Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-03

AS OongfeSS seems 10 De IN earnest
about the restoration of the franking
privilege, and with itsthe free circulation
of weekly papers in the counties where
published, our readers will not be sub
jected to postage on their home paper,
but for little while The payment OF
one quarters cents-wil probably see
the thing out
The Hub is in a hubbub over the cleo
ton Of four ladies as members of the
School Board, and a breeze more or less
fearful, is impending. The City Solicitor,
who seems to be destitute of knIghtly
gaIlantry, headsthe opposition, while the
press of the city leads the march of ideas
The ladies are plucky and are not going
to dwarf themselves by a tame, ignoble,
submission, and how the thing is to ter
inmate, time only viii tell.
Investigation, says the St. Paul Pioneer,
should be universal. 1t won't hurt honest
men. If rogues get caught, it is far bet
ter TO DO it now than wait fer larger dep
relations. The whole tendency of late
years has been to destroy ali sense of
moral accountability in communities.-
Only the successful thief has been wor-
shipped. GilGed life has Jagged out its
little life leaving only trail of robbery
to mark its passage. Honest poverty and
virtue has been secuted. Rapacity has
been defied and society corrupted in all
its parts. In this moment of awakening
we should get TO the bottom of things.
Some of the so-ealled Independent pa
pers-whcse independence consist, more
than in anything else, in carping, finding
fault and making charges against Presi-
dent Grant and his administration-w1th-
in a day or two past fell upon another un-
discovered mares nest, in the expenditure
of many thousands for horses and equip
ages for private use at public expense.
The Treasury Department was made es-
pecially obnoxious to this charge. The
Washington correspondent to the Cleve-
land Herald pronounees the thing sensa-
tional-and puts tine whole cos. of horses,
keeping and means of transportation for
the Department, for the last year, at
$4,000.
The passengers of the Virginius arrived
at the port of New York IN the steamer
Juniata on Sunday last, and an examina-
ton of them by the U. S. Commissioners,
was begun on Monday. While. this was
going on the Spanish Government
made formal demand for the vessel and
also for idemnity basing its demand upon
the recent decision of the Attorney Gen
eral, that she had no right to sail under
the American flag. The activity and en-
ergy of the CASTELAR, Government is fur
ther shown by its investing Jovellar,
the Captain General of Cuba, with new
and extraordinary powers, and relieving
Butcher Burriel ofhis command in the
eastern division of the island '.a'.
LOUISIANA MUpDLE-The Kellogg
and McEnery Legislatures meet in New.
Orleans on Monday next, when it is prob
able that the bitter political warfare of
old will be resumed. The proposition
which was made last winter to effect
coalition of the two so as to weed out
the impure element of each body and
constitute Legislature founded upon hon
est returns, has been revived, but meets
with little favor The New Orleans Pic
agune, pronounces it impractical, and
says it cannot be effected without reflect
ing discredit upon all engaged in it. In
the Kellogg Legislature there will be
fierce strife over the Speakership between
the Kellogg and Pinchback factions. As
the United States Senate Committee on
transportation is now in New Orleans,
they will be witnesses ofwhat trans
pires, and may gain some valuable ideas
90 political corruption as well as trans
portation.
Dispatches from Washington within
day OF two have stated that it was propo s
ed to appoint Prof Edmund Andrews, of
Chicago as one of the Regents of Smiths
oman Institution in place of Prof Agassiz.
The appointment would be, says the Chi
cago Tribune, an appropriate recognition
of the claims of the West to share in
whatever honor and responsibility may
attach to the management of the in
stitution, but it would be eminently prop
er in itself, for he is one of the leading
scientific men of the country Only last
winter he proposed theory of the Gey-
sers,-a problem that had never been
solved, though Bunsen and Tyndall had
attempted it,-and, by avery simple
contFiYance, he showed isNtheory to be
correct Apparatus illustrated all the
phenomena of the Geysers perfectly
Our Academy of Sciences and all who
saw his experiments were perfect salts
fed that the secret of the Geysers was at
length revealed. The authorities at
Washington would honor themseIT es. and
pay just tribute to the Science of the
West by making DR.. Andrews one Of the
Regents of the Smithsonian institution.
The strike of the engineers on the lines |
of the Pennsylvania Co., has attracted |
considerable attention and interest on ac-
count of the movement being so extensive.
and affecting oIgreat an extent of lines. |
The movement, which at first SEEM
ed SO powerful; has, however, lost |
much character from an official manifesto |
from Chas. E., Wilson, Chief of the Broth
hood of engineers who publicly an
nounces that the strike was inaugurated |
in direct and open violation of the rules. |
advises those who haYe quit work to re-
sumo again and prevent others from
stopping, and warns them not to interfere
with the operations of the railroads. The
appearance of the manifesto will un-
doubtedly have great influence in re-
storing quiet throughout Indiana and |
Ohio where the strike is the most general |
and violent Notwithstanding the fact |
that train was thrown eff the track near
Cincinnati, and that one or two attempts |
of similar nature were made in Indiana,
there is percepible improvement in the
condition of things. The roads are grad
ually getting into running order again,
and the presence of the militia at various
noints where the excitement has baan