Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

tate state of things, such as Chickahominy
never saw or thought of! .... .....- ... ..
e. FOREIGN NEWS.
Reports have been received in Eng
land of the outbreak of an alarming re-
volt in India. There has been for some
time a great excitement in several dis
tricts. England has only $4,000 troops
in India, and the whole English popula
tion, inclusive of the army, only unm-
bcrs 125, 900, while the native population
amounts to l50,OOO,O00. These figures
alone explain why England has but lit
tie hoIe of retaining Iudia, the moment
an insurrection should spread over all
the Indian possessions. =. ....
The House of Commons, have agreed
to renew the suspension of the privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus III Ireland.
ABYssINIA.-There has been a step in
the advance of the British in Abyssinia,
and Gen. Napier is calling for reinforce
ments.
EMIGRANT SuIPs.-Count Won Bis
marck proposes the establishment at the
different ports Of Germany of Board of
Federal Officers, to examine into the
condition of vessels bound to America.
An effort to prevent the repetition of
the Licbnitz horror is the immediate
cause of this salutary step on the part
of the Government.
ILLICIT DIsr1LLERs IN TRouBLE-The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue has received a
telegram from Collector Abernathy, of the
Knoxville (Tenn.) district, which informs the
department that very recently his deputies at
that place, while engaged in seizing illicit dis
tilleries in the mountains in Tennessee, were at
tackled by al armed force who captured the
government officials and took from them the
property III their possession and held them as
prisoners until they ronsomed themselves by
the payment of $3.50 each in return for the
property they had seized. The Collector has
asked that company of cavalry be sent to aid
in the enforcement OF The revenue laws in that
section. g.. ..I 4... -
PosrMAsrfR IN Trouble john Robertson,
Postmaster at New Lisbon, Columbiana couu-
ty. was arrested by the United States officers
on Monday and brought to Cleveland TO answer
to the charge or appropriating to his own use
the sum of $500, paid in at bis office on "a
money order. Tie ofen5e, it is alleged, occur
red some time since. Robertson gave bail in
the sum of 81, 900 for his appearance for exami-
nation before United States Commissioner
White on the 9Th of March. Mr. Robertson is o
brother-n-law of C. L. Vallandigham, the great
IL. do pot hat hiatt ic fbo
cause of his alleged rascaiity.
THOSE who saved the Union once are
ready to save it again. Grant, Sherman
Sheridan, Thomas, all are with Congress.
The men who foug ght to save Union are
with Congress. The patriotism which
perilcd all in behalf of the nation, will
not let the fruits of five years of bloody
war now be wrenched from its grasp
by the President or those who use him
as their tool. Neither rebel militia from
Maryland, nor regiments Of rioters of n.
Y. city can intimidate this loyal North.
We have from the first opposed I'M
parchment as a question of policy. We
saw nothing to be gained to the coun-
try to overbalance the disorganization
in financial and commercial matters that
would result from a long and tedious
trial, with an uncertain conclusion, such
as must have been the case had the pre-
vious attempts at impeachment succeed
ed. But Mr. Johnson was determined
on self slaughter. He butted his head
against the law-making lower until he
dashed out his brains In his anxiety to
be impeached on grounds of doubtful
sufficiency, he has placed in the hands
of his accusers the very evidence needed
to make the question no longer doubtful
He has tempted his fate. The eonse-
quences he upon his own head. "i.-r Fl
The Nation needs quiet. 1t can never
have peace until the efforts to recon-
struct it shall no longer be paralyzed
by the malicious interference of Andrew
johnson. The universal feeling among
the people is one of qualification at the
prospect of finally getting rid of the man
who has so long kept the country in tur-
MOL. They only ask that the work
be done speedily; that there he no pain
full delays.-HeraId. a.r.
The MILITARY WEAKNESS OF THE PRES
1DENT.-Should Andy johnson continue