Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-02-09
PEN AND RasTE BaEVIF.Es.

-CSA4tSosSS Ao-4p C11tAlutl.
tEThe frontier posts are being rapidly
srengfhened. This is rendered necessary by
the hostile attitude of the Indians
The celebrated trotter, Eathen Allen,
now at Boston. has been sold to z. E. sim
mons, of New York, for 500
Mrs. Williams, fprmely Hrs. Stephen A.
Douglas, celebrated the first anniversary OF
5 her second marriage by presenting her, hus-
band with twins.
sgSome one reckons George Peabody's
benefacticns in fourteen years at. an average oi
$1,000 day. exclusive of Sundays and holi-
days. b..ss q
!<s-Hnry Ward Beecher and family, with a
huhdred others, are about to charter a steam
ship visit Europe, Egypt, &C., during the
present summer.
ETReports from the plains say the recent
cold weather has caused much suffering, many
men have been frozen, and it is feared that
whole trains win be lost. =
=. eSThe believers in the doctrine that the
secokd advent of Christ viii occur this year
are numerous and active in Bangor They
are holding frequent meetings for the dissem-
ination of their views
Ez-A telegram from Idaho say Gen. Crook
resumed 10 Fort Lyon with LOO prisnors and
Sc horses that he had captured. A great many
Indians were killed, though the number is
not stated. A big fights expected SOON.
- tzrAmong the nominations confirmed by
9 the Senate on the LIST were those of LoVett S.
Morton, for Assessor of the 18th Ohio District
; and Seth Marshall for Postmaster at Pafnes-
8 Vile, O..
3ss eSThe principal feature of the new Admins
tration policy of reconstruction, Informally
given out and which. It's said, the President
viii PIT forth in his message to the Forteth
Congress, is isuniSefsal amnesty on condition of
impartial suffrage.
!, ). sgMr. Charles A. Dana has elected his
editorial: staff for his new paper, to be publish
ed in the .present Herald building, in New
York city, on the lst of March. J'he great
majority of the gentlemen are graduates frsin
Harvard which is lIr: Dana's alma mater
EgIt is understood that the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature, at a caucus held on the
slst resolved 10 vote sqaarley. in favor of the
resolution to submit to the people an amend
ment striking the word white from the con.
stitution of Ohio.
: Ez-A singular and very destructive epidemic
prevails among the hogs in Southern Iowa
The intestines Of the dead hogs are found TO be
I filed with worms from six to twelve inches in
] length The disease is new TO the. farmers,
? and they are greatly excited about it,
= Ea-The Tribune special says that lIr. Clark,
Of the Currency Printing Bureau, explains-t the
grave fact that seventy three bonds with dupli-
cate numbers have been printed and issued,
by saying that the numbering machine got out
oforder and repeated.
3 ta-A cable despatch announces that the
Derby Ministry must fan, unless the Queen in
her speech at the opening Of Parliament recon-
mends reform. The Liberal psrty has gained
wonderfully since tho Gladstone Ministry was
defeated; and ifa new election is ordered the
Parliament viii be more strongly Liberal than
ever before la 3a gassGsa.s4-
esrGen. Howard has just appointed Capt
Wall (colored), Of Oberlin, an. employment
agent, with headquarters in Washington to
secure places forfreedmen.i Anybody through
; eutthe country in want of Mechanics, faifA-
hands, Eor domestic servents, should write to
:; Capt Wall, who viii give prompt attention to
their communications.
-. Mrs Harper, the black edition of Anna
Dickinson takes the failure of Andrew johnson
to be-a Moses quite philosphically. She says
Mr.. johnson hasa mission; he is ''a great
mustard plaster spread all over the body polite,
to bring all the worst hilmors to the surface. .
Some truth in that, and Anna Dickinson can
not go ahead oft in the way of rhetoric
;ks-YYe have been looking for a contradiction
!, of the report that the American Minister at
Rome has been orderedto discontinue religious
! worship in the american Protestant Chapel with
in the precincts ofthe '.oly City. The Secretary
s efState it is reported says that, the Govern
ment has no knowledge ofthe removed of the
.Portestant place ofworship from the American
Embassy. s
ies ycs-The leading dry goods jobbsrs of New
/ York have just adopted new rule as to credits
forthe future basis of business, giving tive per
cent, of on settlements in ten days This
proceeding has had the effect to work, in some
departments, further depression in prices,
but the manufacturers generally submit to the
concession with cheerfulness, in view of the
prevailing stagnation.
GAfaginfis, nominated by the president
for minister to Stockholm, win make good
thing out of itin spite of his rejection by the
Senate. He has already sailed for Europe, and
under the regulations of the State department
he was empowered to draw for his outfit and
six months pay in advance, SO that any way he
has the pleasure of a trip to Europe at the
public expense, though it will be shortened
by the cable telegram recalling him. 1t is
calculated the shrewd Maginnis has thus taken
{ about &c. 600 from the nations treasury.
eTThe New Orleans massacre investigating
COMMITTEE have made their report, in which
they condemn the conduct of Mayor Monroe,
and say, but for the declaration of martial law
! by General Baird, and the presence of the
troops, further bloodshed would have ragged
through the night in the negro. quarters of the
city, and the lives and property of Unionists
and Northern men would have been at the
mercy ofthe mob The ,conservators of the
s peace being for the time the instigators Of
violence, nothing would have remained but an
arming for self-defence. z,
l,s The Next SUMMERS ExcuRs1oN.-Dr.
Burleigh, the Delegate from Dakotah, has
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