Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-25

s7rA Washington correspondent is convinced
scheme through Congress, female beauty is far
more potent than brains or bank notes.
r1Greely is in favor of haying Nye, Nevada,
appointed Secretary of the Treasury, assigning
as a reason, that '.Nye ofcanborrow more mon
ey, and paw lass, than any man in the United
Statcs.''
GA scheme for the establishment of a ma
tional telegraphic system, in connection with
the Post Office Department. has been maturcd
by Mr.. Washburn, of Illinois, and will be intro
duced in Congress soon.
EsThe following Government rewards are
offered for the arrest of the assassin of D Arcy
McGee Dominion Government, $1,000; On
tsrio, $500; Quebec; $4,000; City of Ot-
tawa, 81 200; City of Montreal, $1,000. To-
tai S19, ,000
The chimney of the Dunnell Print Works. at
Pawtucket, R. l. built last year, is 13l feet
high, IL feet inches in diameter at the base,
and feet inches at the top 1: contains lG3
cords of stone and 10000 brick, and cost a.
bout $1,000.
BILL appropriating $4,000 for defraying
the expenses of the impeachment trial, passed
the House OF Representatives on Wednesday
last. On the same day, Mr.. Banks bill having
reference to the right of American citizens
broad, was also passed after slight amendment.
UIt is asserted that Vanderbilt has directed
the New York Central railroad to take no
freight brought from New York to Albany on
the river boats, thus requiring all feight up the
Hudson, bound west from Albany, to travel ov-
er Vanderbilt's Hudson railroads.
ETLemons must be very expensive at Wash :
ington and the Senators are very dry set. Mr..
Cragin explained the appropriation of $4,000
for miscellaneous expenses by enumerating, as
the chief items, the fitting up the marble room,
and the lemonade the Senators drank all last
summer
egThere are at present 416 churches of all
denominations in New York, with accommo-
dalions for 10000 persons. The average at
tendance for the whole city does not exceed
10000, while the total of regular and occas-
ional church goers may be reckoacd at 200, 600,
or one fifth of the entire population.
egDispatches from Gen. Candy, dated
Charleston, April Goth, gives further particulars
of the vote for the Constitution in South Car
olina. In twenty one districts, registering co.
600 votes, partial returns give 81, 900 votes poll
ed. The same DISTRICTS with full returns at
the last election gave 53, 900 votes. Partial re-
turns from the eighteen district gives 34,O94
votes for the Constitution, and 1924 against.
These returns indicate there will be major
ity for the Constitution in all except three or
four districts.
E8Female suffrage was practically exempli-
fed at the village of Sturgis ia Michigan, when
the new constitution of the State was submit
ted to the people last week. The women of the
village assembledin the afternoon, were duly
marshaled to the voting place and deposited
their ballots, one hundred and fourteen voting
for prohibition, and only six against it. The
proceedings were orderly, and as a proof
of their sympathy for women's rights three
hearty cheers for the new voters were given by
| the crowd of men who looked on.
By vote of the citizens of Ienox, it has
been decided to build Town Hall