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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
The Masters Call.

Up and be doing ! the time is brief,
And life is as frail as the autumn leaf
To God and thy better self be true,
Do with thy might what thou tindst to do.
Though the day is bright and the sun is
high
Fer long twill fade from the glowing sky.
While the evening shades darkly fall,
There's time for rest, it will come to all.
The harvest is white and the field is wide
And thou at thy ease may'st not abide.
The reapers are few and far between;
And death is abroad with his sickle keen.
o, think of the master worn and faint,
Whose meek lips uttered no complaint.
who tolcd for thee mid the noon day heat,
And sought no rest for his weary feet;
OF a Fathers wrath who drank the wine,
And bore his cross to tighten thine.
Go forth and labor! A crown awaits
The faithful servant at Heavens gates.
For death of shame the Savior died,
To open the golden portals wide,
That souls redeemed from the tolls of sin,
In His spottless robes might enter IN.
Work with thy might ere the day of grace
Is spent, and the night steals on apace.
The Master has given His pledge divine!
Who winneth souls like the stars shall shine
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

SNoTsENmoovER's MISsFoRTUNE.--Ja-
cob SnotSenhoover, Adams county, paid
his addresses to Miss Ella Bristol, and
was rejected, the other day, because Ella
didn't like the name-wasnt willing to
become Mrs. Snotsenhoover This sad
setback infuriated Jacob. The dorsal
portion OF his manly person became
alarmingly altitudirous, and he assaulted
Ella with the evident intention OF put
ting period to her sublunary career.
A big brother of the young lady arrived
upon the scene in time to rescue the fair
one, and Jasob departed. In point OF
fact, he stood not on the order of lis go
ing, bnt went at once, with heavy boot
in dangerous proximity to his coat-tail.
Having faith in hydropathic treatment
of severe cases, he made for pond, and
plunged therein. The water closed over
his form, and there was eminent danger
that the name of Jacob Snotsenhoover
was about to be erased from the poll books
and tax lists. But gentleman engaged
in piscatorial pursuits had seen the fear
ful plunge, and coming up with all haste,
rescued the would-be suicide. lie now
proposes to live out his appointed time
ON earth, bearing his lpellifluous patrony-
mic with all the tortitude that he can
summon to his aid.-7sjTe Haate E.c-
press.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
NY Own Dear Love.

All beauties of the earth and sky
Meet in my view when thou art by;
All loveliness TO me thou art,
OF soul and body, mind and heart,
My own dear love.
When thou art gone the earth is sad,
For only thou can'st make it glad;
The blue sky turns TO ashen grey,
Only through thee see it gay,
My own dear love.
Always my best thoughts turn to thee,
Where'er am, on land or sea;
Thou art the lightness of my light,
The body of my rich delight,
My own dear loye.
And guided by thine eyes of blue,
so fond, so tender, and so true,
Ever TO thy warm breast come,
And there securely rest-at home,
My own dear love
Together we shall share one Joy,
Together live down cares alloy;
Happy with happiness supreme,
Wen glide together down the stream,
My own dear love.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
History of Ashtabula Township.
Written in 1s56-.from the Times.
by tine Late Rev. JOHN HALL.

The Farmers Bank of Ashtabula IA
cilitates the business operations OF this
and other towns in this vicinity. 1t was
opened February, Z, 194s, JOS. Wheelock,
Cashier to September, 1850, succeeded
by Amos +. Hubbard, September, 8,
1850. Capital 100000; circulation,
100000. An amount equal to 20 per
cent of its notes in circulation must he
kept in coin vault. An amount equal to
ten per cent of its notes in circlation
must be kept in New York exchange.
Average amount loaned to customers in
in 1855, $235,000.
ABoRIGINEs.
This title is limited to those tribes of
the Indians who pursued their vocatlons
of fishing and hunting, in Ashtabula and
its vicinity, long before, and a few years
after, the commencement OF the white
settlements. The Ashtabula is said to
have been the dividing line betwixt the
hunting and fishing grounds of the Sen
ecas, Tonawandas, Cayugas, Delawares
and other tribes from the east, and OF
the Chippewas, Ottowas, Wyandots, and
other tribes from the west. Both divis-
ions fished in the Ashtabula, on their sew
eral sides. They continued thus TO hunt
and fish until short time before the war
of 1912.
The Ashtabula they called Fish River,
from the abundance OF fish III It's
waters.
The bottom lands, the beaver naead-
ows, the marshes and up.ands pro
duced plenty of herbage, wild grass ber-
ries, nuts and other food, sufficient to
sustain great numbers of elk, deer, bears,
turkeys, and other smaller beasts and
birds, which supplied game in great
abundance for the lndiag hunters. The
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

ENGAGING MANNERs.-There are q
thousand pretty, engaging little ways,
which every person may put oil without
running the risk of being deemed affect
ed or foppish. Tbe sweet spiies, 4aae
cordial bow, the earnest movement in al,
dressing friend, the inquiring glancy
the graceful attention which is SO capti
yatiVg when united with self-possessioI
these will insure us the good regard
of even a churl. Above all, there is
certain softness of manner which shou
be cultivated, aud which, in either ma
or woman, adds 3 charm that almost e
tirely compensates for the lack OF beaut,
and ineS:ima9ly enhances the latter, if
does exist.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
Florence Sewing Machines.

WE WOULD once more call the at
tenton OF those about 10 purchase Sewing Machine
TO the merits OF the Fosence. Its advantages any
and all Sewing Machines. Its simplicity and gIeat
range of work Its four different stiches Lock, Knot,
Double Lock and Double Knot. Its reversible feed mo-
tion which enables the operator by simply turning
thumb screw have the work either to the right
ef to stay any part OF the seam or asten the ends OF
cords gathers braids quilts &c. We will deliver Ma
chimes to any part Of the County and give instructions
free.
A good stock OF Machine needles, Thread. SILK, AZ
tachments, &c, constantly on hand. Aleo, Dress
ing and all kinds OF Stitching done 10 order
mrs. RObt. AIIcOck, Agt.
Rooms over the Hendry Store, Cor Main aud Center
SITS. Ashtabnla, Ohio. 1y1063
Feb. 2S 1870
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
Car Manners.

As cars, horse or steam, have become
a necessity to nearly all who indulge IL
locomotion, little courtesy will promote
the comfort of all.
In order to he in proper state Of mind
to give and receive pleasure, it would be
well to get to the steam cars few min
utes before they start. To be obliged to
hurry, and barely get on as the cars are
moving is not favorable to bodily safety,
or that caRaness of mind which makes
travelling a pleasure.
Be not disturbed If you find the best
seats taken, and all the windows occupied
on both sides, for if you had been lit
tie earlier, YOU would have taken one Of
them yourself.
Purchase your ticket at the Office, as Oh
some roads it will save you both the ten
cents extra charge, and the Indignation
of having the demand made for The addi-
tional sum.
Have your ticket in your hand ready
for the conductor, for it will prove un-
eoRafortabie to you and him to have to
wait for you to hunt i'll several pockets
for your portmonie, or retIcule to find it.
For information about trains you viii
find the conductor the most reliable source
tor strangers are often equally ignoraut
with yourself
When a car is crowded do not try te
occupy second seat with your bundles,
or be angry when q passenger wishes it
for himself. Much less pardonable is it
for you to monopolize four seats turned
inward, for yourself aud friend. Never
be afraid to ask or unwilling to grant,
that the seat be turned back again and
properly occupied.
| IL will. of course, be instructive in Q
gentleman to offer his seat to lady but
it is not necessary to be done in ali cases
So you may feel, when no double unoccu-
pied reats are to be had, like giving up
yoIr single seat to please a couple who
desire to sit together. But not always
does courtesy require this, for husband
and wife, or pair of lovers may be TEN,
porarily separated without alarming rer
suits.
If an open window proves source OF
discomfort to your neighbUr, YOU wiz
close it, although You think the person
over-sensitiye and nervous.
If you hear child cry, be not angry,
Ii you travelled when you was an infant,
you probably CRIED and disturbed some
body.
Remember the case of the man who All
grly demanded of a father, trying to pacity
bis child, "where is that child's mother z"
and his lpeek reply Sin the baggage car,
in ber coffin. Boston Aces.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

A lady in Charlcstown, Massachusetts,
has suffered lately from an infamed neck,
caused by insects called borers inbabitipg
the Hindoo bark braid of her chiguoL.
Fearing some of the insects had taken
up their abode in the red hair, it was sac
riiced. This fact will. of course, cause
"profound sensation" among ladies who
do not wear chignous made of real halr'
But there is a similar objection to the
real hair attachments-7t are declared
TO harb0T gregarines
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
A Brave Dutch Admiral.

Lett to himself, alone in a dismasted
ship, the Vice Admiral never thought of
yielding to the eighteen Spanish galleons
To the repeated summons of Don Luis
Fazardo that he should surrender, he re-
mained obstinately deaf. Knowing that
it was impossible for him to escape, and
fearing that he might blow up his vessel
rather than surrender, the enemy made
no attempt to board. Spanish chivalry
was hardly more conspicuous on this oc-
casion than Dutch valor, as illustrated
by Admiral Haultain. Two whole days
and nights Klaaszoon drifted about in his
crippled ship, exchanging broadsides
with his antagonists, and with his colors
flying on the stump of his mast. The
fact would seem incredible were it not
attested by perfectly trustworthy cotem-
porary accounts. At last his hour SEEM
ed to have come His ship was sinking ;
final demand of surrender, with promise
of quarter, was made. Out of his whole
crew but sixty remained alive, many OF
them badly wounded. He quiely an
nouneed to his officers and men his decis-
ion never to surrender, in which all con-
Cured. They knelt together upon the
deck, and the Admiral made prayer, in
which all fervently joined. With his
own hand Klaaszoon then lighted the
powder magazine, and the ship was blown
into the air. Two sailors, all that were
lett alive, were picked out of the sea by
the Spaniards and brought on board one
of the vessels of the fleet. Desperately
mutilated, these grim Dutchmen lived IA
few minutes to tell the tale, ana then
died defiantly on the enemy's deck.
MotIey's History Of the Netherlands.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

ExTEMReRANEoUsP PREACHING.-ln one
of the lower counties of Maryland there
tiourished, in the palmy days of the ''pe-
culiar institution" an old darky preacher,
who ased no notes and prided himself oil
his extemporaneous efforts. His white
bretheren called him doctor title
which he accepted, of course, with lu6i-
crous gravity. At campmeet,ng which
the "doetor" was holding, one Of these
friends gave him, as a text, this passage
ip the Psalms of David: "Wake psalt-
cry aud harp; l myself will arise right
early" The ''doctor" adjusted bis spec
tacles, and read
'Wake peasle-tree and harp; myself
will arouse right airly."
The "doctor" went on to explain that
Moses was a very early risen; that he
had a peasle-tree which grew near his
window, and thst he was wont to rise
airly and hang oVt his harp on de peasle-
tree, ,rid psalms. s.-HTper's Magazine.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

A Baltimore correspondent %Iltes
Thunder sours milk and kills oyster
You may load vessel To its utmost u
paeity, start for market, aud one goo
round clap of thunder will kill every oi
ster in the vessel imwediately. PoQl,
ing with an AK upon The deck Of . yess.
when oysters are thereon, or pOundili
upon the side of . vessel with heay
weight, will XIII sSery oyster that Zee
the Jar :"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

A smart old Western lady in NebraSk,
being called into court us witness, grei
impatient ~ The questions pyt Ia he
and told the Judge that sho you'd qui
the stand, for te was nraly one oi tb
most ;nquiSitiSG old geplIewep she lNl'
ever seen,f
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
Teachers Examinations.

i HERE will be an Examination OF
Teachers at jefferson. Wednesday, April q; Anstinburg
Saturday, April 10 COnneaut, Monday April 25.
6wl055 H. U. JOHNSON. Clerk Of Board
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30

HOUSE TO LET. "A COMFORTA-
IL BILE Dwelling, near South Park, all in good re-
pair will be rented for six months for longer term
For further particulars call upon
1893 N. HUBBARD.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-04-30
FOUNDRIES.

SEYMOUR & sTRONG,.. Manufacturers Stoves,
PlOws and COumns, Window Caps and Sills. Mill
Castings, Kettles sinks. Sleigh Shoes, &C., Phnnix
Foundry, Ashtabua, Ohio. 1851
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15


REGISTRATION Within a few weeks
the registrars will commence the enroll
mont Of the voters in their respective town
ships, (says the Charleston Comricr,) for
the October election The first duty eve
ry white man in the State, who is entitled
TO a vote under the Constitution, is to &c.
cure registration. The campaign now
opening will be the most important and ex
citing West Virginia has ever known
The issues arc Of vital moment TO the pros
perity of West Virginia The Democrats
propose to advance the State in all her in
terests, by abolishing prescription in every
form, by restoring the ballot to disfranchis.
cd white men, by encouraging immigration,
by reducing taxation, By collecting the
public revenue faithfully, by disbursine it
honestly,and working general and thorough
reform Of all The corruption that have grown
mp m our State Government The Radi.
calls, on Gle other hand, propose to prolopg
their ascendoncy by perpotuating the vas.
saiaeo Of white men, by excluding honest
and capable men from places Of public trust
by heavy taxation to fee their partisan
workers, by enforcing negro equality by
driving GU. our best citizens and by keen
ing out all classes Of men from abroad save
political Adventures who arc ready TO n.
Dor in their service Should they triumph.
the countless and ruinous corruptions they
have promoted will continue. Should the
Democratic and Conservative party sue
coed the Government Of the State will he
restored to the people who support it and
every obstacle 70 its Advancement will be
removed
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15
Registration.


"a The Board OF Registration OF this county, con-
sistng Of Jscob p Chadwick, President, William
Barrctt and John Argent, convened at our Court
house, on Tuesday last, 18th instant, and APP
poinfed the following Township Registrarss q
Reasnsg---wiiIiam H. Cookus Shermda--r-
Y. Wooiford. BiOOnery-Samuel A. Kidwell.
GOre-Benjamiu 10y. Cdpoa-Anderso Nc
kee. Sprrageefd- Worthy Montgomery.
Under the present registration law-COde OF
West Virginia chapter 2. il is provided that
each registrar shall sit at convenient place
7 in his township on the first Monday in August,
IN order TO make correct register of all cuallh-
ed voters therein" He shall give notice of time
and place for five days previous by poster nj i've
.or more public places in his township. Every
unregistered person shall apply to such registrar
at the above mentioned time--lst Monday in
August or at some other time previous to return
! % his book 20 the Board, which may be on the
! 10th day OF August following, and must be so
early as the first Monday in September. Bspe-
cial attention is directed TO this provision OF the
! lawi-and those desiring to register earnest
| ly urged to do at the earliest possible day -
Our friends are asked 10 attend To this matter in
! every nelghborhood. Look out the persons not
! registered, the young men arrived at age since
last year, and secure their registration We adj
! wise application TO be made at the designated
/ places to the Township Registrars on the first
! Monday IN August. If application TO register
shall have been first made to registrar rs requir-
ed by law, and rejected, appeal lies 70 the
| Board OF Registration
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15


EEA protest, numerously signed by
the members of the Washington bar, with
out distinction of party, was on Thursday
Of last week, presented to the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee. against the confrma-
ton of John NJ. Oliver, recently nomina-
ted to be Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the District Of Columbia. The
protest sets forth want on the part of the
nominee of the requisite legal qualifications
for an efficient discharge of the duties de-
volving upon that branch of the Court ov-
or which the new Judge will preside, and
il af1irms that, so far as tho signers can
ascertain, he has never studied law rcgu-
larry, either under a practitioner or at a
law school, and that he has not been ad-
mitted to practice by any court.
1t is said that if the nomination of Ont
YER is rejected by the Senate the President
will nominate for the place JOIN NJ. LANG
sToN, colored lawyer of note, who is at
present law professor at Howard University
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15
PAT wooDs DIsrosrp or.-Thc House

PAT WooDs DIsPosEp OF.-Thc House
on yesterday week achieved great victory
over Patrick MOODS He having as
saulted or whipped Congressman Porter,
in Richmond, Va, on the Both of May last,
the House on the 18th, whipped "Pat," by
adopting the resolution directing that he be
imprisoned in the Jail of the District of Co.
lumbia for three months. They couldn't
think of sending him back to Richmond to
be disposed of by the court there like ''any
other man." as sensibly recommended by
the minority of the committee, who don't
think strollipg Congressman, far away from
the capital, on personal ends, are a privil-
eyed class over and above other citizens.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15

Is lie A MAN AND BROTHER ?-The
Constitution makes ibe Chinaman a man
and brother and an equal before the law.
aud is therefore entitled to be protected In
lis rights as such This Is one Of The DO.
litical and moral ideas scntout to the coun.
try from Massachusetts, to be accepted by
all men as the ultimatnrn Of the science of
political equality. But when few hun
dred Chinamen are imported into this State
to learn to make shoes and get an honest
living, howl of righteous indignation is
raised by this equality loving people, and
they are threatened with immediate exter-
mination If they do not leave at once.
The Cinnamon come not as voters to rev.
olutionize or change the form of govern
ment, but merely to engage as workmen.
Now gentlemen shoemakers Of Massaehu-
sets, extend to your brother Cinnamon the
same rights and privileges that you have
demanded that others should extend to
him and the negro. You have been taught
to believe that he was your brother By the
Wilson's and Summers, and now the oppor.
tunity is presented to put into practice the
theory you haze been preaching You
have been bowling about the wrongs of the
poor negro in the South for the last hall
century when you knew really nothing a.
bout his condition. The negro came TO us
as barbarian and a worshippcr of Idols,
and he was taught christianity and civiliza.
ton, which entirely changed his original
condition, although passing through sys.
tenn of scrvitude, and is now sufficiently
elevated in the scale of moral intelligence
to be the brother of on gentlemen IF Macs
achusetts, who so much despise your other
brother, John Chinaman, who only wishe,
to learn to make shoes and not to vote and
hold Office.
Now gentlemen shoemakers and all 9th
ers of Massachusetts,, unless you do now
for your brother Cinnamon what by your
votes you have compelled the South to d,
for your other brother, the African, yor
will show to the world what you really are
bypocrites and unmitigated scoundrels.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15

IA" Some discussion was had in the Sen
ate On Saturday last upon Mrs. LINooLN's
Pension bill, and motion to table, regard
ed as test on the bill, was defeated
During the discussion Senator YATES said
che did not care what others said be
knew that Mrs. Lincoln and every one Of
her family sympathized with tho rebellion
durin0 its whole existence"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15

ETIt is said that the KHED1vE of
Egypt was about to appoint Gen. Beaure-
gard, COMMANDMENT. Chief of the Egyp.
tan forces, with the privilege Of bringing
with him staff of fifteen officers from this
country bui, was prevented from doing
so, by tho interference of Geo II. Butler,
nephew of Gen. Butler, lately appointed
U. g Consul at Cairo, who represented
Gen. Bcaurcgard as an "uppardoned rebel, -
&c, &c. This, if so, is about as mean a
thing, as has been recorded recently
ALrdndria Gazette.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15
REHABILITATION.
"J w SN1Tu tho c,1,rod -,

ErJ. w. SMITH, the colored cadet at
West Point, is out in lctteg complaining
of his i'll treatment by the white cadets,
he says
eve went into camp yesterday, and not n mo-
ment has passed since then but some one &C them
has been cursing and abusing me III night
they were around my tent, CUrSinC and swearing
at INC so that did not sleep two hours al ni-ht
The one who drills the squad now is the mooncst
specimen OF humanity / ever saw After march
ing us out to the drill ground this morning he
said 10 me, Stand Off ono side from the line YOU
id black son of n b--h. You are Too near that
white men. ] want YOU to remember YOU are
not on an equal footing with the white men in
your class, and what you learn here you will
have 10 Pick up, for ! won't teach YOU n Id
thing. And thus he kept me standing until the
captain came around inspecting, when he pre-
tended that he put me there TO ,cach me 4 move
mcnt which had never praciic, "a before. Aud
could say nothing mt ali, or would have been
locked mp for disohedicncc Of orders, or diSre-
spect to superior officers
He farther says they are trying their ut
most to drive him off and he fears they will
succeed. The examination was q very RI
gid one, and out Of 81 appoiutccs only 50
passed. They had prepared it to fix the
coIorod candidates, but it proved disastrous
TO the whites
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-15
nEThe Congressional executiv

GyThe Congressional executive demo,
cratic committee have selected democratic
committee to act during the recess of Con-
gross, as follows :-Richard T. Merrick,
chairman; Gen Noah J.. Jeffries, Gen. Dem
yer and Thomas NJ. Smith. The commit
tee Will make active preparations in short
time for the distribution of documents, &C.,
for the fall campaign.