Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-03-18

Your Correspondent '.Z"-&. ClGirsvile's
Railroads.&c.. o. r. RS bad luck-rith-
draual of train-dead body found-'Jail
birds" phsreGbouts-Gen. Puoh-Ohio
Democracy.
BELLAIRE, March 9Th, 1858.
DEAR CHRONICLE: Nothing of special
interest has transpired since ! last wrote
you, out being under promise, something
must be written, nolens, rolsns. When an
individual is suffering under a severe attack
o: cacoethe scribendi, it is comparatively little
trouble to say his say, but when there is
nothing to say and no disposition to say it,
the case is different.
From your last issue it would seem that
some of your friends think differently from
the Republican on the present and future
settlement of the county scat removal. az"
grows quite eloquent over the actual and
possible (D advantages Of st. ClairSville.-
The Wheeling creek Railroad is generally
supposed to be a defunct and abandoned
idea-in short, obsolete, but ~" arrays it
boldly among the facilities fer reacking the
present county seat. 1t is a generally re-
ceived opinion among the travelling world
that a completed and equipped Railroad is
an admirable invention for purposes of
peregrinalion. but never before has the idea
been advanced that the mere survey for q
Railroad route afforded any superior facili-
ties for getting about. 1t has remained 20
the present age, and the astute ~" to dis
cover this great fact, and for the present
county seat Of Belmont county to reap all
the advantage from the discovery.
The past month has been probably one
OF the most disastrous periods of equd.
length ever experienced by the c. o. R. R.
Their losses during that period from coils.
sions breaking of bridges, &C., cannot fall
much short of $4,000. About a dozen of
lhei- locomotives are disabled; some of
them very badly. As a result of this most
unfortunate "run Of luck" they now find
themselves almost unable 10 accommodate
the shippers who seek their road rs an out
let for their produce and merchandise. In
fact it seems strange that they can push on
the business of the road as promptly and
efficiently when so crippled for want Of
rolling machinery. One result OF Their
losses has been the withdrawal, for the pre-
sent, of the night accommodation train
which arrived here at 1875 in the morning
and left at 5 P. NJ.
Mr.. Benson, at the ferry landing. foun(
the body of a man on Thursday last. Il
appeared to have been in the water for some
time, and was not recognized.
Two of the "birds" that escaped from
your "safe and efficient" jail a few days ago
were sojourning in Benwood for a shor
time, where they detailed the particulars o
g.. their escape to an acquaintance, which wa:
the same in substance as the account pub
lished in the last Gazette.
: The Lecompton controvers y is bringing
: out the true character of the men in tn,
present Congress. Some, from whom thu
people expected better things, have sunk tt
a depth OF contempt, from which man.
years of repentance and ''good works. will
5 alone redeem them. Among these, Ohioan
5 must blush as they read the name of Gen
: Geo. E Pugh, though it was scarcely to b
: expected that he would do otherwise, Judge
ing from his demagogical antecedents.-
5 His contemplate pretense OF "waiting fo
the facts" when to every honest person
the " facts" were as plain as the nose oil
Stewards face, prepared TIE country for hi,
, vacillation afterwards. II Northern dough
faces in the American Congress are ske2tic
al as to the existence OF that locality onl,
: mentioned by prear hers and hard swearers
let them persevere in their attempts to force
an obnoxious and tyrannical Constitution
} upon a free people, and they may find theil
error, when too late to rectify il. LecUmp
ton men of the North find themselves 81
D comfoi tably sandwiched between the AID
ADMINISTRATION and the South, that they fee
amost certain of receiving some of the of
fetal crumbs SO freely dispensed to plan
tools. This, and this alone, determines
their action.
The Democracy of Ohio have placed them
! selves right upon the record, (some of them
5 at least) and their talk rings like true met
al. Whether it is "5ogu," or net time alol
. will determine.
MIR. Percival Familton, of Moorfeid, Har
rison Co., was instantly killed on the b. &
o. R. R. near E!licott's Mills a few day
since.