Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-23
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PEE AND PASTE BREVITIES,

brick, are, under erection at Cheyenne.
rSA third Episcopal diucese il to be creat"d
in the State of New York, 10. be inaugurated in
November 1868.
9-They have sleighing at Bangor and very
cold weather, with prospect of the Immediate
close of navigation.
SdGen. Habert E. Paine. who represents the
Milwaukee district in Congress, is spoken of as
the successor of Doolittle
60 Tristan Burgess, grandson of the cele-
brated orator of Rhode Island, is passing four
months at Blackwell's Island, for larceny.
9The heads of the North Carolina Union
Leagues have unanimously nominated Chief
Justice Chase for the Presidency.
EFA ladies' base ball club near Coldwater,
Mich, played game last week. One of the
players over-exerted herself and died in three
days after.
1T The Boston Transcript authoritativcly
states that all the reports that Governor Andrew
vas offered seat in Mr. Johnson's CaEine, are
sfreer fabricaiions.
JMsjor General Sickles is honorably mus
seted out of service, dating from the lst Of jan
uary next. He retains Lis dSiiOn as cclorel
of the 44th regulars.
egThe propeller Antelope, in the Racine and
Buffalo trade, was burned in Buffalo harbor en-
the 18th, inst with a total loss on vessel and
cargo, of $I50,0OO, with $94, 600 insurance.
ETAttorney General Stanberry disavows the
authorship of the article or opinion which was
attributed to him, touching the ilegality of the
extra sessions of the XLlh Congress.
EEThe woods near Green Bay have been Wis
tied by disastrous fires, and the flames have
swept over the prairies near that place, consum-
ing over one hundred tons of stacked hay.
E9-lt is rumered in New York that the clerks
in the wholesale dry goods trade are 10 have
their salary reduced 30 per cent. after January
1st. The cause is the ruinous decline in goods.
EgThe issue of fractional currency from the
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Departing mt
for the week ending the 18th, amounted to
S457,OCO
TThe steamer QUAKER city, arrived in n,
York, Tuesday morning, with the exchfsionsts
who have been ''pilgrimizing' through Europe
and the Orient.
eFA mill at WeEona, Mich, sawed, on the
10Th, $40, 797 feet of lumber i'll twelve hours,
using four gangs, one circular and one uprigh'
The feat has never been oqualed in the United
States.
eTThe proposition to raise 100000 for the
family of the late Gov. Andrew is being carried
out with the characteristic liberality of Bostc-
MANS The subscriptions, which are private
and unsolicited, had already exceeded S73 600.
EJThe average fall OF the Ohio river, from
pittsburgh TO Cincinnati, is six inches er mile,
and the distance, as measured by the recent
government survey, is 6GG mills, giving 4 total
fail of s33 feet in that distance
esSnow is q foot deep il the Berkshire hills
IN Massachusetts. AT Springfield and Hartford,
it was about six inches deep, and did immense
damage to fruit AMI ornamental shade trees
broke down the telegraph wires, and obstructed
railway trains.
TgA steamer will leave Dubuque in day or
txs'fef New Orleans, towing barges containing
nearly hundred thousand bushcl> of wheat for
New York ard Liverpool. The experiment is
to tesrthe feasibility Of using the entire water
route instead OF rail and wafer.
E9The surveys made through the Rocky
Mountains for the Union Pacific Railway show
that the road is feasible, with grades not ex-
ceeding those on the Pennsylvania Central
Fine beds of bituminous coal have been found
in the mountains.
E4Gee. Sherman has telrgraphed Brigham
Young that he will hold the latter responsible
for any murders that may hereafter occur at
Salt Lake. such as have lre+ay been perpetra-
ted upon obnoxious Geatiles, irsiigated, as is
supposed by Young.
q Returns from Florida show that the Com
yention was carried by decided majority of
the registered voters. Nearly all the blacks
voted, and but few whites. A large number of
negroes are elected TO the Convention. In Leon,
three out of the four delegates are negroes.
SarA dispatch from Augusta, Ga, states that
three hundred freedmen passed through that
city week ago. en- route to Charleston to take
passage for Liberia. We hope the venture will
be SO far successful as to create a regular emil
grafton.
Ct The day is not far distant when the coun-
try will be called to mourn the death of the
great old Commoner, Thad Stevens He is
rapidly tottering graveyard, and his friends fear
to hope that he will survive through the COM
ing winter.
@ At Brazil (Ind } the Western Iron Con-
pany have just succeeded in smelling iron with
the block coalfound in that neighborhood-
The coal contains no sulphur and. abounds in
large quantities in that region. Its ad Iptabili-
ty to smelling purposes will contribute l rgely
to the wealth of Indiana
E9rA Tribune special says that the official
reports show that The Government has lost, by
the non-c collection OF the whisky tax alone, the
past year, upwards of hundred million dollars.
The'loss on. tobacco is set down at twenty-five
millions These losses are yattibuted to cor
raptioD and miSmanagement of Collectors.
Ear The democratic patty Of New York,
is choking, with two candidates in lis throat.
The Republican party, like the crane in the IA
ble isaskedt TO insert its long bill into the foxs
mouth, and remove tke obstruction, so that the
party can swallow Hoffman and spew out
Wood. We say let the old fox, choke. We
propose to save our 'darng biIT' for other
purposes Bill Darling is the Republican.
FF The French Chambers were yesterday
opened by Louis Napoleon. The opening
speech makes the important announcement that
all opposition to the unity and consolidation of