Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-01-14
Columbus Letter.

members were present and in the House 90.
The House remains unchanged, with the ex-
ception of Herman Ely Of Lorain County,
who 6lls tho.pnce of Dr. Strong !; the Dr. hav
ing resigned To accept tie position, Of Special
Agent of the Postal Department. In the Sen
ate, Durbin Ward, Ii. +. Poppleton and a. G.
Wales, were sworn in and took their seats,
having been elected 10, fill the vacancies oc-
casioned by the resignation OF L. d. Camp
bell, elected to Congress. in the SChsnek Dis
trict, James Is. Hubbell who was defeated in
the Delaware District and B. F. Potts, now
Governor of Montana. One Tuesday, nothing
of importance was done beyond the passing
Of the customary resolutions incident to the
opening of the session., and. on Wednesday,
both branches adjourned over until Thursday,
to attend the State Agricultural Convention.
The members composing this Convention are
the Presidents Of the County Agricultural So
cietics. ii. J. Nettleton was expected here,
lie occupying that position this.yea in your
County. The State Boardlof Agriculture ara'
elected by this Convention, and twenty-five
| persons were before the Convention for that
| office, anxious to promote the cause of agri
culture in Ohio. The contest, however was
soon narrowed down, as on the 1st ballot
Messrs D. c. Richmond, of Erie County, and
James Buckingham, of Muskingum, were
elected, and s. b Sprague, of Clark, on the I'd,
and on the 3pd, Simpson Harmount, of Tusca-
rlwas, and on the 4th. Or. Warder, of Cincn-
natl. The name of j. Park Alexander, OF
Summit Co., was Withdrawn on the 3rd ballot,
| for whom the members fnom the North part
of the State, had, up to that tiule, voted. The
! President of the Beard T. w. Ross declined
to be a candidate for reelection. Several in
tercsing papers were read before the Conven.
ton. Tha. by DIR. Warder; on Fruit Cul-
! ture," attracting special attention,
| On Thursday and Friday, Il large nntaber Of
| Bills we've introduced, and on Saturday. the
hegslhtur,', without any very good reason
therefor, adjourned over to Tucsdny at 21%
P. NJ N resolution was offered on Thursday,
and on Friday adopted, providing for the ap
| pointmcnt of committee of five to investi-
gate the action of the trustees of the OHIO
Soldiers and Sailors Homes and of the Re
form and Industrial School for girls, in the
location Of the Home at Xenia, and the fail
ure To establish Home AT White Sulphur
Sprngs. The Speaker appointed as such
committee Messrs Parr, Fitch, Cullen. Ster.
ling and JOY.
| The appearance of the Hall Of the Senate
and House have been much improved by the
| painting of the walls and the re-varniShing of
the woodwork. The chandeliers have bReni
taken down and large seileotors put In their
| places.
| The net amending several sectionssof the act
providing for the government of the Reniton-
tiary, has been, signed and is now n law. This
increases the pay Of your former townsman
George Cunningham, Captain of the Night
Watch, to $l09. per month
The State Board of Equalization are again
in session, and with q very fair prospect of
continuing beyond the final adjournment of
the legislature In the debates Of that body
hslltablla county has been the theme, the
greater portion of the TING. One would hnnr
Gine that they supposed there was no Other
| spot that could with her compare. The truth
is. her statistics do show great things compar-
cd with some of the other counties. Your
membcr-C. G. Field-tod them 1t was not
the soib but the brains that dfl H. and
he did not know "a they were taxable. The
reply was they thought very likely, when the
average was put at q fraction over $17 per
acre, Mr. Field IL doing all he can To prevent
our being increased & it now looks as though
we would be about 90 per cent. What strikes
him as curious, is that Ashtnbula Village is not
rated as high rs in the assessment OF eleven
years ago. fsee no reason why if we were
then too high, we should be Kept so. must,
however, give another letter to this subject
and bring this rambling one to a close. The
Board memorialised the legislature for law
permitting them 10 diminish the grand dNpli-
cate as returned by the county boards. This
I hardly think will be permitted The Su-
prcmc Court, to-day, In an elaborate opinion,
refused a peremptory writ of mandamus a
ganst Slnte Auditor Goldman, requiring him
TO issue certificates for the payment Of the Nor
gan raid claims, and decided that the net OF
1860, bars their payment, not having received
a two thirds vote, in each house, as required
by the constitution, had not the force and ef-
feet of law, aud that the Auditor rightluliy
Withheld their payment. X.
Aroused blythe recent fearful calamity in
the burning of the Spotswood Hause, Rich
mond, the Now York authorities are notifying
the prppretors of the large hotels in that city
to provide suitable fire escapes, II makes one
shudder to- think what might happen il ont
of those seven-story structures, crowded with
sleeping guests, should take fire. We neve
go into one and mount two on thpee flights, o
stairs, without a thought of IRE, and tn
chances of escape being cut Off The patrons
of hotels have rights in this matter whicl
, their hosts are bound to respect And besitlss
agood fire escape eught to be as valuable al
advertisement Of a house asa passengeneleva
tor.
II JoIaETIAN IN HIS DIGNITY.-lf any bod!
In this world is likely o'stand. on his.dignily
1t Is the Americana abroad, That exalted an,
J mighty peSsOnage, the Mikado Of Japan, la
hitherto yeledhimself, even when cOndescend
Z ing to give audience to'his most distingulshe
visitors, aud as for the csmmoner sort Of nota
bles, has quite carelessly turned them over +