Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-08
, Columbus Correspondence
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COLUMBUS. May 8. isCs


uilournment hsa l,cen postponeds and tlle Chic
Legislature still pIods It's weary way through
Bills, Resolutions and windy speeches, never
permitted 10 come within less than two day:
Of the set time. Friday next (7th) is now tn,
prospective day. Most of the selfish and cor
rupt schemes are now completed and if no new
! project is started up you can announce TO youi
readers that the adjournment is a fixed fact
All Kinds Of bills are being rushed through al
Rail Road speed, some of them coming to a
successful issue, but very large proportion OF
them to an untimely end. Monday and Tues
day will long be rcmcmte,el as days on which
| the "innoccnts were slaughtered" One Bll,
however, (the Senate Bill locating the Reform
School for girls at White Sulphur SpringsO
survived, and Is now law, SO PainesElIic docs
| not get f.. altbo, il made much better offers
than were made BY the former place The
s,o,e pays according to this law, $55,000 for
1s0 ncrcs of land and the hotel buildings there
on. and the proprietor is rejoiccd 10 make 80
rood sale of unproductive property.
| Columbus is reioiced to get another State in.
stitution within her reach and control, but the
friends of this benevolent enterprise regret that
ings are all Of wood, suited only TO accommo-
date pleasure-seekers in the summer months,
and of course lily adapted for reform school
for girls. The new Penitenitentiary Bill was
defeated in the Senate but may yet be revived.
The Agricultural College Bill passed the Sen
ate locating the institution at Urbana, and it
now remains for the House TO give its assent,
ri. hp no OH Of r;g ,1O
The general Appropriation Bill is finally pass
ed, including $G00,0OO for the payment of Nor
gan Raid claims. This was steady opposed,
and every step was stubbornly contested but
TO no purpose, and we now wait to see if the
general government will assume and pay such
an-abusrd demand. ....t fr.-....
A disgraceful fight occurred ON Friday OF
last week. between two Of the editors of the
leading papers of this city The facts arc as
follows: Some bitterness had been aroused
by abusive articles appearing from time TO
time in the two papers, which eliminated in n
terribly abusive article in the State Journal, on
/ Friday morning, directed against Flood, the
editor of the Stacsn,dn, and Chief Clerk of the
Senate. Now the most exaspcrating part OF
the article was its truthfulness, and Flood
sought the satisfaction that bullies and black
guards usually seek by attacking the Journal
editor in his sanctum with cane. He broke
his cane over his opponents head, and was
summarily knocked down with dust brush,
and so the fight ended. ..s,. ....
A new candidate for State Treasurer (Dr.
| Rohy, of Columbus.) has been proposed for the
| consideration of the Republican State COnypn-
ton of June 23d. An Article in the Scioto Ga
zette bases the claim Of DR.. K, in part upon his
residence in the southern part of Ohi', oppos-
ing MIR. Warner on the ground that he has al
ready served four years. 1t would seem that a
| section of the State so unreliable for Republi.
can majoritics as the southern portion of Ohio,
ought not to be very cxacting, seeing that Ii
has already in the southern third of the State
Governor majority of the Supreme Judges
| the.Clcrk of Court, &c. No one objects to The
| State Auditor serving two terms, which are
eight years, and the Comptroller six years. but
the duties of the Treasurer are more nearly al
| lied TO those two offices, and Why should q
faithful treasurer be turned out after four ycars
service. 1t would be a great misfortune to
lose so good an officer as MIR Warner, merely
TO sanction the idea of rotation in Office. Mr..
| W., will doubtless be q candidate ut the ear
nest desire of large proportion of the Re-
publican party and ought TO be re nominated
| without opposition.
g The new e-admixture bill wns reported
| to the Senate, read the third time and passed
| on the 4th. This bill provides that any per-
son, not white male citizen of the United
States, for voting shall be imprisoned IN the
| Penitentary from one TO five years The PEN
| atty on the statute-books for the punishment
| of non residents or non-naturalizcd citizens for
voting Is imprisonment In the county Jail from
one 10 six months f.