Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-18

gress in the Louisville district, Kentucky, and II
Is said that George d, Prentice, Of the Louis
vile Journal, will be nominated in his place.
The Cincinnati papers explain Marshane uuex-
pected withdrawal by his repugnance to the
slavery platform on which his friends are fight
iug the battle.
~ Secretary Cass has written to a natural
lied Frenchman that the French government
claims military service from all natives Of
France found within its jurisdiction, aud natural.
ization in this country will not exempt any one
from that claim.
The iallacy, then, as II appears on democratic
authority, heretofore commonly entertained,
that an American citizen was an American the
world over, and as such, entitled to protection,
is exploded. Henceforth our adopted fellow
citizens will understand, that the act Of natural
izatiou, which accepts their profered allegiance,
proposes, nor affords any return in the way of
recognition or protection, it, by accident or de-
sign, they are found beyond American soil--
This, we take it, is a new feature in "federal re.
latons," for the discovery and promulgaton of
which, the sham democracy may claim the un-
disputed glory. Let us see how they will wear
their honors.
The decision Of Secretary CAss, will rival in
as--tuteness of some of the late emanations OF
the federal judiciary Business in the passport
line will, no doubt, be shade better
The latest news from Mexico is neither very
ineligible nor very important. The chiefitem
of intelligence is a reported ecclesiastical pro-
nunciamieDto against Miramon, its suppression
aud the Imprisonment of Zuoaga in conse-
quence.
1t would appear that the expedition sent by
Miramon against Morelia had entered and plum
dered the town, but had subsequently been re-
pulsed. The Liberals are said to be encourag.
ed but, if so, it must be by the weakness and
quarrels of their opponents, rather than by
anything which they seem to be doing them
selves.
The Double HEADED GIRL-This wonder is
attracting very general notice, and will shortly
be as noted as the Siamese Twins From des-
cription, we gather that it is a case of twins,
in every particular except that the body or
trunk is an unit, and that of but one person, d-
viding upwards into two pairs of shoulders and
arms, aud two necks and heads The lower
limbs are double. The appetites and intelec-
tual faculties are described as double also.
The GINSENG BUSINESS. Free Press of
St Peters, Minnesota, gives glowing account
of the new business of ginseng digging in that
state -
"This very branch of business bids fair
to become very important item in this re.
gion of the state. 1t is becoming a regu-
lar branch of business, and pays largely
better by far than the gold diggings. "Big
Woods" are filed with it, and nearly eyery-
body has taken to diging it, We are in
formed that three men at Ottawa went out
last week, and in three hours dug twenty
pounds. This at ten cents per pound, gives
81 as pay for nine hours labor-a very GOOD
return, surely. In the neighborhood of
Lake Washington, we learn that men have
made as high as $3.50 per day that even
children make dollar day. At present
men, women and children are digging a.
way as for dear life Ginseng is about the
only thing talked or thought of. 1t is the
burden of their songs by day, and of their
dreams by night We are credibIy inform.
ed that there is capital of at least one
hundred thousand dollars in this vicinity
for the purchase Of ginseng"
Ginseng was formerly collected in large guam
titles in New England. In Ohio nrettv larpe
amount of the root is collected every year for
expectation In 1852, there were exported
from the Uuited States 45O,455 pounds, valued
at SlO2,O73. The ginseng excitement in Min
nesota is not therefore ridiculous affair." and
is likely to pay quite as well in the average as
gold digging.