Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-21
SALMAGuNDI.

Hal IN Madison Square, N. York City.
Ray TIE Telegraph Patent Of Prof
Morse, has been renewed for period of
seven years
peA-The coat Of horse is the gift Of
nature. That Of an ass Is often the work
Of tailor.
ray Don't carry your handkerchief 10
your 4Rpst pocket. Efyou do, says Punch,
you take a wiper to your bosom.
Bsy~Tho city of New York expended last
year about ninely-hve thousand dollars for
advertising
Be9YGen Cass las conveyed to the city of
Detroit lot OF land valued at SIS, ,000 for
"Union school house"
b9~The Empress Eugene, as we learn
by recent arrivals, promises another heir to
the thrOuc Of France, at an early day.
pea, There is no more certain signs Of o
narrow mind of stupidity and arrogance,
than to avoid the society of those who
think differently from u.s.
Bg~ Louise, slave woman of Gen. Miles,
of New Orleans, has not only stolen herself,
but carried off 81 600 worth Of her mistress
jcwelry
pe9s Theodore Parker writes from Rome
that during the four months he has been in
that city he has not seen q drunken man.
lie doesn't believe there is a bar in Italy.
1t is now reported in the papers that the
Smith branch of Mormondom, under young
Joes lead is about returning to Krtloud
as the true Land of Zion"
B1~The New Haven, CT Palladium as
serts positively that over eleven hundred
persons voted in that city at the last cleo
tion whose names were not registered.
Rsy~ An Eastern editor SAYS he has had
n pair of boots given him, which were so
| tight that they came very near making him
a Universalist, because he received his
punishment as he aceut along
BAp 1925, 900, 900 worth of goods from
Europe by the Canadian line of steamers
have been landed at Portland this month,
and the Hungarian had 81 900, 900 more
when she was wrecked
s3-1 $50, 900 acres of alternate sections
of Public Lands, in Michigan, are to be
sold in July and August under the Railroad
act of 1856, the minimum price Of which is
$3.50 per acre.
pa The Smithsonian Institution has OBJ
tanned subscription of $4,000 to equip a
small vessel to convey party of astrono
mers to Cape Chidlay, Labrador, in order
to observe the solar eclipse of the 18th of
July
B9y~Wthn the last fourteen months the
New York Express has received nearly
sixteen thousand dollars from the Democrat
ic City Government for advertising. We
ought not to expect much help from that
sheet this year.
Beap Fernando Wood said, when he COM
menced the Connecticut campaign, that
'unless Seymour was elected the banner
of Democracy must trail in the dust" 1t is
rnmorcd that T. Wood knows the men who
"came down with the dust" for it to trail
| in.
usA- Twenty thousand SwedeS and Nor
wegians are reported to he getting in read
iness to embark fer the United States ear
I ly in the coming summer They will bring
much wealth with them and what is better,
they will bring confirmed habits of morali-
ty, industry, and economy.
DGy~ Mr.. Ford, House Printer, backed
by responsible parties, has purchased Wen
del's entire printing establishment, at Wash
ngton, taking at invoice price real estate
and all 1t is understood he intends start
ing Republican paper, and will advocate
the Chicago nomination.
p9.A Washington dispatch says that
Mr.. Pryor's wife'and five children were in
Washington when he sent his challenge to
| Mr. Potter. Mr.. Potter's wife was also
in the city at the time, quite calm, saving
she did not wish to say anything of the af-
fair until it was over, and declared that
she knew her husband to be brave man.
DGy~ Two cases Of statuary that lately
arrived at Washington from Italy were
opened in the Hall of Representatives
They contained two large white marble
statutes by Crawford, intended for one o!
the great doors on the east front of the
Capitol. One represents Justice, and the
other, History
peA. The Reralds correspondent says :
The Butterfeld Overland Company is now
under the control of Wells, Fargo & Co.,
of New York. Mr.. Butterfed has been
deposed from the Presidency, and replaced
by Mr.. William B. Dinsmore, of the Ad-
ans Express Company. Mr.. Gardner has
also resigned the Superintendency Of the
route, and Col. Alvord, of Indiana, has
been appointed to Gil the vacancy.
BSE-The Calforna papers notice the dis
covery of the fossil remains of large sized
whale, in Santa Cruz in that State 1t was
found embedded in chalk rock, about twelve
feet below the surface. The upper stratum
of chalk is covered with soil varying from
one to two feet in thickness. No part of
whale, except the vertebre, retains it's ori-
ginal shape, it having become so identified
with the surrounding rock as to be almost
undistingushablc Some portions of the
vertebr@, however, are in quite good state
Of preservation.
The LAKE.-The two n. Y. C. r. r.
propelIers which left Buffalo week ago
to attempt to force passage through the
ice to the ports above, succeeded on the 18th
in getting through. The ice has closed iu
again, shutting up the harbor as close as
ever.
Discovery OF ARoBBER's CAvE.--A cor
respondent who signs himself "RoIlin"