Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-06-09
A CHAPTER ON THE PASSED. :
Peregrinating Editors I'm n Fix.
NO MORE DEAD HEADS
BT '' GRIs.

Br "oRrs"
The New York Legislature, last session,
pass ID law prohibiting the free pass sys.
TEN on railroads in that State. BY q
provision of the law all passes were taken
up on and after the frst day of Msy. The
law must have been heavy on such editors
as got caught away from home. We nn'
derstand that large number Of those
wretehed creatures aecumuls' ed at the
points along the line Of the New York
Central Railroad, principally at Utica aud
Syracuse. Th ir passes playing out, and
having no money, Of course they had to
stop over until they coad hear frot home.
The Union Telegraph Company Kindly
permitted them The free use of the tele.
graph wires to send dispatches home A.
friend has forwarded 10 us copies Of some
of the dispatches sent from Utica, where
large number Of country editors were stuck
Through the benevoence of some OF the
citizens tho Soldiers Home, which had
been vacant for some months passed, wos
fitted up for the Accommodation OF the
4 1impecunious editors until money eonld be
forwarded to them, rendered teHporarily
insane by the decapitation of dead d-hesds,"
had to be quatterst in the L.unalic Asy-
lum.
One editor telegraphod to his partner as
follows
Send me some money. Five dollars will
do if sent Immediately. Don't suspend the
| paper in consequence if you can possibly
avoid it,
Another, rendered savage and profaue,
! telegraphed his foreman:
Sell the efice stove and send on the
proceeds. We dou't need il 10 VAIN
weather. Discharge the Devil.
p. S'-Gise the Legislature blasas 6r
| this i. ~ b1bag3 Da'i tr" Ht43
kGr One poor fellow, who issi caught. q long
way from home, it being, q small town on
the Illinois river, nearly despairs Of ever
getting back again. This is his dispatch:
UrcA, N Y, May l9, 1865
| ..r ..... BLUE LION TAVERN. +
Dear Wife-Sell my 'lother ci thes for
what they will bring, and remit at once
Had my linen duster for supper, and my
spare shirt will have to go for lodging. -
May be able to make light breakfast on
q German silver comb and pair of shears
that i chanced to have, with me. Don't
know when shall get home 1t will de.
pend great deal on the walking. Don't
marry for few months; there is bare
possibility of my getting back.
| SIMON.
A St. Lawrence county IN. " editor
telegraphs to lis assistant editor
If my letter isn't printed, cut out that
puff of the New York Central Railroad.
Give them something about Swindling Mo.
uopoly, Dangerous Roadway, Rotten
Bridges, &c. Send me ten dollars.
P. Stake any advertisement that
offers for the present, whatever its charac,
ter. ...
The editor Of the Pondunk Stuffed Clls0
telegrapbs his partner t5I
Dear Sam-Forward me at once all the
money you have, even if it is FIVE dollars.
P. S-The editor of that hirelng sheet,
whose puny efforts to rival the Stuffed
| Club have so often excited our derision.
the cringng tool of the opposition, whom /
threatened to horsewbip if he dared to ed.
dress me, has just refused me the loan of
half q dollar. Ye gods Review bis
disloyal course during the war in q column
leader, double loaded. Make it as able as
you can.
P P. S Bling down the Stuffed Club
with all its weight on the head of that
giant monopoly the New York Central.
Pull.
A Buffalo editor who had his pass taken
up at Schenectady, attempted to make his
way home on foot. He got as far as Syra.
cuse, when be gave out, his shoes gave out
two or thee days before, and be had
hoofed it along barefooted,) and dropped
by the wayside. He is performing the re.
mainder OF his journey on board of bull
head canal boat. Walking from Scbenec.
tady TO Syracuse on the railroad, be said
be was never passed SO much before-eYery
train passed him, he has obtained some
interesting statistics. he says there are
nine thousand four hundred and sixty-two
ties laid between those two points, only
one hundred and thirty.two of them show.
ing signs of decay. There are one thous.
and seven hpndred aud one telegraph poles,
all being pealed Of their bark except two
hundred aud thirty-one.
The Atlantic and Great Western Rail
way Company were even more strict than
the Central ia enforcing the new law. If
an editor was caught with pass and no
money, the pass was tasen up aud the
train stopped. when the editor was put of
frequently in the v Gods and miles from
any habtation. There are over hundred
editors wandering to day iu the oods
along fihe line Of the Atlantic and Great
Western. Railway in New York S,ste.---l
Que poor fellow from Cleveland, supposed
to belong to the Herald, wandered sbou,
for several days in the vicinity of Sala-
manca. inquiring for the State Line; bu.
50 confused that he was totally unable TO
state what Line. He was last seen en-
ploving leather.cased pocke! flask ss
compass 10 find ont where he was. The
flask was inscribed Fairbanks. supposed to
have been present from The Scale man.
Companies are being organized for the
purpose Of searching out the lost editors.
aud restoring them 80 their distracted fam
lilies.
A large number OF the press gang sho |
live In Eastern New York, and who had
been West. are stopped at the Peunsylvs- |
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