Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-09-24

BSy~The Island of Bermuda is fast becom
ing vast market garden for the city Of New
York. The export of potatoes for the last
season to that city:shows an increase of nine
thousond bushels The expectation of on
ions has reached over eight hundred thou
sand pounds while that of tomatoes amour
ted to four thousand FIVE hundred and nine
ty-two boxes More than sixty vessels
were engaged in carrying the above men,
toned produce.
VERMIN RIDDANCE-Half an ounce Of
soap boiled in pint of water, and put on
with brush while boiling hot, infalIibly des-
troys the bugs and their eggs. Flies are
driven out of room by hanging up bunch
of the plantain or feawort plant after it
has been dipped in milk. Rats and mice
speedily disappear by mixing equel quanti-
ties of strong cheese and powdered squills.
They devour this mixture with greedinesS,
while it is innocent to man.
Ba~ Free Labor is rapidly crowding Slave
Labor out of Missouri. A st. Louis dis
patch of the 18th says fifty negroes arrived
there from the interior bound South. and
upwards of 100 are leaving daily The Lex
ington Express Of Missouri states that there
is scarcely a county in that part of the State
but what has its slave buyers for the South,
and that the adult slave population is yearly
decreasing.
BSB~ The French journals announce the
discovery of an artificial light SO wonder
fully luminous and steady as to be available
in all photographing operations. The light
being contained in a portable apparatus,
portraits can be taken in private residences
at any time in the the darkest rooms,
wholly independent of the state Of the at
mosphere.
E0~ Some miscreant fred the Peoples
theater, in st. Paul. MINI. on Thursday
evening, the Sth, directly under the stage,
while Schuyler Colfax of Indiana was ad-
dressing a large republican meeting. The
building was burned to the ground, but
the incendary had not at last accounts been
arrested
D3-The last news from Europe announ-
ces that the sailing of the Great Eastern
steamship has been postponed to Sept. 29th.
ExeurSionists over the Grand Trunk Rail.
way, and other lines, to see the big ship at
Portland, need be in no hurry. She may
arrive this fall and she may not.
B9- The auroral phenomena which illu
minated the skies in this latitude few
weeks since, seems to have extended over
wide area. They were seen from Mon.
treal to New Orleans, and from st, Louis
to Cuba and Bermuda.
baTWhilc President Pierce was in Eng
land, he was refused an audience with til,
Queen, except upon such terms as it woulC
have been inconsistent with his self-respec
to accept So the ruler aud ex-ruler wer
not brought face 10 face.
Ba- The Boston Spiritual Age propose
that the Spiritualists shall organize as
political party, nominate Gov. Tallmadg
or Judge Edmunds for the Presidency, ant
IN axe their influence felt in 1860.
Bay~ The Gar has presented the Sulta
with the decoration of the Order of 81
Andrew, in diamonds, valued at ] 900, 00
piastres, in acknowledgment of the recep
tion given to the Grand Duke Constantine
BSg- 1t is understood that but $50, OOt
has to be paid to complete the purchase 0
Mount Vernon.
DSS~ 1t is stated that the atlantic Month
ly now returns to its publishers net inc ONT
of $4,000 per annum.