Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-12-23
GLEANINGs FROM LATE NAILS.

6FThe number of steamers and sail
vessels lost on Lake Superior since the dis.
covery of copper in that region in l845, is
fifteen, the value of which, with their car
goes,) is $4,000 The number OF lives
lost was ninety-fve.
tThe HoL. Marcus J. Psrrott, in a let
ter to The Cincinnati Gazette, denies that
be offered at banquet in Platte City, No.,
the sentiment, ''No more Slaves States"
and came near being mobbed. therefore,
it is a lie out of whole cloth, set afoat by
the Dred Scott organ at Leavenworth.
@Mr. Broderick was the only Democrat
&c Senator who voted against accepting the
committees Is agreed upon by the Admin
istration caucus. Honor to the man who
dares to do right, and to defend the fearless
statesman agains. the prescription of power!
Press.
rCol Abraham Van Buren,, of Celum-
bia, $. c., recently sold 10 Col. Elisha Wor-
thing,on. Of chicot county, Arkansas, his
whole plantation Of negroes numbering 2lo,
for $ll7 900, or an average of s7Oo. The
terms of payment are FIVE annual install.
ments of S29, ,4e0 each, with interest from
date.
@There is q remarkable unanimity OF
opinion among the different presses of the
country. SO far as they have come to hand,
in respect to the merits of the Presidents
Message, which is pronounced one of the
least cree liable that has issued from our
Chief executive since the foundation of the
Government.-N. Y. Times.
SIsGuLAR LIFE INSURANCE CAsE.-The
Michigan papers announce the conviction
and sentence OF Messrs. Fuller and Walker
for the murder OF Holden at Ann Arbor.-
The mans life was insured for the sum OF
S29 900 in New York, Maine and Hartford,
the companies on the ground that deceased
had committed suicide. Such resistance
| was made that Mrs. Holden compromised
the case for $50, 900, and so lost $4,000.
@The Washington correspondent Of
The Boston Advertiser says:
'Among the hotels, as at the last session,
the National seems to be the principal re
sort Of Republicans. and Browns of the
southern democrats. Senator Wilson is
temporarily at Willards. Senator Seward
has taken the house on one of the cross
streets between 18th and 10th, once occu-
pied by John Quincy Adams"
0Trhe editor of The GreemuiRe Journal
has been hunting deer, anc reports the re.
suit, $50 far as he is personally concerned,
TO be one wild turkey and sap-sucker. I"
sour friends who composed the residue
of our hunting party were about as success
full ss ourselt. Five hunters and the same
number OF wild turkeys, left The thing a
dead stand off between us-save the fact
thet nobody but ourseLf succeeded in victim
izIng sar-sucker.
AFTER A SLICE OF Me xIco.-The Presi-
dent is custing an "eye of thoughtfuIness"
Gas Cushing has iO towards Mexico. One
of the Democratic letter writer's at Wash.
ington says:
"The next great question will be the
Mexican question. General Cushing has
sounded the cry in his Rchm ond speech
and South Carolina letter. The General
thinks the sine has gone by for the pnr-
chase of Cuba. He asks, why should Spain
sell Cuba! 1t is her most valuable poss es-
sion. Would we sell Georgia or Pennsyl-
vania! Certainly not. The next demon
stration viii be upon the land of Cortez.
The pear is ripe. and ready to fall; nay, is
ia ling. Shall we not catch and eat It!
FREDERICK FOR PREsTDENr.-Senator
Broderick, of California, is put up for the
Presidency by many members of Congress.
Certain is that no truer man can be named.
Rather than be false to his pledges, or
tremble with coward fear at threats to dis
solve the Union of fanatics whose own
oices alright them-rather than yield a
jut or little Of :he constitutional rights of
any section Of the country 10 the demands
of demagogues, he would prefer to die in
bis curuIs chair before the Senate huuse.
He is man " no has risen Gith unstained
reputation from the bosom OF the people,
Forney's Press.
0TThe Hon. F. P. Stanton, who is a
great big thorn in the side OF the President,
is now in Washington, and dec.sres that an
attempt will be made in Kansas TO procure
the admission of the Territory into the
Union as State this winter. The WASH
ington correspondent of Forney's Press
writes:
"In Gov. Hsmmond's liberal speech he
repeated the charges of fraud against Le-
compton, which made the Washington
Union SO indignant when uttered by others.
From this and other indications, am dis
posed to hope that be and others will not
object to put Kansas through, and to repeal
The English bill nert sOinter.
DOUGLASS III MEMPHIS The Little Giant,
in his speech at Memphis, Tenn, on Mon
day, proclaimed himself fiIliouster. He
trims his sails, it seems, to suit all quarters.
He said, (sccording to The Enquirer ,)thal
Gen. Cass once asked him what we wanted
with Central America. He replied, that the
lime would come when we were bound to
have it. why" said he, ait is too far off!
Yes, great way off, it is nearly half way
10 California, and on the direct r. Dad there.
Laughter do not want Central Amer
ca any more itan in 1850, but the
lime will come when our destiny, our in
'litutions, our safety, will compel US to
,ave it.. am unwilling now to pledge our
ath as q nation In that which am certaiu
,ur grandchildren would do. So it is with
he Island tf Cuba. do not care whether
you want it or not. It is matter of no
whether we want It or not, we