Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-10

speeulators. This is iniqu1tous if
not contrary to the Constitution Of
the United States. aaa
FKANC14I CRrsrs IN CUBA.-In ad-
dition to the patriots revolution, the
Cubans have another serious trouble,
"a financial crisis. 1t is stated that com
mercial confidence seems almost at
an end, prices, of necessaries are ris-
ing enormously every day, and some
of the newspapers have been COM
PEELED to suspend publication for
want of the means to pay their
hands. The drain upon the re-
sources Of the country caused by the
llinsurrection has been so steady and
long continued that 1t would al
most appear as though the Cubans
were upon their last financial legs.
Gold has been steadily going out of
icirculation, and now is at, an i'm
mense premium, while confidence in
the paper currency is SO shaken that
many people refuse to take it at any
price. Unless some, arrangement of
the insurrectionary troubles can be
arrived at, that general resumption
Il
of industry and production may be
brought about, it is difficult to see
where the present crisis will end.
The English Courts having pro
claimed the Loch Earn blameless
and eulogized Capt. Robertson, the
French Court, on the principle, per-
haps, that one good turn deserves
another, proclaims the Vine du
Havre blameless and -eulogizes Capt.
Surmount; all of which is tanta-
mount to an official announcement
that no one is to blame. If the
Vile du HaVre had been investigat-
ed by the English and the Loeb
Earn by the French, we should
probably have got nearer the truth.
The great engineers strike has
collapsed, and the strikers have un-
conditionally surrendered. The en-
gineers are applying for work again,
and are resuming their places, ex-
cept that those freight engineers
who volunteered to run passenger
trains are allowed tolkeep them, and
the fecalcitrant passenger engineers
are put on freight trains. The en-
gineers on the Pennsylvania road
have decided to agree to the reduc-
ton of wages for the present, at
least. The only effect of this fool
ish movement has been to cause
idleness, destitution, disappoint-
ment, modification, and aliena-
tion between employees and employ
ed, and disturbing of the conf
dence Of the people in the security
of travel r m
Bills have been introduced into
both Houses of Congress providing
for a division of Dakota Ter-r,ito,rrv
and a petition will be presented,
signed by the majority of the inhab-
itants, In favor of such division. The
movement is not new one, the Da-
kota Legislature having twice me
morialized Congress to the same
end. 1t is the northern portion of
dakota, lying between Red River
and Montana, which asks for a sepa-
rate Territorial Government. This
lsection claims a population of 5000
people and peculiar advantages fo1
building up prosperous State. 1t
has two hundred miles of the North
ern Pacific Road completed, which
divides it, running from east to
west, and 1000 miles of navigable
rivers, including the Red, Yellow.
stone and Missouri rivers. Less than
II per cent. of the land is waste
land for agricultural purposes, and
this is said to be rich In mineral
wealth. The people of this section
complain that, under the present
Territorial Government, they are
left almost without representation
in the Legislature, and with made
quate provision for courts. Their
principal town, Bismarck, is 9OC
miles away from the Capitol of the
Territory. ..Hsas
MADR1D.-Dispatches from Mad
rid inform us of another revolution.
A vote in the Cortes showed Presi-