Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-15
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
Saturday Morning, June IS, 1872
A S HTABULA. OHIO.

gss' Hon. Fernando Wood indorscs Horace
Greeley.
Congress adjourned on Monday night last,
at nine O'Clock.
Twcnty-thrve Ku Klux prisoners have ar
rived at the Albany prnicntiary from Charles
ton, South Carolina
eST The Supreme Court Of Ohio has just de-
cided that the inmates Of the National Militia
ry'Asylum at Dayton are citizens Of Ohio,
aud consequently entitled 10 vote.
SAULT CANAL.-The water in the Sauit Ce-
hll is improving, Vessels can now load TO
eleven feet four inches with safety. So SAYS
the Detroit Post,
C35- James Gordon Bennett, probably known
the world over as the editor of the New York
Herald died ut his residence in New York On
Sunday afternoon last, in the 77rh year OF his
age.
- t53-The terrible loss OF lille reported on the
coast Of Newfoundland, turns out to be
LeartlesS hoax. Only threc vessels were lost,
hnt their loss brought sorrow and suffering TO
fiity homes.
eB- Mr.. Sumner has proposed new Consu
tutional Amendment, abolishing the Office OF
Vice President and providing for the election
of President by direct vote Of the people,
instead Of through the agency Of an Electoral
College.
PHILADELPHIA CoNvENTtoN.-Our readers
no doubt have, US we had, a little curiosity to
know what the no-parly Trombone might say
OF the Philadelphia ConYention and its nomi-
nations, we, therefore, give, upon the first
page, lis article upon this subject, and leave
the reader TO do his OWE musing thereon.
sYMcxican affairs, unfortunately muddlcd
more than eyer, have taken on less tavora.
BILE aspect for the regular government. The
insurgents have captured Monterey, and now
threaten q siege OF Matumoras. This reverse
!, ye7y disastrous 10 the Government, AS it had
but just succeeded In establishing communica.
ton throughout the Republic and maintaining
q asembancc Of order
THE trial OF Jennie Droz, at Cleveland, for
shooting and killing Julius Fisk, on the 10Th
Of February, 1871, near Cleveland, was con.
cluded last week. On Tuesday the case was
submitted to the jury, who. after II session of
twenty.iour hours, were discharged, being un-
hDlc 10 OSIec-slunulllB Ten iOr GCQulllal ana
two tor conviction, one Of the latter for man
slaughter and one for murder in the second
degree. A new trial will be necessary,
ono feature Of the proceedings Of the Phil.
adelpha Convention struck us as peculiarly
truthful and appropriate, and wilhfll com
mendau!c 10 the judgment of the convention,
inasmuch us IL shows no Ovtrwcanlng desire
10 parade an avowal of principles, 50 common
and oslrnialiously done by parties in their first
efforts at existence, The Republican party
needs nothing Of the kind---but standing forth,
yroadly pointing to its present and past hsto.
ry for It's principles. lis record Is sufficient
and Senator Morton and the Convention he
addressed, must have iclt their patriotism
quicken as he exclaimed, in referring 10
platform, We Lave nothing new. In regard
10 the platform, 1t is scarcely necessary for
this Convention 10 adopt one the platform
of the Republican party is found in It's history
for the past ten years. and It is TO be found In
The present policy Of the Administration"