Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-12-24

A Nav HALF DoLLAR--A new half dollar
has been got pp at The United States Minsto be
submitted to Government for its approval The
new coin, although Ofthe same diameter as that
now 10 circulation, is much thicker at the rim in
consequence Of the deeper sinking Of the die,
aud hence much more durable. On one side is a
medallion portrait Of Washington with the head
wreathed with laurel the word Liberty upon
a scroll over the bust at the bottom the date
1859 and around the whole the words United
States Of America, in plain well adapted raised
letters. On the reverse side, wreath Of grain
envelopes the words Half Dollar, 10 the same
beautiful letters. The coin is very handsome. d.
TnE SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE says the Buffalo
Commercial advertiser, continue to be Of such
a character as to be warrant for serious alarm
We are we'll aware that the "nigger" was intro
duced by the South with the intention Of so
irritating Republicans as to force out Of them
decidedly abolition replies which would render
it impossible for South Americans to lend them
any aid. This has failed, though we may pre-
sumo there is deal of rank abolitonsm bottled
up ready to be uncorked whenever prudence
will permit But in the course Of the debate
Southern members have gone so far, have so
openly and avowedly declared their readiness
to secede, have been SO disgracelully backed up
by pitiru northern dough-faces, that it would
seem that common selGrespect might force them
to realize some of their promises in event Of
the election of Republican Speaker. They
may conclude, however, that bad oath is bet
ter broken than kept, but the general effect Of
this debate upon the strength Of the Union
must be disastrous. Indeed the disaster is al
ready upon us when the public sentiment of
half the country authorizes and sanctions such
a reasonable display The Union, instead Of
being an object Of pride aud affection is becom-
ing an irksomc bond to be thrown off in some
sudden gust of passion.
SUIcIDE.-D. f. ELMER, a dealer in silk thread,
needles, &c, Bank st, Cleveland, believer in
Millerism, committed suicide, by hanging cord
to a drawer of his store, and slipper-noosing
the end around his neck, and strangling himself
WuilG MS uCuu was Nltuiu u lGW luCntS VI IlG
floor. Fanaticism together with unfavorable
prospects in business, is thought to be the cause.
To SAVE THE UNIoN.-The following recipe
is given BY the n. Y Erening Post 1t strikes
US that it would be deal more eliectual in Sc
curing the object, than all the union.saving
meetings in the land, or even the effigy burning
resortcd to by some Of our smaller literary n-
stitutions. 1t should be stated distinctly in the
first place. says the Post, that every political par
ty at the North is in favor ofthe Union, friendly
to the peace prosperity of the southern states;
secondly, that every attempt at disunion that
has ever been made in this country has originated
at the South where disunion sentiments ale quite
popular 3dly, that the entire difficulty between
the North and South has grown out ofthe agita-
ton of the slvery question, which was FIRST made
political question by leaders of the democrats
party fourthly that the same party has inHamed
the agitation immensely by its annexation of
Texas, by its repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, by its Kansas outrages, by its schemes for
the seizure of Cuba, and by its cherishing as
leaders, men who desire TO reopen the Infamous
traffic in slaves and, filthy, that the surest way
of securing the stability of the Union, is to
restore the government of whole nation of free
men, not Of a limited class of shareholders.