Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-12-16
IN GENE

| Post Master General, for an advanced copy oil
bis Annual Report for the fiscal year 1865.
The Post Office Department is now pre-
parod to furnish stamped envelopes OF the de-
nomination of 9, IL, "a. 80 and 40 cents
Envelopes expressly designed for Express
Companies and Others who carry money out
side Of mails are also issued.
Hon. Fiiz Henry Warren has accepted the
position Of Minister to Guatamaa, aud is ex.
pec,ed to leave for that country shortly.
General Fitzpatrick will not visit Europe,
as contempla, cd, owing to change in Cbilian
affairs. lie sails from New York for Valpa-
raiso early in January.
| A boat named John c. Heenan drifted
ashore on the 18th at Port Maitland, IN which
were two men found dead. The boat cleared
from Erie, Pa, on the 5th.
Prof. Monroe. OF Oberlin, now Consul at
Rio Japerio, was married 10 Miss Julia
daughter of President Phinuey Of Obern
College.
The amount of money invested in. the oil
business within the radius of one.half mile
about Oil City, is said to be fully $4,000 600
Intelligence at the State Department iudi-
| Gates that the British Government is likely to
recede from the position taken on the indemnify
question. s - -sa eaI
The one-armed guerrilla, Berry, captured
on Saturday at Louisville near Bloomfield, KY,
H.. th
There isa strong lobby Influence at work in
Congress to procure renewal ofthe Recpro
city Treaty. .,......, ,......-..
Official advices were received 10 Washing
ton on the 9th, from Mexico, favorable to
the Liberal cause. The Imperial troops are
constantly falling back toward the city.
Captain Ralph Plumb, for a considerable
period rost Quartermaster at Camp Dennison
has been Lonoraby discharged the service,
with the brevet rank OF Lieutenant Colonel.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Morris, commander at
Fort McHepry .did.on the 3lth nged sixty years
DEDrcAT1ox-The NJ 4. Church 10 Morgan.
which is being enlarged aud improved, will
be reopeued. and dedicated to A imgnty God
on the 10th Of Dec. s"'.l i."
The Mississippi apd. Louisiana D elegatiops
call upon the Secretary of War TO rebuild the
levees 10 those states where they have been
destroyed. He at once sgreed to laod force
to rebuild as those States were under
military government. ''..'' -
Capt. d. Caldwell, Provost Marshal OF the
consolidated districts, the 18th aud 10Th, and
located at Cleveland. received orders last
week from the War Department to sell of
the furniture ofbis Office, and send the records
and papersto Provost Marshal General Wilcox
at Columbus, and close up his business by the
18th inst. His, dischnrge to take effect on
that date. Capt. Caldwell -etires after three
years service with the golden opinions of the
public, TO bis home 10 Jefferson. where he will
resume the practice Of law.--Rrportsr ire
Man SELLING IN MARYLAND We iud
.be following item in The Cambridge Nd.
IntslIgseney, OF Dee 2, 1t is there
credited 10 the Herald. by which we sup:
pose Is meant the iSHwmersst Nd. Herald:
SENTENCED John Hughes, negro, 10
be sold for eighteen months. from 22Dd Of
November. 1865; convicted Of stealing o
pair Of panialoons aud yest--properiy Of
Thomas Hesby. t,- s.f.,,s .'. 4.
Heoery Saeed, negro. to be sold for
eighteen months, from 22nd OF Noyem-
ber, 1865; eooyieied Of Stealing pair Of
boots from ] z Thomas. nI
We would enqlire whether white men
are ever sold 10 Maryland for stealing
clothes or boots. ~, ....,-4 N. =