Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-01-22


nay- The Democrats Of the Illinois Leg
stature have got up new city charter Tor
Chicago, Which by anneXng several IRISH
suburbs. and skillfuily gerrymanderlng the
city, is Intended to put the city government
into the hands of the Democrats. They
do not propose to allow the people to vote
| ON the new charter but it is to be forced
upon them IL Lecompton.
Eesy- President Benson Of Liberia writes
that he has sent an armed force mp the
coast to prevent the French from shipping
any more emigrants from that vicinity, aud
that in the spring he shall make campaign
against the, chiefs who have aided this new
slave trade
N4g- A bar tender named Powell APP
parently died at Chicago, on Sunday ana
after being laid out for II day ina cold room,
the funeral was about to take place, when
srns of animation were discovered, the
body was placed in bed, and the man is now
recovering rapidly.
: E7y- There were 5000 skaters and spec
/ tators on Central Park, New York, on
Q Sunday week, and all the police did was to
preserve order and to make preparations to
There was great many ladies present =
{ The lion among the skaters was Holland
y er
y Bay~. James NJ Guthrie, who left Sal
Lake Nov. 9th, gives a painful accoun
of the sulfcrings of men and ANIMALS OF
the Plains, in consequences OF the coldneS
of the weather. Men were frozen to deatl
le at nearly every station on the route. Te
Ii of Major RuSsel'S men had been frozen
,e one time. The snow was very deep, am
the weather colder than had been know
for thirty years. thermometers sinking I
on twenty-seyen degrees below zero
q RY- Gen. Gu tman attributed the cans
G. of his decline, up to the last moment OF u
n life, to poison, administered to HIM IN Ia
IL shape Of arsenic while resident at tn
ch National Hotel Washington. He asserte
" that it was mixed up with the sugar, an
/. snbstantiated this by the fact that durln
the entire term of the malady, which aFte
:" wards assumed the name Of the hotel, n
NC person was taken i'll who rcfrained from tn
~ use of that article.
"a ney- LINCOLN got off good one, on th
ID day of the Senatorial election. A. 500
vs. as the ballot was announced, eltctmg Dou'
LAS, a prominent Republican approachee
tol him in the library, aud asked him how
or felt |" We'll" said ABE, IL feel a go'
u d .al like the boy did when he stuooed
toe against root. Grabbing his foot
hoth hpnds, be exclaimed : "Im too mn'
De- Of a man to cry, and I'm 20 id Dad
10 hurt 10 laugh p
TO ALARMED. The London Morning P'
low is alarmed by intelligence that the Unit
avs States Government is likely to secure
.rri- foothoId in the island OF ST. Domingo.
The Post says that negotiations which
PIERCE failed to complete, have been
,asa sumed 10y Mr.. BUCHANAN. with the Oh
10, 20 of the Republic Of ST. Domingo, for
70 cession of the bay Of Samana, at the ca
ns ern end of the island. Oar London coi'
,ho porary says that this port could easily
ho converted into second Sebastop0, VIII
san would give its possessorS the command
a. the neighboring seas. The Post eon'e
that this would be preliminary to the
nexation of the island, and coils upon
e''I e English Government to stop the pres
negotiation.
and Hon. L. d. Campbell, who was so serio
the Injured by ruihan's blow, struck 10 the dar
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