Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-22


AoRoss Ttuf CoSTfNENT.-A man may leave
N. York. and hnd himself in San francisco
eight days therefrom, over the continuous rail
that new stretches across the continent The
rate Of fare from Chicago 10 San Francisco
will be eeout nine cents q mile, or sei0 95-or
about three times the average rate on railroads
in the United States II freight rates should
be in proportion, vefy little through business
will be done, and no Asatic trade will come
overland The cos, of getting TN of tea by
the ocean 10 New York, for instance. IN not
much if anything over twenty -four dollars but
nom San Francisco to that city, by rail, It
would not be less than seventy. In order to
make the road commercial benefit, or draw
trade from lis old channels, cheapness as well
as dispatch must be made an inducemcnt r
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r A coRRftFoNDExT who attended tho Wo-
mans Rights Convention in New York, has
made physiological discovery that Is worth
serious consideration. He asserts It as fact
that a tendency to redness in the female nose
is the invarable physical evidence Of strong
mindedness among women Every atlveclte
Of suffrage and equality Of rights that llc saw
there had this erysipeatous indication strongly
developed in that feature of the face. II fur
ther facts justify the induction Of an uhmis.
taxable sympathetic condition between the
nose and the irritated mind Of woman who
rebels against her subordinate condition, hus-
bands and lovers will have no difficulty in
diagnosing q case in which they may be indi-
yidually interested. .. la
SicKIEs AND lIALE.-The statement that
Gen. Sicklcs' commission will bo issued in
few days, is doubtless premature President
Grant informed the friends Of Minister Hale
that there would be no appointment made for
some weeks yet, as his resignation did not take
effect until the first of July. In the mean
time Minister Hale is engaged in preparing a
replj to the charges preferred against him by
Perry and others, Of having smuggled goods
iuto Spain for commercial purposes, under his
ministerial franchise. II is understood that
the President and Secretary of State are will
ing to give him sufficient time to make report
on these charges. s.. ..i, ., ...H
THE Pacific Railroad is finished, and il re-
mains to be seen whether the predictions con
cerning its fatal effects upon Mormonism will
! be fulfilled. The most destructive agency
1 which the Pacific Railroad can bring 10 bear
upon Mormonjsm is immigration and il must
be some years before anti. Mormon immigra-
ton will flow into Utah in sufficient volume to
overwhclm the church and its institutions,
while there are more inviting fields for settle
ment, while, too, the Mormons themselves are
making special efforts to secure immigrants
of their own faith, and will thus be able to
retain the power in their hands for years.
Two or three weeks ago, says the Cleveland
Hc,uH, the Supervisor Of Internal Revenue,
Charles Hedges, ordered the assessment of the
old Savings Bank, as regular bank, ard as
the assessment extended over their business
for three or four years, the tax amounted To
between thirty and forty thousand dollars, be-
sides special or license tax for several thou
sand more. The Bank Trustees appealed 10
| the Commissioner directly, the Hon. Samuel
| Williamson, as their attorney, presenting the
case in person We now learn that the Com
missioner has set aside the assessment.
The American Consul in Cuba reports that
it is almost impossible to give correct state
mcnt of the insurgcnt forces One Amerieap
merchant in the interior estimates them at
from 5000 to 10000, and another at only T.
400. The Consul thinks that the truth lies be-
tween the two estimates and says that the
sympaihies Of all Cubans, men women and
children, are with the rebellion and his
opinion is that If the insurgents can hold out
half year longer Spain will be compelled to
reliuQuish her attcmDt TO p,It them down