Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-11-14
PEN AND PASTE BREVIIIES.
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= 9;sS General Augur is locating detachments
-oftseops at various points on the Union Pacific
.stg-A uAfonl passenger depot at New York,
-uefthe 4adsen-iffive Harlem, and New York
and New Haven Railroads, is talkedof
ca ccgti1T The Democrats of Winterset, Iowa, have
elected, 4 negro Justice of the Peace. Its their
: conception ofajoke, .i:-..4sl r,i-.ta'.iii'.Ee
~ Some ofiAIr- Brights constituents have
requested him to use his influence for Nthe ex-
s.Irlsion, of the Jesuits from England. MI
,,rBEIi Bright declines. .J1.,a. -
q fH-Pike has really sold his New York OPP
era House to the Erie Railroad Company. The
ahstter us;II use front for offices and rent
,,r;ss5=The Union Pacific Railroad Company
4aresabeutto lay out a town at the mouth of
.ahcl Weber River, IS miles of Salt Lake City:
e8 White fish are now being caught in the
TTeffoit River in immense numbers. They are
u drug in the market.
''h'gg-T The Spanish Government promises to
its colonies liberty of the press and release
from various import duties. r....5 .,...-.
e General Reynolds has been removed
from the Texas command. His place will be
taken BY General Candy. ,.,f..... -.,....
'''itFsSThe. new freight depot of the Hudson
River Railroad, at New York, is rapidly ap-
proaching completion, and will be the largest
building of its kind on the continent
:, - The Republican majority in South Car
alma. is 10000, Rather a significant cOmmen-
tary Upon the spirit of ASSASSINATION so freely
l. ~ IL 0f
=, The return of Admiral Farragut to New
York harbor, on the morning of Tuesday last,
.wessa surprise, as no notice of his intended re-
turn, had been received a.'.l u .'.
g. EEf The Indians are harrassing the trains
on the Union Pacific Railroad, between North
Platte and Cheyenne. A freight train bound
west was thrown kff the track by Instructions,
last week, and the gremen killed.
-'aA According to custom, the, Vice EPresi-
dent has the privilege of numing one member
Jf.the Cabinet Mr Colfax will designate Mr.
Wade for tlle interior Department So says
al ahexchangc. -. E....,,,..- ,,.g.
3-A specimen of camel coal from Alaski
has been. received by the President 1t is pro-
hounced by competent judges to be the finest
quality ofeoals The vein from which this
specimen was Obtained is represented as. being
forty miles long and of average width
sH -0ne hundred and seventytseven fire in
suraDce companies represented at the under
Writers meeting at Chicago, last week, report
cd as last years aggregates: Capital, S5S,600,-
600, gross income, $50 2oO, 900; expenses, S12,-
100000, and the losses, S22, 800 900.
eYThe total vote cast by the three States
of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, at the Oc-
tober election, reached the enormous figure of
1,51e094 The same States, at the Presidential
election in 1864, cast only 1,324,OS4 Votes SO
that.in four years the number has increased
1ss,Of0. s@'f'' H-,.'! r. '.'-.
S-One steamer of the new line between
Italy. and New York has already left Naples,
and, idnta January 1, fortnightIy trips will be
made, after which time they will be weekly,
The passage viii occupy about twenty days.
and, if sufficient business offers, will be made
direct to Italy without calling at England
t-- The first instance of u Chicago pulpit
being occupied by female preacher, occurred
Sunday. in the Church of the Redeemer, (Uni-
ve1salist, where Rev Mrs Chaplin, of Mount
Pleasant Iowa, addressed very largo audi.
ence in the morning and evening, with consid-
cradle effect. She, showed herself to be Lady
oftalent and cultivation, without uncommon
ofat9rieal ability. f..
GB The latest joke, says the Cleveland Her
a!5 is the Democratic proposition to cast the
Democratic electoral vote for General GRANT,
so1as to make bis election unanimous, free him
from obligations to the Republican party, and
establish Democratic Claims on him. In other
weEds, having some bogus scrip which no one
wijlstake,, they propose to make present Of it
to-General Grant in hopes he will give some
thing; valuable IN return. This is too thin .. ,
N- The Democrats were very boastful of
the popularity of Gov Seymour in his own
StsTe,, prior to taking issue on that ques-
ton At the ballot box, but since that revealed
It's secrets they have had but little to say on
tirat point, Seymour has never been able to
poll the fun strength ofiis party in New York,
and this year his weakness has been more
manifest than ever before Seymour's -popG-
laFitE like his political integrity, is at large
DISCOUNT, established under. the proper. tests.
We should think his friends would get tired of
deeeiYing themselves and attempting to de-
ceiFe the public on this poiGt, in the face of
histoIy,irf. .sss.; -.tf -.t Ir.siI
FB The N Y ,Iournes ef Commerce, Dem
ocratic paper commenting on the result Of the
latePresideptidl election, refers to the conven-
ton that nominated Seymour and Blair, and
says.thati "no party, in wantonness of unlimit-
ed power. ever trif1ed more pitifully with a
greatopportunity than did the leaders of the
opposition in that critical hour. The platform
was. made Odious to every unprejudiced man
desit6us Of maintaining unsullied the national
honor, ana the ticket was encountered with
loadwhieh no sagacious politician, however
unp npsneipled, would lave willingly assumed
in such contest. 1t needed no prophetic in
spiration to foTeteIl the result" L .......
How THE CHTcKGo TnGEs SURRENDERED.
THE Chicago Times surrendered as follows:
.Our Radical opponents have got things all
theif, own way The emigration to Salt River
leaves them a clear field We leave them, at
the moment of adieu, our blessing, several
thousand torches, quantity of benzine suita-