The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-01-07

deni Of the London Times reports
that from fifty to sixty of the
higher class Of Hungarians have
been arrested, havingbeen accused
Of having kept up an artificial
excitement by means Of their
inferior agents, who rendered
both highways and byways
insecure"
Excess IN ExAeeERATros.--
The late Bishop HeddDg use to
tell an in xcident in his Episcopal
career, strikingly illustrating the
despotic power of long in6ulged
habit. At one Of she conferences
where he presided young
preacher gas eberyed with Adul-
ging too great exaggeration. He
was not said to be guilty of
positive falsehood, but superiatives
flowed SO freely from his tongue,
that the truth had all the SEM
blance and frequently did all the
mischief of lie. The young man
was sentenced to be publicly
admonished by the Chair. He
stood up in the presence Of
brethren, and the Bishop, with
great kindness, pointed out the
evil resulting from the habit.
After hearing him through, the
accused bathed ntears, requested
permission to say a few words
He commenced by q candid
acknowledgment Of his fault, and
thanked the Bishop for this ad-
monition. Turning to his brethren
in the ministry, he assured them
Of his determination to conquer
bis besetting propensity. 81
regret it, said he, as much as any
of you. have struggled against
it. Yes, brethren, by night ard
by day, have wept on account
of it, and ] can truly say it has
already caused me to shed barrels
Of tears"
So NECESSARY is fun to the
mind that philosophers says that
if you should build school houses
without Fairgrounds, nobody
would ge, beyond short division
in a life time.
GRAFT OF LAND TO Psi lid
RAILRoADs.-Many people, and
even many editors in the Eas.ern
States. have formed the it st at
in grarting alternate ~ of
land by Congress for a. & ,,
. f b-li... !. ,ads aaj p,=hing
other improvements efth Wsst
the nation is swindledout Of large
sums, which 60 into the hands Of
Spectators. A word or two will
undeceiye them.
Government price Of land is
81 25 per acre. For every acre
given away an acre is sold at
double the former rates viz: 50
so per acre, that is, every alternate
section to those granted is doubled
in price. And instead of the
nation being the loser, it is ab-
solutely the gamer by the grant.
Large bodies of the lands on
which these grants are located
have been in market from eleven
to thirty years without finding a
purchaser. But by building the
roads they are selling rapidly at
the advanced price, and will in a
short time be entirely sold, thus
bringing several millions of
dollars into the Treasury of the
United States. Were we to
calculate simple interest only on
the sums thus brought into the
Treasury for the time they would
probably remain unsold, had the
grants not been made, it would
be shown by the figures that the
nation is largely the gamer by
the grants.-Dabuqus, { Idtra. }
Herald.
From the Ohio State Journal.
FARMERS BEWARE OF FoREIGN
BANK NOTES OF DOUBTFUL cHARAc-
terra large amount of foreign
currency is being brought into
this region to pay for hogs and
other products. 1t comes here
on the regular course of business
and, in the absence of our home
currency, it goes into general
circulation.
Much of this currency is from
| the east, and is either so well
known, or so secured by public
stacks that it is received with
confidence by our Banking
Institutions.
| But-MARK THIs-efforts are
being made to foist into circula-
ton along with what is good, the
notes OF some Banks of doubtful
character, or whose condition is
unknown here, and some of no
character at ali. For instance,
!. notes purporting to be Banks "a
host ofthem) located in Washing
ton City, and which really have no
existence, have been brought here
| lately. That currency is wholly
worthless.
The Banks of Columbus, we
are informed do not receive the
netes Of the Banks of .crher
States, unless such as are of well
} established credit and generally
current, or Of such as are secured
by public stocks.-They reject
! particularly, Wisconsin, Mich,
iSan, Erie, Pa, and Bank Of
of Milford, Delaware. The western
are refused chiefly because of thei