Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-06-02
IN GENE RAJ.

Gold has been swinging for week or two
between 27 and 81 80. The first figure is
about the present range.
Eight parishes OF Louisiana are overhowed
and half OF the people are without food. Relief
ia going from New Orleans. g -
Congress Hall, a new hotel worth 5000, 800
in Saratoga was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 29th. as et ,st
Gen. Baird, Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau in Louisiana, reports that lie is
furnishing food to the inhabitants of the over.
flowed districts.
The panic 10 the Euglish money market has
subsided. Securities are generally improved.
Heavy suspensions continued to occur. 1t is
feared many more will follow. E
The corner stone Of the proposed monu-
ment in'Chicago to Stephen A. Douglas, will
be laid with imposing military and civic cere-
q monies Oh the 4th OF July next. %
,; ;~-Congress seems to be determined that the
negroes shall not be hustled off the Sea Islands
by returning Rebels, after being placed there
BY Gen. Sherman. y. tri
The friends of Mr.. Will am Lloyd Garri.
son propose raising fund of O.O0o to be
presented to him in token of their appreciation
ofhis labors in The anti-slayery cause.
"A majority of the Senate Committee oD
the District of Columbia are said to be in "a
vor of governing the District by Commits.
sion. and doing away entirely with the elections
Of Mayor and Councils q.
Mason, who was captured with Slidell on
board the Trent. is stopping at ST. Lawrence
Hall in Montreal. He is getting to be bro
ken down misautbropic old man-and deserves
to be: -t
The news OF Napoleon's agreement to
withdraw French troops from Mexico
created quite an excitement in the capital,
and Maximiisn's abdication is said to be
highly probable. -.f eHti. sans %
The Courier des Etsts', Unis, Of New
York, the official organ of Napoleon ia the Uni.
ted Sites being supported almost entirely by
subsidies from the French Government, an
nounces that an agreement has been entered
into by Napoleon, with the trans Atlantic
Packet Company for the trans portation Of oil
the French troops 10 Mexico to France.
The Government have awarded contract
, to Henry s. Welles OF New-York % raise the
vessels jn the River and Harbor ofSavaunah
These vessels were sunk by the Rebels to OBJ
stract the chansel. The gunboats and other
vessels were scuttlsd aud sunk at the time the
city was evacuated. There are in al about 20
some of them very valuable, With all TIER guns
ysud armament on board. @
bsa--A change Of propeistofship OF the ohica-
ego Rep1bliean appearsto have takeh place
The names Of Charles A.. Dana and A. W.
Mack as editor and manager have disappeared
from its columns, and Il is said that Dana has
been succeeded in the edtorship by james P.
Luce, late Postmaster at Lafayette, Ind, and
editor of the Lafayette Journal.
"A case has been decided by Judge Storer
and jury 10 Cincinnati which is ofintsrest to
bankers w. III. Vasdewater left two bonds
Of $500 each as special deposit in the bank
of Larksn, Fox & co. On calling for the bonds
two months afterwards they could not be found,
end the baakers refused to pay for them, on
ihs ground that they gave no receipt for them
and received q, compensation for their care,
The Court charged that the defendants we're
Responsible. uuless it could be clearly shown
that they had deli vsred the property to the
owner or lost 10. The jury found for the plain
tiG, with interest eaE :. lgo
"A band Of white men on Saturday night
lsst wenl 70 the house Of negro man BY the
name OF Isaac. near Franklin. Ky. and dsmand
ed aduittanss. Being asked what they want
cd. they replied that they had come to kill
Isaac. They were rsfused sdmilIsnee, when
they burst the door and forced their
way IL. Oas OF them soliarsd the negro,
vheA ~ negro knocked him dows and fred
on two others Of The party. killing one and
nostsl'y veapding two oshen Rhe ssnaiOl
der ofths band rsisaatea. The negro ssrreB-
cred hiusslf 10 the authorities