Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-05-05
GLEANINGS FROM LATE NAILS.

o. The Columbas Gazette, { Wing jour.
nal in the days Of the Wing party. and lat
terIy occupying an independent position,
comes out for the following Presidential
ticket in 1850:
For President, SALMON P. CHASE, of Ohio.
Vice-Pres't, EDWARD BATss, OF Missouri.
FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA "A Mr.. Abrams.
OF Henrico county, having announced him.
self as a candidate for Congress, on the
platform Of Emancipation in Virginia, the
Administration papers Of that State propose
to lynch him.
Mr. GIDp1sss NOT A CANDIDATE The
State Journal announces, on the authority
Of private letter addressed by Mr. Giddings
to friend who had written him on the SUBJ
ject, that he positively declines being i
candidate for Governor before the Repnb-
lican Convention in June next.
~S NJ. Booth, editor and proprietor ol
The Free Democrat, and one Of the ables,
| and most inf Iential leaders of the Republi.
can party in Wisconsin, has been arrested
charged with seducing Caroline N. Cook -
Portland Argus. ....
Suppose we should announce the Sckles
case thus: Two more Democrats Done
For! A Democratic District Attorney kill.
ed by Democratic Member of Congress
for Base Seduction, both beirg bosom
friends of the President, and High Leader:
oe the Party" ..,t
How would that read1-- Bangor Whig
rCap, John Pomer y, of Cleveland
Ohio, is journsyman printer in the Win
ter, when the Lakes are frozen, and in thu
Summer commands vessel. He is now
about to sail from Cleveland for Liverpoo
in the schooner Gold Hunter, of which HI
is part own as we'll as the skipper.
@A correspondent of The Bosto,
Courier. writing from Florence under dat,
of April 9, says: "The Hon. Charles Sum
ner is here, absorbed in art, but lookin!
worse than had expected. He Is obl,ge'
to lie in bed until noon to rest his spine
which still troubles him greatly"
I @For about two weeks past the Hon
]. P Benjamin has been confined to hi
room in New Orleans bv disorder of on
OF his eyes. which affects the use of both
| @Recent'y (says The Richmond En-
suirer) very respectable and honorabl
young man in Norfolk. doing good bus
ness in the restaurant line, went to hi
hume Unexpectedly, and found his "bette
hall with lover-as Mrs. Sickles say:
"doing all that wicked woman would do
The outraged husband. SO far from imbry
ing his hands in The blood Of the guilt
creatures, quietly let the scene, took tn
next train or Richmond, and made off fc
lhe Far West without further notice. H
is now trying TO forget the fact that som
women are as frsil as the glasses they ae
mire themselves in.
1 OF The Washington correspondent {
The Neao York Journal Of Commerce say
. thai DistrieI-A'torney 0uld anticipated tn
! acqnutal OF Mr.. Sickles, and "said to on
D of the counsel lar the defense, after the al
: journment OF the Court, that no one in tn
city, except Mr.. Sickles himself, was moi
D gratified at it Il an he was"
rTe Neg York Euening Post asser
: that the original manuscript of Mr.
: Sickles's confession was given to the edit,
of Harper's Weekly by Mr.. Sickles himseI
although he and his counsel have since q
serted that it was made public against h
S wishes