The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-12-02
J. H. HEATON, Treasurer.

The Board of Managers in the absence Of
the Committee on "field crops" have awarded
to Mr.. WIN. Mcdonnell the lst Premium Of
81 for the best acres of corn. Mr.. McCon-
nell had yield from the acres measured
aud reported to the Committee Of $50 bush.
els beihs i20 bushels per acre. The field
upon which this large yield was produced
was lot of land subject to overflow on the
bottoms of Wheeling Creek1-planted early
in May in rows running both ways at a dis
tance Of nearly four feet With, as gene
raj thing, 3 stalks to the Hill, not intention
ally ever more. This is the largest yield of
this grain per acre ever submitted to the con-
sideration of our society. But tbs to be hoped
that in the future we may have accounts of
many such. l. NEIswAYoER, prest.
CLIFFORD ARIcK, Sec'y.
OFDr. AwL, an esteemed resident Of Co.
lumbus for over twenty years, is about to re-
move to Dayton. DR.. A. is one of the ben
efactors of the State, having been an active
participator in building up two Of OUT public
institutions, the Blind and the Insane Asy-
lums.
COMPLIMENTARY AND SELF-DEEvING.-
The Freeman's Journal in announcing the
election Of Mr. Peter Dawson, thss Demo-
cratic member elect of the Assembly for the
l2lh District, says.-"We congratulate Mr..
/ Dawson on his election, though zoe thereby lose
a most reliable and excellent carrier Of our pa
per-" Very handsomely done, is it not!
A PlcrURE-The following portrait of the
New York "Softs," or Puttyheads," is drawn
by ex- Senator DANIEL S. DICKINSON, of N.
York, in late speech. He is describing
their Convention at Syracuse, and the char.
acter of lis members:--
sin addition" said he, "to a numerous
corps of public fiters. state and national
with the bribery of office, and the threats oI
Eexpulsion, there were there, by iree-soil pro.
curement, to take part in the proceedings o.
the convention, the spawn of IA general Jail
delivery from the city of New York--the
black vomt of the tombs of Blackwell's Is
lamd-the hair-lips, slitted ears, bl oxen noses
blear eyes, and, on an average, only abou
, two whole ones to three men; creatures abon
as ragged as Lazarus, and murderous as Cain
notified with disease, foul with stencil, creep
ing with vermin, shaggy with drunken feroc
ty, and armed with the implements of the
trdde--slung- shot and bowie knivrs--wer'
there, under the control of public officers, Il
force respectable democrats and peaceful cit
izens into harmonious concert with thos
, who brought them there.
i The correspondent of the Baltimore Patrio
, wrtes:--"One thing, believe, is pretty wei
made certain, and that is, that as soon as NJ
Senator Toombs arrives here, Gen. Ddvi
y will call upon him, through some polite an
chivalric friend, for an explanation of som
passages in Mr.. Toombs' recently publishe
letter replying to a letter from Gen. Davis
previously published. But I again predict tina
there will be no fight in the mat,er-none q
G ALI"
HEMpFIELp RAIL RpAp.-The election f
Directors of the Hempfeld Railroad Compan!
: which took place at Washington Pa, o
Monday, resulted in the choice of the follow
ing gsntleneH. .x
y 1T. Coarad, PAiladslpiia.
Daniel Deal,
Hugh Brady, Westmoreland Co., Pa,