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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
Speech Of the Hon. Galusha A. Grow
recently at Poughkeepsie.

FELLOW Crr2ENs: In Mdy, 1854, the
Democratic Party repealed the Missouri
Compromise and enacted the Kansas Ne
braska Bill. The deyotee of Slavery
thouglrt nc had secured by that act the
perpetrrrlty of human bondage, and he
went forth with fire and sword TO plant
it in the, territories of the Union. Thir-
teen years have passed away; and the
sun in its course from ocean to ocean no
longer rises ON master or sets on Il
slave. Applause. Thirteen eventful
years, in which changes have been
wrought in habits Of thought and in the
organization of society which in the ordi-
nary course of events would have requi:-
ed perhaps centuries to accomplish. We
stand to-day on the line that divides the
Old from the New-the dispensation of
oppression and wrong from that of liber-
ty arrd right. New duties and response
bilities are upon American citizens. Four
wears of war have wasted $4,000, 900
of treasure and baIf million of martyrs,
and covered the lard with mourning and
filed it with tears, in struggle to deter
mine whether the will of the majority
should be the law of the laDd. The Dem
ocrats, initiating the example of Mexico
and the South American Republics, ap-
pealed from the ballot-box to the car
tridgc-box. Tire only men who yolunts
rily took up arms TO destroy the Republic
called themselves Democrats. Their cry
during the war was '.ImInediate cessation
of hoStiiitieS the same cry in an
Al Intermediates fNf-
the Rebels topower." After referring to
the general course of the Democratic
party during the war, the ineitement of
riots. discouragement of drafts, opposi-
ton to Emancipation and its ratification
bv Constitutional amendment, and their
cooperation with the President to thwart
the plans of Congress. he s$id: Andrew
johnson will yet lea-n that of all the
poor investments nude by ambition I'D
the affairs of men iniilelity TO liberty is
the poorest and the worst
Ear dearer :he grave or the prison
Hum d by one patriot name,
Than the trophies of all who have riseI
On Liberty s ruins to fame"
He will 90 to coming time covered with
all the inlamy that blackens the Iscariot
names of history. Applause. After
discussing the reconstruction measures
passed by Congress, the speaker said:
You required no punishment, no confs-
cation, no disqualification at the ballot
box, no indemnity for the past, but you
demanded as bond of security for the
future that every person born on Amefi~
can soil or natiiralized thereon is an
Il l..
and immunities of citizenship.
1t is but few years gone dy the Sup
RENE Court of the United States declared
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

| IHE GENTELMAN.-He is above mean
thing. lie cannot stoop to a mean fraud
He ipvades no secret of the Keeping of
another. He betrays no secret confded
to his one keeping. lie never struts in
borrowed plumage. He never takes sell
fish advantages of his own mistakes. He
uses no ignoble weapons in controversy
He never stabs in The dark. He is ash
amed of inuendoes. He is not one thing
to the mans face and other behind his
back. If by accident he comes i'll pos
session of his neighbor's counselS, he pass
es upon them an act of instant oblivion.
He bears sealed packages without tamper-
ing with the wax. Letters not meant. for
the eyes, whether they flutter at his win
dow or lie open before him in unguarded
exposure. are sacred to him. He invades
no privacy of others, however well the
sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and
keys, hedges and Lickets, bonds and Sc
curties, III It's and trespa serS, a:e none Of
them for him. lie may be trusted him
self out of sight, near the thinnest parti-
ton, anywhere. He buys no offices, he
sells none, he intrigues for none lie
would rather fail of rights than. win them
through dishonor. He will eat honest
bread. He tramples on no sensitive
feelings. He insults no man. If he
have rebuke for another, lie is straight
forward, open, manly. In short, what
ever he judges honorable, he practices
toward every man.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

AUMUN DAYs.-When Autumn days
c0ihos, Nature like retired merchant,
charges its manner from thrift and bust
ling industry to languid leisure and to
ostcntatiouS luxury. The sun rises later
and sets earlier then when it had all the
SGmnIer's crops on hand, and was play
ing universal husbandman. There is no
nest-buileling now, and no bird-singing-
which is a purely domestic arrangement,
designed, on the birds part to keep peace
in the family while the children are be-
ing raised, AID laid aside as soon as the
Young birds are off their hands. Morn
ings come feccedin mists, which hang
over streams, and low moist places. The
sun PLAYS with them, but they perish iii
his arms A few belated flowers keep
watch, but chiefly the asters, which fringe
the fields, star he edges of forests, and,
like a late eorrer at feast, seem bent up
on making up lost time. At night the
crickets and katydids scrape their shrill
viols, and fill the. air with stridulous
mt:sic: Over NIL the shrinking fields, the
trees light up their gorgeous foliage, and,
like those who wait for the marriage-bell
and the bridegroom, theY snIne OUT III
glorious. apparel:
The hills, forest-clad, are become the
Lords younger sons, and like Joseph,
they are dressed in Il coat of many colors.
October days, short between the horiz-
ons, reach higher into the vault than aBv
DAYS in the year; and through them the
season seems to look with softened sad
ness, as one who, in the calm of age, med
itates on all the mistakes of his past life,
and solemnly thinks upon the advancing
future. Along the. fence rows, where
seeds and late berries may be found, birds
hop silently, rs if ashamed to be SEEM
Soon they will change their solitary ways
and collect in fiockS. To-day the fields
Will swarm with them; tomorrow, there
VIII not be one left, and they will be
picking their food i'll many degrees of
latitude South .-----
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
What Woman's nights Are.

If woman steps out of her sphere, and
demands 20 be and to do what men do, to
enter political life, to enter the protes-
sions, to wrcstle with us for office and
emplUymemts and gains, she must under
stand that she will have to take the low
places as well as the high places of life
She will not be allowed to be a man and
be treated with the tenderness due to
women. If she goes to Congress, she
must also go to the heavy drudgery OF
the earth.
| claim then for her, that it is her right
to be treated with the utmost love, re-
spect, honor and consideration in her
sphere. | claim that it is her right to
have every possible aid and advantage to
fulfill her mission. | claim that she has
right to be let alone there, and not be
teascd, or hattered or wheedled, out OF
her place, and made to believe what can
never be.
She has right then 10 be exempted
from certain things which men must ell
dure. 1t is her privilege and her right.
She ought to be exempted from the hard
drudgery of earth. She ought not to be
made sailor, to hang on the yard arms
to chase and kill and try up whales
to be surgeon to pull teeth, cut Oft legs,
or cut out tumors, to go into the mines,
and dig ore and coal, to burn over the
smelling furnace. She ought not to be-
compelled to be Il barber, Il boot-black, to
carry hods of brick and mortar up the
ladder, to be a soap boiler, to- groom
horses, dig canals, dig out peat, tan leath-
er, and stir the tan watts, to make cotfins
and dig graves, to go to the arltlc Ocean
for seals, or to spend the long winter i'll
the forest cutting down timber and i'll the
snow-water of spring to drive logs for
hundreds of miles to get these logs out
of their native forests. She ought not to
be made to butcher, bleed calves, knock
down oxen, stick swine, and slaughter
cattle. Now she must go in for all this
if she leaves her sphere and tries to be a
man. | claim that she has right to be
exempted. But you may ask, Has she
not natural right to enter any and all
employments as well as men? Suppose
that we allow it, and admit that she has
a natural right to wear jack boots and
spurs, horse pistols and sword, and be
a complete soldier, and ''natuf:T'' right
to sing bass and beat bass drum, and
that men have natural" right to wear
petticoats, dress with low necks, short
sleeves, wear pink slippers with paper
soes-but would it be wise to do so ?
Dear sisters, you can't be good wives,
mothers, and crowns Of your families and
90 into these, can you?
JOH1s Todd d. ID.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
A Rat Show il Paris.

A correspondent OF the London Star
writes as follows:
'Last Sunday September 29) was eel
cbrated the close of the fair at st. Cloud.
The most popular of the shows of the
season undoubtedly has been Fhomme
aux rat, well known to the inhabitants
of the Quarter Mont Parnassc, where he
has had his headquarters for the last
thirty years.
'The name of this Rarey of the rat race
is Antoine Leonard. II the former sue
ceeded in breaking in the worst tempered
brute ever created, Leonard, in three
weeks, certainly accomplishes the Difficult:
task of intoxicating habits of obedience on
the biggest rats that ever ran. His tav-
orite scenes of action are some cross
alleys in the fourteenth and fifteenth Ar
rondisement.
''His sole theater is a sort of perch
which he sticks into the ground, and then
he takes his corps de ballet from his
pocket. At his word of command the
rats run up and down the perch, hang on
three legs, then OH two, stand on their
heads, and, in fact, 60 through series Of
gvmnastic exercises that would put
Blondin himself to the blush. His crack
actor is gray rat he has had in his
troupe for eleven years. This old fellow
not only obeys Leonard, but is personal
ly attached to him. 1t is most curious
sight to see Leonard put him on the
ground and then walk away. The Great
IRE r,.ns after him, and invariably catch
es him, however many turn she may take
to avoid him. Aa Englishman offered
fifty francs for him about two years ago,
but Leonard would not separate from his
old and attached friend"
One of the merry wives of Blooming
ton, Indiana, played apractical joke on
her husband, by having their babe, a
sweet little iafaat of six months, done up
in q basket and LEFT on tse front door
steps, with sose informing hin4 that ne
was the tzt1ssy sf the child ssad nass sup
port it. Ths indignant husband swore
roundly thss II vas net his, bus hrsflty
saw the joke when he found the cradle
empty. He has concluded to e'siiIsats
the acquaintance of his family kefes,sfr'
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
SELECT POETRY,
Don't Slop Over.

Don't slop over- the old man said,
AS he placed his hand on the young mans head,
Go it, by all means-gO ii fast;
Go 1t while leather and horse shoes last;
Go it while hide and hair en- horse
viii hold together Oh, go 1t, of course
Go ii as fast as ever you can,
But don't slop over, my dear young man.
Don't slop over. You'll find some day
That keeping an eye to windward Will pay;
horse may run little too long,
A preacher may preach just a fraction too strong;
And poet who peases the world with rhymes
May write and regret it in after times
Keep the end of the effort ever i'll view,
And don't slop over whatever you do.
Don't slop over. The wisest men
Are bound to slop over now and then;
And yet the wisest at work or feast
Are the very ones that bunder least.
Those that for split milk never wall
Are the ones who carry the steadiest pail
Wherever you go, go in for the fat;
But don't slOp overland freeze to that!
Don't slop over. Great Solomon
Once went little to far with his fun;
Louis Napoleon, we know,
Stopped over on Max, in Mexico;
Horace Greeley and jefferson D.,
And Hilton Helper and old j. b.,
And Andrew johnson, the great won't,
Ali stopped over-takc care YOU don't.
Don't slop over. Distrust yourself,
Nor always reach to the highest shelf;
The next to the highest will gen rally do
And answer the need of such as you.
Climb, of course, but always stop
And take breath this side Of the top;
And you will reach il in wind and be strong,
Without stopping over Thus ends my song.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
WHOLE NUMBER 936.
Make Home Pleasant.


More than building snowy mansions
More than dress er fine array
More than dome of lofty stCeples-
More than station, power, sway;
Mike your home both neat and tasteful,
Blight aud pleasant always fair,
Where each heart shall rest cOntented,
Grateful for each beauty there.
More than lofty, swelling titles,
More than fashions Turing glare
More than Mammon's gilded honors-
More than thought can well compare;
See that hOme is made attractive,
BY surroundings pure and fright,
Trees ARRANGED with taste in order,
Flowers with all their delight.
Seek to make your home most lovely,
Let it be n smiling spot,
Where iu sweet cOnicntment resting,
Care and sorrow are forgot;
Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds will sing their sweetest song,
Where the purest thoughts will linger,
Confidence and love belong.
Make your home a little Eden,
Initiate her smiling powers
lie: a neat and simple cottage
Stand among bright trees and flowers
There what fragrance and what brightness,
Whers each blooming rose display,
Here simple. vino clad arbor
B,ighieus through each Summer day.
There each heart viii rest coniehted,
Seldom wishing e'er 10 roam,
Or. If roaming still will cherish
Mcm'rirs cf that pleasant home;
Such home makes man the better,
Sweet and lasting its control
Home. with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves an impress sa tie SOU.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

SAYINGS OF DEAN SwIFT.-If man
will observe as he walks the streets, | be-
hcve he vii find the nierriest faces in
mourning caches.
The reason why so few marriages are
happy, is because young ladies spend
their time i'll making nets, not in making
cages.
The power of fortune is confused only
by the miserable for the happy impute
all their success to prudence and merit.
Ambition often puts men upon doing
the meanest offices so climbing is per-
formed in the same posture with creep
ing.
Small causes are sufficient to make a
man uneasy, when great ones are not in
the way tor want ofs block he will
stumble at a straw.
Every man desires to live long; but no
man would be old.
Apollo was held the god of physic and
sender of diseases. Both were originally
the same trade, and still continue.
If a nan makes me keep my distance,
the comfort is, he keeps his at the same
time.
Men are content to be laughed at for
their wit, but not for their folly.
A man would have but few spectators
if he should offer to show for three pence
how he could trust red hot poker into a
barrel OF gun-powder, and it should not
take fire.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

WHAT A Coon NEWSPAPER MAY Do
Show us an intelligent family of boys
and girls, and we will show you a family
where newspapers and periodicals are
plenty. Nobody who has been without
these silent private tutors can know their
educating power for good or evil. Have
you ever thought of the innumerable
topics of discussion which they suggest
at the breakfast table; the important
public measures with which, thus early,
e.sr children become acquainted great
philanthropic questions of the day, to
which, unconsciously their attention is
awakened, and the general spirit of intel
ligence which is invoked by these quiet
visitors Anything that makes home
pleasant, cheerfuf and chatty, thins the
haunts of vice, and the thousand and one
avenues of temptation, should certainly
be regarded, when we consider its lnfiu-
ence on the mind of the young, as great
moral and social light.-Enserson.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

SYMMETRICAL CHARACTERs.-It is a
plausible theory that neither good nor
evil is absolute; that elch vice is the ex-
aggeratcd extension of virtue each ca
pable of being corrupted into vice so
that the good and wise man becomes
simply the man with acuteness enough to
draw the exact line between either, and
then to obey the advice liz medic tu.
tissin,us IBIS" Ifthis be sophism, there
is yet truth in it. Undoubtedly the best
man the man most useful to his species,
is he whose character is most equally
balanced; aud the most complete life is
ttat which has fived, so to speak, in per-
perspective. People with enormous faults
and gigantic virtues may be very inter
resting in novels, but they are exceeding
ly inconvcnient in real life. An equal
person, with no Extensively exaggerated
qualities, he is far the safest to have to do
with, and especially to live with.-1NisS
MuLreH
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

n drove of cattle goiiig abord boat ut
night at Fishkill, six of their number took
to the river and struck out in>variOus di-
rections at random. Two men went out
in boat In search of them, and had hard
ly got cut in the bay before they Il ard
the most desperate and agonizing shrek
fiom female voices. Directing their
course to the place of the screaming,
they discovered another boat containing
three ladies', who were crossing to New
burgh from the cars in charge of "a rover,
and following them an OK which kept
close to the man, making inceSsant efforts
to get himself into the boat Seeing in
the darkness nothing of the animal but
his horns and the top of his head, hearing
his loud snorts of breathing in the water,
and having once heard his hoof strike the
side of the boat, the girls, rs can easily be
imagined, were frightened out of their
senses, and the Oarsman quite as much ter
rifed. Having approached the OK and
turned it away, the reScuers found that
the ladies had tainted from the excitement
md that the man from both the excite
ment and his great efforts to keep from
the pIrsuer, had become utterly unable
to make further effort. One of the deliv-
erers rowed the ladies to Newburgh, and
the other, with remarkable presence of
mind and skill, fastened a rope to the
horns of the OK and towed him back to
Fishkill. The other oxen were success
lively reached and taken ashore last
being found under the ferry dock, having
swan between the piles and found a res
ting place for his head on heap of stones.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

A bankrupt merchant, returning home
one night, said to his wife "My dear,
| am ruined; every thing we have is in
the hands of the Sheriff" After a few mo-
ments of silence, the wife looked calmly
into his face and said "Will the Sheriff
sell you % "0h, no !" VIII the Sheriff
sell me?" 'Oh, no ~ "WilI the Sheriff
sell the children?" "Oh, no ~ ''Then do
not say we have lost everything. All
that is most valuable remains to us--niaii-
hood. womanhood, childhood. We. have
lost but the results of skill and industry.
We can make allother fortune, if our
hearts and hands are left us.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

A lady recently called at a store and
inquired of a young clerk for Screwed" !"
Not willing to appear ignorant, and not
exactly comprehendlng her, he handed
down a regular twisted cowskin. "Why
said the lady, that is not what want"
SWELL" replied the boy, "that IS the
,cruelest thing I know of"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
J0hn Todd ID. ID.
The talk about the pedestrian feat no

The talk about the pedestrian feat now
accomplishing by Weston reyives recol-
lections of an Englishman, Captain Barclay
whose exploits in this line have never
since been approached. In l796, when
only sixteen, he walked six miles i'll an
hour. Some years atterward, while IN
training for march of ninety miles IN
twenty-one and half hours, he walked
one hundred and ten miles in nineteen
hours. In December, l79ls he made a
hundred miles in nineteen hours. 1T IS
said that he walked with his body bent
foreward, so as to throw the wait on the
knees. His step was short, and his feet
were lifted but . fev inches from the
ground. His Walking dress was about
the same as that worn by Weston.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

1--WE shall know what are the necessa-
ries of life" said country grocer during
asevere storm, "as no one will venture
forth to day except to procure Them In
the evening he found that most of his
sales were yellow snuff and rum.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

EoItaire says physician is a man who
mixes drugs Of which he knows little, to
pour into body of which he knows less,
to cure disease of which he knows moth
ing.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

"Bill," said one apprentice to another,
"my boss is a better man to WORK 1or
than your old man. My boss amt al
ways around the shop interfering with
his own business"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

Trains do not stop at stations where the time is omitted
in the above table.
Second Glass Carr all Through Trains as
All through Grains going Westward. connect at Cleve
land with Trains for Toledo, Chicago Columbus Cncn
natl, indianapolis. &c.
And all through trains going Eastward connect at Dun
kirk with the trains of Erie Railway. and at Buffalo
with those of n. Y. Central. and Erie Railways for
New York. Albany. Boston. Niagara Falls &c &c
and at Erie with trains Philadelphia and Erie R. r.
for Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington
New York. &c.
New York Express East connects at Grard with trains
the Erie & Pittsburgh r. r. for Linesville Mcadville
jamestown, Greenville, &c, Pa.
II. NOTTINGHAM, Supt
Supt's Office, Cleveland & Erie ROilrOad,
Cleveland c.. April 90 1857.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

SEYMOUR & GIDDINGS, Dealers in Pine and
Domestic Lumber, Dressed otherwise. Lath. Pine
Shingles &c Manufacturers of Doors SASH Blinds,
Fence Stuff &C., Orders for Surfacing, Matching, Saw
ing &C. promptly attended to. Ashtabula. Ohio.
WM SEYMOUR. S5S-6m A. c. GTDDINGS.
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HARNESS MAKER.

". HI. WILLIAMSON, Saddler and Harness Ma
ker opposite Fisk Block. Main street, Ashtabua Ohio
has on hand and makes order, in the best manner
everything in his line. $50
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LUMBER-YARD.

PC. FORD, Manufacturer and Dealer in Saddles
fairness Bridles. Collars. Trunks, Whips &C., oppo
site Fisk House. Ashtabula, Ohio. $40
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DRUGGISTS.

CHARLES Il. SWIFT-Ashtabula, Ohio Dealer
in Drugs and Medicines, Groceries, Perfumery and
Fancy Articles, superior Teas Coffee Spices Flavor
ing Extracts Patent Medicines of every description
Paints Dyes, Varnishcs Brushes. Fancy Soaps, Hair
Restoratves, Hair Oils &c all of which will be sold
the lowest prices. Prescriptions prepared with suit
able care SIS
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

GEORGE WILLARD Dealer in Dry-GoOds Gro
ceres Hats, Caps Boots Shoes, Crockery Glassware
Also, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hardware, Sad
dlery Nails Iron Steel Drugs Medicines Paints Oils
Dyestuffs, &c. Main street, Ashtabua.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07

HI. A. HENDRY, Corner Main and Centre streets,
Ashtabula o.. Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints Oils Varnishes, Brushes Dye Stus &c, Choice
Family Groceries, including Teas, Cofees, &c. Patent
Medicines Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal pur
Nv attended TO- 75S
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CABINET WAKE.

DUCRO BROTHER, Manufacturers of and
Dealers in Furniture OF the best descriptions and every
variety. Also General Undertakers and Manufacturers
of Cofns to order Main street. North of South Public
Square. Ashtabula. 401