Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-04-21
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
ASHTA b U L A:
Saturday Morning, April, 2i, 1856.
IN oENERAL.

way, New Y York, is one suggesting that Wall
street be moved up to Canal street.
An order from the War Department has
directed the release of G. O. Clay on parole,
be taking the oath of allegiance.
-All ofthe name Hoytare invited to at
tend gathering Of the Hoyts, at Stamford,
Conn, on the goth aud 2lst ofJune next.
The carpenters in Boston are demanding
three dollars day; the brckayers four dollars
q day.
Hon. Chas. Shaw, Mayor Of Biddeford,
Maine, has been appointed COMMISSIONS to
the Paris Exposition.
The total exports Of tea from China
during the season just closed has been fourteen
million pou nds
--Bishop McIlvaiue, OF Ohio, has ordered a
prayer for deiverance from pestilence to be
read in oil the churches.
The Ohio Legislature passed law giving
800 to veterans who did not receive that
much local bounty.
The officers of the Philadelphia aud Erie
Railroad tooke possession Of their new quarters
in Wright's Block on Thursday last.
Official notice is given that the Presidents
recent proclamation does not remove ma r:ial
law or operate IN any way upon the Freed
mems Bureau in the exercise Of it's jurisdiction.
The New York Tribune Associations
paid "a a week t, fourteen employees who
entered the army, during their term of service,
paying out in oil for this purpose S3,s77.
Mine Of the EARNED" Fenans at Eastport.
Me-, captured an English revenue flag on
India Island Sunday evening 18th, Not q shot
was fred.
1T is stated in the Washington news that
Henry Stanberry. OF O., has been appointed
Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court of the
United States vice Catron deceased.
Gen. Grant, Senator Wilson and Thad.
Stevens have signed q recommendation for the
release of Clement .. Clay on bis parole which
Mrs. Clay has laid before the President.
"A Canadian detective report that the
Fenians have nearly ready for armament on
the lake fifteen vessels besides schooners and
transports, loading with arms and munitions
Of war.
Thirty Ships containing eleven thousand
passengers, cabin and steerage, sailed from
Liverpool to the United States. in the month
OF March. The greater number Of the passen-
gers we're Irish.
The news published last week that 90
Atlantic steamer had arrived on this side
with large number of cases of cholera, is
contradicted as being malignant form of
ship fever.
-Moseby appeared in the streets of Lees
burg, Va. the orther day dressed in CouFed-
crate uniform. and attempt was made to arrest
him by U. S. Troops, but he escaped into the
woods. Several shots were fred at him.
Saturday last, April l4th, wds the ami
versary of the assassination Of President
Lincoln. Gen. Garfield delivered an eloquent &
appropriate speech in Congress in respect to
the memory OF the loved aud lamented Lin
coin.
The weather for about week. has been be-
having handsomely. Sunshine and bird songs,
springing grass and bursting buds, proclaim
the end ofsnow and ice to be near, and even
the allpervading mud has about concluded il,
was time to 'dry-up."
The funeral car which bore President Lin
colas remains from Washington to Spring
field was bid off at auction in Alexandria, Va,
the other day by U. S. Marshal W. Fl. Lsmou,
for Sc, 800. Mr.. L. bought it to prevent it
falling into the hands of shOwmen.
The President on the 10th sent to the
Senate the names of Mr.. Smythe, President of
the N. Y. Central National Bank, for oonfr-
nation as Collector at the port ofNew York,
and Samuel G. Courtney, to be U S. District
Attorney vice Dickinson deceased.
Through the energy Of Senator Sumner and
Gen. Banks the bill to give Liberia authority
to purchase one Of our gunboats has passe d
hoth Houses, and they will now soon have
man-ofwar to break up tho slave trade. still
carried on by SpaDiards and privateers.
The elOumns of all the papers are teeuiug
with cholera articles just now, ineitsd by the
rayages of that disease on board the Inflated
London. Columns of advice are given,
which, simmered down, amount simply to
this: Keep cool, keep clean, indulge in no ex-
cesses make no sudden change Of diet, aud trust
10 Providence.
Mr.. Smythe, who has been appointed Col
lector of New York, is said to be Republican
Of moderate views, who probably fayors the
Presidents policy. He is spoken well of by
all sidss, and even the most pronounced radicals
commend the Presidents action 10 appointing
a man SO thoroughly identified with the CON-
mereial interests Of New York.
The Provost Marshal General has oem'
plstsd carefkl compilation. from the muster
rolls of al deaths 10 battle. from wounds and
from disease, In every regiment and company
Of every loyal Stats from the beginning to the
close Of the war From it appears that 2Sc,-
100 officers and men have lost their lives 10
service. or tbis number 8 III commissioners
officers and 90, $50 enlisted men have been
killad m action. or died or wounds while 23z1