Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-12-01
PEN AND PASTE BREvIrIEs.

,srThe wbiskey frauds are still engaging the
attention of the authorities of New York.
srCaye johnson, formerly Postmaster Gen
sral of the United States, died at Clarksvilc,
Tenn, on Friday, last week.
ta-The great Suspension Bridge over the
Ohio at Cincinnati, will be opened on Saturday
Athis week-with appropriate ceremonies.
rTGen. Butler delivered very radical speech
In Brooklyn Saturday last, which was listened
to with attention throughout.
GrUpon Monday morning last, the Univ Hsa-
nat Church at Brimfeld center was burned to
the ground.
ta-The editor of the Chicago Times was for
merly known as a radical abolltionist, and edit
ed the Elyria Democrat
ra-The Boston Tract Society has sent one
hundred Sabbath School Libraries to Georgia,
to be divided equally between white and black
Sabbath Schools.
eERecent advices at Washington give
gloomy picture of the state of affairs in Utah.
Life and property are insecure and none OF the
rights of gentiles are respectfully the Mormons.
raThe Cleveanders are agitated again upon
the subject ofreopeniug Superior Street through
the Park. The common council are beset with
petitions and remonstrances.
earThe postal service in the eleven seeded
States, which never paid expenses before the
war, has netted over two hundred thousand
dollars profit during the past year.
rgThe Chicago tunnel is now ready to be
punched through, and it can be done at any
moment 1t is proposed to celebrate the COM
pletion of the tunnel in an appropriate manner,
at some day to be named by the Mayor.
carThere will be but one more, and the last,
session of the Board of Control of the old
State Bank of Ohio. No more premium is to
be allowed to bankers fYr collecting and pre-
senting the bills.
pThe Philadelphia Age, whose past record
is of still deeper Copperhead type than that
of the Chicago Times even, is now exceedingly
earnest in the new faith. 1t is in advance OF
its newly converted brother.
eyA poor man, i'll with the small pox, at To-
ledo, was obliged to pass Sunday night in the
street, as no one would receive him, and the
city had no place of refuge provided for such
cases.
EsrIt is said to be officially known in New Or
leans that ''the whole power Of the army and
navy of the United States has been placed at
the disposal Of Juarez, for his restoration to
power in Mexico"
ea-A traitor named johnson, formerly an Off
Ger in the United States army, having been pa
rolled by the President, had the unparalleled
impudence to ask Treasurer Spinner for the
payment of the amount due him at the time he
deserted the army.
rrIt is reported that JOhn II. Surrat, one Of
the accomplices of the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln, was discovered serving in the
Papsl army, where he was arrested, but man
aged to escape. He is now in Italy, and the
Italian authorities are endeavoring to recapture
him.
eTA horrible crime was committed at Chca-
go few nights since. A poor homeless woman
was assailed by a gang of sixteen men and
boys, stripped of her clothing and so brutally
abused, that she was next morning found dead
in ditch. Twelve of the Williams have been
arrested.
s9rAs q commentary on the Presidents asser
ton that no more removals from Office would be
made on account of political opinions, the tele-
graph informs US that during the last two or
three days about one hundred and thirty
changes of postmasters have been made.
rg-A dispatch from New-Orleans says that
Raphael Semmes, late pirate in the Rebel Ma
Wy, has accepted the chair of Professor of Nor
al Philosophy and English Literature in the Lou
siana State Seminary at Alexandria. Can an
evil tree bring forth good fruit?
s8- A dispatch from Desmoines Iowa, says a
party, consisting of Daniel Ellis, Mrs. Baker,
Miss Baker, and two young ladies by the name
of Manners, boy of nine years, and another
young lady in Knoxville, la. started in October
last, to cross the plains; were captured by the
Indians, and all but the three young ladies were
killed.
sgA letter from Salt Lake City to Boston
paper says that matters aSe approaching cri-
sis In Utah. The feeling between Mormons
and Gentiles runs SO high that collision is liza
BILE to occur at any moment. The Mormon
leaders are very hostile, and assasinations of
Gentiles are quite common. Brigham is so un-
popular that he dare not go out without body
guard.
srThe ,nisns In ireland are beginning to
give the British government considerable trou-
BE: Two regiments of troops, large detach-
ment Of marines and gunboat have been sent
to help put them down. The Times thinks
that Stephens viii soon be in Ireland The
Globe hints that q more serious trouble with
the United States is really at the bottom Of the
Feniep outbreak.
fgThe Chicago Times, the ultra Copperhead
paper Of tbs west, has recently come out in fa-
vor Of negro suffrage. The Peoria Transcript
tells the following story apropos of the Times
political somersault "a man was imbibing
raw eggs once upon time. In swallowing
one, chicken chirped as 1t went down his
throat. Says he 'Ahmy little fellow, you spoke
too late r."
<gthe Chicago Tribune says that the Philadal-
phia lachrymose wedding of Mr.. copperhead
to Miss Conservative, don't seem 70 have turned
out happy. Each supposed the other yirtuous,
vAap, IN truth, one was servile hbertine and
the other Gose courtesan. The result of the
alliances is mutual disappointment, disgust, and
reerinination- Both parties have applied for a
diyoED,