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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
Death of a Student-Soldier.

Among the casualties to the 7th Regi.
ment at the battle Of Cross Lanes, says the
Cleveland Herald, was the mortal wounding
of Mr.. j. W. Collins, of Company @. tOber-
lin Monroe RiAes.) Mr.. Collins was mem!
Der of the Freshman Class in Oberlin Col
lege. He died in the rebel Hospital on the
day after the battle. In the Oberlin News
we find an extract from letter written by
Lieut.. Cross, giving the touching death Of
this young hero and Christian. The letter
says ...
Noble Collins. I shall never forget his
dying words. He was delirious, and called
on Lieut. Crose to throw him into the river.
Capt Shurtleff was in the next room. I
sent for him. He bent over him and ask.
ed him if he had any word for his mother.
He was dying-''Yes, tell her die in the
love Of Jesus. Two years ago by the exam
pie of Christians, became Christian, and
have tried 10 live Christians life ever
since" He said this gasping at every word: ::
Capt S. then asked his mother name and
address, and with his very last breath he
said-'New York, Saratoga county, East
Galloway, Mrs Elizabeth Collins" and
then he died. He was buried back of the
garden, just behind MIR. Carnifax's house
at Carnifax Ferry, near the foot Of noun
| tain. A tr'1lT
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
A Divorce Dilemma.

The Supreme Court for York county,
Me-, has been in session for the September
term two weeks. The Saco Democrat gives
the following account of one Of the divorce
cases: ...I I.... l...
There have been three divorces decreed
during the creed thus far, and in connection
with one of said DEGREES there now seems to
arise some funny" questions 1t seems
that certain party in South Berwick, anx-
ious to get rid Of his spouse" pressed q
hearing upon his libel, and obtained q de-
cree during the third day Of the term. On
the fifth day Of the term the said spouse
made her appearance before the Court, and
stated that her anxious husband and his
friends persuaded her that the case would
not be called up till the second week in the
term, consequently she returned home, al
though she had defense to said libel, &c
The Court, upon these representations, or
dered the decree of divorce TO be strickeII
from the docket. Now the funny part Of
| il is, that said divorced husband went hom'
on the day of the decree-Obtained as befor'
stated-and forthwith proceeded 70 Salmol
Falls and married another lady. What hi
new wife will say, or how they will procee'
when they learn that there is in fact no de
cree or divorce from the first wife, remain
to be seem,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
Good for Gen. Lane.

The Leavenworth Conservative confirms
the successful attack of Gen. Lane upon the
rebels at Osceola. That paper gives the
following facts:
From O. Bassett, Esq, who arrived yes
terday from Fort Scott, we learn that Gen.
Lane has been completely successful in his
forced march upon Osceola.
After his victory at Papinsville, already
recorded, he proceeded immediately to
Osceola, in st. Clair county, Mo-, distance
of twenty miles.
The rebel force there was dislodged, the
town burned to the ground, and the i'm
mense supply train Of Rains and Price saI'
tured.
This train was between two and three mile:
in length, contained all the supplies and
equipage of Rains and Price and Sl00,0OC
in money. This is the most important sue
cess gained for the Union cause in Missouri
and goes far to redeem our losses at Lexing
ton. Lane is now on his way back and may
soon be expected in this vicinity.
McCulloch is still near Fort Scott and hi
men swear they are bound for Kansas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
Humane Swindle.

A number of our subscribers in Indiana
inform us that they have received through
the mails, circulars purporting TO be issued
by the United States Humane Society at
Washington. The one sent us as speci-
men is signed by DIR. G. w. Tolhurst, Gen
eral Agent of the Western Division Of the
U. 5. Humane Society, at Cleveland, Ohio,
who requests that all mail matter pertaining
to the Western Division shall be sent to
him. This humane society, the circular
says, has been formed since the defeat OF
the Federal forces at Bull Run, for the pur-
pose Of aiding the Government in making
up the loss of time and property it then
sustained" Therefore,-to make long
story short,-the U. s. Humane Society
proposes toprovide two hundred ambulances
for the army, by contributions from the pa
triotic people.
The amount required for this is $50, 900,
which the humane agents request to have
sent to them in such sums as loyal citizens
will contribute. To facilitate this four
printed subscription lists are appended TO
each circular for distribution. DR.. G. W.
Tolhurst, the general agent for the Western
Division, hopes TO make good thing of it.
He gives particular directions for mailing
the subscription money. He says, when
the lists are all returned you will please pro-
cure an United States treasury note, or q
bankable bill or bills for the amount sub
scribed place it, together with all the sub
scription lists, in strong envelope. Stick
down the corner as usual. When the gun
is dry, sign your name over the gummeC
portion, to insure safety. Forward the sam'
to the Office from which your lists are is
sued"
That will secure its safety, without doubt
Let the gummed corner be well licked, anC
then the name written over it for safety,
and it will be sure to reach the paws Of DR.
g. W. Tolhurst, by the hand Of his mex
friend, for the Doctor will of course be toc
busy to call at the postofice himself Th'
Doctor urges that no delay be made, for ''th,
time cannot be far distant when the article
will be needed"
! We would recommend 10 the Clevelan'
police to set watch over the letters for DR.
G. w. Tolhurst, and trace them to thei
destination. The people are humane an
patriotic, and are liable to be played upo
by any sharper who appeals to their feelings
1t is very likely that subscriptions will
sent to the General Agent Of the Wester
Division" and when they come they wi
furnish bait by which swindler may /
nabbed.-[ Gin. Gaz., sth.
We see one of these circulars stuck up ;
our Post Office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
Ghuite Miseellang,
From All The Year Round
ATALE OF AMBITION.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.

Miss Amelia Martin was pale, tallish, thin,
and twO-and twenty-what ill-naturcd peo-
pie would call plain, and police reports inter
esting. She was milliner and dress-maker;
living on her business and not above it. III
you had been young lady in service, and
wanted Miss Martin, as great many young
ladies in service did, you would have just to
step up, in the evening, to No. Al Drummond
street, George street, Euston Square, and
after casting your eye on brass door plate,
one foot ten by one and half, ornamented
with great brass knob at each of the four
corners, and bearing the inscription" Miss
Martin, millinery and dress making in all
its branches - you just have knocked two
loud knocks at the street. door; and down
would have come Miss Martin herself, in a
meriuo gown of the newest fashion, black
velvet bracelets on the genteelest principles,
and other little elegancies of the most ap-
proved description.
IfMiss Martin knew the young lady who
called, or if the young lady who called had
been recommended by any other young lady
whom Miss Martin knew, Miss Martin would
forthwith show her upstairs into two-pair
comfortable-it really wasn't like q matter
Miss Martin, after contemplating the figure
and general. appearance Of the young lady
| in service with great apparent admiration,
would say how we'll she would look, to be
sure, in low dress with short sleeves, made
very full in the skirts, with four tucks in the
bottom, to which the young lady in service
would reply in terms expressive of her entire
concurrence in the notion, and the virtuous
Indignation with which she reflected on the
4tyranny OF "Missis, who wouldn't allow q
young girl to wear short sleeve of an after.
Doon-no, nor nothing smart, not even O
pair of earrings; let alone hiding people,
heads of hair under them fiightful caps al
the termination Of which complaint Mis-.
Amelia Martin would distantly suggest Ger
tain dark suspicious that some people wert
Jealous on account Of their own daughters
and were obliged to keep their servant
charms under for fear they should get mar
ried first, which was no uncommon circum
stance--leastway she had known two O
three young ladies in service who married
great deal better than their mississes, an,
8 fhey were not very good looking either an,
! then the young lady would inform Miss Mar
tin, in confidence, that how one of thei
young ladies' was engaged to young man
and was a-going to be married, and missi
: was 30 proud about it there was no bearin
her; but she needn't hold her head quit
so high neither, for after all, he was only
clerk. And, after expressing due contemp
for clerks in general, and the engaged cler
in particular, and the highest opinion poss
BE of themselves and Of each other, Mi.
Martin and the young lady in service woul
bid each other good night in friendly b.
: perfectly genteel manner; and the one wei
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
The administering the oath of allcgia

THE administering the oath of allegiance
on board the U. s. steamer Mohican, Capt.
Godone, was very impressive scene. The
Captain, who is, by the way, one of the finest
specimens of the American officer, in ability
and high spirit, first took tho oath after 9
few patriotic remarks-his manner marked
by solemnity and decision, After the oath
was read to the crew, they all answered
promptly and boldly, I'VE swear!" During
this ceremony, some one remarked, 81 sup,
pose this means, ledce the serrice or not. y
''That is not the object of the oath, replied
the Captain. ''lt means with determined
emphasis), ARE YOU OR ARE YOU NOT AN
AMERICAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
VALLANDIGHAM's HOME INFLUENcE

VALLANDIGHAM's HOME INFLUENCE.
The Dayton Journal, after alluding to the
large Union gain in that city and Mont.
gomery county, already reported, says; =
The Second Ward, the home Of Vallandig-
ham and five ofthe most prominent leaders
majority Of 2ls, being gain on the Repub-'
lican majority of last year ofl24 Vallandig.
ham STAYED around the polls of the Ward
nearly all day, trying to persuade Democrats
to vote the Secession ticket The result
shows the Immense influence the ''exiraOr-
diaay young man. has in his own Ward.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
The southern volunteer's Farewell to
his Wife.

his wife.
Fresh from snufi.dipping to his arms she went,
Aud he, quid removing from his mouth,
Pressed her III anguish to his manly breast,
And spat twice, lonsingly, toward the South.
" Yara" he said, and hiccough'd as he spoke,
Indeed find ii most thc) 's,rcinely hard
10 leave my wife. my niggers. and my debts,
And march 10 glory with the Davis Gunrd
Bu, all to arms the South hus called her sous,
And while there's something Southern hands may steal
You can't (hicl 'speci oi mt TO stay ut home,
With heurtess duis for ever al my heel
To-nigh, n hen-coop falls; and in week
Wen take the Yankee capital, l think;
But should il prove thc) 'spcdcnt not to doh,
Why, then, we'lltake-in short, well take drink.
I reckon may perish in the strife
some bullet in ths buck may lay me low
Aud as my business needs uttendin TO,
Ill give you some directions ere go.
That co,tong gin haven't paid for yet
The Yankee trusted for Il, dear, you know,
And it's the most (hic) 'strcmey doubtful thing
Whether 1t IS ever used again, or no.
II Yankees agent calls while am gone.
It's my thicl 'sprcss command and wish that you
Denounce him for nn Abolition spy,
And have him hung before his note 10 duo.
In case your purse runs low while I'm away,
There's Dnnli's children-,wo lhc) 'pensive whepsi
They won't bring much the wny the markets urc,
But, then, you know how every little helps
Aud there that Yankee schoomisiress, you know,
Who taught our darngs how TO read mud spell;
Now don't lhic) spend cent to pay uER bill
II she aren't iarred and feathcrcd she'll do well
And now, my dear, I go where booty calls
leave my whisky cotton crop. and thee;
Pray TINT IN battle may not (hic) 'sprc,
And when you lick the niggers think Of inc.
II OH some inonrnful summer afternoon
They should bring home to You your warrior dead,
Inter me with u tooth-pck in my hand,
And write last lhcl JAcEr DER my head"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17

If the Government succeed in getting
sos, 900 men, the quota of Massachusetts,
would be little over 10000. She has 25,-
900 men under arms at present and is re-
ceiving new recruits every day. Whatever
may be said of the other Eastern States,
Massachusetts is doing her duty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17

The Empress of Austria recently paid a
visit to the British ship-ofshe-linc Queen,
at Corfu, and is described as going about very
plainly dressed, in white dress and a round
hat, ''her magnificent hair and her lovely
face her sole adornments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17

A YOUNG woman can have no excuse
for thinking her lover wiser than he is, for
if there's any nonsense in him, he is sure to
talk it to her.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17
Another Dixie.

Another Dixie.
There's Miss Dix. in Washington,
Aud B-ncdix, the Colonel.
Aud General Dix, who intcrdcts
Secession schemes Internal.
Pete Bcaurcgarl look out for Jed,
Or spite of ull his tricks, he
Will have 10 dance another dance,
And To another Dixie.
tMass.) Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-10-17

MR. MARTIN FARQUnAR upper was re-
Gently thrown violently from his carriage,
and sustained fracture Of one ribr
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08
C%OVINGTON NEWS.

SERIOUSLY STABBED.-On Tuesday last a
man named Richard Rockingham, an en-
pIoys in one of the rolling mills in our city,
went out to the Millcreek House, a few
miles beyond Cincinnati, TO pitch a game OF
quoits with a friend for a wager of $500.
The parties arrived on the ground in the
afternoon, the stakes were deposited, tue
megs were set, and the game begun, but be.
tore IT ended a dispute arose between the
contestants, which brought on a general
battle. The result of the battle was, that
MIR. Rockingham received several blows on
his head with a sluDg shot, and q stab ia the
side, which came very near making him i'm
mortal. He was brought TO his residence on
Stevens,stTeet, in this city, by some of his
companions, when his wounds we're dressed
by DR.. Adams, who reports that he will soon
recover.
A C~INcISEATIAH INJURED Yesterday
morning Mr.. IL. o. Gilbert, of the fem of
Smith h Gilbert, brokers in Cincinnati.
crossed 10 this side of the Ohio RIVER with
a spaukiog team of horses, to take a drive
upon the soil of the Southern Coofederacy.
After returning from a drive Of a few miles
into the country, be made an attempt to
enter, with his team, the blacksmith sho1 of
MIR. I Robson, on Scott street aud ia doink
so be run against a country wagon, upset his
buggy, was thrown out With such v~ioleuce
as TO hruise his head aud cut bis face seri
oUs'y. He was taken to the restdence o
DR.. Duke who dressed his wounds and theu
sent him home.
FOR Ii SOUTHERN ARMY.-A large dele
cation, consisting Of 100 hne mules, frou
Harrison County, passed down NadisOu
siJeet yesterday afternoon, in the dIreedo
of the river. We lea n that they are 70 b
shipped South this morniaR, and that he
are destined for the SoutheTs army
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08
LAW REPORT.
COMMON PLEAS.

CIVIL sIDH.-T. ID. Williams %. Owen
Williams and wife. The question was
whether Mrs. Williams was entitled, as
against the creditors Of her husband, 70 hold
decided TO her by her husband, in considera-
ton Of releasing her right Of dover in q dis
tillery% property, Of which her husband was
part owner. Judge Carter held, upon a
demurrer 70 her answer, that the deed was
good in equity.
CRIMINAL BUsINEss.-J. DECK was placed
on trial before Judge Msllon and a Jury, to
answer a charge Of stabbing.
The recognizance Of L. Weiss, charged
with larceny, was forfeited.
A noHe was entered in the case of J. L.
Lipman, indicted for grand larceny.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

The WEST END NrIsAKcEs.-We have re-
ceived the following communication, de.
tending the soap-boilers of the West-end,
which we publish as a portion of the res
gestas of the irrepressible conflict in progress
in that quarter;
Messrs. Editors: In your paper, which is
the advocate OF the poor and honest Ia this
city, / wish to complain of the means being
used to try and drive of, without remunera-
ton Of their property, an industrious, or
derry class Of citizens. Tbs fat renderers,
or boilers, in the Twelfth Ward, were there
before any other occupants, and most of
them, eight to ten years before those wealthy
Spectators who now own large estates
there. By economy and care they built
small dwellings; they have leases of the
ground on which they built their factories.
A few Of them own the ground on which
their factories stand. To boil fat is their
business, and to do it sweetly is impossible,
because sweet fat is too good for them; they
never gel any. So that 10 live they must
boil-oid bones, hotel scraps, SWINE loug
since dead, &c, &c, thereby disagreesbly
stesming their close ~neighOors, no doubt.
This is a necessary and useful business. and
must be in, or near TO, every city.
The wealthy gentlemen who have specu.
lated in building lots adjoining, seek TO
barsss these citizens and to drive them out
of their business, TO their ruin, 30 tar as their
buildinPs aud leases, at least by sg~gravating
Law suits and smelling committees These
boilers know they have a right to the use OF
their property aud some will keep it at any
expense; the pOOrermen may soon be broken
up. Buff il will help these new corners TO
have them all move out of the city, they
can accomplish this. IN equity and all fair
ness let them pay these boilers for their
leases an0 houses what they cost, aud they
will gladly remove their kettles, stock aud
fixtures out OF the range Of delieately sensi-
i've oltactories. They may, like most OF our
rtformers, miss their object by attempting
100 much, to force what they ought TO per-
spade, aud to get something given them for
uothiSP in its stead,
Several OF The old residents staud ready tC
head libsra'ly alistOf sub eeibers, to proVid,
against loss by these purchases believing
the 20 he the only honorable way Of NOV
ipg these people and breaking ua thet
business fouEs, 5oi sisgaa HERR K.
f. ALLH ALLL
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

"No ADMTrTANcE."-Som months since
wenoticed the fact that two young men, on
opening a business house, had conspicuously
posted up a placard forbidding any one to
enter their establishment except on business,
and we predicted that it would be without
any beneficial result. Happening to pass by
the place yesterday, we were informed that
our prediction had been fulfilled, and that
the parties to whom it was especially
directed-habitual loafers-rather regarded
it as an invitation to them to be especially
annoying one of them diurnally delivering
a two-hour harangue, while seated in a large
chair, upon the impertinence Of persons who
did not know that they were unwelcome,
without such invitations to remain away.
These regular TRADES on these and other
features of human d~epravity, finally induced
the merchants to take down the placard,
since which time their an~noyances have
sensibly been subsiding.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

MORE ABOUT THE GREAT EAsTERN.-Sinee
the great ship was put upon the gridiron in
Milford Haven she seems TO have passed
away from the public mind, but the an
nounOement of the intention of the share
holders to hold their annual meeting upon
the 18th inst- has again worked a general
feeling of curiosity in respect to her and the
prospects of the company, which may make
the following facts interesting. She had
been within the last few days considerably
altered and modified under the immediate
superintendent of the Board of Directors,
who are at present putting in an entirely
new deck, in compliance with the require
ments of the Board of Trade, building the
screw with brass, or rather gun-metal bear
ings.
No additional capital will be required 10
defray the expense of these alterations,
which will be completed by the end of the
month, so that the vessel may again 90 to
sea in March. 1t is probable her next voy-
age will be to New York. The three actions
which Mr.. Scott Russell has brought against
the Company have, by order of the Court of
Common Pleas, been consolidated into one.
Mr.. RusselPs claim is in all EGO, 900. The Com
pany have against that gentleman a cross
action for fI30, 900. Both causes will come
OF for trial next term, when it is probable
they may be referred to arbitration. Mr..
Hope has resigned his seat at the Board, and
as yet no one has been nominated to sue
coed him.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

MARROW ESCAPE FROM DRowNISG-Heroic
Conduct Of a Woman.-The Taunton Mass
Gazette learns that, on Thursday afternoon,
q son of Mr.. Zephsniah Hodges narrowly es.
csped drowning while skating on the pond
in the rear of his fathers mill, near West
vile. He broke through the ice where the
water was about eight feet deep, and his
situation was first discovered by his mother,
who was sitting by her window, and saw his
arms protrudiDg above the level ofthe pond.
An aunt of the boy, Miss Louisa Robinson,
ran 10 the spot, and, at the imminent risk of
her own life, rushed into the water, seized
the boy, whose head she kept above water
with one hand, while she broke the ice with
the other, in her attempts to gain a more
shallow part Of the pond.
The screams of both soon brought Mr..
Bullock, and other n~eighbors, to the place,
and with the help of rails and other %contriv-
ances, both were at length brought to the
shore in an exhausted and beuumbed con-
dition. 1t can not be doubted that both
might have been drowned but for prompt
ard reliable. assistance. Such heroism as
that displayed by Miss Robinson is rare, aud
deserves to be honorably mentioned by
every enc who admires that true nobility Of
character.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

TERRIBLE RIOT IN Missouri BETWEEN
AMERICANS AND GERMAEs.-We learn from
the Macon City Register that a riot occur
red on election day, 18th ult, at New Mills,
South Wentzville. The participators were
four young men, Americans, aud nearly 100
Germans. The Germans attacked the Amer
leans, stripping them of their clothing, and
beating them most terribly. They even tore
the beard and haIr Of the four Young men
out by the roots, giving their heads and
faces the appearance of having been literally
peeled. The fact Of the bar6arous outrage
having spread over tke country, the Ameri-
cans, as we learned, fixed upon Saturday as
aday TO commence a general onslaught upon
those Germans who so inhumanly treated
the Americans. When the cars left Wentz.
vile Cd Saturday, a large party of Ameri-
cans bad assembled at that place, armed with
double 'harreled shot guns, and were intend
ing 10 make a descent on the Germans who
treated so bsrbarOusly the four Americans.
The account is doubtless very much exag.
cured 70 give rise to it.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-08

Riley rs. Hackstead. In order that the
opinion of the majority of the Court should
have effect, Judge Hoadley withdrew his dis
sent.
G. Rule b Co. u. Daniel Collier. The
question in this case was whether the plant
a shipment of marble in the steamer "A. o.
Tyler, they having replevied the property.
The case was argued before the General
Term, and submitted.