Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-03-25
W EEKLY TELEGRAPH
AsnTABULA. OHIO.
Saturday Morning, March 25, 1871.


RE-Cold deposits have been discoyored on
the banks Of the Potomac
tTThe Missouri Legislature has aisarmed
Sbs Militia Of the State by calling in all the
arms except those In 81. Louis county.
HrAn nliDeas. paper says that John T.
Alexander. the great live stock man, has failed
with liabilities of one million dollars, but
with assets exceeding that amount.
AZ The social evil is attracting great atten
tfon at Syracuse, tho Ministerial Association
Of that city having taken up the subject with
the manifest determination TO do everything
possible to secure its eradication.
twThe enthusiastic reception Of Napoleon
In Encland--"at all the railway stations along
the route from Dover 10 Chiselhurst'-is a
curious manifestation of English opinion or
feeling, which it would be difficult to analyze.
twKing Amedius is required TO pronounce
against his fathers occupation Of Rome, or
suffer the anathemaS of the Holy Father.
This Is one Of tie misforunes of having two
father"
tENearly four thousand infants died in st.
Louis last year, and the people are agitating
the swill-milk question, under the belief that
large proportion of these deaths are tracea-
bic to the deleterious effects of poisoned milk.
tTAn absentminded Indianian who start
ed out afieE his COW, found the cow-bell in the
middle Of the road, and picking it up, follow
ed its tinkling for over twenty minutes before
he remembered that it was not on the cows
neck.
tT- The San Domingo expedition sailed
from Kingston, Jamaica, Cor Key West on the
morning of the 10th. AS the Commissioners
purpose coming home by railroad the San
Domingo danoe'rnay come up in Congress this
session.
tENews comes by way of San Francisco
that the Vigilants of Nevada are sending no.
tice 10 suspected parties to leave instantly.
The demand is invariably complied with with
alacrity. Eight have been banished from
Virginia, .andsix from Gold Hill.
EB-The Boston Journal says "The obser-
vaiions taken at Mount Washington during
the past winter have established one important
fact. that the periods of intense cold are felt
at that high altitude from twelve to twenty
four hours sooner than they are in the country
below
wTho Chinese Imperial authorities have
paid two hundred thousand taels indemnify
for property destroyed at Tien-Tsin. and have
appointed Frenchman Imperial interpreter,
at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars year.
which concessions are regarded as u full set
tlement Of the Tien .Tsin claims.
GB-The San Domingo expedition has ar
Iived at Key West. The report is TO be about
two columns, and is considered to be in the
main favorable 10 annexation, though present
ing unfaverable features on the questions of
debt, boundary and grants Those are very
important questions.
EB-The ecclesiastical trouble al Chicago is
not over. Mr. Chency'S church is said to be
house divided against ITSELF and an open
split will probably take place at the Easter
election. Mr.. Cheney ii is rumorcd, is to be
cited before an ecclesiastical court, TO show
cause why he should not be deposed.
tyThc President says the -four companies
OF cavalry now on their way TO South Carolins
shall remain there long enough to restore
peace and secure obedience to the laws, even
II they should be thus employed during the
remainder of his ADMINISTRATION. He proposes
to Eight 1t out on that line, If IT takes all
summer"
ETThe Commissioner of Internal Revenue
states that the Supervisors for North and South
Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi report that
in many portions of their districts a reign of
terror exists, and II is totally impossible to
enforce the revenue laws. In some instances
internal revenue officers have been compelled
TO fce for their lives
tTA general order Ii as been issued directing
company commanders TO report the names of
all indifferent soldiers who ought for good
reason to be discharged, and provides for TRIMS
fer Of men from ono company TO another so
that on the first Of July next the aggregate
force Of the army shall not exceed 10000 Us
required by the act of the last Congress Re
cruiing officers will, hereafter raise the stand
ard OF height and other qualifications for SER
vice.
tE-Gov. Alcorn OF Mississippi ,elegraphs
TO Washington that he Is able to arrest and
punish the recent murderers at Meridian, pro.
vided ho can discover them. win he be good
enough to say whether he has any difficulty
~ uisSSNSiiHB ieIBcr, tnc Ncu-huOWn inuf-
dercr of Col. Crane Yerger was parading
the streets Of vicksburg, and regarded by his
confederaies rs victorious hero, when last
heard from
sB-About two Thousand cannon were sur
rendered TO the Germans at the capituation
OF Paris. In the various battles of the wcr,
as many more were captured, and small arms
to the number Of many hundred thousand.
As to lDsses in men, the Army and Navy
JsarH0I says "More than nine hundred and
three thousand have been captured, and more
than million living men placed hors du
combat, by capturing and flight to neutral
ground. This gives an average Of Ave thou
sand captures day ) sad with the dead by
battle aud sickness the French have lost prob
ably SIX to seven thousand men day ,incredl.
bic asia may seem.
KU BLUx TRoUBLEs.-A Attorney GEN
sral Chamberlain of S. Carolina reched
WaahinOiom q dav oF twn since as Tbs