Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-26
News Items.

the Ohio Penitentiary, there are: Second
convictions; So; third o; fourth 8; fifth l.
423 are Incorporate; 81 are married; 50
are blacks or mulaitoes; 26 are over fifty
years of age; 24i eohnOtr read or urits;; and
400, or nearly Sc per cent, Of tie whole
number hare no trader!
In the last six months ofihe year. near
ly six hundred trunks, carpet bags, chests,
boxes, and other articles Of baggage, were
checked upon the New York Central Rail-
road, and passed into the baggage cars Of
tho several trains. This immense number
of pieces were taken on and out at fifty
nine different stations. Out of this i'm.
mense and complicated business the road
has had 10 pay for only SIS worth, as hav-
ing been lost, S297,5 worth having been
stolen. In marked contrast to this care
and system of the Company, is the care
l~essness OF travellers and emigrants. In
the Stray Baggage room at Albany, there
are at this momen, 2,O35 pieces of bag
gage.
rHE grounds belonging to the United
States ArsenalIat Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
embrace an area of twen,y-scven miles.
In the three magazines there are 100000
pounds of powder and 10000 rounds of
cartridges for small arms AMI cannon:
The ~storehouses contain $1,000 muskets,
rifles, earnings and pistols $500 sabres,
100 c%annons, 100000 cannon balls and
shells, 200, 900 pounds canister, and ac-
coutrements for 100000 men. The total
value of the land and buildings, with con-
tents, is over ST., 900, 1000.
ACCORDING TO the Chicago Tribune,
nearly all the peach and o;hor tender trees
that were planted last year in the north
ern part of Illinois, are frozen to death,
particularly those that stand in under
drained ground. The papers of Western
N. York report the almost total destruc-
ton of the coming peach crop. We fear
in Ohio our prospect is no better.
IT is stated that after May next fifteen
gigantic steamships will leave England
every month for the American continent,
viz, seven English, four American, three
Belgian, and one Portuguese. Eight of
the fourteen (for one does not touch at
England) will leave Southampton and the
other six Liverpool.
The Assembly ofCalifornia has passed
a bill fixing the salaries of officers as fol-.
lows: Secretary of Senate, Assistant Sec
rotary, Chief Clerk of Assembly, and AS
sistant Clerk, SIS per day; ~Sergant-at-
arms SIS per day; enrolling and engross-
ing clerk sl2 per day; copying and jour
nal clerks $40 per day; -~doOrkeepers $40
per day; pOrtera 50 per day; pages SO
per day.
THE official accounts of the trade and
navigation of Britain for the year 1855
have been published, and show a s~atisfac-
tory result. The exports amounted in
value to f97, 1854, 655; the value in 1854
having been e97, 1si,7 and in 1858,
EOS, 933,6sI sterling.
THE Branch of Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Railroad is to be pushed forward from
Wellsville to Rochester this season as
rapidly as possible. The iron is purchas-
ed and will commence to be delivered i'm
mediarely. The bridge over the Beaver
river is to be finished by the first of May,
and the track layers will commence work
as soon as it is possible.
The "Dayton Bank" of Dayton, Ohio,
has been received under the Free Blinking
Law of the State, and the capital ESQ.
OOO) has all been in. Daniel a. Haynes
was elected President, and John Mills
Cashier.
MISS McMAKIN is now associated with
her father in the editorial management of
the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
The fine old ship William Fame, which
nearly a hundred years ago bore Gen.
Wolfe to the conquest of Quebec, is now
lying in the drydocks at Newport, Eng
land, to undergo a few slight repairs.
Tobacco packed in lead is poisonous, as
the moisture contained in tobacco will Ok
ydize the lead with which it remains long
in contact, forming a peculiar poisonous
salt. The tobacco becomes covered with
a layer Of acetate, carbonate, chloride and
sulphaie of lead, amounting to fiom six to
thirty grains in a half pound.
Van AMBURGH is getting up a Monster
Menagerie and Circus which will start
from Cincinnati this spring.
TaE population of Pittsburgh, and the
seven or eight boroughs which surround
it, is set down at the present time at l22,
go, being an increase of So per emf. in
less than SIX years.
OK the Little Miami Railroad March
18th, tho express train ran into the accom-
mediation on the side track a tSpring Valley.
The engineer, Charles Hunt, was injured
fatally, and died SOON after. The fireman
was badly bruised. No passengers were
hurt. The engine and baggage cars were
nearly demolished.
THE night train from Richmond for
Washington on the Richmond and Wash
ington Railroad, ran off the track March
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