Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-09-05
PEN AND PASTE BREyIrlES.

Nicaragua.
EY-A Panama letter says the natives open
liz declare that annexation to the United State
is the only salvation for the isthmus.
g%rA Mormon elder is currently reported
to have had nine boys and five girls born t.
him on one morning lately.
rW-The Democrats threaten to "push tn
war into, Africa" Do they propose to bun
down some more colored orphan asylums?
W-The New York Tribune says that Bricl
Pomeroy and John Allen, the wickedest me,
in Yew York" are soon to take the stump fol
Seymour and Blair.
a regular line of steamers-one in every
four weeks-is now running between Bostor
and Baltimore, and a new boat will soon D'
added, making a semi-weekly line.
eY- Oliver Dalrymple, who is the larges
farmer in the State of Minnesota, having ,7OC
acres devoted to wheat, will have cleared 500,
coo from the last two haryests, including thu
one just secured
GA The Painesville Telegraph says peacl
grower in that neighborhood whose entire
farm consists of seven acres, has sold his crop
Vi D6dCu6S Ou SIOuItu lllIo AOA P~''NO'
Vallandigham obtained his Congression-
al nomination just as Seymour did the Tam
many Hall, and his betrayed dupes are now
out in an address to the voters, giving the facts
wOzer twelve hundred Grant and Colfax
Clubs have already been organized in Ohio
under the auspices of the Republican Ex-
ecutiye Committee.
wIt is a noteworthy fact that the Southern
papers are generally much more decent In
their mention of the late Thaddeus Stevens
than the Northern Democratic papers are
wThe Dayton Journal, referring to the
Democratic organization, "White Boys in
Blue" says that after the election they will
be known as the blue boys in white
wThe Raleigh (N. c. Standard says
"The old Democratic party kept the colored
man in slavery, and passed laws to prevent
even his reading the Bible, and now they ask
him to, vote the Democratic ticket" -...
B:Was the rebeIien right? If you think
it was not, don't vote for Seymour and Blair,
whose election, Gov. Vance, of North Caro-
lina declares, j" viii secure the Confederate
States all they fought for" 'H ''
cy-S. S. Cox says 3" Ifyyou want the country
cured, go to HoratiO Seymour, of Oneida Co."
"Curedi: is iti Not exactly. Cox has pecu-
liar lisp-he dropped an right out of the mid
die of the word,-Hargord Post.
Mr.. Seymour has recently been trying to
tickle the soldiers; but they recollect that in
1868 he vetoed bill allowing them to vote in
the field, and that all his friendship for them
has run in that line H- at
a New York special announses the i'm
portant report that the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway is to be sold to the Erie
Railway Company; that the arrangement will
be perfected Immediately; and that Mr. James
McHenry and others interested, are now on
their way to this country.
Information has been received that a
movement has been commenced with view
to unite the United States, England, and Rus
sia in grand expedition to solve the problem
OF the North Pole-that is, to reach it. if DOS
sible, and ascertained its surroundings.
Secretary Seward sent instructions by
cable, to Minister Webb, at Rio Janeiro, di-
recting him to insist upon the passage of the
United States steamer Wasp through the allied
lines to Assumption, and in case of refusal. to
demand his passports.
NThe stockholders of the Congress- and
Empire Spring Companies, at Saratoga, have
got into hopeless quarrel, and Col. W.R.
johnson, for many years book-keeper of the
concern, is managing its business while the two
parties fight it out in the courts. The company
has 81 100000 capital, and the control of two
ofthe leading springs of Saratoga. ...-
fM-ln Tippah County, Mississippi, recently,
while some children were playing near a school
mouse, a large eagle swooped down upon them
seized James Kenny, eight years old, and rose
with him to considerable height. The shouts
OF the people or the weight of the victim in
duced the bird, at length to drop his nrev and
he was killed by the fall.
fB The refuse matter on the C,,vohooo
River, at Cleveland, from the oil refiporios
aiong It's banks, took fire on Friday, from
spark from passing tug, and the wharyes shin
ping, and vast amount of valuable nronortv
narrowly escaped destruction. The fire de-
parment extinguished the flames. Some nor
nianent protection is greatly needed =.
az The yearly cotton statement of Mobile
shows the total receipts for the wear inst clo
sed to be 36l,093 bales Exports 70 croot
Britain, 215,144 bales; Frances 10 Aas ha,o~.
other foreign ports, 1926 bales; coastwiso =,
Guiding 1853 bales from Montgomery direct to
New Orleans, 1aO,s93 bales; stock on hand
2161 bales; receipts of new cotton 3o7 baIos
against 157 bales the same time last wear Tha
crop is estimated at two and a Quarter mil
lions. . f-..
General Rosecrans says, in reference to
his conferences with the Confederates at the
Virginia Springs, that there is no disposition
among those with whom he conversed, to take
prominent part in national affairs for the pre-
sent; that their only desire is to inform the
North of their feelings and condition They
want the whole country 10 show toward them
4 disposition of fairness, and they will do their
part toward the establishment the friendliest
aHsiness and social Intercourse between the
Fxo sections.