Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-08-08


6ftih state of South Carolina is called TO meet
| a Columbus on Thursday, for the purpose of
nominating electors for President and Vice
President of the United States, and for other
purposes The call is signed by Wade
Hampton.
ty-An account Of the Kansas State Demo
/ cratic convention, in the Lcayenworth C"''S0'-
catice, says the rebel flag mentioned IN d .o'
mcr dispatch, actually hung in the nan u''---9
the entire session of the convention anu was
] moi men.ia.ed or objected to by asingle Demo-
crat present III
J.. lotions demonstrations, Thursday, prevent
- ,.ain load of Texas cattle being discharged
for Grazing at that point. In the neighboring
county of Ford there is also great excitement
and the people are determined to have the law
enforced.
Samuel Andrews, fireman on an Erie
locomotive, jumped in front of his engine
Friday, seized a little child who was playing
on the track, and bounded away from the road
in time to escape the engine and save poth
! lives.
ew~Hon. Reverdy johnson, Minister to
Great Britain, and family, sailed on the lst
inst on the steamer Baltimore, for Southamp-
tom Mrs Lincoln was taken suddenly Ill
the night before and was too much indisposed
to undertake the voyage at present.
cBThe Government has not abandoned It's
purchase of naval station in the west III
dies. but it was deemed best not to press 'ie
matter upon Congress during the recent session
In the meanwhile facts are being collected by
Secretary Seward concerning the bay OF oallla-
ma and the island of ST. Thomas, Whlch VIII
he submitted to Congress when it reassemblcs
| rz-Advices from Venezuela state that the
odbcrcnts of the deposed President, to the
,rmber of fifteen hundred, and supported by
AotIla of five small vessels, concentrated at
Porto Cabello. Laguayra is blocliaded by a.
mother portion of the fleet. The new President
Monagas, has marched on Porto Cabello, de
termined to crush all opposition to his admins
tration. .- .,. D..
cS~A few days ago, it will be remembered,
robbers cave was found on the Sagamon
River near Decatur, III. The Marshall of Deca-
tur and party of citizens, made thorough ex-
animation of the cave, and, to their horror,
found the bodies of four men carefully con-
cealed in grave in the rear of the cave
r cy-While Mr.. Mangrum, of Corinth, Miss,
was hunting with some friends the other day,
he met the sheeted ghost of man he murder
ed during the war. He fired both. barrels of
his gun and then five barrels of his revolver
into the approaching shade, but nothing took
effect and Mangrum took TO tree. The ghost
followed him into the branches, Mangrum
came down, was carried home attended by the
spirit, and died of fright in an hour,
u The semi-official announcement on, the
1st, that the President would designate a per-
son next week, probably for Commissioner of
internal Revenue, whose appointment would
be acceptable to all parties, created some little
amusement when it became known that the
appointee was Ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio, who
had refused the proffered honor. The Presi-
dent is casting about again
cN-A strong anti Union meeting was held
at Yarmouth, N. B., on the 1st inst Resolu-
tions were passed expressing Indignation at
the refusal of the Imperial Parliament to re-
dress the wrongs of Nova Scotia, and threaten
ed to take high handed measures to ensure
the deliverance of the country from its pre-
sent position.
10 Henry ]. Raymond will be absent in Eu-
rope about five weeks longer, when he will re-
turn and take an active part in the campaign
During his past political somersaults all of the
editorial attaches of the Times have remained
true to the Republican party. Many of the
Worlds subordinates viii vote the Republican
| ticket.
The Chicago Times, short time since
started stoly to the effect that Mr.. Orville E
Grant, brother of Gen. Grant, gave one thou
sand dollars to get up Seymour clubs, and tina
he would support Seymour for President a
the coming election. Mr.. Grant is authority
for saying that the whole is apurc fiction. HI
is an unconditional Republican, and intends tc
vote for Gen. Grant, not because the General is
his brother, but because he is the candidate fol
the Republican party. ~ -'~.--s