAT had any Of
his readers weak enough to be deltded by such
pretended precedents for the outrage which be is
in vain attempting to excuse. The truth of
the whole matter is, indeed, 100 apparent for any
one to be deceived now in regard to it. The May
OR and City Council together have done in the
premises what nothing but the supinest popular
indifference would have tolerated for an Instant
Each is as bad as the other-the MAYOR not one
whit better then his legislative brethren The con
summation of the job, has begun, as it draws nigh,
to alarm the weaker vessels, and something must
be done to save-what Mr.. Balm, in the First
Branch, cried aloud for-''The great American
Party" AS this, in Mr.. SwANN's contemplation
principally signifies himself, he has endeavored to
shift the sins and sorrows of the business on the
philadelphia assignees'' whom, like HOOPS pau
per, "nobody owns''-and to escape as usual in a
flourish of eloquence patriotism and virtue. 1t is
n family quarrel, and we wish the excellent domes-
tic circle happy reconciliation. We cannot fail
however to congratulate the public upon the hap
pening of one of those fortunate occurrences.
when, according to the proverb, honest men get
'heir own 1"