Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-08-06

MT. Olay was HSIeueu 10 WIN marked
attention throughout.
B0- A correspondent of the N. Y. Tri-
bune mentions, as one of the things which
disturbed the pleasure Of commencement
at Harvard college, an unfortunate allu-
sion by one of the boys, when he "spoke
his piece" to the contemplate articles in
the New York Ledger" which the young
ster contrasted with the elegant literature
of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr.. Everett,
who was on the platform, found it conven-
lent to blow bis nose about that time.
DDn Kossuth ard Klapka, according to
private letters from Turin, have both been
detained at that place under the strictest
surveillance Of the French police, to whom
instinct no doubt taught that if a treaty
was about to be signed between France
Austria, it would not be wise to suffer the
two perturbators of Hungarian peace to
run off to Hungary.
p9- A letter from Florence in the Pro-
yidence Journal, July I1th, says "The
Pope's edict of excommnnication, launched
against his rebellious children, has received
at Milan an old response The efigies of
his Holiness and Cardinal Antonell were
burnt in the streets of that city, and the
young men lighted their cigars with the
profane fire."
Bas~ Mr.. Holt, the postmaster general,
seems to have managed the reduction of
the expenses of his department admirably.
1t is said that the reductions already made
will amount to about two millions a year,
which will go far towards counterbalancing
the pickings and stealings in Utah ami at
Washington.
BsS- Miss Bates, the sister of the Hon.
Edward Bates, of St. Lonis, recently eman-
cipated the last of thirty-two slaves, who
formed part of her inheritance, and whom
she has gradually set free as they became
prepared to take care of themselves in free
dom. Judge Bates emancipated the last
of his slaves several years since.
B0- The San Francisco papers gFieve
bitterly over the presence and continued
arrival of so many Cinnamon. But the Ce-
lestials seem to behave very properly. Four
Chinese couples were united in marriage in
one day in the city.
R6y~ Colonel Braxton Bragg, to whom
General Taylor at the battle of Palo Alto
addressed bis famous words, "a little more
grape, Captain Bragg" is reported to be
the Democratic candidate for local Office
at Lafourche, La.
Bsg- In the list of students at University
College, London, who received prizes at the
hand of the Premier of Great Britain,
Lord Palmerston, we find the names of the
two sons of Kossuth, the Ex-Governor OF
Hungary.
b3~ Frost BITTEN.-About the hardest
case cf frost bitten wheat is related by the
Detroit Tribune, of farmer who sold IA
acres of wheat the day after the June frost
for $65. The buyer afterwards refused
$500 for it.
B9- 1t is said that the Diplomatic corps
in Washington are almost unanimously of
opinion that the peace just concluded will
not be of long continuation, and that Ma
poleon has failed to perform his promises to
Italy.
BE- A correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican says that a number of ladies
were present and aided in the execution of
negro hung by mob for rape last week,
and that one lady put the rope about his
neck.
B4- That abortion, the Washington
monument, is before the people again, and
the postmasters are asked to beg for it,
Something handsome might be collected
for the purpose of removing the melancholy
| ruin.
b6S~ An up country California paper
mentions in the same paragraph mosquitoes
so large that they can stand on their hind
legs and drink out of pint cup, and a
strawberry eight inches in circumference.
b@~ "0ld DIR. James" the retired ply
sician, is letting the balance Of his sands
run out in England, and adVertises regular
ly in the Times and other papers, as willing
to communicate for stamps.
B0-The Chinese have temple that cost
$4,000 now in San Francisco, and have Just
imported for 1t $500 new idol image of a
Celestial Washington who figured about
three hundred years ago.
D0- Mr.. Raymond of the N Y. Times
writes from Paris on the l4th of july
Theodore Parker has gone to Switzerland
and Mr. Sumner to England. Gov. Sew
ard is in Russia"
BeD- A free soil paper called the Repub-
lican has been started at Kansas City, Mo,
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