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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17

Phil ADELPHIA, April 1lth.-About mid
night fire broke out in the Artisan build.
inps, back of Chestnut and 5th Sts., result.
ing in total destruction. The building form.
ed hollow square five stories high. Every
portion was occupied BY work shops and
machinery, driven by an so horse power en-
CINE in the basement. Duval, photographer
occupied one floor, loss 100000, insurance
10000. He had 40 steam presses, and an
immense stock in store, including liIho-
graphs for Perry's Japan expedition, for Gov
ernment. plates worth $4,000, all complete,
ready to be sent of. Watts, silversmith
5000 uninsured. Gaskili, book binder, loss
very heavy; G. w. Simmons jeweller, loss
20 900, insured 5000; C. e. C.P. Warner,
gold watch case makers, loss $4,000 insu-
rance 5000; Updyke, Coll chain maker loss
heavy; Geo. Heppard jeweller; Saml. Eakins
electro platter, partly insured; Williams, pa
per stainer; Morgan, spectacle maker; Nam
ker and Thomspon, printers; Ross, stair rod
manufacture; Moss g. Bro, blank books
Burk, clcth and satinet printer, loss 10000
insurance 10000; ]. II. Camp, photographer,
loss 5000 insurance 1000.
The fire was so rapid that scarcely any,
thing was saved except from the lower floors.
The rear of the U. States Hotel adjoined the
building and its destruction seemed inevita-
Bile. The boarders fed, but the damage from
the fire was slight except being flooded with
water.
Robb, Rile g. MIlroy. printers, were also
occupants. The building was owned by
! Hulings Cowperthwait,valued at 100000,
covered 5y. insurance. Cowperthwait g. Co.
Booksellers, had $4,000 in stock among
the various printing and binding establish
men,s, mostly covered by insurance. Ag
gregate loss supposed to oe $780, O,O0O.-
Flakes of fire ignited the road of old Masonic
Hall, Sd street. above Spruce, damaged pro
perty, recently sold and was unoccupied.
| % DIsrATcH.
The total loss by the fire reaches $3.50,
OOO, and will be further increased $500
if the steel plates for the "Portrait GALLERY
of Distinguished Americans" belonging t.
Rice & Hurth, in the vault beneath the pre-
mises, are destroyed.
One of Herring's safes, containing $40,
600 worth of jewely, was taken from thu
ruins this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS uninjured.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
SILKS, BRANDY, AND CIGARS.

To those who have not examined the
statistical returns published annually by the
Government the amount paid every year for
luxuries will appear fabulous; but the figures
do not lie, no matter who may doubt.
We boast of our ability to feed the world,
and of the business We are doing in that
way now but few suppose that the silks
piece goods, including ribands, but no but
tons and ornaments chiefly manufactured of
silk-brought here for the adornment of
Republicans and their wives and daughters
exceed in value, by eight millions of dollars,
all the -four that we send abroad. Yet such
is the fact. In the year ending June sOth,
1855, we exported Sl4,753, ,324 in four, and
imported S22 2,47O,91l in silks, leaving the
balance we have above stated to be charged
to the difference between the pride of
Americans and the appetite of all the world
besides.
Our cornfelds, particularly in the West,
are the occasion of much national boasting
We measure them singly by miles square,
and estimate their aggregate value in hun
dreds of millions; but the amount of this
our national staple which we send abroad is
overshadowed by the cost of The cigars with
which we poison breath and ruin health
In the period we have named corn worth
SI,374,O77 left our ports, and cigars valued
at ,3l1.935 were brought in.
The herds of cattle and the resulting
barrels Of beef people never tire of talking
of. They see in them large part of the
material with which we claim we can tll
the nav of all civilized mankind. Our
merchants who are in that line watch the
foreign markets with grea: solicitude, and
gauge their sprices by signals from the
other side of the water. But of beef, tai
low, hides, and "horn-cattle' we sold other
countries only S2,aI4,554 in the last COM
mercial year, and during that time we
bought brandy to the amount of S3,24l, ,4Os.
We deal largely in tobacco, raise it in
quantities, chew and smoke it without limit.
1t constitutes the third in value in the list
of commodities which this country has to
spare. Yet we export only Sll,3i9,3I9 in
value Of this article yearly, and last year we
received in return tea and coffee amounting
in round numbers to S24 4,OeO.O 900. Even in
narcotics the balance of trade is largely
against us.
Bacon, lard, and live hogs are not unim-
portant items in our commerce., yet we send
abroad only enough of those to buy the
linen we wear.
But "cotton is king" That wipes out
the pecuniary effects of the follies and ex-
travagances which all have conspired to
Of that we sent out last year loads
enough to swell the aggregate value of the
export to SlO9, 900, un amount greater
than the value of all other exports, specie
ncluded.--Chicago Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
Odd Fellows in Ohio.

The proceedings of the R. w" Grand
Lodge of Ohio,.I. o. o. Fat its annual ses-
sion at Chiliicothe, in February last, fur.
nishes the following statistics:
Number of Lodges, a5s
Initiated, 2,549
Rejected, 760
Admitted by Card, 1899
Withdrawn by Card, 26s
Reinstated, $50
Suspended, 722
Expelled, SO
Deaths, 1877
Past Grands, 2,SsA
Contributing Members, 20,19O
Revenue, $ll9,020 23
An abstract of similar reports showing the
amount expended for relief for the same
term, gives totals as follows:
Number of Brothers relieved, 1853
Widowed Families relieved, 234
Number of Brothers buried, l73
Amount paid for relief of Members. $38 ,666
paid for the relief of Widows
aud Orphans. 1000
paid for education of Orphans 50
/" paid for burying the dead. 7,O3S
Total, 5O,es9
The following Officers were elected:
Charles d. Sticknev, NJ. w. Grand Master;
William NJ. Bum, r. W. Deputy Grand
Master; John A. Lee, r. w. Grand Warden;
Alexander Z. Glenn, r. w. Grand, Secre-
tary: William F. Slater, R. w. Grand Trea-
surer; Samuel Craighead, R. w. Grand
Representative. The NJ. w. Grand Master
announced the following appointments
Rev. Avery P. Mather, R. w. Grand Chap.
lain; Edward NJ. Fitch, R. w. Grand Mar
shall; James NJ. Gaylord, R. w. Grand Con.
drctor; John Tiff, r. W. Grand Guardian,
Nathan Stewart, Grand Messenger, A. E.
Glenn, w. F. Slater and J. A Lee, Board OF
Trustees.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
Result of Slavery,

The Newbuvport Herald, in sensible
article on this subject. remarks:
"The disa strous effects of negro slavery
are seen in it's breaking down all the inter.
ests of the State where it is established.-
The slave owners constantly complain Of the
losses from runaway slaves, and in 1850
passed law to have US return them; but
.here is not State in the whole South that
would not be better off to.morro~ if all their
slaves should die to night. Instead of pur-
suing the negroes to carry them back it
is wonderful, when they see the evil, that
they do not drive them away and hunt them
with hounds and guns beyond their borders.
As simple illustrat,n of what slavery does
in the Old Dominion, look at this fact:
few days ago $4,000, acres of land, in sep
arate tracts, varying from l.0s0, to 10000
acres, located in six different counties, at
from II to 2i cents per acre.
Just think of it-one, two and three cents
an acre for land in the best located and ma.
turalIy richest State in This confederacy,
right in the heart Of the country, surrounded
with unequal advantages. The land was
negro cursed; nothing else was the matter.
The negroes had eaten up all that was on
its surface, and no: energy or Intelligence
enough to 20 below to the mines, or to re-
new it on the top; and as no freeman will
settle with negroes, therefore 1t sells at less
per acre then would the ice-cakes about Dr..
Kane's vessel in the Arctic seas. Wha,
more could be said against the slave institu-
ton then that it has changed the garden Of
the new world-the Eden oe America-.o q
desert that sells at two cent per acre! But
this result 10 not peculiar to Virginia; you
can follow the dividing line west to the last
negro hut, and on one side is the sunlight of
freedom, and on the other the shadow of ne.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
The Republican Party, on Non In
terYentiOn.

Much ado is made in certain quarters
about the abolition tendencies of the Re-
publican party, and charges are made to the
affect that its design is interference with
slavery in the States where it now exists.
To show the utter emptiness and absurdity
of oil such charges, we copy ,the following
extract from speech of John p. Hale made
in the Senate of the United States, on Feb
ruary 26, 1856. Dir. Hale, we presume may
be looked upon as an ultra, if there be any
such in the ranks. Read his remarks, and
cease prating of abolitonism. The Repub-
lican party seeks to abolish nothing, it is
only to preuent the extension of slavery. The
Democratic party appear, just at present to
be engaged in the high-minded occupation
of endeavoring to abolish freedom from Kan
sas, and should therefore be termed the
abolition party. Freedom is the rule, stamp
ed upon the earth by the God of Nature;
Slavery is the usurper, set up by tyrannical
aristocrats in. Opposition to that rule of Free
dom. Yet they who aim to sustain that rule
are reviled with every iopprobrious epithet.
Thank God, it is neither disgraceful nor hu-
initiating to do right. But read the extract:
"Now LEI me state, all that we ask, all
that we desire, all that we claim, is this: If
you like Slavery, keep it; nobody finds any
fault with you for doing SO. We disclaim
any purpose, any wish, to interfere with it
in the States; and whatever the Senator
may say, l defy him-I defy any man with
whom have ever come in intercourse in
the Senate, or in the other House, or in
social life-to say that ever have allowed
myself to use an opprobrious or insulting
epithet; nay, more, an epithet calculated,
or designed, or intended TO wound, or iniure
or hurt any mans feelings. God knows |
have had too bitter experience in my
own history Of such attempts, to return
them, even to the humblest of my species.
No, sir; have done nothing oe that sort
What do we desire! We desire, as under
stand Southern gentlemen to profess; "hands
off," They say the General Government
has no jurisdiction over Slavery. Agreed;
that is all we ant. When you passed your
Kansas bill, you claimed that it was to be
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
Csllamer on Kansas.

Judge CoRamer Of Vermont, is on the
same committee in the U. s. Senate with
Douglass, and when Douglass brought in a
report in opposition to the claims of Fres
Kansas, Judge Collamer introduced minori-
ty report. On the Sd inst, he supported
his report in an able speech, the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Tribune
Horace Greely) says
Douglass had admitted the fraudule mt
voting in Kansas SO far as relates to the
seven districts whose returns Gov. Reeder
rejected; but argued that the other returns
were all good. and the votes they recapitu-
late urtainted by corruption. There was
the same authority for pronouncing these
good as the others bad; aud this left clear
majority of duly elected Members in each
House, and thus the acts of the Territorial
Legislature are valid laws. Judge Collamer
very forciby replied that Legislature con-
fessedly one-third fraudulent could not exert
any rightful law-making authority. The
force of the Governors veto depended on
the fact that one-third of the members con-
CURED with him in objecting to an act of
the majority; but here is the third brushed
away by an arbitrary decree of that majori-
ty, paralyzing the veto power.
But how do we know that "the majority
were not all legally and fairly elected?"-
Answer: We know it by their course with
respect to the minority. In eIecting those
members who had been elected at second
trial and admitting without scrutiny or de-
bate all those who were elected at the first
trial and unseated by Gov. Reeder, the ma
;orisy virtually admitted that they were con-
federates in q common fraud. They knew
that their own election had been carried
just like that of the minority whom Gov.
Reeder had unseated; the only difference
was that one set had been legally detected
and the other not.
But Judge Collamer did not rest in infer
enees, however irresistible. He produced
the long expected Executive minutes of the
Territorial Government of Kansas, which
should have been sent forward in January,
tut which have been received within the
last few days. By the help of these, he was
enabled to make this blasting exhibit:
In February of last year, Gov. Reeder, as
required by law, had Census of Kansas
taken, as a basis for the division of the Ter
ritory into Council and Representative Dis.
tricts, and the opportionment of members
to each-wbich apportionment was accord
ingly made. On the 3Oth of the following
month, the Legislative Election was held,
and the vote then taken, in districts not con-
tested befors Coz. Reeder, compares with the
officially ascer,ained number of legal voters
in those districts as follows:
C,,p.;l nixf M Isual votars Vntas noIlad
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
Mr.. Buchanan's Position.

The Washington Union has been laboring
TO prove that Mr.. BUCHANAN is as thorough
iy pro-slavery in all his feelings as any 9TH
er Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
URsoundness on the Nebraska question was
first brought into question by an article in the
N. Y. Herald, in which it was claimed that
he was the nost available candidate for the
Presidency, because he was less odious to
the Free Soilers than any other prominent
Democrat. The Union insists that he is
quite as of'ens.re as any of them, and in
this@e think it is right. In support of its
opinion it quotes from letter written by
lriinto Senator SLIDELL, dated London 2Sth
December, 1855, as follows:
.sThe question has been settled by Con-
gress, and this settlement should be infiexi-
bly maintained. The Missouri Compromise
IS gone, and gone forever. But no assault
should be made upon those Democrats who
maintained it, provided they are now willing
in COED faith to maintain the settlement as
it exists. Such. an understanding is wise and
Just iffSseR.
"It is well known how labored in COM
pany with southern Spon to have this line
extended to. the Pacific ocean. Bat it has
departed. The time for it has passed away,
/. and verify believe that the best-nay, the
only-mode now left lof putting down the
fanattal and reckless spirit of abolition at
the Northsis to adhere to the existing set
.tiement without the slightest thought or ap-
pearance of wavering, and without regard.
ing any storm which may be raised against
it,"
a. So tnach for his opinions on the Nebras ku
question. Upon rhe,,subject of "foreisnism, ~
MIR. BUCHANAN ir said to have expressed
himself as follows, in Fourth OF July ora.
ton, al Lancaster Pa, in 1915:
"Above all, we ought to drive from oul
shores foreign ihfnence, and cherish Ameri
can feelings. Foreign influence has been II
every age the curse of republics-its jaun-
diced eye sees everything in false colors-
the thick atmosphere of prejudice by whicl
: it is, ever surrounded, excluding from it
sight the light Of reason"
Well, what of liz asks the New Orlean.
Be. Didn't Mr. Buchanan once declar,
that if be thought he had drop of Demo
crat blood in his veins he would let il oLt
aud is he not now a patent pure steel Demo
,crai! Consistency in politics is altogeth-
a novelty.
ss We don't see any reason why Mr.. Bucu
GAKax should not receive the votes of III
"Seuth Americans" Should he receive tn
nominal ion Of the Cincinnati Convention
he no doubt win get many of theu.-Cin
= GQ1rffe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17

left to the unbiased voice of the free set
tiers. We were willing to have it so, bu,
the compliant is, that we have not had that.
And the Senator admits, if | understand
him, that wrong has been done there; but
it is justified as measure of retaliation on
Emigrant Aid Societies. The Senator says
this is the first time he ever heard of those
societies. Well, sir. it is not the first time
ever heard of them. II have read his
tory Alright, there were Emigrant Aid So
cieties got up in England, to colonize Vir.
ginia.
Mr.. Jones, Of Tennessee. I said in the
United States.
Mr.. Hale. Well, sir, Virginia is in the
United States. Laughter.l Virginia was
settled by Emigrant Aid Societies, and so
were most of these Colonies. This Emil
grant Aid Society, if I understand it, was
got up before the passage of the Kansas
bill. Again: The Senator asked, Why this
alarm about the border rufians, Sir, the
alarm is because we believe the power of
the Federal Government has been arrayed
on their side. think the order of the Sec
retary of War to which the Senator from
Massachuset alluded was justl; obnoxious
to the very censure with which he visited it,;
and that is, that while it instructed the Of
fcer commanding the troops of the United
States to put down any insurrection, it did
say word about rePell:ng invasion. The
Senator endeavors to get around this point
by saying that was in the proclamation; but
while it was in the Instructions of the Of
icer to put down insurrection, there was a
silence about invasion; and therefore | say
the document is justly obnoxious to all the
oensure which the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts put on it; and a great deal
more, which, please God, will endeavor to
administer when the occasion comes. The
Free State men of Kansas Territory appeal
ed to the President, and asked for protection; /;
and what does he tell them in response! He
tells them that he sends officers there to put
them down if they are guilty of insurrection.
That is it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
Connecticut Election.

There have been circumstances attend
ing the recent State elections that render
the result ia Connecticut peculiarly CRAFTY
ing. The Administration has spared no
means to prostrs te the Friends OF Freedom
in all these elections. Money has been used
freely, and all sorts of personal appliances
have bean brought to bear. In New Hanp.
shire, for instance, we have it from good su-
thority that TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
were sent from the city of New York to
corrupt the voters! and rum, the denagogue's
argument, was poured out like water. But
all would not do. The sons of the heroes
that followed Gen. Stark to the field Of
Bennington, stood, like their granite hills,
firm and unyielding.
A knowledge of these facts, and the
proximity of Connecticut TO the city of New
York-a city filled with the scum Of the po-
litcal cauldron, always to be had for price
for any party enterprise-made US fear the
result in that State. The issue has agree
ably disappointed US. We know that the
full influence of the New York custom-house
YVES put in requisition, and that money was
al hand for any corrupt purpose, with will
on the part of the creatures OF the Admins
tration to use tive had reason therefore
to fear the result. But here, as in New.
Hampshire, the stern Republican virtues of
The people have nobIy wi;hstood the shock.
GLORY and honor to Old Connecticut!
Though there is no election of State o.
ficers by the people, they have secured in
b1th branches of the Legislature the means
of remedyins this deficiency. And, better
than all, they have secured the power of re-
buking the treason to Freedom of the dough-
face ToUcEY! At this rate, fcw years
longer, of patient and persevering toll, will
redeem the Senate of the United States
from the curse of the Slave Power, and
bring back the Government to q Republi-
can standard.-O. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17

The great rebound in the whe-t market
described by the last packet has not been
fully suPported-a result which was gener-
ally anticipated. Ifany large sales were to
be forced reduction of Is. to 2s. per quarter
from the recent recovery would probably
have to be submitted to. Intelligence from
Naples that the prohibition against the ex-
port of grain from that country has been re.
moved is calculated to check any furtherrise
in London. The supplies available a. Na.
pies are believed to be con,iderable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
From the Evening POST
A Southern Shareholder Sen&ng to
n. Y. for Sharpe's Rifle.

The following is al extract from letter
of citizen of the ia ercr of Kentucky, dated
Feb. sSth, and addressed to an active and
efficient friend eff the Free State men in
Kansas, now IN this city. 1t shows that
Mr. Piercs's Kansas policy is by no means
b ss;yerrally popular in the Slave State as
he aud his advisers suppose:
@Dfas SiR:-My object in writing to you
is 70 know how can procure ShurPe's
sor airy other equally as good. | intend to
emigrate next month to Kansas, and will be
s,n the side Of Freedom.
Although am a STAKEHOLDER. vet | am, in
the broadest sense, Anti.Slarery, and as
proof OF my principles, intend to take my
slave to Kansas and iiberate him. il is a
cruel, wicked and unjust law of our State
that prevents Shareholders from liberating
their slaves here. The Free State men in
Kansas have been greatly outraged. There
man now in this county who voted in
Kansas, whit on trip to Missouri.
Mr., who was the controlling spirit of
ihe K.nsas Legislature, and whc emigrated
from ehis county to Missouri, gathered up
his voters in Missouri, and weut over to
Kansas, and was elected by them to sea,
IN the Legislature. Persons from Missouri
have told me that they went over to Kansas
and voted. But yoa are well informed on
this subject Although my religion require:
me to love law, yet when the law ofGod and
the law of man come in contact, we must
obey the law of God. Every man, guided
by reason and an enlightened conscience Is
10 determine when the law Of man and o.
God come in contact.
have no patience with those who are
continually gloriiying our Revolutionary
Fathers, for resisting the laws Of England,
'-imposing upon the Colonies laws of taxa
ton without representation" and yet insisl
that the people of Kansas must submit 10
unjust, Anti Christian, and ini7uitous laws
passed by a Legislature representing the
people of another State. Out upon such
hypocrisy!
would be glad to have one of Sharpe's
rifles sent 10 ms here, and if were certain
this letter would reach you, would enclose
the money, and let you send il by express to
Lexington. III you VIII send fibe 10 some
person in Cincinnati, can pey for there
ef you can send il direct tc me, and | viii
send the money by mail, or yoa can send it
TO Kansas with the other rifles, and can pay
for it when receive it from the agent.
lf it is known when the rifles pass through
Missouri, they may be taken possession of by
the "Law and Order Party" Let ne sug.
gcst that you do nut make public through the
newspapers any aid that you may be render
ing to the Free State men in Kansas, for it
will be copied into the Southern papers, and
for all the aid rendered by the North, the
Slave Olisarchy will endeavor to rendel
twice as much to their supporters.
I also want one or two pistols-where ant
how can you get them!
Please let me hear from you immediate
iv
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-04-17
FIREIN NEW YORK.

NKw YORK, April ll.-Last night a fire
broke out in the extensive packing box man.
uisctory of Hauley, Lowry e. Co., Gold st.
From the infammable character of the ma.
teriul The flames spread rapidly, through tie
entire premises extending to Riders alley.
The building was five stories high. The
fire extended to the two upper lofts of VIM.
Hagar & Coz, type foundry, and two build
ings Nos. 40 and AZ occupied by the pack
ing company will be total loss. Loss es-
timated at $50 or $500 900, uninsured.