Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-05-26

Its reported that the New YORK World
has fallen into the hands Of the PhiIistinss
through the purchase BY S. L. n. BarlOE
Of Mauton Marbles interest.
A band Of Regulators in the parish Of
East Baton Rouge, La, have adopted the
novel expedient Of ordering the coroner our
Of the county. to prevent official inquiry m
to cases Of sudden death.
The Turks. Arabs. and Persiaus at the
oa,ta.nial have received such oyerwhelm-
inc sttebtions from the Quaker City ganins
thai many Of them have discarded their
picturesque national costumes and donned
the sorabrs uniform Of Western civiliza-
tion.
By the explosion and burning Of the
steamer Psi. Cleburne, near ShaHneetown,
from fifteen to twenty men lost their lives,
and Is many more were seriously injured.
Inrespect to the loss Of life, it is one Of the
most serious disasters that has occurred on
the Ohio since the loss Of the Pat Rogers,
two years ago.
President Grant has stated to a friend
his intention Of making tour Of the world
stthe expiration Of bis term Of ofaee.-
Probably no living American is more vide
" known. or would receive such marked
attention and courtesy abroad, as General
and President o. S. Grant.
interference Of some sort in the affairs Of
Turkey is inevitable. With military prov
inces IL rebellion, with ferce war between
Mussulman and Christian impending in
the very heartfelt the Empire, with its
treasury bankrupt and its credit gone, the
alternative between partition and subiuga-
tionor absolute destruction cannot bemuch
longer delayed.
The Albany Express quotes President
Grant as saying the other day to a Senator,
an intimate Acquaintance: ''In less than
ten months my term Of Office viii expire
and. I.shall again be a private citizen I
count the intervening days with the same
pleasure that / used, when IN the graduat-
ing class st West Point to count the days
that must pass before I would receive my
diploma and leave the academy"
A plan for compelling the Pacific Rail-
road Companies to commence providing for
the payment of their debts to the Govern
ment has been matured BY the House Ju--
dieisry Committee. II contemplates, in
the case Of the Union Pacific, that $780,
coo shall be set apart annually for ten
years, and 81 O0O, 900 annually thereafter,
until the sinking fund thus created shall
wipe out the bonds advanced to the Com
pany by the Government. It is proposal
to apply an equal Fatioof annual payments
to the total debt Of the other companies.
Gen. Banks, who was considered ssort of
brevet Democrat, said in the house the 9TH
er.day, that he had been in public life for
more than score Of years, and had seen
all sorts Of political intrigues and subter-
fuges, both In Congress and out, among
opposing parties, but he had never seen
such insane, childish and suicidal attempts
TO gain political advantages as bad been
exhibited BY the majority Of the present
House, He announced It Is his belief that
the Democrats of this House would sell out
Bunker Hill Monument if they could.
Those digs made the Dams fairly vince,
as they felt bow well merited was the lash
50 sVnartly applied,
Recent events in East Felieiana Parish,
La, afford another proof that the barbar-
ism engendered by the slave power is far
from being extinct in the South. A white
store-keeper is murdered, probably by the
rufaans known as Regulators who are
organised IN the adjoining State of Missis-
sippi for the purposes Of social terrorism.
The crime is at once attributed to the ne
groes, whom the man is said to have Of
Tended, and the white population proceed
to execute vengeance. The result is that
sixteen eolored men ara massacre5 for
crime for which there Is no evidence that
any Of them are responsible. and which in
any case ought to have been left to the civ
il authority to redress.
The deliberations Of the Conference Of
Liberals at n. 4. were concluded on Tuesday
Of last weefSk; the work Of the conference,
as embodied IN the fine address read by
Car Schurz, is before the country. There
was no President-making on the pro-
gramme, but there was an outspoken de-
elaration that the Conference looks first to
the Republican party, at its convention at
Cincinnati, for a nomination that viii call
to its support the independentvote, the
'sconscience vote. Of which fragment
only was personally a part of the New York
gathering. The Republican party falling
to meet the demands of the year and the
occasion, the Liberals viii await the action
of the Democracy at st. Louis and only
when such course shall have been COM
PEELED by both the existing parties viii a
movement be inauguFated fora third par
ty. The wisdom, moderation and earnest
ness which characterized the proceedings
of the Conference throughout viii not fail
to give its labors prominent place in the
political annals Of the year. /
The views Of the following article from
the Geauga Republican 50 faithfully ex-
presses our own that We transcribe the
p+AAcAC " OAA L
The opinion is steadily gaining ground I
that, Of al the Republican candidates for
the Presidency, none is 50 likely to receive
the nomination as Gov. Hayes; and this
opinion, which is not confined to Ohio men,
springs from the conviction that, Of them
all, he possesses the most real elements Of
strength. Those who were at first disposed
to ndicale his candidacy, or sneerlnglyl
rank him IN the category Of sfaYofite
sons, must BY this time have become con-
WINGED Of their mistake His admirable
bearing gives assurance that, If nominated
and elected he would do much to restore /
the dignity and respect which formerly at
tfched to the Presidential Office. AZ the
Presidency is an object worthy of anv
mans ambition, Gov Hayes. is doubtless
not insensible to the honor such q norni-
nation would confer; but regarding It as
pneneither to be sought nor declined, he
has steadily refused to say or do anything
IN his Own behalf, leaving his character
and record to speak fer him, They are
his best Teoomnendaf for against him
absolutely nothing can be said. It isnot
merely as an Ohio man that we desire his
nomination, though our State would I'M
questionably be benefited thereby; but be
cause We believe, Is the country
seems to be coming TO belisve, that the
same nigh qualities that have dietinguishad I