Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-01-16
For tho Telegraph.
CLEVELAND, Jan. lst, ga.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 1st, ga.
Mr.. EDIroR:-To-day is Happy New Year,
and cannot resist the impulse to send you the
compliments OF the season." To imagine me
| entering your sanctum breathing forth all
those polite little nothings with which to-day
is freghted. 1864! How novel it looks and
sounds. have written it on my paper aud
looked at it closely and long, trying to famil-
iarize it. Then traced it with pin on the
| frosty window-pane, and there too it will re.
main-for the day is bitterly cold. Old Boreas
| raves out of doors, like a madman, aud the
ground is frozen to adamant
Wo to the gentlemen hurrying through the
streets to pay their annual calls. Their noses
are roses; their moustaches aged with frost;
who so dutful, as think beautiful, and object
so frozen and tossed? Yet the usual greeting
is everywhere heard, and busy Carrier boys"
are blowing their icy fingers at our doors, Of
ering the inevitable Addresses" of the differ
ent city journals All Of these are pronounced
unusually good-but that of the Plain Dealer
best and most tasteful OF all. Christmas day
was almost Indian summer-like-and this is the
first winter specimen we have had.
Y GU should have seen how thronged with
ladies was every street. and store, and shop, for
the week proceeding Christmas! Ladies car
rying baskets, and satchels, and bundles, and
with faces radiant with mystic smiles; their
brains full of pleasant hoatings, and their hands
laden down with the enginery ofa warfa. to be
carried right into tn hearts Of the besieged
How longed to be clairvoyant and every
where present, on that smiling Christmas morn
Wouldn't it be luxury to witness the joyous
surprises and the revelations of affection, of
which those mysterious packages are to be the
cause!
Cleveland is doing noble deed just now, in
her generous contributions for the "Relef of
the Poor" Many business firms have given
over a hundred dollars each in dry goods, pro-
visions, and luel-and sitting here by our,glow-
ing CRATE to-day. we think how timely was the
presentation.
On Wednesday we witnessed the return of
what remains of our goth Regiment, organic
ed at Camp Giddiugs. Two years ago on
Christmas day they left that camp and marched
? through our wn little town, impatient to prove
, their courage on the battle field The banners
d which waved above their heads then, they
; brought home faded, and torn by many whis-
ting bullet; and mingling in graceful wayings
with them were two new ones recently pre-
sented with coors yet undimmed. The gal
ant baud was greeted with smiles anu words
of welcome as they moved through the street;
y up to Camp Cleveland, where they are to re-
eeive furough of thirty days-most OF them
= having rs.enlistsd. Many poor fellow irou
. !. their ranks, bss looked biz last on home and
, friends, and is numbered now among our hou
g ored dead. About three hundred are retarn
ing to the fresdes their absence has made Sc
ID desolate, and Happy New Year" will ring ou
there with a depth of feeling we may not faith
ON. I
4 On Tuesday morning we witnessed au impo
II sing ceremony at the Urseline Convent Hav
ing through the intercession OF friend receiv
y ed card of admission from the Lady Supe
e ror, we rang the bell at the gate of the enclo
sure aud it was opened by the porter to whom
We presented the pasteboard "open sesame
and were directed to enter the first building
n. before us. Passing along the garden-walk, W
gazed with curiosity about the grounds, whicl
seemed to us dread burial place for the living
for none OF the sisi erhood save the Superior eve
leave this place after taking the veil. Passin
A nm the stairs we entered an ante room, In Whic