Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-02-26

W. lHe pOpuidtlnn VI sMOnlTedlj u. Ia
has increased 5000 since 1855.
9The consumers of sugar paid So,
100000 duties on sugar last year.
EFNew York has furnished Wisconsin
with O,000 OF lis inhabitants.
SMALL SPIIE.-The locolocps OF the Hi
nois Legisl lature have refused to order the
printing of Gov. Bissel's Message.
New YORK. Feb'y. IS.
The steamer Africa sailed at noon to-day
taking out 5000 900 in spei;e.
CINCINNATI, FEB. Is.
The official returns give VI . Slough ma
jority He has certificate Of his ele tion
WASHINGTON, Feb'y. IS.
The Union of this morning contains the
Presidents procla calling the Senlte
together or the 4th OF March.
HARTFORD, CT, Feb. 10.
Tha Democratic State Convention OF Con.
necticut to-day re Nominated Samuel Ing
ham for Governor, bv unanimous vote.
6FIt is ESTIMATED that the number o
persons afflicted with insanity in the Unitel
States. reaches at present $4,000.
OrThe kenkuk, Qowa) Post says rha
not less than sixty persons have been frozpr
to death in thst State and Minnesota, dur.
ing the late cold snap.
6FThe Congressional Investigating Com
mttee. it is said will report in favor q: the
expulsion of three members OF thai body for
corrupt practices.
FOn Sunday afternoon, Ms Susan
GnnGer, wife of Jchn Gunder of Mahoning
county, committed suicide, by cutting her
throat with shoe knife.
rThe House of Representatives on
Thursday, finally passed the resolutions
relative 10 the improvement Of the Ohio ,bya
vote; of yeas 81, nays 50.
JThe dwelling of Mrs. Connolly, in
New London, o., was burned on he evening
of the sth inst, and one of Mrs. C's children
was burned in the dwelling.
Ir appears from communication in the
Cincinnati papers the Slough was once ex-
PEELED from an Odd Fellows lodge in that
city for the same offence for which the
Legislature gave him leave of absence.
CTThe Defiance Republican is the title
of new paper just started at Defiance,
Ohio, by J. ID. Baker, fsq,at 81 per year.
We fear Bro. Baker will not be able to pay
expenses at that rate, though sc wish him
every success.
CtTFrederick Bauer, teacher OF a Roman
Catholic School at Cleveland, who, it will
be recolIected, lately chasti>ed a little girl
SO severely that she died from the effects,
was tried on Tuesday, and found guilty OF
assault and battery.
A NEW TELEGRAPH.-Somew wicked ras-
cal suggests a new kind OF telegraph. name
", to place a line of women at the distance
of fifty PAGES from each other, land commit to
the first the news to be transmitted, as
profound secret. It's thought that there
would be greater dispatch secured by such
a plan than by any other.
GtrJamcs Watson was indicated on
Wednesday last in the Court OF General
Session at New York FOR assanltin., on the
81 of January last, Fernando Castang and
stealing watch from him, valued at $50
Verdict, guilty; sentence, State prison tor
len years and three months.
NEW JERSEY SENATOR.
TRENTON. Feb. 10. john ssR Thomson
vas to davIreelected United States Senator
The sote stood Thomson, So; Randolph,
American,) 20; -, (RePublican9 6,
Washington, Feb Is.
The investigating committee was prevent
ID from reporting to-day in consequence OF
he arrival Of other witnesses and their ex-
mination. They are to have meeting to-
light finally ia arrange for presenting their
eport tomorrow.
New YORK SFSATuR.-The vote in the
lew York Legislature for Preston Hing as
Senator was as follows:
Houss.-klng, Rep, II; Sickles, Dem.
g; Ileadly, X N, 6: absent or not voting
!.
SEsArE.-PreStou King, 10; Sickels, /;
oel T. Headly,9 9.
6TThe Bostou!IrGnscri learns BY pri-
ate letter, that George Carstenssen, archi-
ect of the Crystal Palace, New York, died
t Copenhagen on the 4,h of January. He
commenced the publication of a Sunday
Iewspaper.at Copenhagen, and died the
anne daythat the first number was issued !