Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-07-27
PEN AND PASTE BREVlILES.

EgJapans yearly exports to Great britaln
are worth $l6, 100000. !
pr -Eq:There are one hundred and seventeen
!. Churches in Chicago. .r.s
80, Toombs has not been paIdoned and has not
applied for Executive clemency.
r., EgGen. Geo. B. Mcclellan and family have
engaged passage home on the steamer OF the
. Sd of November. -
bo; ts7z-The President has one sin less than has
been hid TO his charge-he has not pardoned
ffToombs.- l ~
-. eaAdvices from Japan report that the great
Daimois oppose the opening of the port of osa-
XII to foreigners.
Miss Helen NJ French of Brattleboro, Vt,
has been elected principal Of the Mt. Holyoke
Seminary.
ssy'The Reconstruction bill is now law, hav-
passed in the Senate by two-thirds vote of3O
to 6, and the House by 100 to %. -,
The President nominated Mr.. Greeley for the
Austrian Mission without consulting Mr. Gree
/. lev. Every member is said to have favored the
confirmation but Mr. Upton of Nebraska.
The only bill passed by Congress thai did not
o.. become law was that of making colored men
eligible for jurors and office-hoders in the city
of Washington, which the President pocketed.
H. Elias Howe, IT,, the inventor of the Sewing
- machine, has applied for the extension Of his
patents He admits to having made nearly ST.
200 900 out oft.
Mrs. Swisshelm says there is little "sculp-
tress" at Washington who 'is lavish in the dis
play of her own bust as that of her Congress
men patrons"
EarSome three hundred coal-dggers aress ou
of employmen8 at Steubenville, work having
been suspended in the pits in consequence of
the large stocks on hand
tz-The Meadville Republican says everybody
is crazy at Oil City, under the stimulus of the
advancing oil market, which has gone up over
100 per cent. in three weeks.
Es-It is said that the detailed account of Max
imilian's execution, purporting to have appear
ed in Queritaro paper, and the farewell letter
to his wife, which came to US as having been
transmitted by cable, are forgeries.
eEThe principal excitement just now in Wis
consin is in hops. An increase of 9,OO0acres the
present year is reported, and the culture OF hops
has paid the farmer better than any crop known
to Wisconsin husbandry.
The n. Y &. E. Railway has just celebrated
its sixteenth anniversary. 1t gives employment
to some 5000 men, and with their families,
makes support to some 10000 persons. 1t last
wear paid out some half million dollars month
1y to employees.
80 tgBy an Imperial ukase ali political and
governmental distinction between Poland and
the Empire of Russia are obliberated, and Po-
land is now absorbed into Russia, as one of the
~ uroyinces ofthe Empire.
An son to Mexico movement is said by a
Herald CORRESPONDENT to have been concocted
at the White House, the programme having for
itsend annexation, and its instrument Santa An
ma who is to be the future Military Governor
of the country.
ea-Wm Lloyd Garrison has arrived IN the
CITY of Edlnburg where he has been welcomed
O. with SIGNAL honors The municipality OF Edin-
burg have received him as public guest and
have presented him with the freedom OF the ci-
ty.
egThe Michigan Constitutional Convention
have adopted the principle of negro suffrage
without a word of debate, the democrats offer
ing no objection and the Republicans consider
ing the Justice of the measure to be too self-eV-
ident to need enforcement by argument.
sTThe following Americans were decorated
by the Emperor of France: U. S. Commission
ers N. NJ Beckwith, S. B. Ruggles, John r
Kennedy, J. Lawrence Smith, and Robert Bur-
ney; also Messrs Chickering ofBoston, and
Elias Howe, Jr of New York. The Americans
take 26O prizes.
EgOne hundred and seventy-six young mer
offered themselves for admission at Harvard on
Thursday of last week This is the largest mum.
Der ever present on the first day. The college
funds are rapidly increasing, nearly half mil
lion of dollars having been bestowed bygift and
legacy, during the past year alone, for addition
al endowments.
Lewis j. Weiehman yasthe principal witness
at the Surratt trial on Thursday OF last week,
and his testimony was given at great length 1t
is decisive as to the intimacy'of surratt with
Wilkes Booth, and to the privacy and frequen-
cy of their interviews. His examination was
continued on Friday.