Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-09
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nEA AND PASTE BREYlIlEs.


in the shape of shells, ala Grertown.
Prof Bache left about 5000 to the Ameri
can Academy Of Sciences. after providing fol
his family and other relatives
E9-The Michigan Legislature has spoken out
in favor OF admitting females TO all the right.
and privileges of the Michigan University.
EE-The amendatory tax bill which passed
both Houses Sunday night takes the tax of
newspaper advertisements
ESThe bill raising the taliff on Wool, which
passed the Senate on Saturday, was adopted
by the House and has been signed by the Presi-
dent.
n9rA gathering Of extinguished rebels at Ha-
vana is reportad. Isham, Harris, Breckenridge
Mason, Slidell, Benjaman and others of the great
'-playcd cut" are TO be there
Eg-The JUDICIARY Committee Of the late Con-
gress reported that President johnson made no
effort whatever TO secure the arrest of the as
sassin Surratt, although he might easily have
arranged bis capture.
r9-Ofthe 25 recreants Republicans in the
Ohio Legislature, who voted nay on the prop
osition to strike the word ''white" from the
constitution.
1.-THE Pittsburgh iron-masteTs offer their
hands $500 per ton which is one sixth more
than the Eastern manufactures pay; The men
demand $780, and so the mills stand idle.
EsrWe hear that Mr. 2. T. Barnum has cha =
enged Mr.. VIM II. Bar mum, the copperhead
candidate for Congress, to stump the Fourth
District There is no probili,y of an accept
ance of the challenge
GarfieTd,s bHi establishing Bureau of Educa-
ton provides for the appointment or a Commits
sioner of Education, who, with three clerks,
will occupy rooms provided by the Secretary
OF the Interior.
EgThe vote by which the resolution of Mr..
Boynton for striking the word white" out of
the Constitution of this State was defeated has
been reconsidered by th c House. and the ques-
tion viii come Up again.
erReports received in Washington are to
the effect that the Sou th is preparing to ac-
cept the situation, and that the President informs
the Southern people Chat the military Recon-
struclion law will be carried out to the letter.
EgFort Union was attacked by large band
of Indians a few days ago, but they were re-
pulsed with loss after protracted battle. The
Indians, generally, were quite hostile. but the
occupants of the Fort felt confident Of their
ability 10 repel any attack which may be made
The renegade Cowan has not been confirmed
in his appointment. The nomination was so
fercely assailed in the Senate that Ne. Bucka-
lew, frightened at The whirlwind of indignation
he had raised. disposed of the question by move
ing it to the table
The season of Lent, which is r:ligiously OBJ
served as a period offaslng and prayer in all
Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches, be-
gan on Wednesday and continues during six
weeks-erding on Easter Sunday, April 2Ist
In the Catholic church the rules Of abstinence
are especially rigid.
Eg-The Crestline thieves stole pocl1et-book
containing 5000, last Friday night from an old
man doing in lis seat while the train stopped
there. As. the thief ran away, the man fred two
shots at him, the second, bringing him" when
the thief and al were secured.
ETThose thin skin conservatives who pre-
dicted ''war OF races" and divers ether Ca
lamities TO commence SO soon as impartial suff-
cage sheuld be granted, viii doubtless breath
easier since quiet prevails after the casting OF
900 negro ball0ls in Georgetown. d C.
@Nene are from the Reserve, and
but rwo, M3sSrs. Kramer of Hardin. and Clark
of Harrison, are from the Northan part of the
State. 1t is also perhaps worthy of remark,
that with the single exception of Mr. Glover,
of Sciota none of them are regarded as leading
men in the House.
EFThe Legislature of Wisconsin talk Of dis
franchising 10000 citizens for desertion during
the war. This is just A man qualified to de-
fend his country and who will shirk the duties
that fall equally upon all, never should have a
voice in governing it. 1t is enough for him to be
allowed to live in it and enjoy the fruits of
others labors. Pass the ball around.
@Ths conference of the committee of the
old and new school general assemblies, in New
York last week, was favorable TO the contem-
plated reunion, but no definite report is yet
made as to the results reached. Both bodies
have over 40O0 ministers and membership OF
over half a million. The denomination raised
foriall purposes in 1865 nearly FIVE million dol
lars.
EaThe Hartford Coard9at co2denses the
obituary of the sta isticiaa DeBow, into the
following compass. De Bow is dead His full
name was Ddnwoody Brownson De Bow, and
headyocated slavery and cotton all through his
life with peisstancy proporiioned to the
length ofbis cognomen. Slavery having ceased
to exist, and cotton being DO lorger king De-
Bow became superfuous and died.
ETAtlanta, Ga, is reported to have 90, 600
inhabitants, Of whom II, 1,OO'are white 5000 are
black Ninety -four orphans and 1856 widows of
rebel soldiers reside there. The sceurging the
poor old town got from Sherman was an ex-
celent medicine for its old maladies, and per-
haps it ray come TO something one of these
days ifproperly guided.
sEThey are doing ''big things" down in the
Springfield Mass. arnory in altering over the
s ,ringfeld into breech-loader, combining the
main exceleneies of Aliens ard Bcrdens alter
Ell guns. Thirty-five thousand of these guns
are soon 20 be in the hands of the troops and
their efficiency tested The alteration adds a
pound tothe weight of the gun, and the cost
OF changing Is only 81 80 per gun.
eFThe- majority of the Committee of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives have
reported against the ratification of the cou sti-
tutional Amendment A minority submits a
resolution of ratification under protest, declar-
ing that Observation-Disclosures not recognize the
r;rt,. of any State tn aksridre the franchise by