Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-02-05

the daily journrl of the House
6LpUIs NAPoLEoN's salary is twenty
five millions of francs year.
GTHE New Hampshire Gazette. pub
lished atPortsmouth, commenced its 100 and
Sd volume on.the 7,h ult.
@She Augusta and Savannah Railrod
last year paid Sl,O25 so for stock killed on
the line of their road.
0TAt Columbus, Ohio. Miss NJ. Dyer
has recovered s. 600 damages of d. 8. El-
lott, foI breach of promise o. marriage.
@lt is estimated that the value of fllves
sold in Baltimore, last year, amounts to
81 900 900.
rThe Legislature of Iowa has refused
to remove the seat OF the State Governme ut
from Iowa City to Fort Demoine.
FThe government loss by the late fire
at Carlisle Barracks is said to be $4,000 or
$4,000.
ttThe au horities of Athens, Ga. have
taxed retail lqunr sellers 81 ,Oe0 per annum,
ard keepers of billiard saloons $500 on
ca, h table.
0ITThe Jackson Standard says: II. C..
Messenger OF this place, owns short horn
ed Durham ieifer, raisee by himself, a year
ling, weighing between 100 and 1900 lbs.
DEATH OF Dr.. HARRIS DR.. John Harris,
eminent among the Dissenting Ministers of
England, and author of 'Msmmon The
Great Commission &c. died at his resi-
dence in London, on the 2lst OF December.
MEmo3vis the clothes linz Of i'he heart
whereuE the events of our life hang like
dickies and hanjkercaicfs-those which
are well prgged on remain, but the others
are carried off in the first high srfndS -
CTThir,y- five tons of silver bullion. from
ST. Louis, in care of Adams Express, pass
ed through Pittsburgh the other dav, destin-
ed for the United States Mint, Philadelphia.
The total value is put down at 800 900.
so, HERE AN, between two tailors,' said
dandy at Il public table where couple OF
gun business FOR themselves. True was
the rep.v, swe are new beginners, and can
only afford TO keep one goose between US.
GTNear Madison, Wis, there are exten-
sive oeds of peat, which is said 10 be prefer
able te The best Ohio coal for fuel and to
yield also superior Illuminating gas. A re-
cent survey gives the extert of the beds at
34S, 800 tons, worth about 81 100000.
Mr.. CAMERON, the newly elected Senator
from Pennsylvania, and FoRNEY, his chief
competitor, both commenced life as printers,
and both became editors and then politi-
clans. Cameron is of Scorch descent-Fur-
ne; is descended from the French Hugenots;
the name was originally De La Forne.
A SHARP REroRT-Lnrd Mansfield, hav-
inu once threatened to hold his Court on
G Ood Friday, to clear off arrears of business,
much to the disgust Of the lawyers, Sergeant
Davv said to him tnat if he did he would be
the first Judge who bad sat on that day
since Pontus Plate. His lordship conclu-
ded to adjourn the Court.
fJWe regret to learn that Peter Koeniz
of Brownsville, Monroe county, o., hung
himself with q rope in a tobacco house on
Wednesday, the 2lst ult. He was part
ner in the mercantile business with his cous.
in, John Koonz. He had been melancfo o Y
from the time of his cousins death, and the
cause, it is thought, was his fears of being
ha hn- nF hn
firm. Ho was very exemplary man and
highly respected.
TnE CAMELs AT WORK. The San An
tonic (Texas) Times says:
The camels, ta enty-two in number, hare
just passed through our city, loaded with
about 600 pounds each, returning to their
place OF rendezvous, which is some seventy
miles from here There are drome haries
asa with them, and seated on the tops of
.hese cumtls and dronedares are Arabs and
Turks. Edressed in the Costume of their
own country.
tbs UNIFIED STATES SESATE.-Eigh.
wears aro, when Gov Seward first took his
seat in tue Senate Of the United States,
there we're but two members Of that body
who avowed any kind of sympathy with the
political sentiments he was know1 to repre-
cent. Next Winter there will be in tha,
body twenty Senators, acting openly anu
steadily with the Republican Party. 1t is
not easy 10 believe, in the face of such re-
suits, that the cause of hostility to the ex
tension of Slavery has made no progress.
$4,000 WALKING OFF-The PainesviI!e
Telegraph says that on Friday night last, the
10th, an express tram came through On the
Under Ground Railroad, despite the Storm.
bringing threa young and vigorous chatties
worth al least 81 800 each as the article is
now se Ilrg. They had but sight clothing
but each were six shooter presented by u
Quaker near the Ohio river. These passen-
gers were warmed and clothed and fed at
Painesville, and provided with tickets for
the next station.-Cleue. Her.
GTMr GiDDINGs, by the advice of his
physician, has left Washington and gone
home. lie requires rest md perfect ex-
emption from. excitement His many friends
in IV,shinutnn fool ronch ouyiatv in ,o,,,J