Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-08

are so apparent that he had better at once
withdraw, and before this infamous lie is
contradieted they will telegraph that ex-
governor DennisOn of Ohio has telegraphed
the same thing to Hayes, and all the Re
publieans present, have acknowledged that
Louisiana voted for Tilden and that they
are about to return. From Florida they
telegraph similar statements, and the way
thew praise Wade Hampton, and the South
Carolina rebels for moderation and high
toned patriotism is astonishing. Now be it
known that these kilograms and statements
are eoneOcted in New York, that there isn't
a word of truth in them; that Sam J. Til
den revises every one of them, and that
they all pass under his hand before they
are photographed south to be scattered
broadcast over the country. Of course he
knows that they will be contradicted, but
he knows also that many will never see the
contradiction, and that a nasty impression
will be left on the minds of those who do.
It will have the effect to justify him in
what he intends to do, to some extent; at
least, it furnishes catch-words to put into
the mouths of his followers. A very smart
man is Samuel ]. Tilden-were he as hon
est as he is smart he would be very use
full man instead of the curse to the world
he is. The Republicans of New York, not
withstanding they are in hopeless minor
itv. are not at all frightened at the struggle
thus forced upon them. They know that
Hayes was fairly elected, and they pay no
attention whatever to the bluster that is
showered upon them, and the monied por
ton of the Democracy are not as anxious
for trouble as the place hunters are. In
the event of trouble their business would
suffer, first of all, and the Democratic mer-
chant has Just as sensitive pocket-nerve
as the Republican. When the crisis comes
you will see these gentlemen weaken, and
possibly they may wish that all along they
had been with the party of law and order.
THANKSGIVING
is hardly the festival in New York that it
is in New England. OF course the relig-
ious people observe it in the regular way
church in the morning and feast in the
afternoon, but for many years it has been
the favorite day for target excursions for
the military companies, and there are huIl-
dreds of them. The boys of the West side
wards in the city can hardly be supposed
TO know that in their masked and gro
tesuue professions which it is their fun to
get up at this time of the year, they follow
an old and excellent custom. Christmas
and all holidays in merrie England used to
be ushered in with professions of masks and
motley costumes, just such for their day as
the ward school boys treated us to at
Thanksgiving. The quiet cross-town neigh
borhoods were reused by the music of a
limited band to see companies of harle-
quins and dominoes go by followed up with
troops of continentalsolGiers in calico uni
forms, plantation negroes, and bodies of
noble red men, got up in the most savage
manner with vast expense of madder red
and brick-dust, and flowing scalp-locks-
the whole procession so masked or whiten-
ed and painted that their own mothers
could not know them. 1t was a bit of fun
that suited well the temper of the day, and
was certainly better for the boys than
screeching on horns, pelting cats or touch
ing off toy cannon and air-guns. of holi-
day. An hour after, they emerged in or
dinary. dress, with faces scrubbed wonder
fully clean, yet not so as to hide suspicious
traces of red and black. about the roots of
the hair.