Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-12-19

Friday Morning, Dec. 10, 1879.
is stated in New York that the amount
Of gold ''sent West to pay for grain is
''about $50, ,OOO, ,OOO."
The Brigadiers in Congress are little
tame, and do not rise to the dignity Of the
sensational They do not soon forget their
chastenings.
Report is made at Washington thai
General Noyes will resign the French Mis-
sion early in the spring and return TO the
United States.
There are said to be S21, 194 women
drawing pensions as widows Of soldiers IN
the war Of 1912, all Of whom are over
eighty-one years Of age.
The suit of Widow Oliver against the
Hon. Simon Cameron, for breach Of prom
ise, is set for hearing at the January Term
Of Court in Washington.
Gen. Grant passed the last Sunday quiet
" at Pittsburgh. Except for the necessity
of changing his shirt for every meal, the
thing may have been very pleasant.
Death begins his ravages among the
Congressman in good season. Representa-
tive Lay, Of Missouri, died suddenly on
Monday last at his hotel in Washington.
The fearful flow of burning oil. licking
up every thing in its course, at Red Rock
last week, resulted in the destruction of
property to the value of $500, 900, and 300
persons are reduced to destitutiOn.
If one colored voter in hundred of
those disfranchised in the South could re-
move to Indiana in time to vote in the
next Presidential election, the effect upon
the country might be quite salutary.
There seems to be a CLEAN Of pleasure
over the keenness of the response of Gen.
Grant to the after-dinner speech Of Gen.
Sam Hunt, but the Plain Dealer denounc-
es Hunts effort as red hot black Republic
ism.
Of $69, ,0O5, 800 in foreign gold imported
al New York between August u and De-
eember 6, S54, ,26O, 500 were sent to the As
say Office in Wall street. The difference
between these two sums was American gold
returned from abroad.
There has been ugly fighting in Afghan
istan-the British losing forty-three killed,
including six offieers-am seventy-six
wounded, Of whom ten are officers. The
Afghans haTe been defeated, but ''still re-
main in the ncighbOrhoOd, and require to
be attacked again.
Such Democrats as Senator VOORHEES,,
are making something of a pother about |
the exodus of the colored people of North
Carolina, and are asking for an inYestiga-
tion. There is great danger that the exo-
dusters-for the most part women and /
children, will endanger the Democratic
majority in Indiana, and something must
be done.
That pile of gold that lies so safely and
quietly in the vaults of the Treasury, is too
much to contemplate with any great de-
gree of equanimity, aud why should it oe-
casion surprise to anybody, that there
should be more or less uncomfortable eager
ness among tie brigadiers to bring it with
in reach? 1t is really something worthy |
of the ambition of solid South. Why
then should they not be anxious to go for
it?
A new danger from woman suffrage has
arisen. A Boston gentleman has been for
some years in the habit of paying simply |
poll tax. This year he was somewhat as
tonished at receiving tax bill to the |
amount of 81. 100. Upon visiting the As
SCISSORS to know what it meant, they, to |
his sntOnishment,. commenced interrogat-
ing him in relation to the ownership of GER
tain mortgages, stocks, &C., and, when
pushed to the wall, he confessed that they |
belonged to him, and that the tax bill was /
all right. In reply to his persistent in
quiries as to who had furnished them with |
the information, they finally informed him |
that his wife had been registered as a voter,
and when questioned as to her qualifca-
tons, had enumerated the various taxable
properties Of her liege lord.
The Geneva Times, it strikes US, is level
upon the subject broached in the Cleve-
land Herald about the succession to Gen.
Gsrfeld's place in the House. We fully
sympathise in the sentiment-"To our
mind, it is little ill-timed to start all this |
furore over a matter which at best hangs
upon a contingency. 1t is fighting kind
of general engagement upon the skirmish
line, which remains to be fought over
again, when the contingency is removed.
To those hedglings of the press in the Dis
trict who are already in the field brandish-
ing "dsggers of lsth" demanding candi-
dates from ''24th districts" we commend
the words of Gloster, who saw certain OBJ
stacles between himself and crown:
''clArence still breathes; Edward still lives
and reigns;
When they are gone, then must count my
gains"
The first break in President Hayes Cabi-
nat has just occurred in the confirmation
of Mr.. McCreary as o. S. Judge, and the
appointment Of Ex-Governor and ex-Sena-
tor Ramsey, of Minnesota; his successor as
Secretary Of War. The new Secretary of
War is most happy selection. He was
identified with all the legislation of the
war, the intimate and trusted friend of |
Lincoln, Stanton, Wilson and Grant. He
is a gentleman Of vast and varied expert
enee in public and administrative affairs.
A great hearted, stalwart and honored
man. The nation is to be congratulated
on Mr.. Ramsey's selection, for if in any
quality the Presidents Cabinet needs
strengthening it is the sound judgment and
clear, practical common sense, that so pre-
eminently rounds out the character Of the
new War Secretary. He was unanimously
confirmed without the usual reference to
committee within the Senate received the
nomination.
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