Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-01
Friday Morning, Dec. LIST, 1876.
when sorrow has left its traces, what
,f III, resi- Of the harness?

Pounded ice, if allowed to stand too long,
is not what it is cracked up to be.
Oh. Reformi wnat multitude of sins
are committed in thy namel
.sTbs ballot in the hands Of the freed
men nav vet preserve the jewell Of liberty
fo fbe diadem Of the Republic"
The St. Louis Times frantically howls,
1" Wen have Tilden or fight Don't be
bashful; take them both, for the country
desires neither.
The good people who borrowed trouble
because the campaign opened so late and
languidly are now in distress because it re-
fuses quietly and suddenly to come to an
end.
That voluminOus correspondent, MI
Abram S. Hewitt. has neglected to address
a letter of welcome to the Hon. w IN. I'm. n.
Tvae6 the gentleman who failed IN 1900
to give Stewart L. Woodruff fair count
A press dispatch. says the Portland Ore
ooD democrats, have taken no steps yet to
enioin Governor Grover from issuing Ger
ti5cate of election to Watts. The Repub-
Teans confidently assert that no such ae-
ton will be taken.
Paeheco, the Republican Congressman
elect in the Fourth California district, is
native Californian, and was formerly LieII-
tenant Governor Of the State. His major
ity of one to be contested by his Demo
cratic competitor, Mr.. WiggintOn.
Still another ineHgiblel This time it is
an unpardoned rebel in North Carolina,
who is certainly disqualified. The interest
of that single vote is fast dissiPatIng' ana
Samuel is eyes are not wondering like the
FOOLS to the ends of the earth, so much as
they were.
Prince Napoleon is reported coming to
the front again in France. The Prince is
recognized as dangerous pretender to
the throne of France, and he will begin
like his late Imperial cousin by profess
ing Republicanisn, and then numbering
the Republic.
The average majority for the Hayes
electors, in South Carolina, as shown by
the face Of the returns, is $50. 1t ought
to have been, in justice, ten times that
but the order of the Supreme Court, Of the
State, prevented an investigation into
Democratic frauds and intimidation.
The State of Iowa has more daily papers
to the population published within its bor-
ders than any other State in the Union.
That is why Iowa gave Hayes majority Of
nearly sixty thousand. Wherever there is
the greatest amount of intelligence, there
is where Democracy does not prosper
The rebeIlious South gives 119 votes to
Tilden and 10 to Hayes. The loyal North
gives 1865 votes to Hayes and So to Tilden.
The prophecy of the martyred President
seems on the eve of fulfllment. Those 19
Southern electoral votes were given by
s'ballots in the hands of the freedmen"
A number of subscribers to the Cincin-
natl Commercial asked the editor whether
Mr.. TiIden was Protestant or Catholic,
to which the editor replied, ''Mr. Tilden is
a railroad lawyer" That is, as mgersol
would say, he is compound of beak and
fang and claw, and has no religious belief.
Tne chief interest in the official vote of
Illinois, lies in the division Of the Legisla-
ture, which will choose a United States
Senator to succeed John A. Logan. While
the result is uncomfortably close, Re
publican majority on joint ballot Is secured
beyond any doubt, so that Mr.. Logan's
successor will be- Republican.
Another Tilden Elector, ineligible under
the Constitution, has been found in Nilsson
ri, Oregon and Vermont, Postmasters
ars dwarfed before the developments of
late discoveries, and Democratic Journals
begin to look more after their own than
things Of Others, on the principle, we sup
pose, that charity begins at home.
How does it come that Democratic edi-
tors, who from 1861 to 1865 were crying
peace, when war was the necessity of the
nation, are to-day shrieking war when
they imagine that the time is more oppor-
tune than then for disrupting the Union?
Their treason requires whip of scorpions.
A dispatch received by the Cleveland
Herald on the 29th, from Columbia, S. c.,
says that the city is filed with rife clubs,
not less than five thousand members being
present, ready for any movement that may
be ordered. General Ruger has only 800
U. S. troops under his command, and these
are not enough to do any good if the rifle
clubs determine to control matters.
There is another revolution in Mexico.
Iglesias wanted to be President, but failed |
to secure an election according to legal |
methods. There upon, he set up Gov
ernment of his own, with full Cabinet
and Federal officers, and is in fair way
to enjoy peaceful and happy rule, until |
some other aspirant comes along. Eneour
agement for the Southern Democracy,
Ex-senator Osborn, of Florida, has made
an analysis Of the Democratic vote in
that State and says it shows a uniform
increase Of one-third in majorties over
previous elections, they evidently being
effected il compliance with instructions,
though the manner in which the increase
was effected depended on the character of
each locality. Tilden's friends claim him
to be close fgurer.
Pennsylvania is emphatically against
the Democrats. Seventeen Congressional
districts have gone Republican by majori-
ties ranging from $40 to 7s45, while ten
have gone Democratic, one by 81 and an
other by SO majority. The new State Sen
ate viii number 81 Republicans and 10
Democrats, and the new House of Repre-
sentatives 12O Republicans and 81 Demo
Gratis, making Republican majority on
joint ballot OF 81.
It is reported that Mr.. Hendricks is pur- 4
suing his way westward in the company of
JEFF Davis, late Of the Southern Conieder-
aey. Mr.. Davis, it viii be remembered,
sailed from Europe Immediately upon the
announcement Of .Tildsns election, and
thereby enjoyed Democratic victory ten
days longer than his friends did on this
Ade Of the ocean. Mr.. Hendricks hes
probably mentioned to him that there are
n-es-