Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-05

gar crop
pay- The authorities Of Missouri have Of.
fered q premium of $500 for the best plan
for national monument.
n6y- Schamyl is in clover. The Car has
given him palace to live in, allows him
$4,000 a year aud three Caucasian wives.
Bsy~ Ossawotomie Brown was o soldier
in the war of 1912, and fought at the bat
tie of Plattsburgh.
A married lady in London county, Vir-
ginia, is said to weigh five hundred and fif
ty-three pounds. Her husband is great
lady's man.
Bay~ The Office of the Free South, at New
port, Kentucky, paper of Republican
proclivities, was mobbed on the night, of
the 28th ult., and the forms scattered in the
street.
Ba~ The number of hoop skirts made in
Derby, since April |, is said to be $50 900,
consuming at least 9, 100, 900, yards of tape
and 445 tons of steel.
Bag- A larger number of members of Con-
gress than heretofore have already made
arrangements to have their families with
them during next session in Washing ton.
pG~ The potatoe crop, in Canada, is
large and good, and in the Toronto market
potatoes sell out of the wagon at twenty
cents, and by retail at twenty-five cents per
bushel.
R1~ Twenty years ago the number of col
ored men in Canada West was 3,4OO now
there are more than 100000 In four
months after the passage of the fugitive
slave law 10000 poured into that country.
BaS- The Presbyterian synod of Balti-
more has adopted protest against the pre-
ponderance of EpiScopaliaus among the
chaplainS Of the army and navy, they ont
numbering those fall other secis taken to-
gether.
John Tyler, fugitive from slavery, who
escaped from Campbell County, Virginia,
in 1854 was arrested in Columbus, on the
28th ult., and taken before Commissioner
Newhall, remanded to his owners, and tax =
en- to Covington.
B9~ A gigantic ditch is being construct
ed in the Kansas gold region, running a
distance of 25 miles, with a width of three
feet, and "A depth of two feet. It's cost will
be $23, 600, aud it is intended to supply wa
ter for mining purposes.
p9~ Since the French troops have been
stationed in Italy, it is said that more mar
riages have taken place between them and
Italian women, than occurred between the
Austriaus and Italians in forty-fIYe years of
occupation.
BS5~ The receipts Of Gotten at the ship
ping ports, thus far this season, are beyond
the anticipatiUns of the most sanguine, and
far beyond the receipts of any previous
year. The footings for the two months of
September and October will be abott 75O,-
600 bales.
Cook, one of the treason prisoners at
Charlestown, Va, is brother-in-law of Gov
Willard of Indiana. Stevens, another of
the prisoners, is a son of Capt Aaron Ste
vens of Norwich, CT. He served in the
Mexican war, aud in the Kansas contro-
Vcrsy he commanded the Topeka boys.
R9- A party of II emigrants from Buch-
anan Co., Iowa, on their way to California
were attacked by Indians near Kinney's cut
of Mr. Cline, Mr.. Wittmore, wife and
six children killed. Wittimore's two sons
and the rest of the party escaped to Camp
Floyd in a destitute condition.
B0- The Louisville Journal has no COM
plant to make against Governor Wise's
Ienity, in avowiug his purpose to let Gerrit
Smith off with lecture as a penalty for
his obolItion offences. The Journal thinks
being compelled to listen to the lecture
severer punishment than CONTINENT iu the
Penitentiary.
p9-The Washington States chronicles q
stampede from Alexandra of some thirty
slaAes, about the time of the Harper's Ferry
emeute, and the Rochester Express of tho
25th says that the same living freight, val
ued at some $4,000, passed over the Sus-
pension Bridge into Canada, and by so do
ing was Immediately transferred from chat
tells into men, women, and children.
BA- The St. Louis Herald has discover
ed Lord PalmerSton at the bottom of j ohm
Browns insurrecton and is convinced that
the San Juan difficulty will yet be found to
have been the melting cause of the terrible
outbreak which scared all Virginia out of
its wits, and drove the mother of States in
to the arms of the marines.
p5~ EXpectant Portland Is sorely tried
with the fickleness or inability of the long
promised mammoth steamer Great Eastern.
The people of the commercial capital of
Maine have held their arms apen in welcom-
ing hospitality SO long that they must be
tired, and feel tried in spirit as we'll as in
pocket.
BG~ Mr.. McLane is going back to Vera
Cruz, in the hope, still, of negotiating a
treaty with the Juarez government cf Mex
leo, that will be Of advantage to both par
ties. Mr.. Buchanan wishes to SignaIize
his administration by some outside conquest,
and failing in Cuba, his original hope, he
is the more earnest to negotiate us into pos
session of more of Mexico. AS yet there
is small prospect of his success, however.
R3- An old Kentuckan familiar with
hunting and border warfare, being present
at II conversation where Maffilt,s name was
mentioned in connection with other distin.
guished Methodist ministers. exclaimed /:
Il tell you what it is, gentlemen, say what
you please about your Bascoms, and
Waughs, aud Caperses, but in the big day
coming Mafftt will bring up as many skelps