Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-02
ASHTABULA
PEN AND PASTE BREvITIEs.

Domestic matters.
John Adams, paymaster ofthe Harlem Rail-
road, has disappeared with deficit Of $4,000
or $50. 900 in his accounts.
A man in jackson, Miss, gave his intended
money to buy her bridal outfit, aud the follow
ing morning she married his brother.
rgMassachusetts contributes pupilto Gen.
eral Lees college in Virginia. He is son of
hard shell old democratic lawyer near Boston
era schooner owned and manned by colorsd
men arrived at Pensacola few days ago from
Havana, with a cargo of West India fruit
1.-THE President has; rendered the Vienna
mission to Postmaster General Randall, as the
Senate will not confirm Cowan.
rgThe man who imagined himself wise be-
cuse he detected typographical errors in news
paper, has gone eastward to get perpeRdicu-
lar view of the rainbow.
ex-senator Chandler appealed to the Senate
Tuesday to pass the Niagara Ship Canal bill.
The motion was laid on the table bya vote of
"a to Is. That kills it for this session.
ESrAn organization has been effected In men,
phis for the purpose of sustaining free schools
in that city, from which no scholar shall be ex-
eyThe Nebraska Legislature have ratified
the conditions imposed by Congress, prepara-
tory to the 9daiss ion of the Territory into the
Union. The numder of States is thus sweled
to thirty seven.
@-The damage caused by freshets in the
West is serious. 1t is reported that steamboats,
were running on the prairies on the Illinois
hot fbo rixor xr-ac TON p,ilac u:da xpd flo
houses Totally submerged.
sFIti is estimated that Gov Swami, of Mary
land, will not be allowed to take his seat in the
Senate of the Fortieth Congress until his ere
dentials are full examined by the Judiciary
Committee
UCanada confederated Is hereafter 10 be
known as the Kingdom Of Canada. Such is
the title to be given to the united provinces in
the new bill now pending in the British Parlia-
ment
The New York Herald says Mr. Seward is
President Johnson's 'Mephistopheles, and that
Thurlow Weed is Mr. Stewards Man Friday.
Rather an incongruous mixing up o. FATS. AID
Robinson Crusoe?
EgThe prohibitory liquor law is vigorously
enforced in Massachusetts,. In Boston alone
last week, the officers seized the stocks oftwen-
against thirty-two others.
The indictment against Surratt has been
Changed so as to arraign him as an accessory and
not as the principal in The murder. The first
indictment was defective and would have been
quashed.
EEThe tallest member of the present Senate
is Cowan, of Pennsylvania; but after the fourth
of March that lofty honor will belong to Sen
ator Stewart, of Nevada, who over tops Sum-
ner by three quarters of an inch.
tH-aIissouri seems about to submit to her
citizens the question Of suffrage without dis
tinction of color. One branch of her legisla-
ture has already adopted the resolution for the
submission of the question to the vote of her
people.
INCoRPoRATED.-Th certificate of incorpo-
ration of the Rocky River Railroad Company,
filed at the Secretary of States Office. The
road isto extend from Cleveland to Rocky River
The new deciple church, in East Cleveland
was dedicated on Sunday last. the Rev. Mr..
Errett editor of the Christian STANDARD, of
Cleveland, presiding at the cermonies. he was
assisted by several other cergymen of various
other denominations.
Ex-Governor JOHN ANDREW of Massat husetts
srrivcdin Washington on Sunday last. Rumor
freely gives him Secretary Stewards place after
the 4th of March in the Department of State,
ard as far as inquiry can be made, there is
slight foundation for this rumor.
tgHavana correspondence says The Bay
of Samana has been secured by Mr. Semers
Smith, Charge d Affairs for the United States in
ST Domingo. as coaling station in the latter
republic for United states vessels, and the treaty
has already been forwarded.
ETNew York Insurance Companies are get
ting slightly frightened, and no wonder con-
sidering the number and magnitude of fires
during the last and present session. The rates
of premium have been advanced twenty per
cent.
VESSEL SALEs.-The schooner Narraganset
says the Cleveland Leader has been sold by
JOHN MARTIN, r. II. HARMON and others, to
GEORGE HALL and others of that city, for s22
600, and the schooner Yankee, by N c. WINS
LOW to L. TYLER and others of Ashtabula, for
$4,000.
ETThe Senate Committee on Foreign affairs
acted on the nomination of General Dix Minis
ter to France, on Tuesday last, the vote stood
three for and three against. The chances are
that he will be rejected. The vote stood the
same on Hugh Ewings nomination as minister
to the Hague.
g The President on Saturday last rendered
General Daniel E. Sickles the position of Co..
lsctor OF the port of New York in place of Mr.
Smythe, but is was spectfulls declined. Gen
sral Sickles preferring his present position in
the army The proposed changed caused
great excitement among New York politicians
in Washington.
@That Mr. Reverdy johnson should vote
for the Reconstruction bill, with impartial Suf-
frage. the Constitutional Amendment, and
military rule included, may be regarded as a
sign of the speedy approach of the millennium.
Perhaps this act of one of the Presidents
best friends may be the prologue to his approval
of the bill.
g-A feeling is growing up in both Houses
in favor of the speedy adjournment of the 10th
Congress, not to meet again till December So
many of the loyal States viii lack representa-
ton in March that legislation viii be impracti-