Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-08

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Es-The Florida Union QfsbeiJ denounces Gen.
Meade as "Geeler," and SAYS that ''there is
but one officer (Hancock) who can resist obedi
eice to the Radical Congress"
eg-In Brooklyn fully two-thirds of the resi-
dences, are used as boarding houses. In a
population of 324 900 there are l5O, 900 that Ell
| tfer board or keep boarders
Es- The Republicans Of Chicago favor wig
VAN, to be erected for the National Convention
next May. Liberal contributions can be had
to secure the wigwam, and il viii bring the
whole northwest to Chicago during the Conven-
| ton.
esSunday night was generally thought in
this region to be the coolest of the winter At
Detroit the Mercury stood ~ degrees below
zero at ) a. m, at Akron 10 below, at Warren
IL to Is below, at Hudson to 10 below, at Ra-
VIENNA the same .f,,-,,.
The bridge at St. Louis will cross the Missis-
sippi, on three arches, Of about 800 feet each.
The piers will be 40 and 1876 feet high. The
arches are to be of fribbed cast STEEL. Beneath
the carriage and street-car way, will be double
track railway. The cost is estimated at s., 900,
600. -r--.s ISL. .Gf-r.i. s-.T'
sFThe gale which passed over London Eng
land Feb. 3, was very destructive to life and
property. In that city and in Liverpool, chin
neys- and signs were blown down and houses
unroofed, and many people were struck by fall
ing objects and seriously injured, and, in some
instances. killed outright. y aAI
ES-During last year the Freedmen PM near
ly two million dollars into the savings hank. A
considerable portion of this was drawn out, al
SO, during the year, but they have near six hun
dred thousand now drawing interest. The de-
posits in the main office at Washington, during
the year, were two hundred and Ten Thousand
dollars.
The change in the head of the Revenue
Bureau, at Washington, which has been for
some time talked of las an early probability, has
at last been made, so far as depends upon
the Executive action, the President having
sent in to the Senate the nama of General
| O.C. Wisewell, of n. T., as the successor OF
Mr.. Rollins. 81. l'.G ID. .h,47Dw.rs a5fH
UTwo cars of passenger train on the ST.
Paul Railway were thrown off the track on Fri
day morning, some eighty miles west of Mil
waukee. The cars went down an eml,ankment:
upset, and were set on fire by the Goals from
the hot stoves. Fortunately all the passengers
were rescued, many of them painfully bruised
and seorched, but none fatally injured .f.-
Es~ Fifty thousand dollars worth of properly
was destroyed at Erie on Friday night last, by
the burning of the Wayne Hall block. for the
want of water in the reservoir, which had re-
Gently been SO indiffrrently repaired that, when
/ the fire broke out it was found to be dry, and
before other sources. could be resorted to The
fire was beyond control. The. insurance was
less than $4,000. g., t.,..-...5 -.
esrT The Augusta Georgia. Chronicle is sad
Iy disappointed in Gen Meade 1t says There is
| little doubt that Gen. Meade is as thorough
aud as bitter Radical as John Pope or Thad.
Stevens. He implicitly believes in the omnipo-
tence of the Rump Congress, and makes it . IL
Dor of love TO enforce, with the greatest degree
of severity and vgOr, all the hehests Of his Radi-
cal friends -. .-.t -..-..,.. ..... t.,-..
sgThe CoppeIheads in Michigan are in a
desperate strait. They are Obliged to choose
between. their love of whisky and their hatred
of the negro. If they vote AGAINST the new con-
stitution, they vote 10 fasten upon themselves
for The next fifteen years most stringent liquor
law On the other hand, ifthey vote for it they
must indorse negro suffrage. 1t is certain that
the majority of the ''unterrified' wi'Enevcr vote
to cut themselves off from their whisky. The
far sighted among them will vote for the con-
stitution, trusting to future good luck for the
chance to make some generous negro pay for
their liquor. 1!I. 30 'l"'i1'. ii. 10 @'.-'-r