Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-03-21
-.... .....-- BY Request
National Christian Convention
Against Secret Societies.

Anatona convention of Christians opposed to secret
societies will be held in the city of Pitsburgg Pa on
Tuesday Wednesday and pnnrfday me occc Srh pun In m
Tuesday All who are included in the call are lnVl-
| ted to attend.
Rev. B. T. Roberts, Rochester N Y, Free Methodist
Rev. II. P. Stevenson, Editor Christian Statesman
Rev. 4. Ritchc, Editor Christian Press Cincinnati,
Ohio United Presbyterian
Rev D. Berger, Editor Religious Telescope, Dayton, o.,
Rev. Nathan Brown, Editor Anerican Baptist, New
Rev. 4. Crooks EzitOr Wesleyan syracus.. N. Y.
Prof Henry Farchild oberlIn College, Ohio, Congre-
Rev. John Laurence, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. A. c. Van Roalte, Protestant Dutch, Holland,
Rev NJ Bennett, Presiding Elder Methodist Episco-
pal Church. Kilbourne Wis.
Rev. VIM, Delos Love, Milwaukee, Wis, Congrega-
Rev. Nathaniel coven. D. D.. Richmond, Va, Bap-
Rev Dr. Cooper, Philadelphia, Pa, United Presbyte-
Henry Kimban, ESQ, of the Church OF Christ, Brook
lyn n. Y.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
AT & meeting of ministers and members of churches,
hastily convened for consultation in Pittsburgh Pa,
the 18th of February nit, local committee was ap
pointed from the various denominations TO make all
needed arrangements, with power TO fill vacancies and
increase their number. This committee will announce
Members of the national committee empowered to do
So have conferred with the following gentlemne who
have promised to submit prepared papers to the conven
ton ON the following topics, viz:
l. Action of the secret orders social relations
President j. H. Fairchid, Oberln, Ohio.
Action of the secret orders on Christian civilization
Hon. Henry Wilson, United States Senate.
g. The secret orders reigion.-President ]. Blanca
ard, Wheaton College, Ill., 'l
Further arrangements will be announced in due time
by the national and local committees.
Chairman of the National Committee.
TEIEGRApn1o ITEMS, March I6-The Mo-
hawk at Schnectady, the Susquehana and Che
mango at Binghamton, and Connecticut at
Hartford, are very high and doing much dam
age.
PIrTsBrRGn-Thc river is rising fast; it is now
l6 feet. A large part of the rise is from the Al
Ieghany river. Weather cloudy and wet.
E5A young lady named Bross was instantly
killed by lightning at Brookston, Indiana, this
morning. Herself and sister were in an out
house. which was struck; the sister was unin-
jured. ..r.... .-...... ...-st
The Hudson river has risen some 10 feet
The ice is nearly up to the road way of the rail-
way bridge; Water street is navigable, and
boats are playing about on it; the stores are
closed and the goods have been removed up in
to the city. The weather continues very warm,
and the gorge is likely to break at any moment
Tile Nev Hampshire Statesman.
(Concord) gives the following lucid ac-
count of the way New Hampshire was
carried: .6 sa.,.~
Probably the people of Concord never
went to the polls 50 early and in such large
numbers os on Thursday. In the Fourth Ward,
several hundred sOcre IN the house at the
opening ofthe polls, and half the whole votes
ecas probably taken during the first hour.
Il was somewhat SO in other wards. And the
Republicans were, if possible more wide awake
than the Democrats for of the first hundred
6tlIots taken in aoard Fourth, nearly or quite
ninety Vere cast by Republicans There
were no laggards that day. The whole vote
of the city is nearly four hundred greater than
that given last March,"
Where that spirit previls, we all
known what the results will be. When
the polls are abandoned to politicians by
trade; and the loafers around groggeries,
the returns tell a different story.