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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
A. visit to John Tyler's House.

A correspondent Of the Boston Traveller
recently visited the house once belonging to
the late Ex- President Tyler, at Hampton,
Va He says: .,.I-
Z Everything about the mansion betokened,
like its illustrious possessor, departed glory.
Negroes were in undisputed possession. We
entered the kitchen, and found auDty busy
making pies, which she sold to soldiers,
and, as she told us, ''was able, with God s
help, to live very comfortable without the as
sistance of massa. /" DE- j. ..-
Her young mistress was just married
when the fight took place, and aunty had
permission to go OF stay. In reply to the
question why she preferred to leave her
young mistress, she said: ''My missus alus
treated me berry well-but my ole man 60,
SO go wild him." The old man being sim.
Harry catechised, replied: 30, my massa
slus use me fus rate massa, tell truf for
imassa he alus treat Inc berry well but |
glib nay massa $l20 year for my time, and
/ find myself I got de paper in my rock
ct, and fthink I could get along without
massa, berry well and find myself, when
had no $i20 a year to pay" The master o!
this slave was the famous Senator Mallory,
not, Of course, the Senator from Florida,
but the one Of some notoriety in the Virgin
ia Legislature, and at present Colonel in
the rebel army. His residence is the next
one to that of John Tyler. and both are di-
rectly on the banks Of Hampton creek. OPP
posite to the village of Hampton. The ne
groes have free course nothing has an own
er everything is open to plunder A fine
pianoforte, taken from the large and ele-
CANT Female Seminary, adorned the inside
Of one of the tents. The effect of stepping
from the muddy camp-felds near Hampton
into smoky and dingy tent, and finding
there costly pianoforte,i is ludicrous enough.
The different tents are adorned in variou.
ways. One contains rich marble-top ia
Bile, taken from John Tyler's house anoth.
er, beautiful hat-stand another is graced
with what-not Of delicate carving and
these costly articles are disposed with re
ference to other pieces Of camp furniture
with an exquisite taste and accommodation
| The pegs of the hat-staud, for instance
are graceful support for. a pair of mudd,
boots, and the what t-not, like 'he shelves il
junk shop, contained variety of article
for variety Of purposes, variously al
ranged. 49,. ..... ...,. ..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
Mr.. colfax no Longer Popular.

This gentleman, hitherto considered one
of the most upright Of all politicians, has
suddenly committed an objectionable sin
He has been unfortunate enough to allow
his efforts to economise for the Government
to run counter to the interests Of Newspaper
men who have for some time acted upon the
idea that Newspaper dictation must be re-
garded or the credit of the country suffer,
and are now crying out against him.
The offence which some of our cotempo-
raries charge upon Mr. Colfax is that he has
recommended that carriers of Newspapers
by other means than through the mails on
the great thoroughfares be required to pay
a license for the privilege, to the General
Government. For some years Express Com
panies have taken from the Post Office De-
partment large amount of its income by car
rying Newspapers that formerly passed
through the mails, and of course diminished
the revenue of the Department. Mr. Col
fax simply proposes to restore the former
plan, and for so doing we find that the pro-
prietors of Daily Newspapers in the large
cities are anathematiying him.
A wholesome regulation was made some
years ago, by which every family was al
lowed to have his own county paper free oi
postage; this was measure intended to ben
eft the people, and in every county, it &C.
cidentally gave some support to the local
press. The local press is indispensable in
some townsand cities, and yet, the practice
Of carrying mammoth Dailies from large
cities to every town in the State, free OF
postage, not only deprives the Post Office De.
partment of revenue, but it. discriminates
against the local paper-which at best is toe
meagerly supported, by bringing it into un
fair competition with those published il
large cities-where their local interests de
mands aid and receive attention from thu
publishers, without regard to the inter
ests Of the subscribers at distance. ..
At present the local press is brought un
fairly into competition with the large Cit,
dailies. For instance. our subscribers cas-
! Of Gainesville, have to pay postage on tn
Courier, while those Cincinnati papers
which are transported 200 miles, are deliy
cred free of postage, by the express agent
on the cars. We think that the, measur
! proposed by Mr.. COlfax, will now allow
tairer competition between local and foreig
papers, and that the Government reyenu
win be Increased, while a majority of thos
who now take foreign dailies. will not fe,
aggrieved. iipo" 1il- r''
q 3aWe wish not to escape a just preportio
Of the burdens OF war whatever will brin
] revenue to the government in this way Will
out injustice to the people, we must approv
Our opinion is that the complaints Of tho,
who publish large dailies are based upo
selfshness. II GAINESVILLE Courier. '
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13

Andrew Johnson's Spseoha

Hon. Andrew johnson made suo>t now.
erfulspeech in favor ofc1pcIlins Mr Bright.
The condensed report Of the closing 66ssags
is as follows: ~
'Mr. johnson then reforrsd to the speech
OF the Senator from Delaware (Saulsbury),
and contended at some length that the South
was entirely responsible for the war, and
that the North gave all tie compromise thst
was necessary, but that the Southern traitors
would not accept it. If the Senators had not
moral, physical, and political courage enough
70 expel those who are unsafe repositories
Of the public trust and power, then they
were not fit TO remain here themselves. He
lJohnson) did not say these things in any
spirit Of unkiudness, but for the sake of con-
stitutional liberty, and for the sake of bis
own wife and children. BY the failure of
the Government to enforce the laws, his
wife and children had been turned into the
street, and his house turned into barrsck.
He had two sons-in-law-one was in prison,
and the other was in the mountains, TO evade
the tyranny of the hell-born and hell-bound
spirit of disunion. Yet when cries come up
that the laws may be enforced, the Senator
says, i am opposed to the whole coercive
policy OF the Government. The only way
to settle the question now before the Gov
ernment is not compromise, but 70 crush
out the leaders Of the rebellion. We have
got to show pluck, ard have got to fight.
He desired peace, but the only way to get il
was TO sacrifice blood and treasure. Than
let US crush out this rebellion, and look for
ward to the time when we shall raise the
glorious old flag beneath the cross, sad
gather around with the cry Of The Union.
one and inseperable, now and forever.
Christ first, our country next, i
1t will be observed that Dir. johnson dir
fers entirely from those Northern men who
hold that the war is due to the unxilliugness
of the North to compromise. He says ex-
plicitly that the North gave all the com
promise that was necessary. We commend
his words-and he knows whereof he AZ
frms-to those papers which arc ,harping ON
their political string aud endeavoring to
convince their readers that the North is %
blame for secession. .....,lI -.5.t..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
Senator Wade and the Conduct Of
" the War, -. ,d,

!, The, following is from the Washington
correspondent Of the Commercial ~
!Tbe investigating Committee, OF which
Hon. Ben. Wade is chairman, continues to
examine searchingly into the past and pre-
sent conduct of the war, 1t does not dis
close the evidence to the newspapers, and
thereby II gets at many facts which night
otherwise be withheld from its scrutiny,
while its, influence as q wholesome check
upon NAL administration, as well as a spur
to meritorious activity, is sensibly telt by all
the officers Of the army. The whole time
of the chairman-Senator Wade-has, for
weeks, ueen absorbed in these inyestiga-
tions, be only appearing in the Senate to
vote on important questions. Within the
last three or four days, indeed, he has got
back to taking very active part in the de-
liberations and debates of the Senate; but
this is only auxiliary to the military duty re-
feIred to, he having in charge the two very
important war measures, which have now
become laws, as before recorded The well
known yiqor and intensity of character OF the
Ohio Sepstor were strikingly illustrated in
the course Of the debate upon the railway
bill. fie declared, in reply to osundry pet
| tifoggipg objections, that although he be-
lIieyed the President might now exercise tht
power power which this bill aimed to confer upor
him, nevertheless he thought il better tina
Congress should invest him with it, saas t.
render unnecessary any seeming usurpation
at the same time, declared Wade, If wer
President in such times as these, if Congress
failed to confer al the power needful 70 pp
down this Rebellion, BY Heaven woul'
wye. it, spd you might call it what yO
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
. Letter from Washington.
fCohespondsbce Of the PhilsjeIpis Pre.I

H WARRINGTON, Jan. 81 1862.
The speech Of Andrew johnson this af.
ternoon, in the Bright case. surpassed all
the expectations Of his friends, and all the
previous efforts Of his life. IL was heard BY
a crowded audience, and drew tears from
the eyes of the stoutest men. You will, of
course, have il in print. The lesson taught
in this speech should go to the heart of
every Democrat in the land, and should es-
pecially go to the men who are preparing
to follow the lead Of such sympsthizers with
treason as assume to control the Democratic
party in the free States. Andrew johnson
is, in fact, the embodiment of true and
living Democracy. He isa Southern man.
II there is in this country man who has
the right to complain of the Administration
OF Mr.. Lincoln, it is Andrew johnson, and
il there is any one who could complain with
irresistible effect, IL is this same man. But
how does he treat the Administration of
Republican President? Does he do as the
leaders of the so-called Democracy in your
Legislature do? Does he cavi about coer-
cion whine about unconstitutional enact
ments shed crocodile tears over corruption,
and prpte the parrot song that it was the
Republicans who have brought on this war.
or could have prevented its occurrence p
No. Although the operations of our army
in Kentucky, intended to open the way in.
to Eastern. Tennessee, have been most lag
gard although his own home has been desc.
lated his wife and children compelled to
fly, his son-in-law in prison, and his friends
in exile, no word OF complaint is heard
against the management of the war from
his patriotic lips. He knows the Admins
tration has done its best and he confdes in
it. He reserves his curses and complaints
f0r the Southern traitors. / trust there is
not a Democrat in the land who will not see
how efectually he disposes Of the plea that
if the Crittenden Compromises had been
adopted there would have been no war, and
with what ineffable scorn he put under his
heel the hesItless and hollow pretext of
those who seek to embarrass the Admins
tration in its prosecution Of the war This
trumpet blast of the great Senator from Ten
nessee should break down the Jericho now
in course Of construction by false leaders
under the name Of democracy. 1t should
at once put life into an irresistible Union
party. The patriotic Republicans are all
ready forit. 1t is only the exponents Of
Breckinridge in 1860 and the sympathisers
with treason in 1861 who are opposed to this
organization. Under the leadership OF An
drew johnson, Of Tennessee, we can sweep
the free States clean of treason and fortify
the Administration in its gigantic effort.
against treason.
| A DOUGLAS DEMOCRAT.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
How q Rebel General Bit His Own
49,. ~ ; Nose Of. .-.....

Tne Rolla correspondent of the St Louis
Democrat relates the following good story
at Gen. Rains, expense: f ..-.g,f
:, 1t appears he had tenant on his farm
who was staunch Union man. The latter
had given his notes to Rains, and Mrs. Rains
took them for safe keeping. The tenant, in
order to savehis hay ard grain raised; by him
on his farm, went TO Mrs. Rains and made
the notes. Meantime Rains, wishing to re-
plenish his oommissary department from the
Union men, limited one day to a foraging
party, the fact that a good haul would be
made on the premises of Mr., his own
tenant. The articles were forthwith conhs
Gated, agreeable to Rains sngcestion--tbe
noint of the joke consisting in this, thai
! Rains unwi,tinsly sacrificed his avn proper
~ for the rebel cause .,.,,t1.. II. ,,..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13

GEN. BUELL is a very model of reticencs
and secrecy. He goes to headquarters every
morning at about 10 o clock, and shuts him
self up in his sdnct,tm sanctorunt, impervi-
GUS 10 any human force, EXCEPT through the
regular red-tape channels He ,ciA not be
interrupted. IL is as much as mans life
is worth to speak to him on the way to his
office. His servants are as afraid Of him as
they are of the devil. An express messen-
ger came to him with package Of maps
from Washington; and did not dare to enter
the room. He offered the package to one
of the porters to carry it in. NO" said
the Porter "you carry it in" "No," said
the expressman, he knows you you take
it, 1t was some time before the fellow
dared face the feroely-frownipg chief to
hand him the package and get his pays.
Buell. admits no one to his couidencet sud
all predictions of forward movements, based
ON pretended access to headquarters are
| mere nonsense. r..,.t-.- ......I fst.5rs
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
Camp Life as a Tonic.

An exchange speaks Of the altered hab-
its of our young volunteers, acquired by
roughing it amid the hardships of the camp.
Many of them are in better health than
ever before, and when they return on fur
Tough, show a manly distaste for close rooms,
soft beds, elaborate cookery, and other en-
ervating luxuries of home. There is no
doubt that they may acquire more vigorous
stamina, physical and mental, for the sim
pie and hardy regimen to which they are re-
stricted. Our life gets subdivided by a
thousand interests until it is belittled. Nis
not much ofsany one thing, but general
hash and ichowder of all. Life in camp is
marvelopsly; simple. 1t has few great aims,
a few enn0bling impulses, few regularly
recurring occupations and diversions. The
impressible nature, glowing with enthusi-
asln, is poured into warlike mould and
hardens into manliness. Those who shun
idleness and low associations, those who
keep the heart warm by frequent letters
from home, and the head busy with we'll
chosen reading, conversation and thought,
will have no. cause to regret that they have
passed part of their youth beneath the
auspices of "the red planet Mars" Nc
delicate carpet knights will they prove
either with the shield or on it, they will
bring back will of iron and muscles Of
steel, better projections than any brazer
buckles. In the stern school Of arms they
may, if they choose, acquire the chivalric
virtues of magnanimity and courage, and
fit themselves to be guardians of the defense
less and champions of the right. And the!
will remember for years how simple are tn,
necessaries oflife, and what hearty enjoy
mcnt mny be found in the absence Ofluxur.
and toIly.-tSpring6eld Rep. losi .nc,f,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13

IT is expecting rather too much 70 de-
maud that any one shall know everything;
but it is not unreasonable to expect that
any man who knows enough to go Congress,
should know the difference between Hosea
Ballou and Hosea Biglow. Yet Mr. Cox Of
Ohio, on Thursday last, in replying to
speech of Mr.. Gufley, his colleague, said !:
'.Years ago. in the Mexican War; these
same rentlem EN- who are now so qiIcrulons
about Gen., Mcclellan, echoed Summers
Peaceful True Grandeur Of Nations, and
Hosea Ballou' slang: ~.
Fife away. yon i6n feller--
f You may hie ill YOU are yetler, ii t.rfHa
kiore YEA ret ahead OF me-" .
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
The County Newspaper.

From one of our Exchange papers We
take the following, and there is so much
truth in it, that we feel almost willing To
adopt it:
'Your County paper is really nsccssi-
ty to every whole -souled intelligent mar In
the county. IL is the index, or should be,
of their character. of their hberality, intelh-
gence, spirit of enterprise, &C.; yet il is not
always such. 1t sometimes, yes, many
times, deceives the stranger seeking the
county paper for correct information upen
those points, for frequently the editor, with
an energy that knows no abatement, and
economy that adapts itself to the closest cir
cumstances, really furnishes to the publics
readable, enterprising, spirited local news
medium, which would mislead the stranger
taking it as the criterion ofthe character Of
the people for intelligence, iberality, &C..
No ordinary sized county paper can thrive
upon subscription price Of 81, per year. -
One dollar and fifty cents per year is the low.
est that it can be published tor--and then
it should be made in good pay IN adpuncs
and whoever runs away after a foreign news
paper because he can get it for one dollar
per year discriminates against his first and
highest interest in such as would, if all men
were of his mode of thinking, destroy the
means of disseminating information in his
own vicinity, even to the extent Of prevent
ing announcing to the world the blessing
that be himself was dead. Noman in-these
days of rapid advancement in intelligence
should stop with one paper: and after his
county paper he should take as many for
eign papers from different points as would
answer his starving necessities for light and
| knowledge"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
FonNEY S OPINION OF BucHASAx.-C
You may hie iill you are yeAer,i.r-
Aiorc yea get ahead of me-"

!. FoRNEY's OPINION OF BUoHANAN.-Col.
Forney is not disposed to be softly spoken
about his enemy james Bpcbahan. In
a recent letter to the Philadelphia Press,
describing the Seeessiun sympathizing wing
of the Pennsylvania Democracy, he says:
ID | see no one name in the Legislature Of
Pennsylyania among those now SO, anxious
to recrranize the Democratic party and
to make it the symbol Of all that is pure and
natriotic. lid nadg mt Dc jltstly charged
,s;th hnmasv hastssed, u set haciNg pro-
G.oed this aozr. by supporting the Mqrafe,
trnitor and p,nrlc~r Of his country s tibert'es,
James B,schduaA, rr 49,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13

.pendcrs, aud corded ,the little fellows legs
'6elbw the knee, and then lay down and died
While be was telling me these particulars
heard the tramp of cavalry coming down
the rayine, and in moment q scout Of the
enemy was upon us, aud was taken pris-
oner.' I reque,tcd the officer 70 take Eddy
up in front Of him, and he did 70, carrying
him with great tenderness aud care. When
we reached the camp Of the enemy the lit
tic fellow was dead 1t is now about two
weeks since made my escape from Nc
Cullock's grasp. -HHs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-02-13
Growing foid.

II. seems but a summer since We looked
forward with eager hopes 70 the coming
years. And now we are looking sadly back.
Not that the dream has passed. but that il
has been of no more worth 70. those ground
u.s. b As the glowing hopes and ambitious OF
early life pass away, as friend after friend
depart, and the stronger ties which hold us
here are broken, our life seems but q bnb.
BILE, glancing for Q moment in Light, and
then broken, and pot a ripple left on the
stream. ossH sdt iG9ni1g 80 adi 20 9soi9
q Forty years once seemed long weary
pilgrimage to tread. 1t now seems but o
step. And yet along the way, are broken
shrines where thousand hopes have wasted
into ashes footprints sacred under the drift
ing Of dust; green mounds whose grass il
fresh with the watering of tears /; shadows
even which we would not forget. We vii
garner the sunshine of those years, and witt
ehastened step and hopes push ON toward
the evening whose signal lights will soon b
seen swinging where the waters are still
! and the storms never beatty. w. Brown
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-10-08
WALLACE VS. WALLACE.

Our Deighbor Wallace, as we have hereto.
fore said, is up to any emergency-readyt to
"shift his sails TO every breeze" He has al
ways been in favor OF compromising our pres
ent difficulties with the rebels and in favor of
the Breckenridge Vallandigham ssUnion as ii
Das,'' i. e. slavery in all the States and Ter
ritories-at least such has been the tenor of
his speeches heretofore. Lately however, we
are reliably informed, he was in Blair county
trying to persuade the Douglas Democrats
(who are called Abolitionists by the Breckin-
ridgers) that he is in favor of vigorous pros
ecntion of the war, and for putting down the
rebellion at any and every cost-even to the
freeing Of erery SLAVE in the Southern States.
If this be so, Mr.. Wallace is trying to sscarry
water on two shoulders''-the Breckinridgers
on the one and the Douglasites on the other.
How will Mr.. Wallace explain his present
position satisfactorily to the people of Clear
field county He undoubtedly is playing
two handed game at the present time. He is
either deceiving the people of Blair county,
or he is deceiving the people of Clearield
county. If he deceiyes his constituents be-
fore the election is it likely that he would
carry out their wishes should he be elected 2
Most assuredly not Is he the man, then, for
the present emergency, if his course is as sta
ted 2 We think not! Then, what are the
people to do7 Why vote for the man who
''comes up to the scratch'' all the time and
that man is LOUIS W. HALL, the tried and true
friend of the Union and the Constitutions
man who fully sustains the Government, and
favors the putting down of the rebellion with
out any equivocations