Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-04-07
DoMEsTIC INTELLIGKNCE.

= A HANDSOME octoroon girl on a Mssis
sippi plantation was married eight. years o
ago to mulatto en- tho same pantpton, e
and was afterward sold TO another planter q
owing to her masters pecuuiaiy dfhcutics Z
The couple were plainly told that she was Z
intended as the new owners mistress En- 9
treaties only resulted in her husband being B
savagely beaten, and her being taken away. 4
The wretched girl attempted suicide without
success, and had no chance of escape, being
ultimately forced to submit to her fate.- 4
She had one child by her brutal owner ,
George. the husband, afterward escaped,
and succeeded in getting to Europe on
board en- English ship: Ho travelled much a
there as a servant to families. apd q. short
| time since returned 10 Cleveland Mean
while, on the capture of New Orleans, the
woman's owner had fed and she escaped to
philadelphia, where she has since resided
in family as servant. Having gone to
Cleveland a short time since on visit, she
met her long-lost husband in the street. and
both manifested the most intense joy. Thus
after so long and cruel separation they are
happily reunited.
| Mr.. MAYO of the Ohio Legislature said
few days since, in debate: Il would rath- |
er see this Government destroyed than that
one single press should be deprived Of the
liberty of publishing what its editors
pleased" Mr.. Free, Union member, said
that Mr.. Mayo's language was an abuse of
the liberty of the press, and none but trait
ors spoke or indorscd such sentiments, when
: Mayo replied with some insulting epithets,
and Mr.. Free Immediately coared and
choked the Copperhead, who was taken out
Of the House by his friends. Mayo had
previously said that "all persons and papers
7 had right to speak treason, write treason,
and act treason"
AT lively village in Illinois, not far from
I Woodstock, they have benevolent associa-
r ton, one of whose objects is to watch with
9 and take care ofits sick members Last fall
an unmarried young lady was admitted to
y membership. In couple Of months she was
S blessed with bright-eyed babe, and was
. very sick Some ofthe young lady members
y expressed to the chiefoffcer OF the association
the ir indignation, and asked him ifhe really
n thought it their duty to visit the unfortunate
n one. "Well, said he, after much delibera-
Z, tion, 81 suppose not. You are not obliged to
n watch where there isa contagious diseased
e The Cincinnati Commercial was lately
- sued for libel, having iutimated that Judge
20 Carter, the Democratic candidate for re-
~ election to the Judgsship of the Superior
Ia Court of that city accepted s. 900 TO retire il
>, favor of another Democrat. The CONNER
,s cial pleaded that the statement was made
=. in good faith as a news item that the mon
,n ey was offered, if not paid, and that the
- Judge was Incorporate. The result was ;
:, " verdict for the plaintiff with one cent d am
ot ages. .
,n Mr. JEDEpIAH PHELPS, of Norfolk, Va.
IL was visiting married daughter in Ne,
Jersey, He was taken with violen
coughing in the night, and the good daugh
ter hastened to his room with vial o
cough mixture, as she supposed, and CAV
burned badly"--when she discovered tbs
ne she had given him corrosive sublimdte! b
hhg the timely arrival Of physician, MIR. P.'s lii
u, was saved.
in The palm of patriotism belongs to th
use family of VIM. Mercer, residing in tn
Iey vicinity of Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohi'
IRE who has eight sons and one grand son in ii
.dy army. Their average weight is 2l0 poun(
,on and hight six feet. In short, MIR. Mere,
i'm has AZ ieet and $3.50 pounds OF boys in Il
\ n army. Their mother says she has TWO mo
ier tlat will soon be ready if needed. .s
zen A FEW DAYS ago Mr.. Jacob Bardor
use residing in Malahide, g. w., found in Il
vas woods gun barrel imbedie in the trul
led of a green pine. There were 81 growt
ON upon t. The muzzle was on the groun
zen with tn breech uppermost. This is nj
lai- chance for requiem sung on the hunt
'he who last shoudered that rife, rested
le' against the tree, and wandering away "
ac murdered by the Indians.
on =,
his A CORRESPONDENT of the Montro
Democrat gives a remedy for spotted fevt
which it is said has proved elhcacious whe
lis ever tried. 1t is to place thu patient ov
boiling hemlock boughs and give hi
V hemock tea to drink, both hot ami stron
- This produced pcrspiration, and the pat!e
ex- soon recovered. The cure here given W
the tried fifty years ago in Vermont, and alwa
with success 1t is simple and may be cas-
=, tried. .s. .-au
Ides A LOUISIANA Unionist who enlisted in t
pre- Twelfth Connecticut Regiment, and cal
rish with it on its recent furlough, recently sal
Ten- Since came here have heard more tr
sonable talk, and read more reasonable
ook ticles, than did for months in the Sou
,ove among Southern men before left there
NTH The Union men of the South didn't peri
lin. such talk within Union lines"
,tI the FIVE Massachusetts, men, six feet hi,
'e'' were lately presented by Messrs. Alley Z
Gooch, who are not remarkable for tn
Out hight, to the President, who, after ipq,
ing whether they we're all from that Sta
and being assured that they were s
EST why it seems to me that Massachuse
In always sends her little men to Congress. .
rks For the FIRST time 10 thirty-two years.
yico Washington Globe failed on Wednesday
the print any Of the. debates. The propris
rass explains that tho scarcity of fcompositors
cad such that he had been unable to proc,
not more than halt his usual number, and tn,
YES. we're worn out with labor, having work
med twenty three hours on Tuesday publicati
side Two women, sisters, who had at differ
vard times eloped will, married men from Youu