Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-06-05
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r@-Gold closed in New York on the Sd at
fSsa.
rE'fon Benz. r. Wade was on the 8ist
Commissioned Director of the Up. r. r.
He had an interview with The President in the |
afternoon.
kW-The graves of Mrs Surfatt and Captain
wirz were bountfuly strewn with flowers on
the goth ult. by tleff rebel friends at Wash
ington.
gE-Jeff Davis old plantation is now leased
tooneof his old slaves, who pays $4,000
wear and hires one hundred and 6ity hands to
work IT,
fzy-Toombs once boasied that he would
call the roll of his slaves under Bunker Hill
Monument lie now asks coored postmas-
ter for his letters at Macon, Georgia
tE-A letter from Brazil says that the last
celeny3 Of Southerners from Alabama and |
Louisiana Is about breaking up, and the mem
bers win return TO the United States.
E-A monster oak was fellcd near Milwau- |
kee last week, whose greatest diameter mea.
sures eight feet The bark was nine inches
trick
B-A judgment for $4,000 has been render
ed by the Court of Claims for the use of $50
acres of land as camp and rendezvous for Ohio
troops during the war The land is that known
as Camp Dennison.
eS@ A Boston paper says the persons cngag-
ed in the business raising of fish have found the
demand greater than the supply this season.
their orders having poured in upon them TO
such an extent that they are unable to fill
them.
EB-Gov Hayes, Of Ohio, arrived at Wash
ington, from New York, on the morning OF the
31st. He had an interview with the President,
II is said, with reference TO the removal of Mar
shal Hickenlooper of the Southern District,
which he Is reported TO desire.
tB~A Lima letter of the 4th say the govern
ment Of Peru has recognized the Cubans as
belligerents, and bas decided TO grant them all
the usuT' privileges. Valparaiso advices of
the Sd state that the Gillian Congress is dis
eussing the question Of recognizing the Cubans
as belligerents.
Ey- The Rhode Island House of Reprcscn-
tatives on Friday, 2Sth, voted 35, TO 30 to post
pone the consideration Of the Fifteenth Amend
ment until the January session. This Is a dis
appointment, but we have assurance that the
Amendment will certainly be ratified when it
is taken up again.
eB-In the Court of Common Pleas, which
began its session in Columbus on the I'd inst,
the case of the State VS.. John G.. Bresln and
his sureties was dismissed for want Of prosecu-
tlon- A case against WIN. H. Gibson and sure
ties was also dismissed. There is still one
case pending against Gibson, These cases were
brought to recover money lost by the State in
in the Breslin- n-Gibson defalcations.
tB-The lease of the Fort Wayne road tn the
Pennsylvania Central Road, was formally rati-
fed on the 2Sth ult at Philadelphia, by the
Directors of both roads. The Directors of tho
Pennsylvania Central acted under Instructions,
but the Fort Wayne Directors will take vote
OF the stockholders before the matter is finally
settled. -
"a The New York papers say Cuban expe-
ditions are being organized, to consist of seven
thousand troops, for whose use seven thousand
stand Of arms have been already furnished
On the night of the 22d steamer left New
York with eleven hundred volunteers and n
cargo Of provisions, with clearance for tho
West Indies.
cB-The Chicago consolidation between the
New York CentralI Michigan Southern and
Lake Shore Railroads Is TO be made, 1t Is said,
on this basis the New York Central will rep
resent seventy millions, the Hudson River thir-
ty millions and the Buffalo and Erie, Michi.
gan Southern, and Lake Shore sixty five mil
lions making an aggregate capital of one
hundred and sixty-fve millions.
GB-On the Goth ult., Judge Barnard of New
York granted an injunction against the Michi.
gan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad
Companies at the suit of John s. Prouty, re.
straining all the officers of the companies from
dsposing of any property, franchise or securi
ties of the company, including the Lake Shore
Company The suit involves questions o
great importance TO this and other companie
and will be sharply fought
c3rGen. Reynolds lately took three persons
who had murdered Union men, out of the
hands of the civil authorities at tho South, on
the ground that the latter showed no dispos
tion TO try them, and proposes to try them by
Military Commission, and II is understood tina,
Attorney General Hoarwill held that In unrc
constructed States this course can be taken
and that In all such cases wliere the civil au
thorities neglect their duties Military Com
mlssion will have Jurisdiction.
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