Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-02-16
PEN AND PASTE BREvIrIEs.


tEAdvices from Madrid report three editors
condemned to Imprisonment at hard labor.
sgIt is positively announced tiet all French
troops will leave Mexico by the 25th, of Febru-
ary. = 88EE
GFGo vernon BRAMLkTTg of Kentucky has
received $l55.000 from the United States to-
wards the liquidation of the Kentucky war
debt. @ sass
sFThe House has voted Sio eco TO the Ju-
dicary Committee, to be expended in prosecu-
ting investigations, and has especial reference
TO impeachment
sEThe Columbia County Republican is
pleased to say, "The Pittsburgh Gazette is
the ablcst paper in Western Pennsylvania. 1t
might have said truly, that is one of the best
The Navy Department has received notifica-
tion from the Gulf Squadron that I5, 600 French
and Belgian troops left Vera Cruz for France
on the 20th of January.
EFLaboring hands are very scarce in Ken
lucky. A Board of Immigration is to be es-
tabhshed to induce worthy laborers to settle in
that State -tea.
efrAt a boys school in Lexington, KY,
nearly every one of the scholars carries pistol
On his person. They will eventually prove
worthy ornaments to the chiyalry of the South
The approaching annexation to France of
three new provinces in Cochin China is an
nounced. The Emperor, Tu-Duc, is said to
be delighted to get rid of them, es they are in a
state of chronic rebellion.
rTThe three vital questions now agitatipg
the public mind concerning the Celtic race in
America are, '.Who struck Billy Patterson, !"
Where is James Stevens, and @Who is Nc
Cracker ?" s,l.s
Mrs FANNY HAgPER, cClored woman, has
been lecturing on ''0ur nations Salvation, :"
with much success in Boston. She is pronc1nc-
ed FasD. DoUGLAs with merley sexual diff
ference
eF..Cendrillon," French version of Gin
derella, is a spectacular drama in which are
fifty sr sixty young gals with but little more
gauze on them than EVE had when she left the
garden of Eden-s
sa-MRs TuRocKMoRroN, of Colorado eloped
from her husband and three children, leaving
Parthian note for the former, Informing him
that none of the latter were his. All OF which
was nodoubt very consolatory for TnEooK. q
nrA mysterious Convention of Rebel Gen
erals met in secret session at a leading hotel
in Louisville on the eth Among the number
are MAaaUDxK, Humphrey, MARSHALL, DUKE,
and 4s others go.
srInthe Tennessee House on the 9Th inst
The Negro Suffrage BIZ was passed to its
final reading 1t gives nesTos the right to
vote, and cuts of voters under the existing law.
It is certenly tn mass the Senate
raThe Senate had another executive session
on the sih, and rejected nearly all the revenue
officers who were reached no johnson Re
publicsns were spared. Among the rejected
appears the name of A. Nc CoSNELL, Assessor
of this district. ns8 l5:..
FSCincinnati viii be Cincinnati An cx-
change says that some admirers OF Ristori In
that city recently got SO frantic in their ap-
preciation of her fine acting, that they pre-
sented her with six large hogs as an evidence
of their afectionate regard.
A dispatch from Constantnople announces
that the SULTAN has resolved to emancipate his
Christian subjects from political disabilities, and
has issued call for an assembling of the Tur-
kish Parliament This Intelligence has caused
rise in Turkish funds. f
trThe Hon. JAMES Z. ExGLIsH. who served
IN the XXXVIIth and XXXYIIIth Congress,
and was wen known as a manufacturer of New
Haven has been nominated for Governor by
the Democratic Convention of Connecticut.
NMrs Walter B. Cow, the wife OF wealthy
manufacturer of Cincinnati who elcped from
her husband few weeks ago. taking with
her about IS. 600 worth of jewelry, hGs re-
turned and is again living with her husband.
Detectives traced her to Iowa and induced her
to come back.
Governor HoLpoS gives information that The
President has removed the Union postmaster
at Goldsboro, North Carolina, and appointed a
rebel When this was done the rebles COM
peBcd the old postmaster to leave the place
threatening him with death if he failed s0 com
ply.
sFThe next session of the British Parlia-
ment promises 10 be more than an ordinary one
and it is limited that the Derby Government
will GO to the wall The speech from the
throne not recognizing or fully meeting the re-
form expectations renders this expectation the
more probable.
rrThe Senate of Pennsylvania has passed q
bill forbidding railroads to make any distinc-
tion between passengers on account OF race or
color. and the House will certainly concur.
We congratulate the people of Philadelphia,
especially upon the prospect that their city
viii be redeemed from disgrace.
EFThe Philadelphians are again in struggle
ever the running of street cars on Sunday The
question has been before the Legislature for
successive years is before it now. Some OF the
aspiring city members look upon the question
with fear and trembling as little less than po-
Etical golgotha where their hopes may find a
resting place.
The Reform demonstration in London has
come uff and was grand affair Two hun
dred thousand men parsded the streets in 81
lence except wheD they passed the residence
of Minister ADAMS, when they cheered for
America There was moi the slightest sign OF
a disturbance A deputaiion of reformers,
headed by JoHx BRIoHr, waited upon Glad
stone and were favorably received.
The Tribune SAYS
EHoN. J. n HUBBARD, of the lfth Con-
grcss District for Connecticut. is candidate
for reelection, and there is not the slightest
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