Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-26
PEN AND PASTE BREvlTIEs,

presented at Court, at Paris
sEThe Wisconsin Legislature have formally
asked Senator Doolittle to resign.
~The official report on famine in East India
shows there are millions Of deaths from starva
ton.
ex-senator Howe has been re elected to the
Senate from Wisconsin, and Freiinghuyseh has
been elected Senator from New Jersey.
kHGsv. Morton has been elected United
States Senator from Indiana over d. W. Voor.
hees
A company Of newspaper mca for the trans.
mission of news exclusively to the press, is
forming in New York
The Columbus Journal says one of the ablesi
and most active Democratic members of the
Legislature is going upon the stage.
It is said that 'Loag John" Wentworth is
about to return to the newspaper business, and
has purchased an interest in the Chicago Re-
publican.
Navigation in the Mississippi river is en-
tirefy closed by fee, as far down as Memphis.
This has very rarely occurred before, within
the memory of navigators.
1t is reported that if the Senate reject Dix as
Minister to France, he will be appointed Naval
Officer Of New York, and Mr.. Foster will be
sent to France.
@The medal got up by $4,000 people of
France, in honor of Mr.. Lincoln, was presented
TO Mrs Lincoln, at Chicago. on Tuesday, with
--out ssremony or display.
efBerween four and five thousand people
crossed East river on the ice from New York
70 Brooklyn on Wednesday the 23d, for the first
2 tshe In fifteen years.
&EThs U. s. Supreme Court was honored
one day with the thanks of the New Orleans
Rebels, and the next with the new Hampshire
scopperheads. No doubt Andy ftels- encourag-
ed. sG Ers11t
srOn the l7th inst, John NJ. Langston, ESQ.,
of 0berlin, colored man, wass on motion of
Gen. Garfield in the Supreme Court al Wash
ingtop, Submitted to practice at the bar of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
pa rTSEsAroR NYu, of Nevada, an able man,
= and one of the truest Republicans living has
been reelected to the q. s. Senate. The news
of his election caused great rejoicing among the
Republicans Of both houses Of Congress
eFA very important bill is pending before the
judiciary Committee. 1t declares valid all the
Presidential proclamstions and orders conven-
/, ing court martlals aud military commissions for
the trial of civilians, prior to the lst of March,
1888. ,re a--
Nathaniel Parker Willis, one of the Oldest
and best known of American literati, died at
; his residence at ldlewild, on the Hudson, from
paralysis, ON Sunday evening, .2Oth INST aged
about sixty
The new managers ofthe New York Central
, Railroad have notified employees that their SER
vices will not be held subject to their political
opinions !; ell men being now allowed to vote
for whom and what they please.
"a History ofthe late war between the States
tracing it's Origin, Causes and Results" by
Alex. II. STEVENS, Vice President of the c. S.
I A., is announced by the National Publishing
Company, of Cincinnati
UIn the House. Mr. Binghans bill, which
Iegalizes alact of the President, as to martial
law, military commissions and arrests, &c,
during the war, was amended, and sent back to
the committee.
GFOmaha ayers state that there Is little
doubt but that all the Indians On the plains are
hostile, and unless the pronptest and most
will be a general Indian war.
q EFThe Senate judiciary Committee on the 23d
instrcted Senator Tumbul to report Wadss
amendment to the Constitution, that the Presi-
dent Of tise United States shall not be eligible
ro's second term. This is an important meas
ure and will speedy pass beth Eouses.
EOn Saturday, says the Ravenna Democrat.
we saw veritable wild Turkey. shot by citi-
zen of Ravenna, in Windham township. The
''nobIe bird" measured fifty inches from the tip
of the beak TO the tip of the tail, weighed near
ly twenty pounds, and its beard was eleven
inches long. II is rare that sportsmen in this
region get shot at such game.
3. Hox AIMoSD CASE, A member of the Ten
nessee Senate, has just fallen by the hand Of
the assassin, another martyr TO freedom. Buta
few months age, son of Senator Case lad
of ls years was also shot while on his way
from church, and carried home corpse. These
assassinsfions are the work of reckless young
men, the tools OF wealthy and respectable rebels,
by whom they are protected and screened from
the panishment due TO their crimes. -
gran oyster firm In Baltimore put up weekly
one hundred thousand cans OF oysters. They
own an island of several hundred acres, in the
Chesapeake, about sevnty miles from Baltimore.
where the business is prosecuted without much
Inconvenience from ice. At this establishment
all the shuckers are white girls, and the wages
they rscssse 10 more than that paid to ordinary
laborers.
A BH o. W6z, between the N. Y. Central
and the Hudson River Roads, was kicked up
last week. interrupting travel and freight traffic
and throwing things into most interesting con--
fusion. Freight for New York was refused by
the Hudson, and had to be turned upon the
Erie The cause Of this contumacious conduct
on the part of the Hudson, was little pampcr-
ing il had been INDUCED in by the old Central
board 10 voting that company $IO0 600 for pas
sage Of freight that line besides the legitm-
ate pro rata allowance Of compensation. This
vote, tie new board, recently elected, rescinded
Mr.. Vanderbilt, it is further intimatcd. was dis
appointed in not getting the presidency of the
Central, and controlling the Hudson and Harlsen
was the more ready to give that company
backhanded favor. The measure Of stopping The
current of western trade. by that route, amount
ing to perhaps one-thlrd Of the whele business,
WAS a hold one and could not he ,ono folerated