Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-07-02

ole as straw, yet they answer quite as we'll
aud at the same time cost great deal less.
! a 7tpAeres Enough.
IS a.spe MSesfo n.shop. 1907 .esoss
Such Is the fact which VIC haya 10 an.
nounce to oil true friend, of Africa
since the days OF st. Cyprian no Episcopal
appointment has possessed greater Interest
Of significance than the elevation of Samuel
Crowther to the bishoprc of tho Niger.
ihere Is peculiar fitness in the selection
which has been made of Mr.. Crowther.
a native. African by birth; His original
name was Adjar, and his family lived az
Ochugn, in the Yorubd, country, one, hun.
dred miles in land from the Blight OF Benin.
IN 1891 he was carried OF BY the Eyo Ma.
hometans, was exchanged for horse was
again exchanged at Duhdah, and crueIly
treated, was again sold as slave for some
tobacco, was captured, by an EseIish shin
of-war, aud landed at Sierre Leono in 1929.
He was baptized in tS25, taking the names
OF the Evangelical vicar of Christ Church.
New gate-sstreet, Sumuel Crowtber. In
1869 he married Asano, native girl, who
had been taught in the same school
with him: lie was then for some years
schoolmaster of Regents Town, and subse-
qnently accompanied the first Niger expedi.
ton, Arrived in England, be was sent to
lhe Church Missionary College, Islingtou
aud was ordained by the Bishop Of Loadon.
In 1853 he accompanied the second Niger
expedition, of which he has written very
able account. lie has since been. an &C.
tive clergy man at Akesss, and bis transIar
ted the Bible into Yorubu, and has, uuder-
taken Various other literary works of q re4
ligious character for the benefit of his Afric,
an brethren. Mr.. Crowther, is to be 40
lord Bishop but siihple missionary Bishl
ops Tue Bishop designate Of the Niger
gives an encouraging account of,the results
tof ftissiotafy labor in the country from
which be has just cotne--that Abeokuta
where. the people are rapidly being convert.
ed from community CT sIayetraders into
cullivators of cotton aud peaceful artisans
and aborers Of the soil. All success to
efforts in the wider field OF labor ia which
he is about TO engage, and may the slave
hunt aud fetish worship soon cease to be
praticed in the populous villages which
skirt the banks of the iger.r5Lopd. Dial.
Rebels DON'T knew what 10 Make or
5j.3ssg. % crsnt. aAW gur
OJeratioas at the front. saws the r. R;eh.l
mond .ss,Ri,,ek of Nav 3Ist' hive freo.,ent.1
ly eoufounded calculations. and turned sneco
lla.ion hither and thither with short tnrns,
and little ceremony Now Grant has been,
Eretreating on Fredericksburg, and auon be is,
at Spotsylvania Court, House. Now again
lie meets with disaster that would have
sent reasonable man back to Lincoln,
moud Now he GRO ,ses the Nor,h Anna
and eonfronts Lee af,f,arently for hat tIe,
but night comes and he steals away, and,
starts for the Peninsula. Now he crosses
al Uanoyertown 10 bis supposed fiiebt "a
his new base: but Inst and IatterIy we learn
that his face is again toward Richmond?
and that he confronts lee on tie ,foiopat..
omy Greek. with prospect of immediate fieRty
IL is time for as to cease speculations ssl
to Grants movements and attend 10 the
facts He has been Offering FIGHT when wa
,horcht he was retreatinp and re,reatingS
wien we thought he was Offering dob.s hs-
has beeo advancing when he was. whinnsd
and heading M stream when he had erefvs
reason to 6,rry, .dawn lie has eo,,s ~,
tho rnla Of military contrarinass ana ~.
aIwavs aisannoin;ed ns whenever we nav a
snnnosod that he vas as,irc sansihio or
copFis,aniiy win himsedIf We snnnosa
that he has come TO the final 6ybt 81 last.
though warned by experience We We ;eapress
,he oni6ion with becoming do1btn aliaI ~.
Yesterday and the day before tsis two
armies we're confronting across the Tolopa-
tony Creek that is 10 say. we were in
liGe Of battle oli1this side Of The ,creek. and
Grant is presumed to have been on the
other. The Tolopatoipy Geek tcalIedl
Totomy Greek runs from near the Chick.
hominy, north east. across tie Coaatt Of
Hanover, into Pamunkey River, III It's
course it crosses the Ceptral Railroad her,
yond Atlees Station IL also crosses tho,
roads from Hanosertowu Court House 70
Meehaniesyllle. The opposing liues stretch