Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-25


State was lost in the Ohio Senate on
the l4th. and as the law maker
did not know what to do next, they
resolved to go home.
The efforts of the railroads to OBJ
tain the consent of Congress to the
bridging of the channel between
Lakes Huron and Erie, either above
or below Lake St. Clair, has aroused
the strongest opposition of the vessel
owners of the upper lakes.
Great distress has suddenly come
upon thousands of people in Lousi-
anna from the overflow of the Mis-
sissippi and the Mayor ofNew Or
leans calls for aid for the sufferers.
Sotoo, a movement has been made in
the House and fayoraby reported up
on in the Senate, for affording relief
from the National purse.
According to the advices received
from the Indian Peace Commission
ers, on their way home, there is no
disposition on the part of the tribes
visited by them to engage in war.
The commissioners assert that the
war like reports forwarded during
their absence at the agencies were
in the interest of certain spectators
and contractors.
Dispatches were received at Ra-
leigh, N. c., on the evening of the
18th, reporting severe and heavy
rumbling in Ball aud Stone Noun
tains on Tuesday last. The trem
bling of the earth was felt more
than one hundred miles from the
mountain. The shocks are more
severe than before, and it is firmly
believed by scientists that an erup-
ton is imminent
Blands of Missouri-there is a sin
gular appropriateness in the name
offered a resolution in the house of
Representatives Wednesday last, fa-
vorlng the removal of the National
Capital to some central locality. The
Hon. J. B. Rice moved to insert
Chicago as the aforesaid locality.
Both gentlemen were choked off by
providential interposition, and the
resolution went over.
Brooks and Baxter still contend
for the Office of Governor of Arkan-
sas. Bloodshed has been imminent,
according to the press dispatches,
ever since the coup d etat, but up to
the present time both parties have
refrained from war like demOnstra-
tions. The opinion prevails in
Washington that Brooks has the
stronger force, and that he will hold
the Office permanently.
A bill has passed the House at
Washington abolishing mileage, and
restricting the extra compensation
of members to actual travelling ex-
penses. 1t is not to be inferred that
there was any serious intention on
the part of the members voting
for this bill 10 effect the reform in
dicated. Happily for them, the
Senate stands as a bulwark against
which the ragings of sham Congress
sional virtue beat in vain.
President Watson, of the Erie
Railroad, has a good showing to
make as the result of his expedition
to England in the Interests of the
road. He executed contract for
the issue of sI2,OOO,OOO in Erie
bonds, and received subscriptions
for sIO,oOO,OOO in excess of the
amount desired. More satisfactory
evidence of the esteem in which the
present Erie management is held
could not be given.
The dead lock in the Massachu-
setts Legislature has been brought
to an end by the election of Gov.
William B. Washburn to the vacan-
cy created by Mr.. Summers death,
all of Mr.. Hoar's supporters and
majority of Mr.. Dawes casting their
votes for him. Senator Washburn's
term of Office will expire on the 4th
of March next, and the real contest
for the Senatorship viii come off in
the approaching election for mem
bers of the Legislature.
The Arkansas Middle is proceed
ing from bad to worse. The other
morning Baxter was surrounded at
his head quarters, military compa-
ny occupied the opposite block, and
in the immediate vicinity two regi-
ments and one company besides a
battalion of colOred troops, were
stationed at commanding points
The rival Governors mainta ined !
recognized lines between their vari-
ous forces, and members of either
party who ventured across these
lines,were promptly arrested by the
other side All the conditions of |
civil war were fairly established |
around the Capitol of Arkansas. La
ter in the day there was an outbreak
concerning the origin of which re-
ports vary. 1t was promptly sup
pressed by the United Stases troops, |
but not until at least one life was
lost.
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