Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-04-02
uolumhun correspondenes.



defeat IN the senate--it getting in that body
but votes. The Statesman and Cincinnati
Eaguirrr for weeks had been urging the pas
sage Of the bin, but since its defeat their labor
ed editorials are not at oil calculated to pro-
mote harmony in the party. These Journals,
and the canal barpies who employ them are
bitter in their dennociations Of the Senators
who had the manliuess to stand up aud defeat
the corrupt scheme to put into the hands of
few men, those contracts at prices far above
what they would be taken for by other parties.
1t was scheme for plumber, and the I.egisla-
ture for two sessions has been surrounded by
the active agents, aiding in The purchase Of
enough votes to carry the measure through
They succeeded in the House, but 10 the Senate
were found men Of sterner stuf, who had iute-
gritty and courage to act for the people, albeit
they disobeyed the Behests of party caucus
Save the scores who are known here as in the
employ Of the canal contraciors and the tools
controlling the Statesman, Enquirer, &c, the
party men will rejoice that the scheme of plum
der was frustrated. . ..d
The House on Thursday passed bill of
some importance to litigants, to give greater
efficiency to the act Of last winter regulating
Appeals in the Court of Common Pleas; Mr.
Hitchcock's bin to curtail the "quiniae race"
and to protect sheep met with summary death
every man in the House who was the otOner
Of dog voting against it ...
The Senate has passed the bill to prevent
swine running at large, unless they are "riuged'
or moses cut" ignoring the principle Of "root
hog or die" and as it was House bill, the same
is only wanting the signatures Of the presiding
officers to become a law.
A large number of bills are hanging between
the two houses; but few Of these, however, are
OF much Importance to the people at large
Every few days spasmodic efforts are made in
the House to forward bill, to "amend" or rre7
peal" the prohibtory liquor law, and the deter
minatiou in that direction is more effective
since the proposition to amend the constitution
and return to the license system, fell through.
This question was mp last Thursday, when re-
cess was taken to witness military display in
the State House yard; a good deal of spirit,
not military, was on exhibition, and to make up
to the State the loss of a half days session, an
evening sitting was had, when the temperance
question was resumed. The progress was quite
slow, until leading democrat gave his political
brother the lie, and took in pay blow upon
his cheek from the palm of the insulted MEM
Der. The assaed and the az saant were rapid
ly ushered out of the hall, where mutual ex-
plantations suficed for wounded honors, bruis-
ed spirits .....
The dominant party appears in very bad
! plight just now-alter putting smelling com
mttee" upon the track of all the leading Re-
publcans, whose sitting has run through several
months and resulted in report as partisan in
its character as it is unreliable in its conclu-
sions-after spending one-half of the winters of
1878 in partisan legislation, to get the control
of the benevolent institutions, and then falling
after bribing through one branch plumber bill
&c restore the canal contracts and witnessing its
defeat in the hands of their friends-and after
connecting divers other schemes for partisan
purposes and political progression-and failing
in nearly all-is 1t surprising now, after lapse
of two years, with large working majority in
the Legislature, that there were symptoms of
rebelion-of dissatsfaction-of deep mistifca-
ton Is it any wonder that with such inefi-
cient leaders they have signally failed to estab-
lsh so few measures purely Democratic To
be sure, they repealed the law forbdding the
use of our jails for the rendition of fugitive
slaves, yet there is not q Democratic ofice-hold-
er in Ohio, who would so far compromise his
party as to make the county Jail the "lOck-up"
for the slave pursuers-they repealed likewise
the habeas corpus act, but failed to secure any
capital by it. They have, it is true, established
q sub-treasury, piled heavy penalties upon the
officers whose duties are therein deGned-but
not one in twenty of the officers throughout
the state dare to comply with the spirit of the
law, and its provisions are so odious even in the
small townships, that men are hard to be found
who will consent to keep the local funds and
render themselves liable to the terrors of the
I law. .5.
They have refused to sell the Public Works,
that they might longer plunder the people, and
then tax them to make up the deficit. Instead
of letting out the repairs TO the lowest respon-
sible bidders, they have sought to restore the
fraudulent contracts--instead of leaving the
canals under the control of the united Board,
they have created divisions, giving a single
member the care of two-thirds of the entire
improvements that they and their pet partisan
friends might illustrate the principle "to the VIC
tors belong the spoils." They neglected TO 0p-
propriate the necessary funds for extraordinary
repairs of the canals, and when the state off,
GERS had appropriated the needful funds, to ut
terly repudate the obligation. They have neg
lected to provide for the enlargement and care
of the Penitentiary, and now purpose to with
hold needed appropriations to complete the
State House, simply because the courts and the
constitution are an effectual bar to their schemes
to pervert the appointing power vested in the
Executive. IU short there is general neglect
for the interests Of the state-every thing has
been perverted to promote party, and TO secure
its succession in power 1t is under this state