Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-15
PEN AND PASTE BREYlTIEs.

rs Like many other scrpentine productions
the democratic ticket carries its sting in its tail
eBrThe Chinese embassy were balled at Nj
agara Falls, Tuesday night last.
General Grant crushed the rebellion. Now
the friends of rebellion seeks to crush him.
VIII patriotic and grateful people permit it ?
C%-A. J. compares the n York nominations
to the small-pox-Iiable to kill-hard to cure
and harder to endure.
Ey-If the war was "a failure" as the Demo
crats declared in 1864, why are they SO anxious
to prove that Seymour was in favor of it.
8-If Hugo wants subjects for new "Misera-
bles, " let him take Pendleton, johnson, Chase
and, after the election, Seymour and Blair.
GY -Seymour's physicians say he is likely to
become Grassy within a year. If he has any
hopes of defeating Grant, he is crazy already.
Frank Blair says "the contest before US
is for the restoration of our race" That is of
course, the race of the Blairs Heaven forbid!
The Hartford Post thus hits the nail on
the head: "The Democratic party is the Peace
party in War, and the War party in Peace.
-~Ifyou desire TO witness the operations of
aleech, let it be communicated to one of the
Blairs that you have an Office at your disposal.
@-Gen. Rosseau will not assume command
of the Department of Louisiana until the 1st
of October
EBThe poet selected for the exercises of
Harvard College next year, is Edward r. Sill,
of Cuyahoga Falls
CB Schuyler Colfax and party were at the
end of the Pacific Railroad track on the 9th;
1,24O miles west of Chicago.
wf Horace Greeley is appointed Register
of New York for the unexpired term of Gen.
Halpine, the salary of the office will be hand
ed to.Mrs. Halpine.
I-There is no position maintained by the
Pendleton Democracy, on the question of issu-
ing greenbacks to pay our bonds, but may be
refuted by extracts from Seymour's speeches.
gThe Albany Journal cautions Frank
Blair to remember, when he threatens violent
resistance, that the majority of his supporters
ale under parole not to bear arms against Gen
eraI Grant
sS-In 1850, Blair, in a campaign speech,
pronounced the Democratic party "the most
miserable and corrupt party that ever existed
And now, after having got into it, he was nev-
er SO much at home.
EY The Democracy which disfranchised
the wounded veterans of the war at the Gov
ernment, Military Hospital in this State hail
with joy the fact that the soldiers in barracks
at Louisville voted the Democratic ticket
UThe Democratic managers at Memphis
have challenged the Republican managers to
discuss the issues of the campaign in joint
meetings, and the Republicans have accepted
There will be lively times in Tennessee.
Jamaica is alive with spirit of the the
age 1t has had just thirteen miles of railroad
fpr twenty-five years, and it now proposes to
add twelve more.
~ The Independent says there is an Ameri-
can lady, the daughter of New York grocer,
whois princess, and related by marriage to
Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
Who is she?
sgThe inventor of a new style of horse
shoe has sent to the soliciting firm in New
York model made of solid silver The in
ventor lives in Colorado, and could not afford
to use iron.
GYConnecticut divorces within eight years
count I'D two thousand nine hundred and ten,
or one in every eleven of the marriages. Cup
by concludes that there is considerable lea
ven of immortality in Connecticut.
EE-Seymour was "dishonored" by accept |
ing the Democratic nomination. He will be
protested BY the people in November, He
will be worth then about as much as COnfed-
crate bond. g.
g-President johnson gave Seymour and
his. friends the hardest hit yet in his late Ye-
to message, when he said that 'ft is well llknow1f
a portion of the inhabitants of the State of n
Fork and Virginia were alike engaged in the
rebellion"
BFhe Copperheads are boasting that ex-
Pierce and Fillmore are for Sey-
nour; but they take care to omit the fact that
he extinguished' President and Vice-President
# the Rebellion Davis au,I Stephens are on
he same side,
eB- "But your candidate cannot be. 1 {
hould be dishonored did accept" Seymour
uIy 0, 1868. "But your candidate wifi be"
eymour August 5, 1868. Your President '
1nnot be-" November s. 1868. q