Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-02-17
in GENERAL.

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A petition to the President has been re-
cefved al Washington, signed by over seventy
members Of tho Kentucky Legislature, asking
Tor the pardon Of John g. Breckndge
The Congressional ceremonial In honor Of
Mr.. Lincoln took place on Mondv last and
Washington was 6lled with strangers TO wit
mess L.. a ge 9ta.a
There ismsre skating on Central Park, New
York. on Sunday than any other day, Tie
crowd there last Sabbath was estimated at
,loo, ,00o no less than 10000 we're skaters o
. The sandusky Register declares that the
thieves Of that locality walk four miles on the
ice to steal the cannon balls on Johnsons
Island to sell for old iron.
7, There are about 10, 900 U. s. pensioners in
Ohio, and IL is estimated that the number will
reach l4oo0 when all the applications have
been considered at Washington.
The ENJOYS OF Gov Orr of South Carolina
sent TO w ashipgton 10 defeat the Freedmens,
bureau bill, are snnguine that the Presdert
will veto Il but Republicans are confident Of
Its signature.
Rumors are current at Washington, but not
generally credited, that the President will soon
issue proclamation restoring the writ Of habeds
coryss in all the States aud decl airing that peace
Is restored.
The Gerry Telcgrsph says Mr.. Robert
Tompkins late Of the Watertown (Wis.) Re
publican, has made arrangements for commence
ing the publication OF new paper in Cory,
10 the anti. Democratic in politics.
James Gordon Bennett was recently invited
20 deliver lecture before literary association
at Princeton, NJ. he declined. saying that
Ais time was too valuable, and lecturiug was
only the business Of literary vagrants'
A collection embracing oil the different va
.fie.ies OF projectiles uaed during tho war o
the rebellion, bas been made at the United
States Arsenal, at Washinton, and systemati-
eally arranged or visitors.
A woman. being epjoiped 10 try the effect OF
kindness on her husband. and being told that
It would henp Goals Of FIRE on his head replied
that she had tried 'boiling water, and it
didn't do bit Of good"
The Sandusky Register says the ice on the
bay and lake 10 in better condition for sleighing
than il has been for many years. 1t boasts OF
CLASSY turnpike twenty miles long, wide
enough for two thousand sleiyhs to drive
abreast.
A Newark o. correspondent OF the Cleve-
land Herald Gays, that on Saturday oil the
distilleries in Huron county, except one were
closed by the Government for alleged viola
sion of the revenue law. The inspector had
previously been placed under arrest, under the
charge o. sanctioning the violation.
Bev. Heury Ward Beecher suggests that .
meeting be called for the purpose OF consider
ing the, ,desirsblity OF having an assistant pastor
to attend upon the sick, dying aud dead, thus
relieving Mr.. Beecher from other duties than
speaking and writing.
The Connecticut Democratic Stats Conven
tion at Hartfod nominated Hon. e. English
for Governor. and Ephraim L. Hyde for
I.eutenant- Governor. Resolutions were adopt.
ed endorsing the reconstruction policy oi
President johnson.
Judge Russell, of New York, got reputa-
tion o few years ago for sente ncing garroter
TO forty years imprisonment. 1t has recently
como out that the next week after the Judge
saw his friend, Gov Seymour and got the man
pardoned out. lie became good Democratic
voter.
4 Rochester paper denounces new trick OF
the Chicago grain dealers, who have several
million bushels Of rottiug wheat to dispose, Of
end have procured Green Bay elevator re-
eeipta and by false samples are imposing upor
those who are not fully posted. It says ths
NO Chicago wheat will be ground on th'
0euesse next season.
The paper dealrs and envelope manufactur
ers of the city Of N. Y. on the 29th held
meeting and adopted remonstrance, agains
the passage OF the proposed amendment to th
Postal law authorizing the Postmaster. Genera
10 sell stamped envelopes at the prics Of sh'
stamp. impressed upon them.
Connecticut. Mr.. English. has been q member
of Congress. aud is o man Of ability. In the
early part of the war he took patriotic stand
$50 much so that he almost lost the conf
dence Of the admsntines Of his own party
His nomination affords evidence that Con.
uecticut copperbeads ore not without shame.
PAixEsyILLE 4 HUpsoS RAILRoAD.-W
learn from the Painesville Telegraph of ih
9Th inst, that at the Stockholders meeting
held Tuesday. February 6tb, in Painesville, tb
following Board of Directors was elected:
Hitchcock; d. r. Paige, A. l.. Tinker an
II. Cram, Painesville; b. B. Woodbury. au
y. Spencer. ChMdoD; and d. A. Davis, Ch
grin Falls.
A Report wss submitted by the Presidsn
TTou n n w aterburV showing the cOpditiC