Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-22

t4 The President has signed the bill to allow
the States to tax National Bank shares
Ezr In Detroit, 1000 destitute persons are dali
ly receiving aid from the Director of the Poor
Eg Secretary Seward declares that for the
present the Alabama claims cannot be adjusted.
Eg~The present average daily production of
the Pennsylvania oil regions is II ,O35 barrels.
cg-The Patent Office issued three times as
many patents last year as on any previous year.
EzTIt is said that tie Ereedmen's Bureau in
Marylond and Kentrcky is to be discontinued
this week
q The Senate VIII refuse seat to Mr. Thom-
as the Senator-eiect from Maryland, by decis-
i've majority,
r9TThc Youngstown, Newton Falls & Re
VIENNA Railroad Company has been duly incor-
porated,
EgThe Mexican States on the Pacific are
agitating The erection of a new and independ-
cnt republic.
cs'Thc project of tunnelliag the Niagara riv-
or has been revived at Buffalo, with some pros
poets of success.
gGoverr or Burnside has consented TO allow
his rame to be used for the Republican nOnli-
nation in Rhode Island another year.
E87On Januay 30 the editor of the New Or
leans Picayune had on his table snOw-baliS and
Strawberries, the latter raised in'the open air.
Is The Pennsylvania Legislature viii un-
d0ubtedly adopt Free Railroad Law at the
present session.
A bill has been introduced into the Senate,
for che erection Of The now Territory of Wy
oasing.
EgThere are new and dark hints of fenormous
swindling in the bond-printing business in the
Treasury.
EzrThe Democratic County Convention at
Pittsburgh on the 18th, refused even to hear
read a resolution endorsing Andrew johnson.
tgrThe new trophy-room in the State House
at Columbus has been put in order, and is now
well worth visiting.
the amount of snow in the streets of New
York is greater than at any one period since
the winter of 1867, when brcastworks five
feet high extended all through Broadway.
Ea-It is feared tha! the late cold term has Sc
riOusly injured the peach orchards in he fruit
region along the eastern shore Of Lake AIichi-
can.
ES-It is said that the Buffalo 6 Erie Railroad
company have pad Richard c. Morris, of New
London, Conn, $1,000 as compensation for in
juries received at Angola.
AS Secretary of War, Mr.. Stanton has already
issued both special and general orders. Lis au-
thority beng unquestioncd by those to whom
the orders are addressed.
Ea5The Warren Chronicle saysa new vein of
coal, six and one half feet thiJk, has been
struck in that neighborhood. 1t is the tlickest
ever discovered in that section.
ES"A man arrested for shop lifting in Buffalo,
swallowed jewel to dispose of the evidence
against him. The result of this proceeding was
the discharge of the prisoner.
There is a strong outside pressure at Co
lumbus to induce the Legislature to change the
location of the new Lunatic Asylum from Ath-
ems to Marietta.
EJGeneral Meade has caused the eH-Comp
troller of Georgia to be arrested and confined in
the barracks, for refusing to deliver up the rec
ords of his office.
E8-The prospects for the construction of the
Huron and Ontario (Canadian) ship-canal, are
considered fayo' able. Capitalists are ready to in
vest in it, if the proper grants can be obtained.
cg'The silver mines discovered last year on
Thunder Bay, north shore of Lake Superior,
have been worked extensively the past season
by an American company, the ore yielding
about $7CO per ton.
ETThere is general complaint all over New
England that wells and cisterns have failed, and
that there is greater want of water in streams
and springs than has been known before in wiz
ter for twenty years.
GJA New Orleans paper says that twenty
miles from Galveston, Texas Hous' on or Mar
shall, the man who would dare to say lie is
from Boston would be shot the moment he ut
tered the words.
E-The charter of The Gettysburgh Lottery
scheme, which was granted by the Pennsnylva-
MIA Legislature last winter, and under which
the managers of the lottery have been tor some
time operating, has been taken away.
EzTThe President has received petition from
Geo. Francis Train, asking the aid, influence
and power of the United States Government to
enforce his claim against the British Govern
ment, for Illegal arrest and false Imprisonment.
Grant to assign General Sherman to the COM
mand of new department, with headquarters
in Washington, to be called the Department of
the Atlantic, and to include the departments of
Washington, the East, and the Lakes.
EgThe Chicago and Great Eastern Railway
Company is dead, and the Columbus, Chicago
and Central Indiana Railway rises from its ash
es. The Chicago people arc not proud over
the name of their city being sandwiched be-
tween columbus" and Central Indiana"
EyThe Roman Pontiff has jsst appointed
three new American Bishops, viz: Rev. VIM.
O'Hara, of Philadelphia, as Bishop OF Scranton;
Rev. ]. F. Shanahan, of Media, Pa, Bishop of
Harrisburgh, and Rev. DR., Becker, of Rich
mond, Va, Bishop of Wilmington, DCL
Eg-A Washington special states that threat
of removing Secretary Stanton is given out
from the White House, and that if tlis be at
tempted, the Secretary viii not heed it but will
quietly continue to discharge all the duties of
his position, until his successor be confirmed.
EgSamrel Quincy, John P. Kennard, c.
Mosley, Trustees and James E. Coleman, Of
fetal Liquidator of the Bank Of London, by