Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-15

Ia N&uOnAl Bank on the lHtO inst. the OlQ
board of directors with one exception
was reelected. The exception was Mr..
E. o. Warner, Mr.. L. W. smith, being
elected in his place. The card in the bu-
siness card column will show how the
old board was constituted.
AT subsequent meeting the old Of
ficers were also reelected.
The KhediVe of Egypt sent costly
and beautiful present to the bride of
Engineer Fitch, of the United States
Navy, daughter of Gen. Sherman To
enable her to receive it, it was necessary
for the Senate TO give permission, and
resolution TO that effect was adopted on
Tuesday. Ii is wonder that some of
the Senators didu't find something in it
to grumble about, but they didn't.
The Navy Appropriation bill was In
creased by only $4,000 in the Senate.
The amount is said TO be unprecedently
small for general appropriation bill. 1t
really seems as If the spirit of economy
were abroad in Congress. The subsidy
brokers may as well retire from business
for this session and the next Their bes.
chance is to work for the election of a
Democratic President and Senate.
A bill to prevent grave robbery has
been introduced in Michigan Legislature,
and will probably pass. 1t provides for
th punishment, under heavy penalties,
of pc rsOns who shall be found to have in
their possession bodies to which no legal
title can be shown. The Ann Arbor gen
tlemen will understand, we suppose, that
the bill is intended for the correction of
their irregularities.
The Washington Republican, of Wash
ington, stated the other morning that du-
ring the past three days President Grant
has received four anonymous notes, two
ofthem from Baltimore, threatening him
with assassination if he does not at
once recall the Federal troops from
Louisiana. One of them kindly suggests
that he will make peace with God, rs he
will surely meet the observed fate of
Abraham Lincoln
The Ohio Democracy celebrated the
sth at Wooster. to JOIN in which the
Democratic Legislature took a holiday.
This, Of course, was all right and proper.
The great victory of Old hickor ry should
ever be held in greatful remembrance by
the people of the United States. Gov.
Allen was present, and delivered the great
speech of the occasion, of which a report
er says: "Hs denounced Sheridan's
actions at New Orleans, carefully avoid
ed financial issues of the day, and, as usu-
al, INDUCED in very freq uent and ego
tistical mention of his own career and
xploits."
If there is one Professor of Virtue at
the National Capital more conspicuous
than another. that one is Col. Dom
Piatt, who was on Monday convicted of
having received 5000 from the Pacific
Mail corruption fund. This bribe.taker
has been SO open mouthed and indecent
in his calumnious exposures" and "in-
vestigations" that the people long ago
began to suspect, what has now proved
to be the case, that he is himself many
fathoms deeper in the mire, than the
persons whom he vilified and tr traduced.
Most of the ISLANDERS upon President
Grant which have at one lime or anoth-
er found currency in the public press
were invented by Pialt.
The House passed the Senate, or her.
man Finance bill, without amendment.
and it was expected at the Treasury that
the President would sign it. The bill
virtually opens the door to free banking,
which, with its proviso that at stated
day. the Government promises to pay
shall he redeemed in gold, ought to so far
reassare confidence in commercial circles
as to start the country off on solid an d
substantial era of business thrift and
prosperity. The proYiso substituting
silver for our present fractional paper
currency. it is said, viii take about forty
million of dollars out of the Treasury
for the purchase of the silver bullion !;
which forty millions could be much more
wisely used in redeeming our greenbacks
or interest bonds. The bill will probab-
ly afford relief to England and other large
commercial and manufacturing centres,
in the easy increase of Banking capital
Not democrat voted for the bill in the
House
Salmon P. Chase, Horace Gree ley
John P. Hale, Charles Summer, and now
Gerrett Smith haYe gone TO their reward,
and there are few left of the men who led
the war against slavery quarter of a
century ago, before it had become easy
to support the cause. And of this noble
group certainly not the least, either IN the
fidelity or efficacy of his laboFs, was the
man whose sudden death has Just startled,
and saddened his fellow-citIzens. That
he was eccentric and cratic is doubtless
true and so men are apt to be who con.
centrate their whole energies upon what
seems q desperate struggle But he
fought that battle right nobly. Born to
wealth, he would make no other use of
itthan 10 benefit his kind, and especially
those who were suffering in bondage
Political honors he summed, but he did
not escape the higher honor that attaches
to a faithful and fearless champion of the
cause of humanity.