Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-10-10
PEN AND PASTE BREvlTIEs.

Is Secretary McCuilOch refuse to confirm
the men named by Rollins for supervisors.
N The Roman Catholic Synod has fcrbia~
den church pic-nics, the use of planchette,' and
other spiritualistic devices.
UA Democratic transparency in Cincinna-
Ii had an inscription the destroyer
of 100000 lives!
mIn three years the army has been re-
duced from 1,O05, SIC men to about 10000, and
proposition is now pending for its reduction
to $4,000.
CT-The National Banks of the United States
pay rising of $1s,OOO,OOO taxes, or AZ per
cent on the capital invested; and yet the
Democrats declare that the Banks are ex-
empt from taxation.
CY Maurice Bonaparte of Burlington, New
Jersey, son to Prince Napoleon, was struck
BY a locomotive near Philadelphia, and so
badly hurt that he will probably die. He is
nearly eighty years of age.
eH-A train of ten cars on the Atlantic and
Great Western road was destroyed by fire,
seven miles east of Urbana, on the 29th ult
The fire was occasioned by an explosion in
the forward car, supposed to have contained
nitro -glycerine.
R~W When the Democratic party in 1861,
went out of power, its only bequest to its sue
cessors was civil war, an empty treasury, a
skeleton army, and a scattered navy. Its only
tangible pledge, in the event of its restoration
to power, is another civil war, to nullify the
laws, re-cstablish slavery, and make cabinet
m sters, governors and senators of the rebels
who devoted four years to robbery, rapine and
murder.
.EYThe Donnelly and Hubbard quarrel, in
Minnesota, has assumed new phase Hub
bard has withdrawn his name, which leaves
Donnelly the only Republican candidate for
Congress. His opponents, however, are urging
another convention, and the fight is likely to
grow more bitter than ever.
Among the Democratic notices in the
procession at Cincinnati on Monday evening"
were the following: "We cast our MAIDEN vote, ;.
and another which proclaimed, " the Ruster
amt died." The Times of that city remarks
that the Democracy will have even a worse
spell after the November election.
EB Said Henry Stanberry, ex-Attorney
General four years ago: when you come to
vote, ask what candidate Jefferson Davis and
the rebels would wish elected, and vote against
that man." We apply that text now. Let
Democracy ask Stanberrys question, and act
upon it.
CB-During the recezt inspection tour of the
Commissioner of Customs, he visited Boston,
St. Albans, Rouses Point, Ogdensburg, Oswe-
&c; Rochester, Niagra Falls, Toronto, Port
Huron, Detroit, and most of the other stations
along the northern frontier. The investiga-
ton developed the fact that there is less SNUG
Cling along that line than at any other point
There is more dishonesty at New York, next
to which may be mentioned the South. Most
of the frauds in the North are from under
valuation.
The copperhead party has formally and
officially committed itself TO the principle Of
equal taxation of all property for the support
of the government, The only question now
to settle is the proper rate to be levied. Lead
ing Democrats in Congress have proposed two
per cent as the rate of taxation for bonds. If
this figure be adopted; the farmer will be tax
ed two dollars per hundred on the cash value
efland. That is, land worth $50 per acre will
pay dollar per acre of iaxes when the Cop
perheads come into power Some people may
like this mode Of raising revenue, but we sus-
pect that the agricultural rural class will de-
muir They had better do so at the polls