Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29

It Free maSOnS Oh feTmdnN pTOteSt hgalnst
the eAdeney of Ecumenical Council.
ty-The Peabody Funeral Fleet arrived in
Portland haTbor on the evening of the 25th, a
bout Q O'Clock.
E-A petition has been presented from
twenty-five thousand citizens ST Utah, for the
admission of Utah as a State.
CEThe Buffalo Board of Trade on the 2ist
passed resolutions denouncing the income tax
as detrimental 10 fade and commerce.
eE- Cardinal Antonelli has officially declared
that the Pope will maintain the rights of the
Church as equal to'those Of fhc State.
CYThe Iudson's Bay Company pronounce
in favor of tho insurgent government in Win
nepeg as the legitimate authority in that Ter
ritory.
CSy~Gov Alcorn and Gen. Ames have been
elected L. s. Senators from Mississippi; w. H.
Revel, coIored, was elected for the unexpircd
term Of Mr.. Sharkey.
CB Resolutions have been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature requesting the resignation
Of Senators Pomeroy and Ross, and Rcpresen-
tative Clarke.
tE-Thc school officials of the District of
Columbia have prepared bill, to be presented
10 Congress, asking for 100000 acres of land
for school purposes
tT-George Dennison Prentice who started
the Louisville Journal in 1885, died on the 22d
lie was famous as n poet and an editor of un-
equaled power. He was sixty-eight years old
eB~It is proposed to run an elevated bridge
over Black gellls Island, a very easy work, as
the ground on the New York. side is high and
the island so intcrvencs as to make long spans
unnecessary.
tB 1t is stated that the President has given
General Terry TO understand that his course in
conducting affairs in Georgia, relative to re-
construction in that State, will be fully sus
tsined by the Administration.
tB-A delegation of two hundred persons
male and female, from the Woman Suffrag,
Convention, waited on the Committees OF
District of Columbia, last Saturday. The,
were listened TO courteously, but received n,
promise of assistance in that quarter
Sy- The State of JEFF. Davis, the head o
the 1SOrtive Confedcracy based on the corner
stone of slavery and color-preudice, is the
to practical exemplifcatlon. H. $. Revcl, 1
colored man, native of Natchez educated
in Oberlin, has been elected United State
Senator from Mississippi, for the unexpiret
period of the present session of Congress.
S-The most astonishing instance of color
phObia occurred at Columbus, Ohio, a few
days since. There was u baptism in tin
rluradl which IN boy hnn Ia,
with "a iull-sized baptistery for immersion
Among the candidates was colored man, who
was dipped first Upon this, two young ladies
who were waiting for their turn, positively
aud with much scorn refused to be immersed
in the same water. Gallantry should have lee
the officiating clergyman to give the ladies th
first chance.
eB Resolutions were introduced simulane
ously in the two houses of the Kentucky beg
islature, on Saturday last 10 instruct the Judi
ciary Committees to report bills removing
from negroes the disqualification as witncsse
now Imposed upon them by the laws of tha
State In the Senate, the resolutions wa
promptly tabled. The House laid the matte
over for future considerations
VI S"'SN '' S'"''ii ioimciiy PoH'ti"'
OF Western Ohio, died in Cleveland few day
ago. His latter years were rendered uscles
by intcmperance. On his death bed he gather
ed his old boon companions about him, ant
gave them II lecture they will not soon forget
CB"lt is proposed by some New York paric,
TO buy some four or five Of the fast steamer,
belonging to the Navy and put them on for NJ
American line TO Europe. These ships wer,
built TO chnse the Alabama. They steam
fifteen or sixtee0 miles per hour, and are sai'
to be utterly useless To the navy at present
Their original cost was about ~ 5000 each