Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
THE TELEGRAPH.
AsHTABULA, OHIO.
Saturday Morning, Feb. 81, 1874.


A proposition to reduce letter pos
tage to 2 cents for each half ounce
was made on Monday by Mr.. Dawes,
and referred by the House to the
Postal Committee.
Secretary Richardson reports to
the Senate, in response to their in
quiry, that it viii take four years to
have silver enough coined by the
mints to replace the fractional cur
rency. .
The place on the District of Co
lumbia Investigating Committee,
successfully resigned by Senator
Frelinghuysen, Morrill, Morton, and
Conkling, has been assigned to SEN
tor Alison, of Iowa.
At last, the resolutions of censure
against Senator Sumner have been
expunged by the Massachusetts
House, and as the Senate has already
done the same, the vindication of
Senator Sumner is complete.
President Grant has appointed the
Court of Inquiry to try Gen. How
ard. Gen. Sherman is at It's head,
and associated with him are Gems.
Mcdowell, Pope, Meigs, and Holt.
Maj. A. G. Gardner is Advocate-Gen-
eral. The Court-Martial will begin
March 8.
Dr. Talmage's new Tabernacle in
Brooklyn, to be dedicated on the
22d inst, is $50 feet by I12, and will
accommodate 4, 600 persons. Among
the peculiarities of its construction
are eight stair-cases, which lead to
the galleries, and are on the outside
of the main building.
1t is stated that the Pope is about
to create eight new Cardinals at the
Consistory which is to be held in
June. England is to have a success
sor to Cardinal Wiseman in the per-
son of Archbishop Manning; but
America, as usual, is to be ignored in
the distribution of red hats and stock
ings,
Senator Thurman hit off the incOn-
sistencies and crudities of some
of his colleagues rather happily,
in the currency debate, on Tuesday.
The currency, according to these gen
tlemen, is to be stable and elastic.
'To be stable" he said, "was to be
fixed; and to be elastic it was not to
be fixed"
1t is very unlikely that Congress
will pass the bill introduced by
North Carolina member, to repeal
the internal revenue tax on whisky
and tobacco. These two items can
stand the tax better than anything
else on the list, and probably the
consumers of these articles, are, as a
class, the least complaining of all tax
payers.
Woman's Rights has assumed
new phase in Milwaukee. A woman
named Christine Haak, in asking for
a divorce from a worthless husband,
has exhibited her disgust for the
whole male population of that city
by dispensing with an attorney, and
drawing up complaint without le-
gal assistance, Her independence
has been rewarded by a decree.
Chang and Eng are shown by the
autopsy which was concluded lately
in Philadelphia, to have been so vi
tally united that death would have
followed any attempt to separate
them during life. The membrane
which lines the abdomen was one in
both, extending through the mysteri-
Gus igament that bound them togeth-
er. This ligament was also connect
ed with the heart and liver of each.
After several weeks debate on the
question of yestributing the National
Bank currency, the Senate on We'd
nesday reached its first vote, being
on proposition to redeem the en-
tire volume of National Bank notes
byspecie, or to substitute for the
notes, bonds bearing per cent in
terest in gold. The amendment
was defeated by close vote, 80
to %, Schurz, Chandler, Sargent,
and Sherman-voted aye.
King Lunalilo, of the Sandwich Is
lands, better known by his earlier IL
tie of Prince Bill, died on the 9rd
inst. Lunalilo made himself King,
after the death of King Kamehameha,
in 1872, who named no successor, by
inviting the Sandwich islanders to
vote for him, which they did with
such unamimity that there were but
10 dissentient votes out of $4,000. A
meeting of the Legislature was called
upon Lunalilo's death to meet on the
18th inst. A mass meeting at Kawa-
HAS has nominated David Kalakua as
the next King.
The Ashantee war is over, and
Sir Garner Wolseley is on his way
home from the Gold Coast. This
Indian fight of England's has the
trifing resemblance to our Modoc
war, that the Ashantees got their
deadliest weapons direct from Bir-
minham, as Captain Jack, and Shack
~. T.. - H. f,o,, Cvrino