Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-02-05


A new development to the MORAN
purchase of vessels for the Government
has just been made. 1t appears that be.
fore the Savannah steamers were sold. tbs
owners agreed to give a certain broker
per cent if he would sell the property &c
the Government, He sold to Morgan. 10
whom he paid q per cent. The brokef
now sued the owner for his two percent
The ownef contests the claim. insists he
IS not bound to pay, and declares he can
prove that a plan was formed bv some
parties to fleece the Government in the
purchase of these ships, by making five
per cent an exorbitant price. The rfat-
ter will be exposed iii court.
Last winter a law vas passed exemptine
the property of the volunteer militia OF
the State from sale on execution. Atrial
was recently had in Cincinnati. in which
Judge Hoadly decides that the law wa,
made. for militia, and not for volunteers in.
the United States service, and as the State
has no militia, hence the law is of no eff
feet.
Private letters received in Washington
from persons abroad, confirm the impress
SONS that the Governments of England
France and Spain mediate an early re.
cocSnltlon OF the independence of the reb-
ell States. Such recognition it will be
pretended was made in the case of Hun
gary.
The pork-packing business of Chicago
mas TINS year assumed large proportions.
Inc receipts of hogs, alive and dressed,
up TO the I'D, were 475,868 against 254.-
$40 IN lS6O-6l. Of these l39, 900 have
been shipped East, 325, 900 packed, and
the balance otherwise disposed of.
A deserter from a North Carolina regi.
ment, stationed at Manassas, saws the
term of enlistment of over 10000 men
expired at the end of last month.
He says not one-tenth of these will re.
enlist, and will forcibly resist any attempt
to coerce them.
Accounts from California say that the
State is prospering-the effects of civil wal
being more beneficial than otherwise
Theimmigration from other States is said
to be very great. Prices of Agricultural
products are lower at San Francisco them
In New York.
Congress is determined to issue l50.0O0.-
600 of dollars in demand notes including
the $4,000, 900 already out, together with
S5OO,OOO,OO0 bonds, and for all this
a tax, as a basis, of from one to two hun
dred millions.
Beauregard has left for Kentucky, tax
ing with him $4,000 men from Manassas,
and jeff Davis is to take command in per-
son Of the troops at Manassas, after his
Inauguration as President, on the 22d of
February.
The postal receipts for letters carried
during the last quarter of 1861, are but
little less than during the same period
last year, when the mails went all over
the Union. The cost of transportation
is S3,00O,0 900 less.
Reports say that the Southern papers
are urging that the possession of Savannah
is of no consequence to them, and hardly
worth defending. This means of course,
that they do not see how they can de-
fend it.
Female palLbearers are coming into
fashion. At the late funeral of the wife of
Rev. Josiah Brewer, in Stockbridge, Mass
achusetts, the coffin was borne upon a
bier by eight women, all relatives of the
deceased.
The designations of volunteer officers in
the army are again pouring into the de
partment.. They come from those who
know their incompetency, and fear the
ordeal ofthe Board of Examiners.
There appears to be no doubt but that
the Secretary of the Navy will soon re-
sign. The next Secretary, from present
indications, will come from New York.
A uew counterfeit note was put into
circulation in Philadelphia. 1t purports
to be a three dollar issue of the Columbia
Bank, of Columbia county, Pa,
The expedition which left Birds Point
in pursuit of the guerilla chieftain, JEFF.
Thompson, returned unsuccessful, having
captured nothing of importance.
The official reports from General Burn
side have been received. The accounts al
ready published are Officially stated to be
greatly exaggerated.
Secretary Stanton says we have eighty
regiments of cavalry, and that that num-
Der was just thirty more than can be used
with advantage.
Gov. Dennison, has signifed to his
friends, that he will not consent to become
a candidate for the United States Senate.
The French journals generally compli-
ment the Cabinet at Washington for their
action in regard to the Trent affair.
The Wa Department has ordered that
the released prisoners receive full commu-
tations for rations additional to pay.
The Sentinel gives a list of all the vol
unteers from Ashtabula county. The
total is 1907.
The Richmond Dispatch admits the en-
tire rebel force now in the field to be but
250, 900.
The I'd Ohio cavalry, Col. Doubleday,
is CHARTERED at Platte City, Mo-, at pres
ent.
General Fremont is to have a regular
military trial, at his own request.