Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-01-13
IN GENERAL.

ward. On "Wednesday sstood at s9s.
Juares has entered upon his new term o
Office, meeting with but little opposition.
All the white troops 10 Virginia have beef
ordered mustered out.
A bill has been introduced 10 the lower Hous
Of Congress 10 punish counterieiting death.
The bill to equalize bouuties will be reported
early in the session. 1t is asserted that It viii
involve On expenditure Of nearly 500 900 600
Two million dollars will be required tc
establish the ligh,ho use on the Southern coas'
which we're destroyed by the rebels
Gep.Frank Blair has left Missouri Tor MS
sissippi, where be has purchased large plan
tation. .
During the year Just closed ever i've thou.
sand steamboats, landed AID discharged freight
and passengers at Carlo. iess s4
An Opera House Is TO be erected 10 Buffalo,
10 be built by stock company. 1t Is inten-
ded TO seat ], 500 persons. The cost Is not
to exceed 100000
The Albums Express car in the train between
New York and New Haven, on the 9th, was
robbed Of about S50O.eO0. The thieves left
sI4O 900 on the floor ofthe car.
The telegraph informs Us OF the arrest OF
four Of the persons implicated in the late
daring and extensive robbery OF an Express
car oD the New York and Boston Railroad,
and the recovery Of S25s,O0o Of the money
stolen. raa
The thermometer OF Buffalo. JAN was 10
deg. above zero; Staten Island, IA below;
Burlington VT, IL below; Montreal Fl below;
Troy 20 below, Albany Is below.
A free high school, for the accommoda tion
Of $500 negro children, was dedicated in
Nashville on the 9th by Gen Fisk, Gov.
Brownlaw aud sthers.3y a. -,a..4o y-r..
Bancroft has accepted the Invitation to
deliver 40 address upon the life and character
OF Lincoln before Congress on the lst o.
February, m sdi al (, II, zee WAC fgl.a
Secretary MeCulloch has issued circu !aI
allowing the Importation ofhorses, mules. and
asses from Canada. provided they are not i'm
imported fromforcign countries by way Of thai
Province.
The next. stamer that arrives will bring
Napoleons Speech to the Chamber Of Depu
ties. which will be looked for with interest. a
it is expected to contain something significant
in regard TO the French troops in Mhxico.
.
There has been discovered at New York
an extensive fraud on the internal revenue, b!
the issue OF counterfeit cigar-box stamps
600.
A meeting 10 favor Of the Monroe doctrip,
was held in New York on the 9th. Speeches
were made by Wm. Cullen Bryant and Others,
and letters were read from q member of dis.
tinguished gentlemen.
An American enterprise is on foot to de.
stroy the Spanish feet off Chill ~ means o
torpedoes. The expedition sailed from New
York several weeks ago and news Of its success
or failure is expected soon. 'i9
Freedmen's savings banks havs bsen es-
tablished at Richmond. Wilmington. Charles.
ton, Beaufort, Savannah. Noble. New Orleans,
Vicksburg. Huntsville, Nashville, Memphis
sod Louisville.
Bishop McIlvains inform, the Ciacinnat
Gdzttts that the late Henry Winter Davis wa
Q graduate Of Kenyon College 10 this State
and not as the press has generally stated. O
Hampton Sydney College. Virginia.
Mr.. George W. Jackman,Jr., is building,
at Newburyport, Mass, two steamers for the
American Steamship Company intended fol
a new line between Boston and Liverpool. and
be ready about the beginning OF August. Their
dimensions are in length 345 feet; beam, 43
feet; depth Of hold, 20 feet, and measuring
5000 tons. Engines are being built in Boston
The Atlantic & great Western Railway
Company and the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company have concluded contract
whereby narrow gu age track will be imme-
diately laid on the line OF the Atlantic & Grea.
Western TO Cleveland, Cincinnati, and other
wssserc cities; also narrow guage track tc
form CO utipuous line from the West tc
Philadelphia and New York.
A Miss Heaton. Of st. Louis q beau tiful
young lady. beloved by Scotchman student
in Commercial College, suffered at BIZ
hands The loss of feminine chastity. She
supposed herself iu q condition Inconsistent
with the single state, and took an ounce OF
the oil OF cedar to remove the difficulty. It
removed her'to another sphere. A corOuer'a
inquest was held. when 1t was found that the
poor girl bad mistaken her condition.