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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

BRowN's APPEAL REFusED.-The Su-
preme Court of Appeals of Virginia, in
the case of John Brown, on Saturday re-
fused to award a writ of error to the jndg-
ment rendered by the circuit court of JEFF
ferSon. The execution therefore, takes
place on the I'd of December.
A dispatch from New-Orleans asserts
that Brownsville has not been sacked, and
that nearly 200 troops are now there
Cortnass chief officer had been hung with
out a trial.
B9- Queen Victoria mas received q mag
niicent present from the Maharajah of
Cashmere, being a shnyl tent containing a
bedStead of solid gold. The value of this
royal gift is stated to be about $750,000.
Ba5- Receipts of gold from Kansas in
crease ; it is estimated by those best post
ed in the matter that not less than 81, 600.
600 in gold has been mined at Pixies Peak
in the last four months.
R4~ Late dates from the coast of Africa
state that the American ship Memphis
with seven hundred slaves had escaped all
the cruisers and put to sea- Tweuty-six
NCooCio "NlO Ca AJSShCu NHC COuSl lOl Cal
goes of slaves for the Uuited States.
B9- The governmental expenditures the
last quarter, ending 30th of September
were 500, 00O, 900, including the payment
of the Treasury notes, which item was
nearly balanced by the receipts from the
same source.
B9- The New Orleans papers say that
the recent gale in the Gulf, in which the
North Star was caught, was the most ex,
tensive and prolonged recorded in many
years. II commenced on the 23d ult. and
lasted ten days.
Ba- President Benson, of Liberia, has
presented to the Colonization Herald some
samples of cloth from cotton, raised, spun
and wove in the colony, which is said to
compare favorably with that of American
manufacture.
G9s- The New York Herald withdraws
its libel upon Thurlow Weed, that he has
engaged in the slave trade 1t says it neV,
er meant anything by it, No sensible per.
son supposed il did. But the threatened libe
suit brings it to a very humble and dis
graceful confession. .Es... ...
B1- The British Steam Navy consists
of over three hundred ships ia commission
Of which three-fourths are steamers. The
English Mercantile Marine includes, at the
present time, nearly If not quite, nine hun
dred ocean steamers.
Pds- Gen Tom Thumb will be 22 year;
old in January next. He resides 10 Bridge
port, CT. where he owns fine house on
the main street, valued at over $50, 900
He drives pony which he says will traVe
q mile in three minutes
p1- Rumor has it that the presidency O
Harvard college will be given to DR. Put
nam of Roxbury, or DR.. Bellows of New
York. The corporation want new man
who will bring to his responsible duties Z
fresh infusion of methods of thought AND
action
b@- When about twenty years of age
John Brown returned to New England
from Hudson, Ia this State, and commenc
ed the study of divinity; when almost ready
TO enter College, he was attacked with in
hammation of The eyes, which becam,
chronic, aud he was obliged to relingnisI
bis project, and return to Ohio
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26
From the Independents
Ihtervlevv with the wife OF John Brown
Brown fn hts Prison.

write this morning, on board steam
boat, pasty account Of personal inter
view last evening with Mrs. Mary Brown,
wife of Capt John Brown, now under SEN
tence of death in Virginia for having brave
ly failed in brave decd.
/ am scarcely at liberty to mention OF
what place Mrs. Brown has lately been
staying, or whose hospitality she has been
sharing. / may say, however, that after
her return from Baltimore, where she was
stopped on her half.mdde journey to sec her
husband, she has been the guest Of family
residing in one Of the most beautiful regions
of neghboring State, who have proved
themselves kind friends not only to herself
but to her husband, and who were the more
glad to bid her welcome to their house, be-
cause the lady of the household, with her
son bad already made visit to Capt Brown
in his prison at Charlestown, siuce bis sem
tence of death. Mrs. Browns stay with
these friends terminated this morning She
is now on her way to Philadelphia, to meet
Mr.. Sennott, the counsel for her husbands
defense.
l IconverSed with her during the entire eve
is enough to show that she is a woman
worthy to be the wife of such a man. She
is tall, large and muscular, giving the i'm
preston at first sight of n frame capable of
great strength aud long endurance. Her
face is grave and thoughtful, wearing, even
in this hour of her trial, an expression of
soberuesS rather than a sadness, as il, like
her husband she had long since learned
how to suffer and be calm Her manner is
singularly quiet and restrained, although her
natural simplicity and modesty can not hide
the evident force Of character and strength of
will and judgment, which have fitted her so
long to be a counsellor in her husbands en-
terprise and a supporter in his trials
She is a native of Whitehall, near Lake
Champlain, and has been the mother of thlr-
teen children; but, notwithstanding the cares
of her numerous family, and her many pri-
vations and struggles independent of house
hold burdens, she still appears as fresh and
hale as if she were only now in the prime
and vigor oG life.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

WAAaIEo THEM AwAY.-It is stated that an-
HoVmousletters in mourning envelopes are being
sent through the Newport, Ky, POstofiee to
Republican residents Of that town, warning them
to take their leave OF Kentucky SLAVE soil. Mr..
j. r. Whitlemore, quiet gentleman who re-
sides N Newport and does business iB Cincinnati
has been thus notified to leave Newport on or
before the lst day Of December next or abide
The consequences.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

ARRIVAL oF TUE NoRTH STAR.-A weeks
anxiety in regard to the fate of California
steamer and her freight of s7s persons, was hap
PLY dispeled Thursday night by the news that
she bad been aground on the Florida coast for
six days Il was the North Star steamer. that
left New York for Aspinwall October 20, and
had not arrived out or been heard from six or
eight days after she was due. She began to be
given up for lost, with all her passengers and
crew, aud deep sorrow was settling down on
many hearts. when the burden was lifted by the
good news OF her delay and safety.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26


GOVERNOR CnAsE-The New Y York Tribune
in commenting on letter from Cincinnati,
which it publishes against the election of Sal
mon p. Chase, as the successor in the Senate
of Geo E. Pugh says
Governor Chase is statesman of the
most eminent ability, large experience, and
unquestioned probity, as well as of the
most hearty devotion to the Republican
cause as an opponent Of every scheme and
contrivance for enrching individuals at
tue expense of the Federal Treasury, we
deem his return to the Senate of paramount
national interest. For the ability, tact,
sagacity, acuteness, wherewith he exposed,
by his propositions of amendment, the by.
pOcrisy aud futilitY of the pretense that
Popular Sovereignty" was embodied in or
affirmed by Mr.. Douglas Kansas-Nehraska
bill, thousands hold him in grateful rem I'M
brance. If we knew anybody else who
could do more good in the Senate than Mr.
Chase, we should desire the election of that
other but we do not.
We dissent altogether from the suggest
ed policy Of pOstponement or delay. The
people of Ohio have chosen Legislature
One of the duties of that Legislature is
the election of U. States Senator and as
this will doubtless stand in the way of 9th
er business till it shall have been disposed
OF, we trust it may be finished up the first
week of the session. If Gov Chase is not
the man, say who is, aud elect him, To
hold the question over is to SOW distraction
and jealousy where harmony and energy
are eminently needed.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

TnE NEw YoRK & ERIE r. r. TO BIZ SoLD.-
The FIRST mortgage bOhdhOIders Of the Erie rail-
road have applied to the Comptroller Of the
State to advertise and sell the road for the non
payment Of interest. The Comptroller has
placed the matter in the hands Of the Attorney
General. wks win proceed at once under the
act Of Is45 70 sell the road with all the aPpur-
isnsnceE
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

CoNsIsTEScY.-Now, that Mr. Buchanan and
the democracy ind it convenient to believe that
the supreme court should lie received as the
authoritative interpreter of the constitution
and laws to the other departments of the gov
ernmcnt, it is well enough to remind them Of
their former opinions on this subject. In speak
ing on the United States bank question in le4l,
NJ Buchanan said:-
unlike the senator from Massachusetts mfr
Bates) shall never consent to place the libeF-
ties OF the people in the hands of any ind c al
tribunal. No man holds in higher esteem than
Edo the memory Of Chief Justice Marshall ;
but should never have consented to make
him the final arbiter between the government
and the people Of this country on questions ol
constitutional liberty"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

A REPUBLICN MEETING was held at Newport,
KY. in the Office of the demolished, Free SOuth'
newspaper, on the afternoon Of the 10Th inst, at
which several counties were represented. A
feeble effort was made at the display of chvalry,
but the presence of Cassius NJ Clay was potent
in restraining any attempts at violence. MI.
Clay, and Mr.. George d Blakey, were select
ed as delegates at large to the National Repub-
lican Convention.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26
COMMISSIONER WARD AND THE Ko.rAU

COMMISSIONER WARD AND THE Ko.TAU.-
The only thing that prevented Mr.. Ward,
our commissioner to China, from seeing
the emperor and exchanging the treaties
with him personally, was the difference
about court etiquette. The rules of the
Chinese imperial court require that every
one approaching the emperor shall perform
the ko-tau, which is an act of the deepest
reverence, consistingin in kneeling three times
aud knocking the forehead on the floor nine
times. Mr.. Ward expressed the greatest
respect for the emperor, but declined the
act of humiliation. He remained in con-
ference with the imperial commissioners for
five days, during which they used every
means to bring about a compromise, aud
went back and forth frequently to the pal
ace with various propositions. The empe.
ror seems to have Lad genuine and earnest
desire to see the American minister, and
went as far in the way of compromise as
the established dignity of his court would
allow. The venerable commissioner Kwei-
lang urged upon Mr.. Ward the fact that
ambassadors from other great powers had
conformed without difficulty to Chinese eti-
quette, and that Chinese minister visiting
the United States would kneeI and even
burn incense to the president as to the
gods. if it were required. But Mr.. Ward
insisted that he would kneel only to the
supreme being, and that he would offer only
the same ohcisance as to his own president
He was willing however to bow very low
and bow nine times if that would help the
matter.
The commissioners proposed as the first
compromise, with the assent of the empe-
rOr, that Mr.. Ward should kneeI but once
aud knock his head on the floor but three
times, thus reducing the amount of wor-
ship by two-thirds. But Mr. Ward could
kueel once no more readily than three
times, aud as for knocking his head that
was ont of the question. The commission.
ers then proposed another dodge Mr..
Ward should 60 to the palace as if he were
about to do the usual homage and should
bow very low, and then the chamberans
of the emperor should approach aud take
him by the arms aud say as an act of ex-
traOrdinary politeness, don't kneel !" the
chamberlains should then take the letters
of President Buchanan, and performing
the ko-tau as a substitute for Mr. Ward,
| should present the letter to the emperor. -
The commissioners thought this would do,
but the emperor said no, it wouldn't by a
long chelk, or something to that effect, and
the commissioners reluctantly and sadly
gave up the compromise. The American
minister went back to Peitang and there
the ratiications Of the treaties were ex-
changed, and the American minister and
his retinue were splenddly feasted The
conclusion of the whole matter is that no
American can see the emperor unless be
will consent to perform the ko.tau.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MEaIssoawoNl

MEG1SsOGwONl
In The VILE Of Ashtabula
Ashtabula once beniahted,
Goods selling now 90 cheaplv
Casting shades on towns around II
bringing now ifself TO sunlight
Sunlight MercAaafs lsve 10 hask IN.
Goods 40 6ae-iOp price the motto
Heaps they sell. and % they ouRhtto.
Now the store, where goods are selling
Selling al the LOWEST Ggue,
Takes the nen kH0Cn appellation
OF NEW YoRK SroRK, Cheap Nep Torhy
South Of Bank tis but a Few doou
on the sids Of the Main street
In the Vile of Ashtabua.
Goods you will hnd there AZ Great Bargains
Drv Goods buy Of OMAR GiLLETr,
FANCY GOOps, of j. H. CHlPMANS
Great P0ricfy In line Of FaHcies,
New Books Gold Pens Letter Paper,
Choice Nep Stock Of SiaticHcry.
Ladies' Baskets, Cheap Bird Cages,
Looking Glasses, gg0d reaectOn,
Vions, Flutes Accordcons
Lamps Cans Wicks, Rest Burning Fluid
Pocket Knes, and good Port Monies,
SPLENDID lot Of Toys and EoRcies
TdHcies I've time 10 mention
Call and see them at NEw YORK STORE,
Cheap you'll buy. then tell your neighbors.
Tell them phere they'll buy the ChsdPed,
And will be your Humble Servant
j. E. Chapman
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

b@r Within a year, two of the owners
of gold diggins in Springfield, Vermont,
have taken out $4,000 aud $4,000 re-
spectiyely,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

b@- Confidence in wife-hunting Cubans
is restored. Senior OViedo is assured, by
competent authority, TO be worth four mil
Iona dollars. He owns a sugar plantation
in Cuba with 1000 slaves, and also a coffee
plantation with 500 more.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26
Funeral Obsoqules of Hon. d. c. BrOdericI1

New York, Nov. 2l-The funeral OBJ
sequies by the Fire Department in honor of
the memory of the late United States Sen
ator of California, Hon David G. Broderick
which had been for some time contempla TED
and postponed for various reasons, took
place yeterday, and was witnessed by many
thousands of persons 1t was not so large
ly attended as was expected, and some of
the prominent men announced as pail
bearers failed to be present. The cortege
passed through the City to the Univer-
sity Chapel, where long and interesting
address was delivered by John NJ. Dwinnell
Esq, of Rochester, recounting the life aud
greatly culogzng the character and servi-
ces of the departed Senator.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

The object oft transfer of Stephens, one of
the Harper'S Ferry conspirators, to the federal
Courts. is, as is we'll known. to compel the at
tendance of certain parties at the North as wit
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26
Wooden Goods g. Clothing

Woolen Goods d Clothing
THE undersigned has received from New
Il YORK, fine assortment Of
Broad Cloths, Cassmerrs, Satinets Kentucky
Jeans, Vestings, &C., g.,
and having the services Of competent Workmen Ia
prepared 20 manufacture Clothing Of every discpon TO
ORDER the shortest notice. and the most reasonable
terms.
1 Ready Made Clothing hand, aud for sale cheaper
than before offered in this market.
r Cutting done all times and warranted TO at II pro-
perv made up.
e1- All kinds Of Trimmings furnished cheap.
George willard,
Ashtabula Nov. %. 1859.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

HORSE FOR SALE.-Geo. Hall has
IL good Work Horse, that he will exchange a..
for Wood, Lumber, any kind Of produce good l2N
note at ~ months The horse Is eight yeus old and
warranted sound "T1es perfect Locomotive to draw"
This is chance TO buy good horse, as "keepn Is
scarce" GEO. HALL.
AshtatRla Ohio. SIG
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

Mozart Hall (the new rival of ofTammnny) per-
fected the nomination of Fernando Wood for
mayor of New York, last Tuesday night, and as
ic to highten the effect Of the farce INDUCED in
row and a show OF pistols that equalled any
thing Tammauy ever saw in even its palmiest
DAYS.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

CEREDo-ELI TnAYERs COLONY, is the only
town in Virginia, of which the people feel
thoughtful enough to have thanksgiving day
The town scribe, in the absence of Governors
proclamation Issues one 10 the citizens fixing
the oath as the day of gratitude. A Lyceum
fourishes in this incealiary settlement, aud the
evil of free discussion is prevalent.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

MurUAL Virginia is in a state OF
terrible fright and fermentation again. Some
barns aud haystacks have been burnt in the
country about Charlestown, and the Virgiuians
imagine the whole region is full Of invisible
aboliiionists who intend TO rescue John Brown
aud his fellow prisoners, il not to overrun and
pillage the state. The governor responding to
the popular agitation has called out the militia
and there will be excited marchings and couu-
ter-marchiDgs, aud gallant men will sleep on
their arms, aud there will be n state of war gen.
orally, only there will be nobody to shoot un-
less they kill frightened negro or two, as they
did in Somerset county. OF course no friend
or associate of John Brown is concerned in
these barp-burnugs. 1t is pretty likely to be
the work cf some mischievious negroes, who
are very willing to add to the general conster-
nation Of the white folks. They have every
opportunity to do these things without detec-
ton, but white stranger has not been safe in
that part of Virginia since the Harper's Ferry
that there is an abolitionist about, or if there
were they would be very unlikely to engage in
such useless mischief as the burning of barns
and haystacks. If the durkios Of Virginia have
any propensity for malicious fun, their masters
are certainly giving them a capital opportunity
to exhibit it, The principal sufferers in this
war are the peddlers, who being supposed to
be Yankees of course, are being seized on sus-
picion of abolIionism, and their tin ware and
knick .knacks coniscated, we presume, to the
use Of the mob.
But after all, our northern abolitonists have
not q great deal to brag Of in the way Of per-
sonal courage, over the Virginians Fred Doug.
lass has fed to Europe Phillips did not go to
Virginia to defend John Brown, and Dr. Howe
has escaped to Canada. 1t is not usual to
take northern towns for health at this season.
but the philanlhropic doctor knows what suits
his own constitution best We think be might
have waited until there had been some intimG-
ton that be was wanted in Virginia. Evident.
ly the spirit of martyrdom does not prevail to
any hazardous extent in this age, and if John
Brown had not given us an illustration of it we
night soon have come to doubt the possibility
Of such phenomenon in human nature. We
trust that Gov Wise and the Old Dominion
will recover their accustomed equanimity after
John Brown is safely hung, and that DR.. Howe
will not feel under the necessity of enduring the
rigors of Canadian winter to escape the too
fervid warmth of Virginia atmosphere. The
excited gentlemen Of both sections had better
take a little soothing syrup all around. 1t is
funny that while our abotionists are flying out
Of the country to, escape the Virginians, the
Nirginians think they are pouring into that
field Republican
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

WHERE THE SHOE PIScHEs-An old Wbig,
who now votes the Buchanan ticket, said the
other day: my acqusiDlances sometimes won
der how /, who have always fought against the
Democratic party can now vote with it but
can tell them that voting the ticket isn't the
greatest difficulty. Ii is mixing with the party
afterwards that fnd the hardest work"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

The Paterson IN. j. Guardian says that the
two American .bers elect to the New Jer.
sey legislature will act with the republicans, ty-
ing the House, as already constituted; and that
after ousting one of the democratic members
from Bergen, who was clearly elected by fraud
the opposition will have absolute control of the
lower branch of the legislature. The anti Le
compton democrats from Sussex will also &c
with the opposition on all important questions
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

Captain Meigs is reported to have been re-
moved from his post of superintendent of the
work on the capitol extension at Washington
because he would not cooperate with Gov.
Floyd the secretary ofthe war department, in
fraud upon the treasury.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

NEW ROUTE TO HEAvEN-An eminently pi-
GUS correspondent of the New York Herald as
sures Beuuett that his course in giving pubIici-
ty to the astonishing revelations of Col. Forbes
will be rewarded, not only here but more boun-
tilully hereafter.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-26

ALARM Among the causes Of alarm which
are keeping Gov Wise, Col Davis, and the
ehivOlry Of Virginia, generally in the most pain
fal state ofermenta,ion, is arumOr to The effect,
that body Of men have just passed over the
Ohio at Wheeling bound for CharlestOwn, for
the liberation Of old John Brown. Though
the Wheeling Journals say that no such body
Of men have passed through that place, we are
disposed to believe that there is some truth 10
the rumor, and further, we suspect that the par
ty may be portion Of the Peeled Slick Regi-
plent from Jefferson, whose martial bearing. aud
democracy Of numbers, brought such palor to
the face Of our redoubtabe contemporary OF the
National Democrat, on the occasion Of their
visit to Cleveland last summer. If our suspi.
cions are well founded, We think common pru-
dence, as well as a common fealty to the Union,
require that Marshal johnson should be advis.
&c OF the matter, that he my seek the direction
of that judicial ichneuman whose nasal organ
has been so worthily engaged in snufing treo.
son within the confines Of the northern district
of Ohio, for some days past If general attor.
ney Belden il still in commission, second ed
ton Of those secret orders might not be i'm
proper Our friend Floods special allegiance
to the Union, will render these simple sugges
tions sufficient.