Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-03-20
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsHTABoLA, ONO.
Saturday Morning, March 20, 1859,
pcn ANA Paste Brerities.


Gcotkc,own, d. C., and writes poetry.
sI-The President has appointed Robert
Martin Douglas, son of the late Senator Doug
las. Assistant Private Secretary
rzysDast week, In Cleveland, anegro was put
upoh Jury in civil case before Justice kol-
be Tho first caso,of the Kind in the history
of the city.
tsy~Rev, T. A. Slarkcy, Rector OF Trinity
Church, Cleveland, has accepted call to the
reciorship of church IN Washington, ID. G.
rg-Tbe peach buds in Somerset County,
New Jersey were killed by the cold snap last
week, and the crop is likely to prove ssilurc'
ty-A. Us REcErrroS at Baltimore proved
mortiBing failure. The banquet was attend
cd by less than ono hundred persons, aud was
a stupid, chilly affair,
t@sDr. W. j. Blackman, of COLUMBIA, NIis.
sissippi, has received patent for an invention
10 nncoupe cars OF once Tie control of The
train is placed in the hands of the conductor.
The invention is spoken of as very simple.
gBFiftcen young women were graduated
from tho Womcn's Medical College of Penn
sylvana last week as physicians Thus Phil
adelphia takes the Trad in the new movement
to open tlIc doors Of tic medical profession to
women.
gH-lGrs Livermore, Prcsidcntcss Of tho Chi.
cdgo Sorosis, went to Washington to sec the
inauguration, and was denied room at ho-
tel because she was unattended. She simply
seated herself in the Office with the remark
that she had right there and she wouldn't
stir until She was provided with q room. The
tlown-trodden female got her apartment
CyNThe Spaniards claim to have obtained
great victory over the Cuban revolutionists at
Mayari, in the Eastern Department, which was
to be the scat of the Provisional Government,
and TO have captured the town. The Spanish
accounts,if not altogether untrue, are probably
gross exaggcration, which will bc considers-
bly, modified by later adviccs.
eg-We suppose that the Hon. James NJ.
Ashley is beaten again. lie was a candidate
Nor Governor of Montana, and had the indorsc 4
inent Of every Republican member of The
House of Representatives and yet the Prcsi.
Gent has appointed Gen. Campbell, of Column
biana County, Governor of Wyoming Terri
tory. 1t is calculated that Ohio can have but
one territorial Governor and so Chmpbcll cuts
Ashley out. Campbell owes his appointment
10 the direct solicitation of Gen. Schofcld.
eaS- The patriots of Cuba have greatly
strengthened their claims to our sympathy, by
having at length resolved TO abolish Slavery
Immediately and Internationally. Some weeks
ago manifesto of Gen. Cepcdcs proclaimed
the freedom of slaves. This manifesto has
now been confirmed by Revolutionary As
sembly held in the Central Department which
not only DEGREES the immediate and nncond
tonal abolition of Slavery, but provides that
the former slaves shall have the same rights as
q. whites.
Eay-Ohio gets her deserts in the chairman
ship of three of the most important commit
tees, namely Schenck, on the Ways and
Means Garfield sn Banking and Currency :;
and Bingham, on the Judiciary. Under the
leadership of Garflcld the Banking and Cur
rcncy Committee viii take It's true position ms
ono of the leading as well as one of the most
important committees in the House, and ii will
relieve the Ways and Means from much of tlc
important legislation which II has been obliged
10 attend to durirg the past two Congresses.
eY-Thc Baton Rouge (Lousiana) Advocate
says "Seady and quiet Is the advance of
small farmers into the cultivation Of cane. In
very few wears L.. country NMecn Tie Am-
tic and Mississippi Rivers viii prou 'cc an as-
grcgatc of thousands of hogshcads, all 'lr rc'
cult OF the enterprise and industry of the fhi. VI
crs on small tracts of land, Scattered around
at intervals, at the present time, arc places with
twenty, thirty ana forty acres of cane planted
These will yield M lrf % of from twenty to
sixty hogsheads Of 'sLf next h'll.'
C8rAccording 10 the account made on the
4th of March, sccrctarv boutwell, takes charge !
of the Treasury Department with about one |
hundred and two MILLIONS of dollars In coin In |
the vaults, twenty mi lions of which is In gold
bearing certificates, "a i thirteen millions in |
currency. The public deb, N the lst Of March |
was $2.545,33G,00i 90, but 81. &C That time il |
has been decreased about three millions. No
payment Of interest will be due until the Isl of
May, when SsO,QOO0OO In coin viii. bcrcqulrod !
TO pay the semi-annual installment of interest |
on the 1.o-twcnty bonds, which falls due ON |
thar date.
ET-The Boston JourharS report Of the in.
auguration ball says; at is agreed by the la-
dies that Mrs. Governor Morgan's diamonds
were the finest jewels worn that Mrs. John
Morrissey wore the most elegant toilet tia,
Mrs Collax looked sweetly In pink satin with
tulle oyerskirt that Mrs Julia Ward Howe
was more noticed than any othcrlady present;
that the laces Of Madame St. Andre were mag
nii,Scnt that Horace Greeley looked like n
Inartyrns Ire escorted HI, daughter through the
daneipg saloons tina, the diplomatic corps ap.
PEAKED astonlshed and that Madame DR..
Walker IL arlaienloB BtnOeAor dress, was
laughing stock
g1-Thc probability of Gen. sicl,ics receiving
the Mexican mission, and Gen. Buttcricld the
mission to Spain, inspires the question rs to
whether they will retain their commissions In
The armE, or be granted leave Of absence dur
ing their civil service. Tho same inquiry
arises in the ease Of Gen Iiawllns, Secretary
Of War. Tho yelling is generally adverse to