Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-10-27

jail awaiting his trial.
Mr.. Edwarn Bates, attorney general under
Mr.. Liucolu's administration, is rapidly declin-
ing in health, and it is feared be cannot long
survive.
AT The great Paris Exhibition there will be
a cashmere shawl worked 10 Aribesque Of un-
heard OF fneness. 1t was ten years 10 the work
mans frame
In a recent Democratic procession 10 Bal
timore, Transparency was carried with the
motto: We are in favor Of negro suffrage-the
way they suffered at New Orleans.
Considerable excitement has been caused
in New York by the issue of pamphlet by
James Parton on the relations Of ailroad cor
porations to party politics.
While Cholera is thus cutting down dozens
daily among the Northern cities, the Yellow
fever carries off its half dozen day in the city
OF New Orleans.
The late Republican successes are having
the best effects upon our friends 10 States where
elections are yet to be held, and will swell our
mojorities there by many thousands,
The latest returns from Iowa make IL plain
that above and beyond havicg elected whole
Radical delegation to Congress, the majority
Of the State has increased considerably.
--Thurlow Weed has formally withdrawn
from the Republican party, and cast in bis lot
with the Democrats. lie had 20 where elsa to
go.
There seems to be good deal Of compe
tition between the United States and the Mer.
chants Express companies, and prices have
come down more than 100 per cent.
Rev. D. E. Wells was installed pastor OF
the Presbyterian church in Monroevile, o at
an adjourned meeting of Huron Presbytery
hold September 25.
There will probably be an effort to unite
the New York Central and the Hudson Rive,
and the Harlem roads, into one grand consol Ii.
dated corporation. This is Vanderbills plan.
REV. j ohm Monteith, Jr.. of the EucliG.
street Presbyterian church Cleveland, has re-
ceived and accepted a unanimou, call from the
Secoud Congregational church Of St. Louis,
No.
We lose one member Of Congress. Hon
Columbus Delano. in the 18th district Of this
State, WHO'S succeeded by G. W. Morgan. who
ran against Gen. Cox for Governor last fall
His majority is 297.
The old apborism asser,s that, he who sups
with tie Devil has need of long spoon
Even with this, he may often go hungry to bed
The Democrats are having Nightmares on emp
ty stomachs just now, because they forgot the
wisdom of this truism.
The Christian Advocate and Journal
states that from $4,000 600 to S2,50O00O worth
of tob acco is annually consumed by the mem
bers Of the Methodist church 10 tie United
States.
Among the Vice Presidents OF the Pitts
burg convention. appeared the name Of George
Robinson, of Maine, the soldier who saved
the life OF Mr.. Seward on the uight of the assas
sination OF President Lincoln.
One Of the last official acts Of Secretary
Harlan was to execute contract by which the
reserve lands Of the Cherokee Iudians 10 Kan
sas, consisting of 500 900 acres csded by the
Indians to the government were sold to the
Connecticut Emigrant Society for 81 per acre.
The story of a treaty with France-cover-
ing guarantee of French claims On Mexico, a
United States protectorate of that country, and
an acquisition Of territory-is pronounced by
the State Department to be a gross exaggera.
tion.
Cholera seems 10 be hanging about some
of our cities, Notwithstanding the advance of
TIE season. For the forty.eight hours ending
at O'Clock on Monday afternoon last there
had been q cases and five deaths in Chicago
The number OF cases in New York of late
have been about as Dumerous as at any time.
Most unfavorble accounts of the vintage
are being received from lbe wine growing coun-
tries of Burgundy aod the center OF France
The maturity is unequal, and the rot has shown
itself 10 the lower viGes On the bills the fruit
is both too close aud abundant, which are two
causes upfsvorahle to good quality.
BY the sale of st. Johns Park New York,
to the Hudson River Railroad Co., Trinity
Parish receives four hundred thousand dollars.
The remainder of one million paid therefor be-
ing divided among owners OF property surround
lug lne park az Tue rate Vi Oue tuOusuuu lnTee
hundred per lot.
AT recent election jollifcation in Tffn,
o. the boys had made preparations for bon
FIRE, but the Marshal. Johnson man, vetoed
their action. and to make everything secure,
SO, on top Of the pile Of boxes, etc. etc. While
be was barauguiug the youngsters on one side
Of the heap, little chap poured some benzine
over the other side and lit it. The Marshal
tumbled OF his perch in hurry and the bonfire
was a fixed fact.
The Denver N'srs publishes the following
account OF another Mormon outrage: We learn
that Mr.. Weston, ofthe Salt Lake Union vi
detie, an out spoken opponent of Mormauism.
was taken by the Mormans on the night of the
Sd inst and severely beaten, and given ak
hours to leave the city aud take with him sew
eral prominent Geutiles. Mr.. Weston refuses
to leave, and deuounees Mormanism 10 the bit
terest terms. From the frequent occurrence
OF oulrages by the Mormons on the Gentiles,
serious trouble may be looked Tor.