Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-07

rE-The results of The Richmond calamity
are 81 killed and 153 wounded.
rE-Government will sell $4O00,O00 Of gold
and purchase S6,0OO00O of bonds during May
kE-one Mrs. Willard received sixty votes
for May or at the BELLEVUE o.. election last
week,
eE- The new Army Bill proposes the reduc-
ton of the Army to n standard of 25,0C0 men
after Jan. lst, 1871.
eB- The official vote Of the Domnicans
shows 1910 for annexation to the United
States to 1iO against.
s|~Governor Hays has designated May l1th,
for the FIRST meeting of the Board of Trustees
OF the Agricultural College, at his Office.
eg- Commissioner Parker considers an In
dian war inevitable, and that it will he the
most expensive aud destructive cyes wagcd.
t3-Pittsburg has at East got a syomon suf
frage association, composed Of thir,y-iive
members, who arc delicately classed as NEARLY
ali gushing young maids"
tE- The new depot which Mr.. Vanderbilt
contemplates on Fourth avenue, New York,
for the use of his sevcrd lines Of railway, will
be at once the largest, mast costly and impos.
ing building of the kind in the country.
eE John Russell Young, formerly OF the
New York Tri5Rae, has started a two cent dai-
ly, the StandaSd al the size and general ap.
pearance of the Sun. II is good looking
sheet and promises well.
cE-HARrER BRoTHERs have received sun
dry missipee adorned with skulls cofTins etc,
threateIi5ng dire vengeance unless they take
difTeren1 course on the Catholic School qucs.
lion in their Weekly.
c3- Lately the medical gentlemen were
making efforts to exclude women from their
clinics, and now we have it that the American
Medical Association, which met at Washing
ton on Monday, proposed to exclude II dele.
gate because hc happened to be negro.
eY- Delegates to the Evangelical Alliance
have been appointed by the missionaries in
Foochow, China, Rev. S. l.. Baldwin md
Rev. S. +. Woodin, who are coming To this
country They will be worthy representatives
Missionaries will doubtless be present from all
parts of the world
sE Blossom Rock, an obstruction in San
Francisco IIarbor, was blown up, last Satur-
day, by charge of twenty three tons of gun
powder. About 5000 people Witnessed the
explosion. The water was thrown To the
height of 100 feet over the rock, but no great
shock was felt This enormous blast is con
sidered great engineering feat.
C8-Forty thousand pcoplcin Japan, profess
ing to have become Christians, nrc now report.
ed as having been torn from their homes and
exiled by order of the japanese Government
The British Minister has intercctcd for the
poor people. The evangelical alliance of the
United States has sent n petition through the
American Minister, hoping that its voice may
he heard.
sB-The contract for building the branch of
the Hudson River Railroad from Spuyten Duv-
vii TO Mott Haven On the Harlem Road has
been given out, and the work is to be done by
March Isl. 1871. BY This branch the Hudson
River trains will be brought into The great de-
pot now going up in Fourth avenue aad Forty
second street.
CaE-The approaching election IN France is
preceded by rumors Of un attempt 10 assassin.
ate the Emperor. Arrests have been made,
including officers and members OF working
mems associations. The details are just full
enough TO indicate that II the report affords
sufficient excuse for surveillance by the police
on election day that shall practically prevent
voting by the opposition, 1t will have served
the purpose for which il was stated.
eS- The apprehension Of general Indian
war among the tribes Of the Western plains
this spring, is lcssened hy several circumstances
favorable to peace. The spring has opened
mildly. and the sayagcs are reported us turning
their attention to agriculture, and the provid-
ing of food for the next year. The diversion
of the Red Man from the acquisition of sculps
10 the hoeing Of corn, is certainly a subject ol
icllcitaton with the emIgrant and the traveller.
tB"ln the hurry and confusion Of the ad.
journment of the Legislature, several bills
failed TO be signed by the presiding officers of
both houses The House bill making mpor-
snt amendments to the criminal code WIS
among the number. This raises the question
whether, after passing both houses, u bill re.
quires the signatures Of both presiding officers
10 make II law.
eS-The teachers of the city Of New York,
demonstrate against the order ubollshlng cor.
poral punishment In schools. They find II ex
iremely difficult TO maintain order and diligence
when all fear of physical pains and penalties
is removed. No family, no school, no State
can be well governed where II is understood
that no punishment ia Ia be inflicted for wrong
doing. Discretion is, indeed. required, but we
would give very little for the discipline of any
school of boys where they know they cannot
be punished.
The RED RIVER EXPEDITION England is
preparing for the expedition into tho Red
River country with very commenable caution
and clrcnmhnecIlon. Tho denuIN nllnlunI