Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-12-22
PEN AND PASTE BRrylrlEs.

Was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
uEThe cEar Of Russia has promised conces-
lions to his Polish subjects
srMrs, 4, Hatch, OF Cennesut, o., while
scufflIpg with her two little boys day or two
sincc' fsIi, dslocating her shoulder
sFThe death Of the Empress Carlotts, at
lfiramar, was announced by private cable dis
patch at New York on Saturday last.
fTThe Iron-clad New Ironsides, burnt In the
Delaware river, on the night Of tho 18th, was
one of the most formidable vessels In our Navy.
The golden wedding of Mr., Harlow Bailey
and wife, being the fifticth anniversary, took
4 place at Madison, Ohio, few davs ago.
era numbered cattle tnat have bean detain-
i ed at Erie on account of the impssssbili,y Of
the railroads, died in the cars. The cars were
/ empted yesterday morning and tho cattied fob
and watereb
fgThe failure Of the November shower of
stars is attributed to the prodgality ofthe Pres
ident while swinging round the circle. The
stock was exhausted and the flicker failed
ss-The recovery of the Salisbury prison rec
ords will yield information of the fate of thou
sands of Union prisoners of whom nothing else
could otherwise be known.
UThe last seen of the racing yachts they
were off Fire Island, the Vests leading, the
Henrietta next, half mile astern, and the Fleet
Wing still further behind.
GS-Sccretsry Stanton has presented the col
ored Episcopalians Of Washington with brick
to build church. The value of the gift is ov-
er $4,000.
The New York Herald confirms--if its
word is conirmatory ofanything-the story of
Congressman Morrissey losing $l4O, 900 to Ben
Wood.
Last year the amount contributed to the
charities of Boston by the Legislature and pri-
vate parties amounted to $4,000, 900, much
more than the contributions of New York.
Henry Ward Beecher lectured at Newark
N. j. Monday night, in favor of universal suf-
frage, including black and white men and wo-
men; and claimed voting to be a natural inher-
ent right.
"A Sergeant from the House of
Representatives arrived at Franklin, Pa, on
Tuesday the 18th, took the Hon. c. V. Culver
from Jail and proceeded with him to Washing
ton.
Murder is getting cheapin Chacago. Mol
Lie Trussell, who killed her paramour George
Trussell, was sentenced on Saturday to one
years Imprisonment. The Chicago papers call
the whole trial farce.
sFThc New York Tri5u,e's Washington
correspondent observes that t.some of the trim
mers and twaddlers of the last session of Con-
gress have been rugged out with new back
bone"
EgW. A. Sonborn, of Sterling, ILL.,, COM
menced action against Herring & Co., safe man
ufacturers, to recover $4,000 which was bur
glarized from warranted burglars proof safe
of Herring's.
DThe Postmaster Generals Report shows
nett deficiency ofreceipts below expenses, du-
ring the past year of only $295, 5,Oa3,O9 The
money order system is rapidly gaining in pub
lie favor, and now fully sustains ITSELF Increas-
cd facilities arc proposed.
fTThe steamers Arago and Fulton of the
New York and Havre Line, are to be sold, the
line not being sufficiently remnnerative With
the sale of these steamers, will disappear the
last yestige of an American line Of Transatlan-
tic steamships.
to secure his release
eTWendell Phillips is out in the Anti-Sla-
very Standard in favor of Fred Douglass as
United States Senator, in place of Ira Harris
Phillips says he objects to Greedy ''on account
of his notorious weakness and cowardice, and
his periodical attacks of the old Wing disease
Of Compromise"
1t is understood that the N. Y. Eue,,ing En-
press Is soon to be sold, owing to litigation be-
tween Brooks brothers and 8. 7. Clarke of the
Tribune respecting its proportionate owner
ship. 1t is reported also that the Express will
be purchased by other parties, and converted
into Radical paper.
kFIn the Senate on Wednesday, the amend
ment W strife ont the word male from
the District of Columbia Suffrage p,,, w.s
ted down by nine to thirty The follow
ing named Senators voted IN the affirmative
Messrs Anthony, Brown, Buckalew, Cowan,
Foster. Nesmith, Patterson, Riddle and Wade.
The Cleveland Library Association has
been made the donee of three rooms in the Case
Block, which are admirably adapted to the
wants of the association, from the proprietor of
the block, Mr.. LEONARD CASE. The story of
Stewart the New York merchant prince, having
taken the front for branch of his establish
ment is all bosh.
AhC Lscpoit vi inc DOCiCldIy vi buc lfchbuTy
shows that while the receipts of the fiscal year
have exceeded the estimate, the expenditures
have in turn fallen short of his expectations at
the opening ofthe year. He recommends far
ther diminution in the rate of internal taxes
The actual debt of the United States is stated at
S2,551, ,s10,005 70.
krShould John Fl. Suratt attempt to falsify,
orpedme himselfin reference to tie assassination
conspiracy, viii not be very difficult to show
him that falsehoods will not answer, for the yet
unpublished diary Of j. Wilkes Booth, and the
confess ions.of Payne but few hours before
his execution, give enough of the plot to show
II he be truthful.
IRA correspondent from Paris reveals the
serious dilemma in which the failure Of the
Mexican scheme has placed Napoleon, as well
~ the timid shifts which are made by the
Imperial organs TO announce the bad news
just to hand from Maximillian By degrees TO the
people The Emperor OF FraDce makes earnes,
sndcavors TO recover his waning pres.ags, but II
u evident from the tenor Of this comm uni nicatiou
that fIa tasl IA M aaay ona .ua ~. - 49,.