Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-12-05

Longfellow is al Geneva ,.Tf-,y
= orcE Pasre. the pedestrian, INA walked 'one
--hnndred z,ileo.ia sss99, al Buifalo.-'-ss---s7
,5f oey+The Ohio Dental Association met in
Columbus ON Monday last. A board Of exam.
liners appointed by the Legislature were To-
convene 'thers at tile same time. 1ifr"- 80
-,EB- Alask, with only eight thousand: Nhi'e
inhabitants, has three regiments OF United
States troops, nearly half the force in the Di-
vision of the Pacific, and stiH wants MORE
'2' ts-The contest for United States Senator in
wisconsin is waxing hot. Horace Rubber,
who .t first was not deemed formidable COM
petitor, has now como prominently forward.
.tEJohn p Hale, American minister to
Spain. was at Paris on the 30th inst, consult
ing the medical fraternity relative to his failing
health. ..7,y,aH $40 ta itI.,j, ...'. -.,- -rl
EThe librarian Of Congress has caused to
be placed in the retunda of the Capitol statue
Of Alexander Hamilton, executed in Italy by
Horatie Stone, under an order Of Congress.
tES S. Cox, member of Congress, elect
from the sixth district of New York, and
Stephen J. Moens. the Fcnian, have saiied
for Europe: -i,n..'7.i, 49, 49, -.'.''.,. ,;ai
w The press unitcs in coHfmending Dis
raeli's refusal Of peerags and lis bes,oNal on
bis wife.1lThe journals also euiogize the Ca
reeYof the Preninr. tpH -ya'i .~r."a'IastI
sE-Ninety thousand dollars worth of secu-
rites of which $24, ,0ee are.l available, were
stolen on Monday last, from the Pequonnock
Bank al Bridgeport, CT. A heavy reward for
information is efeTed. ..j ,.sn, o. -.ue. i
w A disra,it dispatch i from Port Colborne, Canada,
announces the seizure at that place of the pro-
peller Akron, Of the Northern Transportation
eompasy's line, for an alleged Infringement of
Canadian customs regulations s.t
The State Department. il is said, has refused
10 accept Mr.. Rsvcrdy Johnsou's much-yaunt-
ed settlement" of the Alabama clsims and
kindred questions, and has teIegrapIed certain
notifications on which ID insists .,r-.' .i.I
EWeston:s fiYe-thousand-mile walk from
Bangor to st. Paul, and back through Cincin-
natl to the N Y. Cig Hail. began Tuesday af-
ternoon last. He is due opposite this office,
says the Tribune, in just one hundred days
H-The Supreme Court of California, has
settled the ,,ihformality" as to one OF the
Grant Electors there, and brought the Demo
cratic gamblers to grief The full electoral
vote of the. State is recorded for Grant and
Colfax. I-=' l.4f .@.,d-ili icts 81. - I
K-Twenty- three thousand xands Of mus
krts were shipped from Reck Island Arsenal
for New York this week. Theyiare mostly OF
sthe Belgian pattern, of the lot purchased by
Fremont IN the early part Of tho War. They
eafe to'be soldpJT"t .!''Hf'Y = i.,s~s.t.,.
D0',s!H u Ills stated that the Arkansas Ku nKlux
made arrangements to assassinate Governor
C1ayten and ali the State officers last summer,
but their plans were frustrated. The intended
victims slept. in the ,State-house for many
nighW. and were guarded by faithful sentinels.
iAEE. The Russian Government has sent to
this country two civil engineers. for the pur-
.pose ofexamining eur great system of rail
ways.,fiThey are preparing for a winter cam
fpaign and will inspect the Pacific Road, among
others. ID ,sir'.g -fl 81 a..7J z-.ia 5-lfi {.
E.Grants official majority in California is
.i10d. q SeymSef's majority IN Oregon is said to
be twenty -threeAths closest election of the
year. The oficiial vote of Georgia stands
Grant 81, ,4ss. Seymour s6,sfl. Grants ma
.jority ,ls7. ~, .''" ~ ''1'.' 7''...-
.,,E Secretary Seward has addresseaa note
to Secretary Welles, stating that he has ad-
lYised the President that sufficient naval force
should be sent to Paraguay, to protect the
lives and property of Americans, and to de-
mand mompt redress for such injuries as may
have been already inflicted.
,tE The are at Fort Lafayette, on Tuesday,
is another lesson against the flimsy character
ofthe barracks so commonly erected inside
our defensive works. The magazine was not
exploded, and nobody was hurt, but the heavy
armament of the Fort was seriously injured by
fhe intense heat. &, .,;s;.,..'I ...l-,......:.
lrUp to the tims Of the fearful coal-mine
disaster in England recently, there had been
no;iess than 449 lives lost this year in theBrit-
isiH eefisass, as6 by the ire-damp explosion,
and the remainder by falls of rocf and coai.
The last disaster will probably carry the loss
of HE during. tie year to over 500. ''o'! ~"
-,,fEA very warm. opposition exists to the
reelection Of Senator Chandler of Michigan.
The Detroit Tri5nns opposes his reelection
and claims that he IS. not the choice of the Re-
publicaus of Michigan, 4 p,aiority of ths Re
publican papers Of the State faseE his re-elec-
Non-5n"i ben 3,-4I-.ij.lfI Ifsii, ~ Ia i.i.r.,t
N-H has been definitely .deealed to
land the, American end Of the new
French Atlantic cable on high knoll on
the DuxbufTy shore, in Plymouth county, Mass.
The town has gitena lot of land for the term
inus, which is now held ~ Professors Pierce
and Whiting of the coast survey as trustees.
From Duxhury the cable will'of course com
,muncate with New York by means Of land
wires. ~ ',pnsfu.qsr - Jd-Ir.t iivs ~
s9tg- The opinien of Mr., Summer, that the
tfi6mph ofthe party Of freedom would nosbe
eomaplete until q black ifian was elected and
Yecei3sd IN Congress, IS already assured as the
Uffciiai returns Show In the case of Manard, the
Scoblto,ried seaadidaie, who has been elected for
ithtshoort tho short term fDmi the Second district Of
Louisiana, ana and will probabI Iy appear to take
sti;..s t ;n ~ the tn,atianal House Of Representa-