Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-09-12
PEN AND PASTE BREvITIEs.

Inc Chinese ShIOdoSy
on the steamship Java, from New 4 ork on ul
morning of the 9th inst:
rE-A Western papers says: The difference
between Butler and his traducer Brick Pome
roy. is. that one is called beast, and the othel
is one"
&-In few days. diamond ball is to bt
given at Montreal, at which all nations are in
yited to compete. One lady, il is known VIII
DISPLAY over million dollars worth
rE-Tbe number of bushels of wheat received
at ST Louis during the past week was l46,76O;
corn. 1928 bushels; oats, S0.S5O bushels
-four, 2O,265 barrels.
~ In consequence of failure to procure
sneakers, the Republican mass convention pro-
posed to be held at Erie, on the 10th inst, has
been postponed to the 24th.
irw-The new Vermont Senate is unanimous
" Republican. The House-219 Republicans,
Is Democrats Last year the Republicans had
205, and the Democrats 29-
~ eW-The Fourth of July was celebrated at
.Sitka with canoe race, a procession, Grafton
dinner and fire works A young Russian girl
represented the Goddess of Liberty in the pro-
cession.
B-The President has been obliged to aban-
don the pleasure trip for the present, owing
10 the pressure of official duties, though he
hopes on the 1st of October to leave the city
for couple of weeks recreation.
't E~Gov. Scott has ordered the disbanding
of the organizations which have recently been
drilling and importing firearms into South
Carolina. He asserts and will maintain the
right to support such candidates as commend
themselves to his judgment.
REx-Gov. Thomas II. Seymour of Con-
necticut died in Hartford on the Sd inst, at the
age of 81 years He was Democratic Repre-
sentative in the XXVIIIth Congress, and from
1855 to 1854 Governor of Connecticut; after
which President Pierce make him Minister to
Russia
to- CB-The President has appointed Rev. John
Ireland and Rev. John Maddox of St Paul,
Minnesota, and the Rev. Edward d. Neil, of
Cleveland, to compose board of visitors to the
Red Lake and Pembina band of the Chippewa
Indians, under the treaty act of 1868.
a gE Mount Vista, a e-hundred-feet bluff
ten miles from Saratoga, is found TO be rock
of the finest white granite in tfe country.
They have blasted out one block of stone
ffty-six feet long, twenty feet wide and six
teen feet thick, weighing one thousand five
hundred tlns
Is Secretary Schofield has directed board
of officers to assemble at San Francisco, on the
Lot of 0ntohor 70 opd nd
the most suitable armament for the fort on
Albatros Island, California, and any other
ports on the Pacific Coast
Twenty-seven thousand five hundred seven
feet of the Mont Cenis tunnel in the Alps have
been excaFated, and .12 ,5S2 feet remain to be
finished The work is going steadily on and
is expected to require about two years and a
half more
eE The marine losses for the month of
August aggregate thirty-two vessels, of all
classes, valued at $4,000 The entire losses
tor the year, thus far, have been 22S vessels,
worth with their cargoes, S1060O, 500, o. but
little more than one half the amount for the
corresponding months of 1867.
= fB Paris letters say the population of War
saw is in disturbed condition, and the police
have arrested several persons engaged in revo-
lutionary plots. Prominent Polish ladies have
lately dressed in black on Russian holidays,
and LEFT the theatre recently when the orches-
ira played the national airs.
10 General Grant, now at Galena, express
es the opinion that an extensive Indian warts
certain. General Sherman has telegraphed to
tieneral Grant for additional cavalry with
which to operate against the savages, and the
request has been accede1 to. A vigorous war
rs 70 be Immediately inaugurated.
% In heprosession of an immense Repubii-
'ean mass meeting, in Me-, there was battalion
Oh returned soldiers and sailors, who bore their
1at'ered old battle flags andthis significant le-
send- 1--WE 60 for Seymour as we went for
Leer
rs Messrs Schenck & Morgan decide that
congress cannot act in aid of the colored mem.
sers expelled from the Georgia Legislature,
and hence it is argued that there is no pecesity
,or d session this month. 1t is pretty certain
the act OF the Georgia Legislature will be imi
lated in most, if not all, the Southern States
now reconstructed. Mr. johnson believes the
expulsion OF the negroes is perfectly correct.
BRepubhcan advices from the campaign
m Maine are all of the same character. They
claim That as the most thorough canyess ever
made In that State draws to a close, they feel
sure OF larger majority than at any time
-snoe- lee4 The Democrats have spent large
sums OF money with no apprehensible result.
CS-If Grant is elected, Alex. H. Stevens an
scTpates the overthrow of our Republican in
sututlons and the establishment of military
-aeponsm- 1t may be remembered that forty
years ago the same oaieetiOns were urged with
equal earnesmess against Andrew Jackson
Nevertheless, he was, electef President and
actually preserved the Republic from the dis
fupticns of Southern 'fire-eaters-sueh as Mr..
stevens is in cahoots with
Personal character should ALWAYS be
1sesuitant OF true action, instituted for
NnselhsA purposes. The neeanest and
rske most inegitimate of human. pursuits
N tke direct pursuit Of . reputation