Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-11-10
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
ASIITABULA
Saturday Morning, Novmber 10, 1866
sEn AND PASTE BREyITIFs.


Northern District Of New York has been re-
moved.
The Post ONCE oncy-order system has
Become paying business the last quarter
yielded $40 over the expenses.
The agents of the Hudson's Bay Company,
stSt. Paul, Minnesota, have shipped lG,400
bales of buffalo robes TO the East, this season.
England has sent to America, in the last
fifty years, COCO, eco of herpopulation, andthey
in that time have sent home to their friends
$7O,ooo,Ooo.
A United States steamer has been detailed
to carry General Sherman and Minister Camp
belLto Mexico. They win depart about the
middle of November.
Tho Vermont Legislature las ratified tie
constitutional amendment--the Senate by a
vote Of twenty eight to two the House by 1919
yeas to eleven nays
"A. G. Cameron Copperhead candidate for
the Legislature in Chicago, has instituted Ii
bel suit against the Chicago Tribune, fixing
the damages at 100000.
"A special dispatch from Washington to the
Cincinnati Gazette says that Major John Coon
is prominent candidate for the Cleveland
Postoflice.
Missouri gives hint of the same class of
troubles that have threatened Maryland. We
are told that proofs of fraud in the registry of
the Rebel counties had summoned very large
posse to maintain order.
The Conservatives and Democrats have ta-
ken to abusing the Rev. H. w. Beecher again,
charging him with having abolished the fourth
commandment by preaching politics on Sum-
day. His preaching does not suit as well
asst did.
Mrs. Francis d. Gage says in lctter from
Pennsylvania 81 met one of the jurymen who
helped to decide the fate of John Brown-a
more ardent hater of slavery and of secession
than he is to-day will be rarely found. Truly
the old mans soul goes marching on"
AT Youngstown, at the late term Mahoning
County Court, Richard Brightwell, mulatto,
brought suit against the Trustees of Green
township, for refusing his vote, and got a judg
ment for $500, the jury being composed of men
of both political parties.
The papers of Cincinnati are silent as to
cholera prevailing to an alarming extent in the
city, but correspondent of the Democrat says
the mortality for the last week has been great,
even in the hcalihiest parts of that city and
amongst the better classes, and that hundreds
ofpeople are leaving the city in consequence
The President has declsfed that a removal
ofCommissoner Rollins will occur, but heleaves
the sanction of a successor TO Mr.. Rollins in
the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary has already declared his prefer
ence, in case of a change, for William Spoon
er, of Ohio.
AN old man named Henry Deisbach was
attacked by five rufIians on Sunday night in
Cincinnati, knocked down with slung-sh
and beaten until entirely insensible, and then
robbed. He was found by policeman and
taken to a hospital, where his wounds were
dressed, but he died the same night.
Mr.. Truman b. Handy, of Cincinnati, pub
fishes card in the Cincinnati papers of day or
tGyo,ago announce the failure of the ELAN
dy Opera house scheme" as only about $4,000
out of the $23O,00o worth of tickets have been
sold The money received for tickets will be
returned to the subscribers.
The rebel Secretary of the Treasury and
Financial Agent of the Confcdcracy in his deal
ings with England, has been pardoned by the
President Having doubtless feathered his nest
well out of the cotton loan, and other little jobs
uuAhS iCbci uaS hO Cdu hOW cnJOy Case
and freedom
The people of Toronto are excited and
alarmed about threats that have been made to
assassinate Judge Wilson and others connect
ed with the Fenian trials. The Catholic Irish
accuse the authorities of partiality from the
fact that Mcmahon, Catholic, was convicted
while Mr.. Lumsden, Protestant, was acquit-
ted.
On the Goth ult, Maximilian abdicatcd the
throne of Mexico in favor of General Ba-
zaine, and took his final departure from the Hall
OF the Montezumas. He was expected at Vera
Cruz on the 26th enroute for Austria. On the
day after he left the city of Mexico. General
Castlenau entered the city and took formalp pos
session, assuming the supreme command.
The National Intelligeneer, in an article on
the growth of cities, says Of Washington ''The
city is relying on Government patronage, and
sois behind for its opportunities any other on
this continent" This is true of most State cap
itals as well as the National Capital We do
not believe there is single instance in which
an enterprising city has been benefited by the
location ofa State capital in it, whilst to
large proportion it has worked direct injury