Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-12-24
Letter prom ws.hInr,or.


Washington Every year witnesses an increas.
ing number OF wealthy families, who make
this city their winter home Society here has
moro cosniopolitanism han In any either place
in the United States Washington has grown
under Republican rule 10 have double her old
population, and is to-day growing as fast as
ever. The dread Of the removal Of the Capt.
tol is not felt here ; no one supposes for an in
slant that it is ever likely to happen And so
new houses are going up in every direction,
and the city is rapidly expanding i,s bounds
beyond the present limits. ,-
This being the short session, and business
not being particularly pressing, Congress has
adjourned over for two weeks and day--to
January 4th. There will not be much legisla-
ton this winter. The income tax will not be
repealed, and | doubt If the Franking Pryil-
ege will be abolished. great nuisance as it is.
The members like to get their own letters free,
that you and may pay for them. The Bill
has passed the House by majority of twenty
votes, and gone to the Senate but last year 1t
passed the House by still larger vote, and
vet the Senate killed it. The deficiency in our
| postal expenses, the year before last was five
and half millions last year over four mil
lions; the day that franking ceases, this def
cheney ceases too. This Privilege was abolish
ed in aristocraiic England thirty years ago
even Queen Victoria pays her own postage.
But in Democratic America, 240 gentlemen
keep other peop les postage up TO three cents
that they may get their own mails for moth.
ing ...
The great event Of the winter, thus far, has
been the publication OF two letters of Admiral
| Portcr's The FIRST written just after the cap
ture of Wilmington, and attacking Grant with
great severity the second, addressed 10 Grant
! himself, filed with excessive lludaiion and
toadysm. To understand these two opposite
letters, we must remember that Porter is 4
brave old sailor, who has fought good fght
for his country, but that his bravery is so mix
I'd up with personal inflated vanity, that We
apt to forget his naval services in bis excessive
selt.g glorifcalion. The House has voted Il
abolish the post of Admiral, which Was Great
ed expressl; for Farragut, but Grant has .nomi
mated Porter TO the House, before the Senat,
has ctcd on the House Bill. Porter is there
fore, in agonies of doubt whether the ofic,
Pennsylvania Avenue, the principal thor
oughiare of this city has just been PROVED
with wood and TO celebrate the fact that
Washington has one first class street, il is pro
found 10 rival Rome by the Inauguration OF
carnival. Since the war closed, we have fire
quently had tournaments the gay and gullan
sons of Virginia would brayey dash thei
firms stccds against ring suspended from
pole, and he who could succeed in thrustinj
his long piece OF wood named by courtesy
lance, though the ring, would be adjudge
victor OF the tournament, & be allowed to n. IN
the Queen OF Love Il Beauty And this mcdi
eyal ceremony is always followed by a dane
when the successful rider coureously callc,
II knight. and the pretty girl, eourleously callr,
Queen rs aforesaid would open the dance. Bi
now tournaments are not enough. And SO il
the last week in February, the coldcst ali,
I worst inclemeAt season of the year, when W
have storm every other day, We are TO hav
II carnival in the open air every body is I
put on masks and caper in the public street I
q the amusement of the lookers-on, under tn
. sunny skies Of Italy and among a careless
= laughter-lOviDg population, carnival migl
n ue IL success, because the whole populutio
3 Joined in it. But here more than hall the pei
|. pie will be spectators and liquor will inspil
. more than the love of fan.
a The works of the Rev. Albert Barnes,
!. Philadelphia, have met with larger sa
than nny other commentaries ever publishe
n in this country, orin any other. Mr.. Barn
.s is n very wise and sensible man and in Il
Il ter TO his brother ministers, he tells them the
u is no way they can be so useful to the wor
p. as by writing through the press. And he ad
If that nearly every county paper would glad
q give to II Clergyman a column or two of spac
!. in which he could do as much good ms fro
II the pulpit. As | read his remarks tho VI
q Of Mr.. Anderson's column in the 7rl,grup
d and saw that sensible AZ his advice WINS, it hi
l. at least, in one instance, been anticipated
q Ashmbula. WORCESTER
4 tB"IIer Majesty, the Queen OF Holland h
A rendered 10 MIR. Motley our late Minister
lc England, the tree use OF u palaiial msusio
l. Al the Hague. The gracious offer has been q
r ccpted and here, MS soon rs he shall ha
e shuillcd off the coll of diplomatic aifairs,
o will proceed In honorable retirement, To ]
lr sume his distinguished literary lahors. N
Moneys recent ups and downs 20 to sho
Ii that some times fortune frowns that she mi
4 smile - when u President lorsakcs you, then
IS Queen may take you up.
:, The government of French Rcpublics-som
:, thing like those Of the Confederate genus
!, seem TO be endowed with the powers of loo
motion, or perhaps, more properly, rotate