Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-01-25
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHT A B I'll A
Saturday Morning, January 25, 1868.
PEN AND PASTE BREvITIES.
@The second trial of surratt is fixed to CO

De rejected and vacancy declared
Es-The Chicago Times comes out strong for
Pendleton as the Democratic. Presidential can
didate, .. .
@Blue water is yet visible in the lake til"
ice only stretching five or six miles from shore
yet-;, This is quite unusual at this season.
eNConstruction trains on the Union Pacific
Railroad are now running nearly TO Ike Black
Hills Summit. ...a.;
sFFresh fish sell for seventy five cents per
pound, at Austin, Nevada; they are brongh;
from the Humboldt River. Flour sells at the
ssmeilocality fr SI4 per hundred pounds.
Es1Fhe Stale Department is in receipt of a
dispatch from San francisco. stating thst an Us
.ay-uf geld ore from .Nlaskl gives thirteen thou
sand dollars rer ,on.s Il ; | .-- .f 1881.
T In spite of the anxiety of large porior
of the Democracy to put Hancock in nomina-
ton as President, the PcndIetonians viii prob
ably hsve it all their own way.
FS-Profsssor Rhodes the excellent correspon-
dent ot'the Cleveland Herald, has returned from
Europe Two more letters will conclude his
admirable series, of letters .Abroad," ......
@It Is said that the waters ef Great Sail
Lake ere slowly but steady rising, being nov
three feet above its former level. There is no
room for hope, however, that this rising Oft The
waters viii engulph that modern Seldom.
QWoolen manufacturers in New England,
are expecting fair spring trade. They think
that nearly all imported goods are used up, and
importatiens' must nearly cease as long as oar
present low prices in wooIens continue.
eFGen.4 D. W. II. Day, has been appointed
QuartermasteF General of the State by Govern
or Hayes and Harvey j. Covell, of Ashtabuls
County, has been appointed Aid de-Camp ON
the Governors, staff, with rauk of Colonel.
ESFhe Internal Revenue Ways and Means
COMMITTEES are going torepeal the present inter
nalrevenue law and make an entirely new one
from the beginning. They entered upon the
work of preparing it the 29th, bat are not like
Iy to report until the lst of March.
EFAnotilrr swing of the axe in Georgia and
another head falls into the basket. The hero Of
Gettysburg is as merciesS towards rebels in the
Third District as was the hero of the Shenan-
doah in the Fifth District The rebellious Geor-
gians find the little finger OF Gen. Meade to be
thicker than the lo;ns of Gen. Pope
TThe popular vote an the question of an
nexation of ST. Thomas TO the United States
was taken on January llth, with the following
results In favor OF annexation, PA; against
annexation, 90. The American c, n sui has tel
egraphed to Secretary Seward that the.vote was
most enthusiastic, and that the people are an1-
iously awaiting the official acknowledgment OF
the Secretary. ...-
S%Commodore Vanderbilt has ordered all
the brass-work and other useless ornamentation
to be removed from the New York Central's
locomotives. The object is not, as some sup
pose, to sell the old brass, but to dispense with
the army Of "wipers" required to keep it clean
and bright. He is also Withdrawing the time
tables of the road from the advertising columns
of the local papers. .----.r ......ss .
E5-The situation at The War Department is
unchanged. Mr.. Stanton is at his business as
usual The stories that he is not recognized a c
pure fasehoods. His acquisitions On the Trea-
sury have been honored just as th!y were q
year ago /; and all needful intercourse is con-
stantly carried on with army headquarters
The Secretary says he viii be governed by the
advice of his friends, and they insist that he
shall not resign at present.
EgA Maine newspaper says an extensive bu
siness in spruce gum is carried on in Oxford
and Franklin counties. One merchant in Weld
has purchased $1,000 worth in single year
Men sometimes earn five to seven dollars day
taking gum from spruce trees, carrying a hatch
ct and knapsack, good days work being nifty
pounds. Others are pail by the month 1t i
estimated that the gum business in Maine a
mounts to $50, 900 annually '.7
BStanton denies that either Grant or ShcT
man advised him 10 resign. The two General!
have already denied the report, ii may noA
be considered settled-until it is re-asserted.
ex-senator Chandler stated in Congress IS, o.
the authority of the Secretary of State, that th'
revenue from consular fees exceeds the whole
cost of the consular system by S13, ,O0l in god
and that under the new system frauds have
ceased, making saving to the Treasury o
more than 100000 in gold per al:nu =.
Eg1 is supposed that when Sccretery Saa
ton sends in. to the President certain military
nominations as he presently intends. the lattel
will be, compelled to take seme weli-deiine'
position relafiyefo his not over complaisan
Secretary. As matters now stand, the PFesi
dent will, himself transact much of the busines
which; from convenience and long existing us
age, 3 has been attended to at the War Office
Such state of things cannot exist for a grea
while, and will ere long crys,alize into somt
clear shape.
eEThe Boston Commonwealth his or th
portrait Of Mr.. Dickens as lie reads: short
thinnish gentleman, Of about ffly-fve years o
age bald from the crown of his head to hi
forehead, above which was guhercd his sid
hair brushed forward over his ears, set of b.
moustache and rather long and wide impe
rial !; black rass coat, with lapel facings Q
watered satin in Ac upper left hand buttoI
hole pink and white flower; 3 low cui vest
with diamond studs to shirt bosom. white era
vat, and gold watch guard black pants TIL
whole appearance that of an active, volatil
Frenchman, who had seen some cares, the line
of which were well traced on his face.
GA correspondent at Washington gives
vivid picture Of Thad. Seyens in the House
and refers to his last speech, which was III an
swer to thatrof james Brooks, on the negro, a