Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-06-01

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ments with the officers of a Cunard steam
er, TO let goods through without paying
duties, and then sent man here to cav
vass for orders. Without paying duty, he
could undersen the Broadway taiiors, and
besides the sweIls never consider themselves
dressed till they have a pair OF Poole's
pantaIoons The New York tailors got
wind of 1t, and were ready for the Cunard-
er when it landed. The detectives spotted
and seized thirty suits Of clothing-the
most Of them for the best known men IN
the eity. The extent of smuggling IS little
understood. There is house in the city
in the book trade, who have a printing es-
tahlishment Just across the hne-near
Rouse's Point, in Canada. The moment
successful American book makes its ap-
Dearanee. il is steOreOtyped, printed and
| bound ON the other side of the line, and
carted to the nearest railroad station by the
thousand, and sold at prices that no Amer
lean publisher can compete with; for they
have no copyright to pay, and their labor
and material are cheaper. Some of our
best known authors have been nearly ruin
ed by this smuggling of Canadian printed
books. The smuggling of cigars from Gu
ba is very large trade. The incoming
vessel having cigars on which no duty is to
be paid, displays peculiar signal when
approaching the shore, and she is boarded
by men from small-boats, who take off her
cargo and land it on the coast anywhere;
or the cigars are packed in oil-cloth, and
when the vessel is coming up the bay the
captain throws them overheard 20 the boat
making the proper signal. Liquors come
down Lake Champlain, and over the great
lakes, and find their way to the city-duty
free. 1t is an immensely profitable bust
ness, and, so long is our frontier. attended
with very little risk.
woMEN's RIGHTS.
The National Woman's Rights Associa-
tion held its annual meeting in this city on
Thursday last. These meetings used to be
very large and enthusiastic, but the inter-
est in them has perceptibly declined; this
year, Masonic Hall was not one-quarter
full, and it was hard work to get up any
steam. Isabella Beecher Hooker was there,
and so, likewise, Blake and Austin, LOzier
and the regular stand-bys. They we're all
more angular, more shrewish, more petu-
liant and more waspish than ever. The usu-
al papers were read, and the usual resolu-
tions adopted, and the ancient women dis
persed, probably never to meet again. Ten
years ago these same women were petted
and made much of, and they don't under
stand why they are not now. They are
better developed, intellectually, than they
were-better fitted to grapple with grave
questions. The poor old girls don't seem
to understand that all this is precisely what |
is not wanted. Men don't want women
who are able to grapple with qestions great |
or small, or have any special amount OF in
tellectuality; and then they must remem-
Der that pretty little essay read by q
girlish woman, with round figure, nice hair
and bright eyes, is quite another thing |
from a learned speech delivered by an an
gular female, with no hair to speak of, and
with eyes behind severe glasses. They
must remember they are older than they
were ten years ago. If the suffragists ex-
pect to again get the public ear they must
take it through the eye, and put pretty
young women on the platform.
THE GAMBLERS
are having bad time of it in New York.
The law against pool-selling is being rigid
ly enforced, and Senator Morrissy, Til
den's friend, has moved his establishment
to Jersey City-just across the riYer-and
the others have followed suit; all the pool
houses have gone over there much to the
delight of the ferries; for that part Of the
gambling fraternity whose business is bet
ting on horses and base ball, go over every
night. And, as the Jerseyites are attempt
ing to put their law in force, the pool-sell-
ers have fitted up barges, which they an
chor out in the stream, beyond the juris-
diction of both States, and therein they not
only sell pools, but they indulge in faro
and similar pursuits. The law seems pow
erless to prevent men from making fools Of
themselves when they get their heads set
in that direction.
THE END OF TILDENIsM.
Tilden has announced that he will not
contest the claim of President Hayes to his
office, ''because it would be likely to
dreneh the country in gore" The fact is,
the old man has had the best lawyers of
the country at work ever since the decision
against him, to ascertain if there was not
some hole through which he might crawl
into the presidency. Last week they an
nounced to him that Hayes claim was i'm
Dregnable, and that he might as well throw
up the sponge; and he does it tearfully,
but Tilden-like, tried to make some capital
in the doing of it. If it cost the lives of
fifty thousand men to get the presidency.
Iilden would have sacrificed them without
/ wink. The country is to be congratulate
ID that the Law puts the position in the
hands of the right man. Tilden's expenses :
or something over year and half have {
Iveraged over $1,000 day. He has bled
freely, and the host of impecunious politi-
clans are sorry that he has finally abandon
d the contest. As enormous as is the
amount he has spent, the old man has
,lenty left. Railroad wrecking has been a
profitable business to him. PIETRo.
New York, May 81, 1a77.
Ten years OF assiduous activity would be