Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-10-13
NEWS ITEMS.

A. G, Clark, is the new nppointee of tie
T olcdo Postoffice.
Petroleum has been discovered 10 Adalade
Australia.
The N. Q. Picnyune comes out squarely
for the Constitutional Amendment.
The Prussian Government is shortly 10 is.
sue royal patent assuming control of Hano.
yer, q esse, Frank fort and Nassau.
The revenue for the Canadian province of
Canada West, amounts to S,lIO000 for Sep
tember. Expenses for the same time STl6 900.
There were eight deaths by yellow fever
and seventeen by cholera in New Orleans during
the twenty -four hours ending with The 9th.
The New York Seyenth Regiment will
visit London and Paris during the National,
Exposition next year.
Admiral Thatcher takes Queen Emma Of
the Sandwich Islands on the steamer Wander
bit from San Francisco TO Ionolulu. e
A large influx of northern and western
merchants IS announced at New Orleans with
the design of going into business in that city
Captain Goldsboro of the United States
steamer SheDaadoah has been receiving the
cour;esies of the King OF Madagascar.
Gen Frank Blair has been nominated by
the Conservatives of St. Louis for the State
Legislature, lower branch.
The Oregon Legislature has declared by
resolution, the vote standing "a to % that the
action of that body in passing the Constitution.
al Amendment was unconstitutional.
The Lord Mayor OF London has determined
to eutertan the layers and promoters of the
Atlantic cable at grand bai quet a; the Man.
sion uou:e early in November.
The London papers give the particulars OF
the late insurrecton in Gambia. The Cretcs
hsd, in a pitched battle, killed 5000 of the
Tarco-Egyptians.
Letters from Calcutta published in the
London Times give fearful accnuats of the fam
inc now raging iu India. Ninety bodies were
picked up in the streets of Balazone 10 one
morning
1t is reported that Thurow Weed has
withdrawn from the New York Times being
unable to hsrmonize with Henry j. Raymond.
1t is rumered that Weed will start rev pa.
per.
The Republican Committee in Washing.
ton bave made a collection of the speeches
made by the President since be left WASHING
ton, and are considering the proposition to pub
liSh them as Radical campaign document.
Sandwich Island dates Of August 9th say
the river at Hio rose thirty feet perpendicular
ly on that day. sweeping away the piers OF solid
masonry twenty five feet high which were Just
completed aud ready for the arches of new
bridge.
Seine time ago. upon information fur,
nished by the British Consul at Buffalo, the
Canadian authorities boarded and searched the
United States vessel Congress as an alleged Fe.
Dian privateer, for which our Government has
demanded an apology.
The National Iniel2gcncer has an edito.
rial commending the good taste oil Mr.. John
sons late public apeecbes. The Chicago Re
publican, commenting on this, well says: The
civit Of patronage makes it obVious OF bad
odors.
The steamer Evening Star, with two hun.
dred and fifty passengers and fifty crew, was
wrecked l8O miles east of Tybee Island, and
all but sixteen persons drowned A French
opera troupe. and DR.. Spauldings circus com
pany were among the passengers. Seven more
have since been brought in.
"A physician 10 Cincinnati was arrested 90
Saturday, charged with procuring an abortion
on an unfortunate yoDng lady from Brown
county, Ohio, which resulted fatally. The
doctor had agreed to see her through for 500
aud be fulfilled the contract.
"A delegation OF FeDians waited ou the
President Saturday to ask the inte ference of
this Government on behalf of such naturalzed
Irish who are still con6oed 10 British prisons
for being FeDiaus. The delegation did not re.
eeive any very favorable impression from the
interview aud are much dissatisfied with the
President.
General Sickles has issued an impor.
tant order to the people of North Carolina
Corporsal punishment, except in case Of minors,
Is prohibited, and no civil butterflies are al
lowed 10 prosecute Federal officers for acts
heretofore done in military capacity. The
freedmen are to be properly cared for and pro
tectsd.
1t is not generally known, perhaps says
the Erie Disp0tel, that there are no lake trout
caught in Lake Erie at any point above this
city, and white fish are but sparsely found as
far up as Cleveland. The trout rejoice 10 deep
water. and the deepest 10 the lake is of BARGE
ious, gradually growing more shallow as you