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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

Full particulars of the abandonment
Of the Arctic whaling fleet have been
Published, from which we learn that the
vessels, thirty-eight in number, aud man
ned by about 1900 officers and men, be-
gan TO arrive At the ice about the first OF
May last, but made little progress till
the ice opened q month later, when the
vessels pushed northward, taking few
whales, and passing through Behring's
Straits, June 1870. They then engag-
ed in warus fishing for month, till
strong N. +. and 5. K. winds obliged
them to give up; then following the ice,
the vessels made eastward till they came
to a strip Of clear water along the coast.
They worked their way north as far as
Wainwright Inlet, Alaska, and gave
themselves to whaling with the prospect
of good season. But August / l, the
wind changed, aud foated the ice to-
ward the shore, compelling the ships 10
weigh anchor aud keep close TO the coast
to avoid being crushed. The ice ground.
ed leaving an open line Of water in
which the vessels waited for north
east wind to again carry of he ice to
the open sea. II came August 25-27,
and again whaling was begun; but on
the Goth the ice returned, aud SO rapidly
hat some of the vessels were caught
the rest stood in shore before the ice
They anchored in clear water three OF
four fathOms deep, aud from 200 yard.
to half a mile wide, and 80 close togeth
er that some had not room TO swing clear
Of each other. Meanwhile the ice pack
ed them in.
The first vessel was crushed Sept. End
but for some days all thought they
should escape the next northeast gale
but as the ice continued to pack more
closely, and it, was known that the fee
had provisions tor only three or tou1
months, it was decided, Sept. 18th, t
abandon the ships that were fast il
and escape by their boats to those whicl
were still in open water. This was done
the boats being loaded with provision
and such clothing as was abs lutely ne
cessary, and Sept. 10th, all were safe OF
board the crowded ships. No lives wer,
lost. The distance from the abandoned
vessels TO the open sea was sevent,
mites, and the narrow strip of clear bu
shoal water continued along the coas
all this distance. The saved vessels, sew
ell in number, sailed fer the Sandwich Il
lands.
The thrtY-one lost ships had on boar,
l4,255 bbls. of oil, all but 995 bbls bt
, ing whale oil; the remainder sperm; tn
. vessels saved brought to port 2,7G5 bbl
whale oil, and $50 bbls. of sperm.
One of the officers of the fleet ,esti6e
that the Esquimaux predicted bad sea
son, when the fleet entered the Straits
and again when the ice began to close i
upon the ships, they warned of danger
These natives reaped a rich harvest b.
stripping the abandoned vessals, amon
other things, securing large quantities G
whalebone and walrus ivory. TIL
whales were abundant among the foa,
ing ice, and the ships were doing well.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
Crime and Public Sentiment.
By HENRY WARD BEECuER.

Their is public sentiment in ordinary
communities which send crimes and
vices into the shadow, So that wickedness
of certain grades has to skulk. 1t is a
sorrowtul thing when crimes become toll
erab.e and when vices become respecta-
Bile. The average conscience OF any COM
munity must be deteriorated very much
before men who are notorious for their
various wickedness cali walk in the high
places. and be regarded as "hail fellows
well met" and bo permitted to hold the
principal offices of trust and profit, and
be honored and smiled upon, and every
where greeted and recognized. A scoun-
drel, if he be clothed with kings robes,
ought TO be treated by every good man
as if he were scoundrcl, SO tar as that
is his typical character, and so far as he
puts that character out. You may pity
him; you may labor for his reclamation !;
but il he is placed ip such circumstances
that he is represented by wicked con-
duct or by wicked actions, somewhere
there must be testimony Of such horror
and hatred Of his wickedness that he
shall be made to feel how hateful wick
edness is. And the public sentiment of
society ought to be made TO feel how
hateful wickedness is. If there is no re-
probation of counterfeiting, if honest
men who could never counterfeit, still
are charitable TO take counterfeit mon
ey; if though they thiuk it bad, and say
that they would not take it if they
could very well help it, they yet, when
they have it in their hands, will pass it
along-then it will be sure to thrive. II
,neu who are known TO be genial, good
fellows, and who are respected in the
community, should say OF counterfeiting
cit is bad, but there are worse things
than that in society,"" what would be-
come OF our trust and security in regard
to any circulating medium? But hon
est men hate counterteiting. They trown
upon all the spurious money which
comes under their notice and the re-
suit is that it has to sneak and go
through society in the lowest channels,
and the best way it can. But if there
were no public sentiment, il there were
no Indignation of honesty, if there were
frowned upon it, it would rise up at
once. Wickedness in society is all the
time seeking to gain sscendency; and
there is nothing to keep it down but
that hatred of it which the educated
conscience of society gives. How far up
the common sewers OF society shall rise,
and how fast they shall send out their
miasma, depends upon the education OF
the conscience of the Christian commu-
nifty. And a community that has been
brought up to be tolerant OF wickedness,
or to find excuses forit, or to be indiffer-
ent to it, or to be good natured over it,
becomes patron of wickedness, and
demoralizes and weighs down that
which God sent the Church and the
Christian community to enlighten aud
to lift up.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
Evarishing.
BY MARY MARMADUKE.


Through dusks and dawns, through nights
and moons,
The skies their shifting shadows make;
From year to year the mellow moons
Swim sweetly ON through crimson Junes,
The trees their hoarY irost-works take,
And interchanging flakes of light
Sink in the solemn, freezing lake,
Which wore last month the lilies white
For summers own, sweet sake.
Good heaven, to me. if this were all,
1t were a world SO tair-so fair
If but the blossoms had to fall;
Ii but the trees wore hOary hair,
II but the night wore sable pail
., fair, fair rarh-if this were all.
Hist List hear toreverm0re,
Forcvermorc, asleep or awake,
Along the sea, along the shore,
The good byeS feebly, softly break;
Day alter day, on sea and land,
loved one comes with shining eyes,
And reaches out pallid hand,
And looks away TO paradise.
They come with songs of summer birds
When all things seem most tair-most fair
| They come with their sweet parting words,
And leave their good byes in the air.
! They come at sitting Of the sun,
| AT starry dusk they come-they come,
| They always say, my work is done,
And must rest at home"
Through dawns and dusks, through Moons and
nights,
They come in their transfgured lights;
Their palld. precious hands we take,
With tears of hope, for Jesus sake
Thank God, the blossoms come again,
| Thank God, the frost stays not always,
| Thank God, the bow shines through the rain,
And night glides into day.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

The following description of scene
on the Cornish Road in Italy, between
Nice and Mentone, is from Alice Dut-
toms lecture, "The Vexed Question :"
With almost breathless wonder and
awe, we cluug TO, and crept slowly up
the narrow ledge, which forms this won
deriul road, with the stupendous, snow
crowned wall of rock, in which it is cut,
rising two thousand feet above our
heads, while the soft blue ripples of that
tideless sea, and never ceasing summer
airs. and the fragrance of ever-blooming
flowers, bathed its teet as far below
Every curve of the ascent revealed
scene after scene of gorgeous and en-
chanting splendor. While the dreamily
rocking waves lay bathed in flood of
purple, and pink and golden simmer,
flung out through rift in the mountain
like goodnight glances from the droop-
ing eyes of the departing sun, the su-
perb southern moon swept up from her
billowy couch among the clouds, touch.
ing first with matchless grace, each
snowy peak snd undulating curve of the
Apprentices, as they wound their SER
pentine course down through the fair
and classic land Of Tuscany, toward the
immortal bay OF Naples, and then went
swinging up into the central heavens
from whence she seemed to drop down
almost within our reach, and hung like
great flashing jewel suspended from
the breast of night. A vision more Won
derful in radiant beauty, until the open
ing gates of Heaven disclose to our i'm
mortal gaze the great beyond, our long
ing eyes can never hope to zee,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
WHOLE NUMBER HAS.
Bobolink,

Throlt brimful of music
Can not keep il in;
Bless me Wouluat have you try; a 't
'Twould almost be a sin.
Should think 'twould choke you, though,
sometimes,
The aperture's so small
That all this noise must struggle through,
Or not get out at all.
Swinging on the lily.cups,
Hiding in the clover,
Prince Of comic vocaists,
Saucy little rover
Give us gem from Mozart
A taste Of Meyerbeer
Or morcesu from Rossinl,
Fit for cultivated car.
Can not ?-Wcll stop trying
Your own wild notes are best,
Stick to thr time vor've practiced.
Never mind the rest
stretch your mouth iu the utmost
Pour forth your pearly song
Marred by no taint of by-gone grief
Or shade Of future wrong.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

A few months ago a lad in Whining
ton, North Carolina, sent letter to the
Emperor Napoleon, telling him that he
was but boy of IL years, but that with
the heart OF man, he sympathized
with him in the heavy misfortunes that
had fallen upon him. A few days since,
to the astonishment of every one, an au.
tog raph letter was received from the
emperor in reply. 1t thanked him for
the kindly aud generous sympathy that
Lad been bestowed, and hoped tha: the
lot IN life of his little friend would fall
in more quiet scenes and more peaceful
times than had fallen 20 the share OF the
emperor Of France,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
SELECT POETRY,
The First Thanksgiving. .-162l,
Ed,odrd Winstoto's Story.
pr REV. n. rARBpx, D. D.

Br REV. l. n. TARBDx, D. D.
We had gathered in our harvests,
And stored the yellow grain,
For God had sen, the sunshine,
And sent the plcntous rain;
Our barlcy.land and corn-land
Had YIELDED up their store,
And the lear and dread of famine
Oppressed our homes no more.
As the chosen tribes of Israel,
In the far years Of old,
When the summer fruits were garnered,
And before the winters cold,
Kept their festal week with gladness,
With songs and choral lays,
So we kept our first thanksgiving,
In the hazy autumn days.
Through the mild months of summer,
We had built us pleasant homes,
So that now we fear no danger,
When the angry winter comes;
We can sit by cheerful 1reSides,
And watch the Pickering ray,
When the storms of ocean gather,
And howl around the bay.
We think with grief and sadness,
OF the gloomy months gone by,
When want was in our dwellings,
And we saw our loved ones die;
But when our well-tilied garners
Moved all our hearts to praise,
We kept our glad thanksgiving
In the soft October days.
We sent our keen-eysd gunners
To the forest-hauuts for game;
And with ample wealth of wild-fOwl,
Rejoicing home they came;
And our good Indian neighbors,
With whom We live in peace,
Brought in their gift of hunted deer,
Our larder TO increase
And Massasoit, tho chieftain,
Was present with US then;
He came TO share our banquet,
With his ninety dusky men;
So for three days we ieasted,
With sports and games and plays,
And kept our first thanksgiving
In the fair sutumnsl days.
The winds breathed gently on US,
From out the mild southwest.
They come, the Indians tell us,
From the islands of the blest;
And the sun and moon looked kindly
From the still nights above,
As if to cheer our banquet,
And bless our feast OF love.
And our brave Captain Standish,
Brought up mid wars alarms,
Led out his small but trusty band,
His sturdy men at arms;
He showed the Indian warriors
Our military ways,
For so we kept thanksgiving,
In those lazy autumn days.
We thought of dear old England.
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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

The New York papers are overaowing with
the Grand Duke Alexis, and the nabobery
and snobery are on their little heads in hum.
bic obeisance to this representative Of Europe.
an monarchy. The Duke puts up at the Clar.
endon hotel, the fitting up of which, the N. Y.
Herald says is gorgeous
Splendid new marble mantles, with
CRATES and tenders Of heavy silver plat
ing and gilt have been put in; expensive
bronzes, clocks, statuary and other or
naments of rich and rare description ara
upon the mantels, and beautiful land
scapes are framed against the walls. The
floor is covered with velvet carpet Of
brilliant colcrs, damask and lace cur,
tans depend at the windows, gilt and
bronze chandeliers, with porcelain re.
doctors, hang from the ceiling, and side
brackets, with prism gas jets are upon
the walls. Great mirrors extend from
floor to cornice. Etruscan vases of ala
baster, four feet high, are placed in each
corner, and miniature Cologne foun-
tain OF fine marble sits at the center of
the rear windows. The side walls are
panelled aud tinted gray, with a pink il.
luson, gilt border enclosing all. Over
the arches, draped in graceful folds, are
the Russian and American colors, glis-
tening sn silk and gold and silver bull
lion fringe.
II the dining saloon, the halls and
stalrways are carpeted with a bright
green carpet, with deep orange, toliated
borders. The walls tinted with blae and
crimson, in gilt panels. The gas pendant
is of gold and bronze, with porcelain
globes. Everything that wealth could
purchf Sc or genius invent has been ool-
lected within the twelve rooms allotted
to the visitor and his suite. In the bed
chamber fitted up for the Prince there is
an oval mirror, which merits passing no.
tice. This mirror is held by two posts
or stays, which rest on the white marble
mantel peice. On the top at either end
is placed a winged angel in an attitude
of supplication, which has a most splen-
did appearance, and strikes the eye i'm
mediately as the visitor enters.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

THE OLD-FAsHIoNBD MoTHKR-Thank
God some Of US have an old-fashioned moth
er. Not a woman of the period, enameled
and painted, with her great chignon her curls
and hustle; whose white, jeweled hands ney.
er have felt the clasp of baby fingers; but a
dear old fashioned, sweet-voiced mother, with
eyes in whose clear depths the love light
shone, and brown hair, threaded with silver,
lying smooth upon her faded check. These
dear hands worn with toll, gently guided our
tottering steps in childhood, and smoothed our
pillows in sickness; even reaching out 10 us
in yearning tenderness when her sweet spirit
was baptized in the pearly spray of the river
Blessed ia the memory of an old-fashicned
mother. 1t floats to US now, like the beautiful
perfume of some woodland blossoms. The
music Of other voices may be lost, but the en-
trancing melody of hers will echo in our souls
forever Other faces will fade away and be
forgotten, but hers will shine on until the
light from heavens portal shall glorfy our
own. When in the itful pauses of busy
life, our feet wander back TO the old home
stead and crossing the well-worn threshold,
stand once more in the low, quaint room, SO
hallowed by her presence, how the feeling of
childish innocence and dependence comes
over us, and we kneel down in the molten
sunshine, streaming through the western win
dow-just where, long years ago, we knelt by
our mothers knee, lisping "Our Father
How many times when the tempter lures us
on, has the memory of those sacred hours,
that mothers words, her faith and prayers
saved US from plunging into the deep abyss of
sin Years have flled QIeAt dlfla hetWeen her
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

Cast iron sinks, all sizes" is the
legend Hartford plumber inscribed ''on
his outer wall" swell, who the devil
(hic) said it didn't" was the inquiry OF
an inebriated man OF sin to the plumber
aforesaid, who read it over three or four
times, and gave yell of delight when
he thought he saw the point.
Norpich BulIetiR.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

Here i, new field for rivalry: A
Lanesville man, eighty-seven years old,
was born when his father was seventy
eight, and wants to know if there 10
another man living whose father was
born ono hundred AMI sixty-fve years
aOO
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

The home of tba Cardiff giant
Onondaga county, has vast and bottom
less cave just discovered. Aoh@ologists are
At work to see whether il is 9 cell or .
cellar, n
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

q, TRAPPLER, From Parls.) No. 2T6 Sixth Ave
nue. bet. nth and 18th St, New York. All articles
for Ladies' Toilet and in Hair manufactured aer IN e
latest Paris patterns. Specalites in Ladies Golf
furea. OStsO
GRAND RIVER INSTITUTE, at Austinburg.
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. J. Tuckerman, A. M. Princi-
pal. Winter Term begins Dec. 9Th. Send for Gaia.
logue. 1851
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

Some one recently asked Mrs. Cady stanton
if she thought the girls possessed the phys.
ique necessary for the wear and tear Of col
lege course ~ would like TO see you" said
she, "take thirteen hundred young men, and
lace them up. and hang ten TO twenty pounds
of clothes TO their waists, perch them upon
three inch heels, cover their heads with rip
plies, chignons, rats and mice, and stick ten
thousand hair-pins into their scalps; il they
can stand all this, they will stand little
Greek and Latin.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

Horace Greeley has peremptorily de-
ciined the presidency of the department
OF public parks in New York. He knows
too much about farming.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09
DIR. SIM MONS
LIVER REG ULATOR,
ERIE RAILWAY.

Abstract Of Time Table adopted Sept. 11th, 1871.
NEW and improved Drawing Room
~ and Sleeping Coaches combining all modern i'm
provements through all trains from Buffalo,
Niagara Falls Cleveland and Cincinnati to New York,
making direct connection with all lines of Foreign and
Coastwse Steamers and also with Sound Steamers aud
Railway lines for Boston and New England cities.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09


GAIL HAMILTON Is LUGUBRIoUs As TO
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.-Dr. Todd ought to
forgive Gail Hamilton a good deal for
sympathizing with him so fully, as she
now does, on the effect of suffrage OF
women. She draws this mournful pic
ture thereof in the Independent When
women are cursed with their granted
prayer, the hardest lot will fall to those
whose hardest now. II is the working.
woman for whom all is asked but it is
the workingwom on whom the sword
will be turned. She is the uniriendly or
the insuficiently befriended. Working
women are chiefly those whose male re.
latives are unable or unwilling to sup
port them. "Thc loving and beloved
wife," or "the petted aud caressed daugh.
ter" of the strong and successful man
will be scarcely conscious OF change.
In her well-guarded home it matters let
tie 10 her whether she is loved by law or
grace. But the unguarded woman must
fight her fight with the same real and
relative disability as now but with an
assumed, legal equality, which pre-.
cludes privilege, though it caLnot disarm
fate. While she has no vote, no defined
power, her position is constan. rebuke
TO brutality. When she has seized the
suffrage, her brutal employer and the
not too gentle bystanders, will not tail
to say: "Now you have got your long
sought equality, make the most of 1t.
Ask no favors and look out tor yourself'
Alas but women are women still.
Change thy laws, thy state is still the
same. Good men will be good, but the
bad and selfish will have no cloak for
their sin. With women somewhat do
ferred to, with greed somewhat held in
leash by shame, the lite OF the weak wo-
man is hard enough. Is it likelier to be
easier when she has dismissed the advan-
tages while retaining tho disadvantages
OF sex, challenged her foes to combat,
aud dulled the swords of her defeaders
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-12-09

We commiserate the tobacco-usiDg, and the
tobacco-rsisng, Christian who can read this,
from missionary 10 Cesarea, without some
shsrp twinges Of ooAcience
In the Turkish Empire, or, at least, in
that part OF it which we have seen, one
great hindrance TO the growth and puri-
Of the churches which have been formed,
consists in the use Of tobabacco. Every
Turk smokes. lie seems TO have been
born TO smoke. And the uominaly
Christian population of the empire smoke
to an almost equal extent. No matter
how poor mas IL, he smokes. Let the
wife go in rags, let the children cry for
bread, he smokes. And many OF the
women also smoke. As might be ex
pected, it is no easy matter for those
even who have received the truth to quit
the vile habit. The members of the
Protestant churches smoke Not all,
but, 50 far as our observation goes. near.
ly all. Some OF the preachers smoke.
One, very poor, aud having family OF
little children, learned to smoke while in
the seminary, and still continues the
| habit These facts are unpleasant, but
| still they are facts. And more might be
told. The members of these churches
not only smoke whild at their work, and
at all social gatherings, but even at their
prayer meetings, and around, if not
within, the house of God on the Sabbath.
The money which they pay tor tobacco
amounts; probably, in many instances,
to a larger sum than that hich they re,
ccive from benevolent sources for the
support Cf their preachers and their
schools.
But the expensiveness Of this habit is
not the most serious evil connected with
it. The religious sensibilities of these
habitual smokers are in no small degree
deadened by the fumes of their tobacco.
| Their coDsclences are thus soothed into
sleep from which it is not unfrequently
difficult TO wake them.
When expostulated with, and entreat-
ed to abandon the use of tobacco, they
reply, "Do not Christians ID America
smoke ?" The missionaries are forced
to admit that there are Christians in
America who smoke 2" This also must
be admitted. by a member of the
church i'll Cesarea il was once demanded
in defense of his habit Of smoking, "Does
not President Grant smoke ?" 1t was
not easy to deny that he smokes. Sc
then men whose consciences, long dead
in sin, have been bu, partially wakened
by the grace of Christ, try to excus,
themselves from what they cannot bu
perceive to be fault, on the ground tina
Christians in America do the same. The y
feel secure and at perfect liberty to dozt
away another hour in the pleasures {,
tobacco, when they have caught tn,
arrows Of the missionaries argument
with their shield on which they have in
scribed the words: "ChriStianS a1,C
Christian ministers in america smoke.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS.

FRED. w. BLAKESLEE, Photographer an
dealer in Pictures Engravngs Chromos, &C. having
large supply of Mouldngs of various descriptions, IL
prepa red TO frame any thing in the picture line al
short notice and in the beet style Second floor Of the
Hall store and door South Of Bank Mann street 1904