Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-16

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sFDr Barnard, of Connecticut, has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Education, under the
new Garfield act.
sTA bill virtually abolishing capital punish
ment has passed both Houses OF the Illinois
Legislature.
sFWhat is known as Russia iron has Just
been made at Cleveland for the first time in
this country.
eFGeorge Ptaoody is going to return to
London In May, to remain three years. when
he will come back, and make his permanent
residence at Salem, Mass.
1.-THE need Of Congressional Temperance
at Washington is illustrated by "recens remark
of Mr.. Wilson, in The Senate, that its commit
tee rooms were little be5er than grog- shops.
UIn reappointing the judiciary committee
Speaker Colfax gave the Democrats an add-
-senal member. They had but one in the last
Congress
The rinderpest has reappeared in London, in
the very same cowshed in the Isington market,
in which it manifested itself at the beginning
of the late visitation.
srMrs. jeff Davis in letter to a friend, an
pounces that she has been blessed with another
son and heir to the good or bad fortunes Of the
s.StFn Statesman. The Davis family is now
quite large Jeff's health is evidently better.
eFFor the first time one of the most fashona-
BILE gambling houses on Broadway was entered
few nights since by the police. and large
number of gamblers were arrested. 1t was kept
by John Hart.
eTNasby was during his Washington visit
introduced to Postmaster General Randall, who
inquired whether he was not one of those Post
master against whom there is an unpaid bal
arce charged at the Department
rgNew Jersey has weekley newspaper,
edited, published and printed BY the convicts
in the State Prison at Trenton. The name Of
this novel journal is the Sunbeam, and has for
its motto, Every cloud has silver lining. ="
@The obstruction of property everywhere
in the vallies of the Cumberland and Tennes-
see has been unprecedented. Only few bridges
on the latter stream have been saved ty being
ballasted with engines and cars.
sgA bill has passed to its second reading. ID
Parliment, by large majority, throwing open
10 hO11dIl CdlAOHCs oOl4lC Va IHO ulStlCob
under the Crown, from which they have hither-
to been excluded.
sFThe Boston Post is aggravated by the
Independent to such an extent that it de-
clares that IF TtoD is the father of all the lies
in his paper he has the largest family in the
United States.''
sEUnder the law passed the second inst, the
income tax is to be assessed in March instead of
May, and instructions to that effect have beeh
already issued to Assessors. The tax ia a uni
form rate of five per cent, on all incomes,
with 81, ,00e exemption.
rEKan sas is determined to get her share Of
the emigrants the currant year. having voted
one numbered thousand dollars for their en-
couragement Iowa and Missouri are also ia
king similar measures, and between them sIl
the good steady emigrants from Europe will
end home. We predict a great rush into
Missouri Her varied advantages will do much
towards bringing settlers there.
sEThe Vigilance Committee at Mansfield,
Ohio, are still engaged in the work of hunting
blacklegs and thieves from the place. Fifteen
or twenty have been escorted to the cars, and
many have departed without waiting for
the attentions of the regulators. The streets
are patrolled nightly, and the depots watched
to prevent the return of any of those expelled.
F. @A Washington correspondent says the
greatest curiosity to visitors in the House is
John Morrissey. He sits upright in his seat
never visits other members, and is seldom visit
Il old off, inn,
disrespeet, or omits any proper attention. He
is iii at ease, but bis second Brooks and Fer
nando Wood who sit in his s'corner" keep
his spirits up tolerably.
EThe music of wealthy church in New
York Gusts more money than any suburban
ministers salaries. Trinity pays FIVE thousand
dollars year for IFS music; St Johns fonr
thousand; Trinity chapel four thonand. In
all these cases there are large choirs of men
and boys; but there are certain uptown
quarette choirs costing three thousand to four
thousand dollars. rs.is...s
E9At present there is conservative majority
of one on the Bench of the Supreme Court
If the rebels could at once get into that Court
they might have things fixed TO suit them. But
the World reminds its friends that some OF
the Judges are far adpaaaced. " and must drop
of soon-leaving the radical" Judges in the
majority, unless Democratic President shall
succeed Mr johnson Alas for the Democracy,
even old age and death are against them.
@The Legislature of Louisiana gives ummis-
taxable evidence of a determination to resist
the late act of Congress for the Reorganization
of the Southern States. A bill has passed over
tba Governors vote calling State Convention
and declaring that those shall vote, and no
more, who are authorized so to do by the ex-
kting Constitution. Fears are entertained Of a
repetition at the sEeotionr to be held Of the Ju-
" vreublss-
eEAs an inducemcnt To- HE rebeA to' accept
s'the situation, the World suggests that they
may 'tcontrol the negro vote" That rs sound
advice The negro vote will be worth sharp
canvass and il the rebels can secure it, they
win have Alright to enjoy the benefit of it. But
it can't be secured by plantation whips, bludge-
ems benp, or minnie ball. The negroes are a
sreattul race; and1if the rebels shall treat them
more kindly than their loyal friends, they will
vote with them. The strongest humanitarian
argument in foYor Of negro suffrage was, that
1t would induce kindness aud fair play teward
the hitherto DISTINGUISHED race.
NThe official oragin of the pope, the As
seryature has felt compelled 10 defend the