Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-12-01

a%A Chinese Baptist Church has been or
ganised at Sacramento, California.
a-The Cosmopolitan Art Association has
selected Washington Irving and his friends
as the subject ogits next annual engraving.
e0- The Palmetto Gag has white ground,
Palmetto tree 10 the centre, and red star on
the right hand upper corner.
~ It is an interesting fact that no census
returns have been received from South Carolina.
They have all been withheld.
Hon. wM PENNINGTON, the defeated candi-
date for Congress iu New Jersey, is spoken Of
as o probable member OF Mr.. Lincon's cabinet
GS-The full official vote in New Y York, stands
Lincoln, 6626 Fusion, 3l2,6l0 Lincolns
m ,iority 60,l36 Those who bet on $4,000
are therefore safe.
GS- A writer on ornithoIogy inquiries what
kind of eagles fly the highest We don't
know but unquestiOnobly golden eagles fly
fastest.
1s- Prof. Gray's three papers in the Allan
tic Monthly on "Darwin's Theory of Races, /"
are regarded in England as the best articles that
have appeared on that subject.
es- A woman and her Eve children were
found at Topeka, X. r., on the l4th uIt., dead
from starvGtiOu Unless urgent measures arc
TAKEN hundreds will follow.
Gs- The Rreckenridgers OF Ohio have called
State Convention to be held on the 9Th OF
January next There's pluck for you.
Hg Packages have been received at the
Post Office 10 Alexandria. Va, directed to AL
eIandria, Va, Southern Confederacy." This
is slightly premature.
TT The usual good health OF ex-president
Pierce wa interrupted on the 9th, so that he
could not visit the polls at Concord. N. H., aud
express bis preference betweea Douglas and
Breckenridge.
58- Out Of seueH hundred and eighty-One
South CarOlinians receiving pay from the U.
States for different services only nine have re-
signed, and these hold Office until their success
sors shall be appointed.
GS- Harpers publications will not be sold
10 Charleston at present, because they are "taint-
ed with abolitiouism." This is bad, after the
Harper's have dismissed the genial Curtis tc
please the South.
&s-It is said that the Bell.EVeretis of AL
bany have determined upon establishing dai-
ly evening newspaper, to be called the DGiis
.amerieGH. It's to start:uPon its existence up
On the Goth Of next month.
~ President Buchanan listened, on Sunday
10 powerful discourse upon the Union, exceed
ingly severe npOn all kinds of disunionists, and
was heard to exclaim as he came down the aisle
after the services was finished, at was a splen
did discourse"
although we have partially lost New der
sy our gain there has been proportionately as
great as in almost any other State. Fremouti
!. vote in 1856 wss rs, ,338 Lincolns is 58,33l-
!. more than double. The falling off in the oppOsi
tion vote is 42,49e.
SB-The Alabama Baptist Convention. at n
: ase session, adopted q paper uphOlding th'
course OF the would be seesdiog states, and thl
"soutben HaPtiu' says, "Northern fanatics viii
: ere long whether the so1th will live in Upior
y under Black Republican suis,s
ap~ The Washington Constitution thinL,
Q the only way to appease the 'seeesaioa' storm
s for Messra Lincoln and HAmlin to decliu,
! the Offices to which they have been elected
There's an opinion for you as l. an opinion
{ Probably they will-tO take effect the 4lh 0
March 1864.
GrThe population ofthe Territory Of Kan
: sAs, as ascertaine5 by the United States census
: just taken, is lO9,A0l. This does not inclnd
: the Pixies Peak region, which has pOpulatiO
8 $4,000 more. Kansas proper has, therefOr'
: $4,000 more than would entitle her to elect
member Of Congress at present time W