The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-02-22

The nomination of Russell Hast
iugs, for Marshal of the Northern Dis
trict Of Ohio, has been sem into the
Senate by the President.
Impeacher Ashley, and the Congo
Congressman Elliott have been venti-
tating in the Neutrality-suspicious..
Colonel Cbickering the piano man
is dead. 1t is stated that he had eighty
Thousand dollars insurance o. his life.
Bret Hart, the humorist, Is about
to starts magazine in Chicago, and
will be the editor Thereof.
The Tycoon of Japan is about to
send an embassy to congratulate King
William on his victories yer the bar
barians of France."
The French papers are filed with
stories of the cruelty of the German
soldiers, which is greatly infaming
the peasantry in the country.
The health of Bishop Clark, is SO
feeble that his physician forbids any
pulpit or platform services during the
winter.
Father Hyacinthe writes that the
French are the resultof the moral cor
ruption of the nation
The carrier pigeons at the siege of
Paris fulfilled the prophesy :; "For a
birdsof the air ~shal-carry tue voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell
the matter"
The Baptist Magazine makes the
following table: Jews, 100000.
Christians, 1853, 100000, Mohamme-
dams, 100, 600, 900, Hindoos. 40, 600,
000,S Buddhists, 483, 000. 900, Parsees
100000, Miscellaneous, sc, O00, 900.
Hiram Powers has made six copies
of his Greek Slave They are valued
at Sc, goo to $40 1000 apiece, though
Powers, it is said, did not receive for
any. of them much over $1,000.
The New York Citizen says of the
revival Of the "BlackC Crook" in New
York, that the costumes are new and
gorgeous, and Miss Pauline Markham
has adopted a costume that gives fresr
scope to her famous and peerless legs.
Robert Colyer, of Chicago, in a ser
mon once said OF the inventor of the
Locomotive, 81 wouldrather takelny
chances as Robert Stephenson, with
that locomotive on my back, knocking
for admission at the gate of ST. Peter
in Paradise, than the dcvoutest saint
who can carry on hisback q tons load
of VOWS and penances."
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
election of Pions TX the Papal digni-
ty was celebrated on the l4th Of Jan
uary at Rome. This event WAS cele-
brated with a great deal of pomp, as
tits the only time such a festival was
celebrated since the existence of the
Catholic Church. The Buen Seno of
Rome says that only one Pope of Rome
has been longer in Office than Pious
TX, and that was St. Peter. sst,
Some interesting fossil remains have
been discovered in a cave in Chester
County Penn, which excite much in
terest among the savants- The bones
are those of animals of the post plio-
Gene period, including sloths, tapirs.
and some ruminants as large as cows
A mastodon was also found, which
excited the curious wonder Of the
learned men who inspected it. their
wenderment having been aroused bv
the fact that the entrance to the cave is
too small for the admittance of an an
imal of this bulk through the aperture,
A Senator from one of the noun
tain districts of Tennessee, on bis arri-
val at Nashville, put up at a first class
hotel, when the following occurred on
taking his seat at the table. Senator
to servant-"What is your victuals ?
Servant-"What will ysu have, sir,
tea or coffee ?" Senator"-Tea"-
Servant-'What kind of tea?' Sena
tor-fStore tea; do you suppose L ca nj
llcIC " uTiuh SdSSdlIdA. Lie turkey
wilted.
Professor Fowler, recently visited
the Charlestown State Prison in the
interest of phrenology, and asked to
see some of the prisoners. The War
den sent for a clear eyed, smiling fell
low, with a we'll shaped head, and
soon Fowler had his hands on him.
"Well, Mr.. Haynes" he said, with
his Observation-Disclosures amt
Notwithstanding sir, you've got this
fellow here once, you wont catch him
again." "Perhaps he will learn wis
dom by long experience" The War
den responded by saying, the priso-
ner was then serving his seventh torn.
Gusts Lee was inaugurated as Pres.
ident of Washington and Lee College
at Lexington, ON the 9Th inst, with
appropriate ceremonies. General Lee
graduated at West Point at the head
of the class, and is a ripe scholar, a
hard student, and possessed of every
qualification for the position to which
he has been elevated. Jefferson Davis
on whose personal staff he served dur
ing most of the war, regarded him rs
next to his father his best general.
Since the war he has filled, with sig
nal ability, Stonewall Jackson's old
chair in the Virginia Military Insti-
tute. He is only thirty-six wears old,