Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20

For instance me UesHtohtH u on beI way
here with about three millions Of dollars,
in good hard American eagles, a pile of
money itself big enough to ransom all the
kings mentionedin Froissart's Chronicles.
THE REASON
why it is coming in such quantities is that
we have for the past three years been living
inside Of our income. We have. been pro-
ducing more than we consumed; and as
the surplus of our productions goes abroad,
and We have eeonomized mostly on what
we buy in Europe, the balance is in our IA
vor. and has been continuing to increase in
that direction. Europe must purchase
from US this year large quantities of pro-
visions to supply her own crop deficiencies
andshe must pay for the same in gold,
since We are forcing ourselves lO-get along
with as little as possible Of what she has
to sell, and there is large surplus of
ready money comes to US in the transaction.
This is a little bit of political economy for
your readers to investigate.
THE ELECTION NEWS
has been the all absorbing topic this week.
No election since the war has awakened
such intense interest as this affair of the
two outposts of the two great parties in
Indiana and Ohio. New Workers did not
turn from business it is true, to watch the
returns and speculate as TO the results; Il
thorough going New Yorker would not al
low anything short of the financial dissolu-
tion of all things TO dish ract his attention
from his ledger or order-booB; but out of
business hours, the interest displayed by
him was unusual. Newspaper offices, club
rooms. hotels, political headquarters, and
all places where news was likely to be had,
were continually th1onged by large crowds,
who devoured every scrap of information in
the Successive dispatches, with the avidity
of a school Of blue fish after handful of
ships biscuit. As usual, the Democrats
were noisy, bluffy and arrogant, and cfaim-
ed everything as a glorious victory.
OPIUM EATING.
The increase of this vice among the ladies
of this city is attracting general attention
among those in a position to know anything
of the facts. Notice was called to the mat
ter by well known lady correspondent,
who made what appeared at the time, lath-
er sweeping assertions, but which have
been sustained by laier developments. The
evil has spread more widely among the
classes OF rather superior social position,
any numberof ladies of the highest. .respec-
liability and moving in the most select cir
cles are said 10 be victims of this per-
nicious habit. Women of the lower class
es who use artificial stimulants still cling
to the old methods Of beer and whiskey.
OPIUM Is A FIEND
beside which alcoholic stimulants, bad as
their effects are-are comparatively mild
and harmless. The man or woman who
once becomes a victim to its insiduous
wiles, is as fatally bound in its degrading
chains as were those subjects of the middle
age myths VINO had sold their souls to Sa-
ten. Release from the bondage is infinite
ly more difficult than breaking off the seTv-
itude to alcohol, and all its effects upon
the body and mind of the victim are pro
portionally exaggerated. The spread of the
evil seems to call for active measures of
repression, but what those measures shall
be puzzles all those who have approached
the matter. Nothing, will avail but the
general arousing of the public conscience.
A SPECIMEN DEBAUCHEE.
Speaking OF opium eating reminds me
that as was turning the corner Of Broad
way and Tenth streets to-day, I saw,a wo-
man in rags and tatters, blOated and
pimpled, and bearing on her person evil
dence of long struggle with sin, which
had resulted-as 1t always dOes-in sins
triumph Such women are not rare, but
this one had peculiar interest to me. l
knew that girl fourteen years ago in Find
lay, Ohio. She was the prettiest, sweetest,
most charming girl of eighteen I ever
knew, and queened it royalty over the
hearts of the young men of that little city.
She could have married the most eligible
young man there had she so wished, but
she had an ambition above3any sphere that
region afforded, and she went to New York
to seek her fortune. Her first essay was in
literature, in which she met with but in
different success. She then went uPer' tii''1
stage, for which ih7e=r,a aa fss,se sssoi
Eeg aa-.e... at ,.llaYe-. !tes he wea-7a3i
tsa tafisee's psIa-s -ss,at E