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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
The Sitting Room.

There is, or there ought to be, in every
house, a room where all the household
come together every day, dear, well re-
membered chamber, hung round by Mem
ory with the portraits of father, MOTH err,
brothers, sisters, servants, kinsfolks,
friends, neighbors, guests, strangers, and
Christ's poor. O, my reader, do You not
remember such room? In your wan
derings, in your voyages, in the group of
your own family and among your own
children, does not your thought go back
to the days when you gathered around
that ruddy, cracking fire, and when the
heads which are now laid low, were as a
crown of glory to their offspring ..,.
In some houses, this common room, or
"living room," rs our Puritan neighbors
call it, is the only room in the house -; it
is parlor, bed room, kitchen, all in one.
Blessed compensation of Providence to
the poor man and his offspring; they can
be always together. Wealth multiplies a
partments and separates families. Go the
Western clearing, and before you reach
the cabin, you descry through the chinks
the glow OF fire, which would serve q
city mechanic for week entering, you
behold the illumination of a whole circle
sitting around the blaze, perhaps singing
their evening hymn. Are they less hap
py than the dwellers I'M ceiled houses ?
Change the scene to the uptown seats of
wealth, where the merchant prince a
bides in greater convcniences than Neb-
uchadnezzar or Charlemagne; for he has
baths hot and cold water on every floor,
furnace-heat and gas-lights. You can
scarcely number the apartments. You
think it paradise. Hold! reconsider
the social, the domestic part. 1t is three
o'clock. What solitude The father is
shaving at his counting house The moth
er is dropping cards at fifty doors, or
stiffiy receiving fifty visits. The boys
are sparring, or walking Broadway or
Chestnut street. The girls are with mas
ters in Italian, dancing, and philosophy.
The babies are airing with French nurses.
Do these ever come together ? Not in the
true family sense Some Christian mer-
chants have few home. Joys, and are con-
tent to pray with their families once a
day. The very name of a sitting room,
living-room, or common-room, sounds
plebeian, and savors of "the country" !"
Yet i know men, rich believers, who make
conscience of gathering their family, alt
their family ; and to effect this, requires
place. Gods blessing is on the room,
whether covered with Administer car
pets or unplaned plank, whether hung
with darnask or with hunting shirts aid
bear skins, where that little kingdom, a
Christian household, daily meets for
prayer, for praise, for kind words, for
joint labors, tor loving looks, for rational
entertainment, for reading aloud, for mu-
sic, for neighborly exchanges, for enter
tanning angels unawares. Thanks be to
God for the sitting-rooms 70
isi . 'a' "a" James W. Hereunder
D. 1
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
From the New York Independent.
Herod in the Family.
RY HORACE GREELEY.

Ipresume half the good sermons ever
yet preached ight have had for their
text, "Ihe fool hath said in has heart
there is no God" In that )fooish, blind
presumption turks the impulse to every
wrong, every transgression. Men gener-
ally admit, in a listless, soulless way,
that the universe, this world, and who
live in it, are the subjects of omniscient
moral sway; but scarcely one in dozen
ain his hcart'' believes it. lfall did be-
lieve it, how could there be hypocrites in
the church, libertines by the family-hearth
or Williams anywhere !? How could there
ever be robbers in the mountain-pass,
wreckers on the perilous coast, or slaves
on the stormy main, if men really and
heartily believed in the existence and rule
of an aIl-seeing, omnipotent God? as,s 7
Every age, every nation develops some
vast wickedness. Intemperance, ,Lewd-
ness, Gambling, and hundred other
manifestations ofman's proneness to evil,
appear and disappear like physical cpl
denies hardly is one eruption OF evil
crushed when another appears and be-
gins to run it's measured round. If / were
called to say what crime is to-day most
fearfuily prevalent among us, should
indicate the destruction of unborn chill
dren. 3 ~ . 81 -. 4s1
speak not here of the murder of inno-
cents, the children of lust and sin, and
whose destroyers have the wretched ex-
cuse of seeking to preclude disgrace and
shame. Guilty as these unquestionably
are, they are not so criminal in the sight
of Heaven as are the married pair who
conspire to blast the germs Of offspring
in the mothers womb, and athwart the
benefcient command to increase and mu[
tiply given to the progenitors OF our race.
If there be crime more dastardlyg and
unnatural than all others, surely it is this.
Of course, excuses or apologies have
been invented for this, as for other vafle-
ties of Murder. The parents are too poor
to rear more children On their scaHty
means the mothers constitution Is too
feeble to endure the trials Of chlidibear.
ing and nursing, etc, etc. The hrst OF
these, if valid at all, will justify the kill
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
. A Rebel Murder.

A New Orleans dispatch says a bloody
affray occurred at Natchitoches Parish.
c. w. Stautfer and John Jones, partners,
had quarrel Judge r. b. Jones threat
ened to kill Stauffer, if he did not leave
the place. Stauffer was the popular rad
ical candidate for the Convention, and
they wanted him out of the way Last
Monday Stauffer was about to have the
Jones brothers bound over to keep the
peace, when the Judge and the Doctor
attacted him. John Jones then rode up
and with double-barrel gun deliberate
ly killed Stauffer. Jones then rode to
Stauffer's house, called for his wife, and
told her he had killed her husband. He
then rode out of town. The Sheriff at
tempted to arrest the Joneses, and was
shot in the head and severely injured,
and an assistant was shot in the arm.-
These Joneses are nephews OF Governor
Wells, and II. B. Jones was appointed to
the Supreme Bench ofcthe State during
Wells administration. = , 9l
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

CoNsERvATIsM.-The- Toronto Globe
in noticing the Mobile riot, makes the
following well founded remarks on what
is called Conservatism 'r,...r ,,r7.. -,,...,..
"It is remarkable fact that, "Conser-
vative principles in the United States, as
well as in England and Canada, can only
be maintained by force, in opposition to
free discussion. :. Conservatism appears
to have an inbred horror of free speech !;
whether it is in the aristocratic Conser-
vatism of Britain, the self loving Conssr-
vatives, of the United States, or the
bread-and-b butter, office-seeking Conserva-
tism of Canada. The same dislike of the
principle of political equality prevails in
each case, and the same tendency to sub
stitute violence for argument distinguish
es the adhcrents of the creed the world
over" .I I..s-, 1-i.4l H. ia 70 itarI--- 8 l'T .i
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
SELECT POETRY.
Ny Wife.
BIZ JOSEPH brennan.

This poem-of rare beauty in sentiment an(
expression-is by one of the gifted poets of tn,
| Emerald Isle, now passed to another life
Come to me- dearest-Im lonely without thee
Daytime and night time I'm thinking about thee
Night time and day time in dreams beholt
Unwelcome the waking which ceases to fold
Come to me. darling, my sorrows to tighten,
Come in thy beauty to bless and to brighten,
Come in thy womanhood, meekly and iowly,
Come in thy lovingness, queenly and holy!
Swallows will fit round the desolate ruin,
Telling OF spring and its joyous renewing;
And thoughts of thy love and its manifold treas
ure,
Are circling my heart with promise of pleas
o, Spring of my spirit. o, May of my bosom,
Shine out on my soul tilllt bOurgeOn and bios
som;
The waste of my life has rose root within it,
And thy fondness alone to the sunshine can win
Figure-that moves like song thro' the even
Features-lit up by reflex from Heaven
Eyes like the skies of poor Erin our mother,
Where sunshine and shadow are chasing each
other.
Smiles coming seldom, but childlike and simple
o, thanks TO the Saviour, that even by seeming
Is left to the exile to brighten his dreaming.
You have been glad when you knew was
gladdened:
Dear, are you sad now, to hear am saddened?
Our hearts ever answer in tune and in time love,
AS octave to octave rhyme unto rhyme, love.
cannot weep but your tears will be flowing.
You cannot smile but my checks will be glow
ing.
would not die without you at my side, love,
You would not linger when will have died
love- r.
Come to me, dear, ere die of my sorrow,
Rise on my gloom like the sun of to morrow,
Strong, swift and fond as the words which l
speak, love,
With song at your lip, and smile on your
'~ cheek, love,
Come. for my heart in your absence is weary
Haste, for my spirit is sickened and dreary,
Come TO the arms which alone should caress thee
Come to the heart which is throbbing to press
thee my love.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
ASHTABULA, OHIO SATURDAY, JUNE 49, 1867

ing of the child born last March as well
as that OF the child to be born next No
vember; the second is direct impeach-
ment OF the Divine economy, and a proc
lamation of disbelief in the Divine assur-
ance, .As thy day Is so shall thy strength
be- Inshort there is no palliation for
any sort of ehild-murder which is not es-r
sentially Atheistic-a repetition of what
"the fool hath said in his heart" f.-...-..t
1t has for years been noted that our old
New England element is less prolific than
formerly-that families of six to eight
children are as infrequent as those of ten
to twelve were two or three generations
back. 1t is further noted that our immi-
grant population do not share In this
sterility-that our Irish-born neighbors
have more children to the family than
their Yankee neighbors. I learn that the
Roman Catholic priest are, to considera-
bic extent, to be credited with this dis
parity-that, having had their attention
called to the diminution of births among
us, they have discussed its reasons, and
systematically applied themselves to
guarding their flocks from the contagion.
~ 10 SOHOidiiy oHiOuS IL tHe COn-
fessional and otherwise, enjoined on mar
ried Catholics that they, under no cir
cumstances and on no pretext whatever,
conspire against the lives Of their unborn
children. ....-.- n. .a,...... ...sf.. .- ..s-
Shall not Protestant pastors be inspir-
cd by this example? Their opportunities
may be less direct and palpable, yet they
are sufficient. Why should not every
settled clergyman preach pointedly a
galnst the crime in question? Is any in
doubt rs to its existence Let him confer
with two or three popular physicians, and
he will doubt no longer. Nay he will
be astonishded by their testimony as to
the extent, the magnitude of this offense
against God and Humanity, Country and
Family. +'''' ''' .'' '.'.
What eminent physician will prepare
tract of 16, "a, or 32 large, fair pages,
sitting forth in convincing array the
moral, physiological, and religious con-
sidcrations which should secure general
avoidance and abhorrance of this species
of Intanticidc?
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
Address to a Young Friend.

How often time the marriage state ,.
Is marred by fancy or by fate. t''i-'
- Once at . tine in ancient days. bon III
A hop and bean vine chanced together ~
Not much acquainted with each other
Nor knew they twisted diferent ways
1-7 But by kind of ofnecromancy, -l-lr. boo
, They to each other took . fancy, IN 90 {.
And both resolved to climb one pole.
They coaxed and fiattered cooed and kissed
But each the other would resist, 10 z =
And strOve each other toreOntrOl. 1ib.1 5aT
Each wound the pole different way,
Thus they their nature did display, 80 '-'"
And never could unite their vines. 'TI7-. 10
thus we have seen the candidates i4 t.rst
Of marriage often mar their fates
AS absurd fancy oft inclines
Who has not seen man and wife ,...-.. -.
Engaged in almost constant static,
And thus confuse the family? ''' -'
Who by example taught their brats 20
To quarrel just like splitting cats, RI -..-.
Entailing on them misery. -...-... a..
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

"A BAD STATE OF 1AEFAIRs Parson
Brownlow the radical candidate for Gov
ernor in Tennessee, is writing letter for
publications in a style of coarse slang
that would disgrace a Bilingsgate fish
woman; while En-. iEtheridge, his op-
ponent, is making demagogue appeals to
the passions and prejudices of the rebels
and melting afresh their hatred towards
the Government. ); 1t is a bad state OF az
fairs fol. Tennessee, when its choice 1or
Chief Magistrate is limited to q black
guard and traitor.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

: It has been plead in mitigation of jeff
Davis offence that he was not an original
secessionist. The letter of his dated Oct.
10, 1860, shows he not only favored Sc
cession, but was opposed to the people
of the States having any voice in the
matter lin that letter he says "My opif-
ion is, therefore, as 1t has been, in favor
of seeking to. bring these States into co
operation before asking for a pofsttari dc '
cision," which means, if 1T means any
thing that the entire machinery of seces--
sion shan be arranged before the people
shall be allowed to know what is going
onH7 f.-.. .a. ssi;eBi naiss o5.s fn m1..
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

IMPORTANT LAW ABOUT PENSION MAT
TERs.-1t may be a matter of interest to
pensioners to know that by virtue of sec
tion six of an act of Congress, passed,
July 1857, no pension claim then on
file at that department, unless prosecuted
to a successful issue within three years
from the passage of that act, shall be adj
naitted without satisfactory record evil
dence from the War Department to es-
tablish the same. All business of ex-
aminers in the Pension Office except
what relates to these old claims, is at
present suspended, with the view of prov
ing them previous to the 4th of July next
so as to save the rights of claimants rs
far as possible. Soldiers and others hav-
ing such old claims should take Eotice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

;MExIco-Dates from Queretaro to the
29th ult. encourages the belief that the
lives of Maximillian and greater part of
his foreign officers would be spared. 1t
is, also stated that Escobedo had sum.
moned courtmartial, to sit on the goth
for the. formal trial of the late Emperor.
On the 22d, Macmillan was premitted
to issue proclamation, in which, after
a bitter reference, to the treachery of
Napoleon, which had involved him in
such disasters, he invites the Mexican
people to take warning from his own fate
and to see to it that, if his blood be shed
it shall aid in the regeneration of Mexi-
co. The language of this unfortunate
prince may not touch Mexican hearts, but
it will command the sympathy of all other
Christian nations. f13Tha 3GigI- .'a -'f- a1om
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
WHOLE NUMBER 9l2.

on daily charity for theirmorsel OF bread,
or enp of soup, that keeps the fame of the
light within their emaciated bodies. It
is q frighffnl thing to contemplate, and
what is to be the end of this state Of af.:
fairs Heaven only knows. adf lsdf hallar
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
NASBY.

a Vision OF The Nen World-Mr. Nds5y
ina dream as Present in the Loper Re.
gsons During the Confederation of Mr.
Greeley's Case. ~. =
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

Tsins do not stop stations where the time is omitted
fs4 Il sr in the above table. ,.l .a f
ef Second Glass Cars run on all Through Trains So
All tbroueh trains going Westward connect at Ceye-
land with Trains for Toledo Chicago Columbus Cincin-
natl Indianapolis, &C.
And all through trains going Eastward connect at Dun
kirk with the trains of Erie Eailway and Buffalo
with those of n. Y Central, and Erie Railways for
New York. Albany. Boston, Niagara Falls, &C., &c
and at Erie with trains Philadelphia and Erie r. r.
for Harrisburg, Philadelphia Baltimore Washington,
New York &c. -,'
York Express East connects at Girard with trains
the Eric 4 Pittsburgh r. r. for Lincsville Meadve
H. NOTTINGHAM, supt
! Supts Office, Cleveland & Erie Roilroad,
Cleveland. o.. April %, 1851 {
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

PROF. r. III. HOPKINS, Music Teacher and Pi-
Tuner. Ashtabua, Ohio
EMORY LUCE, Propagator and Dealer in Grape
Vines Green-House Bedding and Vegetable Plants.
Persons about TO plant Vineyards, will find it their
advantage consult the selection of sites for
Vineyards Soils, Kinds of Grapes best mode and time
of Planting EXAMINE samples of Growing Vines. and
compare prices. 81 .--. Ashtabula. Ohio.
PURE BRANDY made from Grape Wine, White
Catawba and Blackberry Wines for medicinal purposes,
for sale on the North Ridge. JOHN PEREW.
Ashtabula, Jan. 1858. y-S39
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-06-22

~. @. DICK. Dealer I'm Books Stationery Fancy
Goods, Yankee Notions TOYS, Wall Paper, Window
Shades, Sheet Music and Music Books Agent for the
Mason Hanlin Cabinet Organs. ss7
The New York herald., 1867-04-15
p. CONWAY 4 co, AUCrIoNEERS.
mn x,-nrsb nc


Hesewood Pianofofte Drawing Room Furniture, Paintings
&c, at public auction
this day (Nonday). the brown stone house
Sixteenth street between Fifth and sixth nvepues
pAle commencing at JI O'Clock. Rosewood Etagere
be top, SecTetae Bookcase full Drawing Fur
covered French Brocatc Oil Paintings eminent
ertst artistic Bronze Siasry Velvet Brussels Carpets
Lsce Curtains, Chlna Vases mante Mirrors, Chan
asisrs bronze Clock, TurSih Rocking chair gnlfcent
rosewood 7-ocave lanoortc stand stool, Cover.
Music Books. rosewood ana walnut Dressing Bureaus
&artrobes, Bedscses, Commodes, Hair and Spring Mat.
Bedding extension Table, Sideboar elegant
Chin Glass Silver table cutlery Linen sofs, Chars
Lounge. Hatstand. sale rerenptoiy. N b.-Competent
re.soDs In attendance TO and remove the goods
The New York herald., 1867-04-15
TY HENRY II. LEEDS a MISER.
~ HENRY ii. LEEuS, AUCtIONEI

HOUSE AND LOT IL NEWARK. " =.
ON SATURDAY, 2nln INST, AT u O'CLOCK, NJ,
Al The REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. TRINITY BUILD
INGs corner Broadway anu Pine street f not sol pre-.
vspu sly st private sale.
DEsIkABLE PRIyArE RESIDENCE IN NEWARK, N. J.
No. 50 HAMILTON STREET, between Liberty ard Co.
lrnba streets .iN5x75, House 2x3J6 g. With story
ard part extension ex23 tarce stories high has cieyen
rooms good dry cellar cold water range,
bath, &c. &C., halls papcrcd and yarnsed and all
seen order; only hve minutes Walk from Market street
depot and the bnrss part Of the city Inquire
premises OF the Arr0rrrrs NO 50 Liberty street.
York, where maps eau be obtained with particulars.
The New York herald., 1867-04-15
IIENRY u. MINER AUCTIONEER.
IL saaesroom 81 Nassauc.reet, opposite the Post Office

GY MTNEK SUNEKVILLE,
EXTENSIVE SALE or HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
Monday. April l5th at i0ls O'Clock,
At Salcsroom, 81 Nassau street.
consisting OF nifty Brussels and ingram Carpets eight Parlor
Suits six Cottage Suits Oak Buhets, black walnut Ward.
robes Hat Racks rosewood and painted Bedroom Suits
black walnut and cnaiced Cottage Suits In reps brocate
deaine &c. Bookcases Dressing Bureaus thirty hair and
straw Mattresses, Feather Beds Pillows, &c, 4c Also
PRIVATE SALE,
the largest and excellent private collection Of ancient
Arms consisting of full suit Horse Armor four suits
Men Armor. cults Coat Of Mail Shields, numerous
Hamet's Swords iialbards &c also Bcauyas and Goben
Tapestry, silver Safe :x6 2x6 and bx6 and large
sized Bank Safe combination locks, inside
order in best manner by :. G Herring.
Permits be obtained at The ONCE, 81 Nassau
atra
The New York herald., 1867-04-15
pY HENRY II. LEEDS 4 MINER
~ HENRY IL. LEEDS. ArCTIONEFR. r.
viii sell mt auction Tuesday, April 10 "A clock
srNswrcK rFRRAcE. AsrnRIA

SINSWICk TERRACE. ASTORIA,
directly opposite steamboat laadng the property OF
! lay declining Rcusekeesplng
ELElhiSf HOCsEn0ID FURNITURE consisting 81
Brussels and three ply Carpets; carved rosewood Suit
IN and sIttn hTpeatc rosewood Isnrae top
Centre Tc; elegant carved rosewood III full grnnd
Paro. made by ChexerinE carved rosewood Eiag.
nrc &c
BFDRoDMS-Drusses and thrce ply Carpets; enaneii,
marble top Cottage Saii.; ana black walnut Bedroom
Iuure; osewead Beiscae9 rn5.wo1d, mArbe TOP Dges.
sing Buresis, ~ lsRnas H.iT Mattresses, glows Hol.
s.eTs, PaliiaSes, &c.
DikINGR0 DM--cak extension Diun- Table, oak Chsirs
In green leAttsr; SIDE Tab4cs. Cht t4ceAefy Ciaasn
kc Gallery. isngf fsrinE &c wh furniture which w DC
una more furlly crGfiefafti 10 catalogue
SsaE yssu streafn aud Mssaseoit VIII leave Peek
slip Ktg ard clock A. ~; also access BY ferry boat
foot Of Mn sticohd atfeet,
The New York herald., 1867-04-15
A UCTtON NOTICE-E. ROTH, AUCTIoNEER.
"A Al extraordinary opportunity FOR

..
MAGNIFICENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,
BLEGANr ROSEWOOD pIANOFORTE. COST 5000,
r. WORKS OF ART, OIL PAINTINGS, &C,
q public auction, the highest bidder without
ths Monday afternoon April IS at l o'clock precisely
The story residence ll9 West Eighth street.
doors from Sixth Jefferson Market consisting
Or rosewood pnoorte beautiful Parlor suits covered
u French satn crimson and and crimson and gold
trccaei; marble top Tables Eageres Curtains, Clocks,
Mirrors Carpets Eedsesds BUREAUS Washsiands Spring
and Hair Mattresses, Bosars, Pillows Lcuces, Sofas and
Chairs hair cloth aud reps Glass China Silver
liable Cutlery, dc. Sale positive.