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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
A Curious Story.
There is rich story current, whereof the
substance is as follows: ..

There is rich story current, whereof the
substance is as follows: ~.
The Rebel States by secret preconcert
had their Legislatures In session on the 8th
inst, and each Of them chose its quota Of
Presidential Electors, as though thoy had
never assumed to secede from the Union.-
These Electors. in case their aggregate vote
would suffice to give Mcclellan a majority
over Lincoln, were to assemble on the first
Wednesday in December, aud formally cast
their votes for McClollan and Pendleton,
sending them on to Washington in due
form and backing them by delegations to
either House, should that he deemed es-
sential. Then when the day arrived for
officially counting the votes and declaring
the result, the entire Opposition OF all
shades was to insist that Mcclellan and
Psndleton were duly elected, and, il this
were not conceded, break up the session in
q row. and inaugarate civil war from one
end Of the country to the other, the pres
ent Rebellion merging itself in the newer
and more formidable, JEFF. Davis, Lee and
Bsauregard becoming alike leutenants of
Mcclellan .,'.
This story Is unsupported BY published
facts, and is essentially incredible. We re-
ceive it only as the coinage Of some fertile
brain, musing and brooding over what
might have been. If it has even shred
of fact beneath it, that fact must become
apparent, and we shall await with interest
its development. Y. Trib., Monday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

started by the present Democratic Clsrk
Of the Court, under the title OF "The
Bell, without ostensible editor or pro-
prietor, for the sole purpose Of abusing
and Safeguarding us, in order tograt.
ify the under-strata upon which the
present Democratic party is founded
the Plug Uglies and Thugs Of Belmont
county. ....,,
Amidst this abuse we have pursued
the even tenor Of our way, battling
against the errors and outrages of the party
and its leaders in bold and fearless manner,
meeting with the ard and support Of the
respectable and intelligent portion Of CON-
munity, until the hatred Of these leaders
has become 30 intensified against us that
they are anxious to get rid Of us in some
way or ether. Wehave been informed that
on last Saturday Wns, Kennon (Irish)--the
recognized "head and front" Of this Dem
ocratic party--said, In the Court House
that "ths only way in which we can get rit
of PooRNAN Is to kill him. y .s.. ..
! We have no doubt but all these men want
some of them, at least, is an instrumen
veckless enough to carry out their purpos
and discretion enough to screen them from
the responsibility, to do just as KENNol
says, "kill him. " #'
: If the object of this menace by Mr.. KEN
. NON, and others that have been made b
+ his co workers in the cause Of Secession
Treason, Revolution and DisunioD, is
frighten US from our purpose to expose an
denounce the outrages and wrongs pul
u posed and perpetrated by the leaders (
! this Democratic party, we will inform bill
4 aud them that the breath they expend
. uttering them may just as we'll be saved,
8 they have no other effect than to satisfy ,
e that our labors against them are not in vail
and to demonstrate the cowardice Of tho'
who utter them. ...rf.I.l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

IT is now positively stated that Gen.
Mcclellan sent in his resignation, with
the request that it date from the 9th
inst. Gen. Fremont resigned as soon
as he was nominated for President
Mcclellan as soon as he was defeated /;
Fremont gave all his salary, while out
of active command, to the Sanitary
Commission-McClellan pocketsd his.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

Col. OuLD, Rebel Commissioner for
the exchange Of prisoners, with the
assent Of the Rebel Secretary Of War,
has asked permission Of Gen, Grant TO
have thirty thousand pairs Of blankets
purchased in New York for the use Of
the Rebel prisoners of war. He also
requests permission Of our Govern
ment TO pay for these goods with q
cargo Of cotton, TO be shipped from
Wilmington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

enjoyed themselves as well as the cold
ness Of the night would permit.
After we withdrew from the Court
House, the Copperheads held meet
ing in it, and Jim Charlesworh made
a speech to them, in which, we are told,
he declared that the object of the Union
men was to destroy the poll books and
prevent the election Of their Sheriff
and Auditor. He also said that it was
all wrong for them to submit to such
abuse as "Bill Carman" and other,
speakers had been in the habit of heap
ing on them, and he then thanked the
Democrats present for the disposition
they had manifested to sustain him.
The excuse made for holding the
house was that they wanted to open
the poll. books, and needed it for that
purpose. We proposed to wait until
they were through with the opening of
the poll books, il they would then let
, us have the house. The answer was,
: "There will be no meeting here to-
, night" And yet he could suspend the
opening of the poll books, or making
out the return, to make a speech to the
: mob he had gathered around him.
This excuse is miserable subter
e fuge, behind which these beauties hope
: to screen themselves from the contcmp
9 their conduct richly merits, and which
l. we are pleased to learn it is receiving
o from the more respectable Of their owl
!" party. What right has Jim Charles
IL north to take these poll books out o
y his office until they are opened and tn
10 return made out The law provide
'e that the Clerk of the Court, with tn
III assistance of two Justices of the Peace
20 shall proceed to open the several return
III which shall hare been made to his oGt'
Open them where2 Clearly in III
" Office, to which they have been return
az ed. If he has the discretion to ope
10 them IN the Court House, he has th
NV discretion to open them in the Johr
nc son House, or at the Gazette Office
~ Besides, it has been the custom, eve
n' since we knew anything about the ma
ee ter, to open these poll-books in tf
10 Clerks office until he himself set adj
oe ferent example this fall.
10 We have made this plain and som
Ai' what lengthy statement of this matte
eh and the people Of the county will hay
&c, &c, no difficulty in getting at and unde
~, standing fully the object and purpo'
" of those who have been the jprincip
'no actors in it. AS dirty, contemptib
oi political act, it exceeds in meanne
~ !, anything that has ever come under o.
he observation; and if endorsed and su
Or tanned by the leaders of the Democrat
" party, cannot fail to disgust the respee
10 able portion Of the party, and in al
'y' event must result in securing for tho
'". officials Of that party who are respo
~. sible for it the contempt which su
'i'' actions deserve.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
CHILL HIMl'N

We have known for long time that
our presence In this county has been
a very great annoyance to the opposi-
ton party. Its leaders frequently
empty their vials of wrath upon us,
and exhaust their almost boundless
vocabulary Of slang in denouncing and
abusing us; and when the regular or
gans Of the party (when there were
two Of them) seemed inadequate TO
gratify the insstiate desire for our
abuse, an irresponsible SCsAcsrn sgwas
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

The little town OF Chester, Ill, was
nearly destroyed by tornado on last
Wednesday morning. Over q dozen
houses were blown down, church was
sntirsly ruined, Ave persons were kill
Cd, and IL or 10 wounded. The loss
OF property by the tornado 10 about
s60, 900. The town Of Randolph, seven
miles distant, also suffered severely
Nearly al the houses In the place were
blown down. s-t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
= THOROUGHBRED
SPANISH MERIN0 BUCKS.

A T HARRiSvILLE, o., en- and after October 10Th,
n A. l.. Bingham and f. G. EelIs will offer for sale n
superior lot of Spanish Merino Bucks prices ranging
from si00 70 5000.
They will aIso stand two Bucks inc, for sale) for
Ewes until Nov ist and probably seine days longer,
viz Hibhard snd "Tger,'" when they will be rs-
aHibbasd ! was awarded the Firs, Premium at tn:
recent Ohio State Fair and SSees offered Tor him ana
refused by the owners they intend to keep him for
siock Buck. .u... ..s.s
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

GEN. SHERIDAN is reported to have
fallen back to Newtown, about nine
miles from Winchester, with the object
Of being nearer his supplies, which
have now to be transported distance
of thirty-six miles in wagons, through
a country swarming with guerillas.--
This win be obviated in few days by
q railroad from Harper's Ferry. +
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
Grant Cengratalates the Presi-
dent ON his D0ukAc Victory.

Hon. y III Sssatos. Secretary SEQ Of War .
Enough now seams to be- known 70 say who
is to bold tbs rsins Of Government for the
next four years. .-aa, !,
Congratulate the President for me for the
do,,hle v;ctorv -le
The election having passed Of quietly. no
bleodshed or riot throughout the land, Is .
victory worth more 70 the country than .
Rsbsllion and Europe will construe Il 90.
- s4Tt 81, u, g. GRANT. Lieut., Gen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
A PROCLAMATION.


BY the President of the United States Of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.
1t has pleased Almighty God to prolong
our National life another year, defending US
with his guardian care against unfrendly
designs from abroad, and vouohssfiing to Us
in his mercy many and signal victories over
the enemy who is Of our own household. -
1t has also pleased our Heavenly Father to
favor as we'll our citizens in their homes, as
our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors
on the seas with unusual health. He has
largely augmented our free population by
emancipation and by immigration, while he
has opened to us new sources OF wealth, and
has crowned the labor of our workingmen
i'm every department of industry with abun.
dant reward. Moreover, he has been pleased
to animate and inspire our minds and hearts
with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufi-
cient for the great trial of civil war into
which we have been brought by our adher
ence as nation to the cause Of freedom
and humanity, and to afford to US reason
able hopes of an ultimate and happy de
liverance from all our dangers and affections
Now, therefore. |. Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, do hereby
appoint and set apart the last Thursday ir
November next as day which l desire te
be observed by all my fellow citizens. where
ever they may then be, as day Of thanks
giving and prayer to Almighty God, the
bsnefcent Creator and Ruler Of the uni
verse and do further recommend TO my
fellow citizens aforesaid that on that oc
casion they do revsrently humble themselve
in the dust, and from thence offer up pen
itent and fervent prayers and supplication
to the Great Disposer Of events for a retur,
Of the inestimable blessings Of peace, union
and harmony throughout the land which j
has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling
place for ourselves and our postsrity through
out all generations.
Iu testimony whereof have hereunt
set my hand and caused the seal Of tn
United States to be affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington, th
Doth day OF October, in the year Of our Lor
1864, and Of the Independence Of tn
United States the eighty-ninth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY tho President.
WIZ. H. SEWARD, Sec. Of State.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
Administrators Sale
- of Real Estate.

TN pursuance Of an order granted by the Probate
L Court Of Belmont County Ohio will offer for sale a
NOVEMBER, 1854, between the honrs Of u NJ and
p NJ, on the premises the following described real
estate sius,e ID the said County Of Belmont 70 wits
Section eight sl Township six t6 Range i've 6) con-
tanning fary tAo) acres, moro OF Less. ~
wear and one-,hird in two Yeas from the day OF sale,
with Interest," the deferred payments 10 be secured BY
JOHN Isle. Adp'r
Hs' Hs t..' .F Of John L. Titlew, deed.
se,. O. iss4.-sw s.listssl. la t(iI 81
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

The Baltimore Sun says all the mer-
chants arrested in that city for selling
goods to blockade runners have been
released, and allowed to resume bust
ness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

The report is renewed, and 1t Is
seemingly authentic, that Hon. w. p.
Fessenden has resigned the Secretary
ship Of the Treasury, and that Hon.
Robt. j. Walker has been appointed in
his place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

CAPT. WINsLow, Of the Kearsarge,
landed at Boston Oh Tuesday, and i'm
mediately went to the poll Of his dis
trict and voted the Union ticket
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

GEN BUTLgR's rule in New York Is
reported by the loyal papers Of that
city to cause great CONSERVATION among
the Copperheads, and equal JOY among
Union men.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
81. clairsyiIle, Ohio. Nov. IL.

...An cemmuniesicns intended fer insertion in the
paper upon busine.s 'slsips TO the .dse should be
.Assss.sd "Beh.eut Chronicle, st. C,sir,vtns ohie'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
Howard Asso citation,
HILADEI.PHIA, PA

I ITTT1 I PHILADEl,PHIA, PA. ~
DvsEAsEs OF the Nervous. Seminal Urinary and
IL Sc xuai Systems-rlew and reliable treatment-iA
reports OF the Howard Associalion-sent by mail In
sealed letter envelopes free Of charge Addross DE-
SKII.iIN HOUGHroN, Howard Association, No
south Ninth Street, PhiI~aephia, Pa, Ul<iy
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

The Chicago Journal says that near
ly three hundred Rebel conspirators
have been arrested in that city.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

LORD LYONS is lying dangerously Ill
at Washington of typoid fever, and his
recovery Is scarcely expected.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

OTIS numbered sixteen ie) seventeen tizb eighteen
L. lish nineteen tlDh aud twenty ts0b IN Mock num-
bersd twenty ,Aree taS1 In ne DYn 81 nell.iSs-slI
tssced in ecs et iss gssd sssst isnss X - nsvis
r. 'sls !. Pa,s's ss.s sA spRnsss,s sss}s feh 81
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

Tun aashoritiss .snd people Of Boston
e.: !: S.s;:s M's::as g y sssis '''s y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

rl.s Of the free hearts hope snd2homel
By angel hands 10 valor given!
Thy stsrs have litths welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born IN hsaven.
Forever faat that standard sheet!
Where breathss the foe but fails petors ss,
with Freed ems soil beneath our feet
And Freedoms banner streaming Ger usi
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17
A Proclamation of Thanksgiv-
ing by the President.

WASHINGTON, Got. 20, 1864.
The following proclamation was promul-
gated this Afternoon:
By the President of the United States OF
An,erIr1
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-11-17

~" "16GeIA- HI0D0G
DErwEEN Bridegroom and I.oydsviile, en- Saturdny
ID evening Oct 18Th. The Watch is silver, carved
OIL both sides and had a large sized hunters esse,
will give = reward Of $5 for the Watch j nsay bs
left a the CHRONICLE office.
oc20 Tvs w. X. SMITH,
CONCENTRATED IYE-i Beth Bricks, Malchss
~ Family Dye Colors, Sal Soda, Carbon Gil, Black.
ny, Rat Reach and Bug Poison, nj q n1CN;uN0's
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

THE Providence Post, in very fulsome
and foolish article, recently recommended
Senator Spregue as the proper man to sue
coed General Meade, asserting, among other
things, that he "oan do twenty things at once.
and do them we'll" The Cleveland Plain
Dealer thinks the following comprises a list
of the feats of this twenty-horse act " LIST,
he can play on the triangle; I'd, he can play
on the trombone; Sd, he can ehurn; 4th, he
can milk COW; 9Th, he can feed the pigs 1;
9th, he can eat big meal of viCtuals 7th,
he can sing Yankee Doodle !; Sth, he can
take Richmond so quick she won't know
what hurt her; 9th, he can wear No. Is gal.
tiers; 10th, he can list to the mocking-bird :
18th, he can perform John Browns Body
upon bass drum 18th, he can stop the
breathing OF sneaks at rife shot distance
14th, he can do or die; 18th, he can trip the
light fantastic toe; 10Th, he can smoke cigars
if they don't make him sick 18th, he can
sleep four in bed if the parties lay spoon
fashion; 18th, he can wear No. 4 boots if his
feet are sufficiently small; 10Th, he can take
Meade's place, provided Old Abe's willing
goth, he can keep dry when it rains by re-
naming in DOORS"
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

THE number of letters mailed at the San
Francisco Post-Ofice in 1861 was 82,O19
in 1863, 9O7, 506. Increase. 80 per cent.
The number of newspapers forwarded in
1861 was 677, 1925, in 1863, 1,8S9,702. In
crease, 105 per cent. adj
The registered letters sent in 1861 mum.
bered 1884; in 1868 they were 8,5O7. In
crease, IA per cent.
The number of newspapers received in
1861 was 1,752,96O; in 1868, 2,86O,433. In
crease So per cent.
For the fourth quarter of 1861, the number
Of stamps sold was 3S5 O4S, and of envelopes
517O83, amounting in value together to S35-
920,45. For the fourth quarter of 1868, the
stamps sold were 769,545, and the envelopes
1918, amountingVtOgether in value to $50
500. Increase, s 14,579,74.
The estimated number of people visiting
the POstofice daily, is $1,000. i
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

EXCITING TINES AT DENVER ,CTTY.-A
man named Kittery shot a soldier named
DufieId through the window of a house of
evil repute, in Denver, on the 9th of Dec,
the soldier at the time being intoxicated, and
bad broken the window. A large crowd
soon gathered about the premises turpentine
was freely poured about the chebang, and in
a few minutes everything was a sheet of
flame. They then proceeded to dance-house
near by and burned it to ashes. Nothing was
allowed to be taken out or saved, except
few trunks that belonged to the wretcbed
girls who were inmates of the dwelling. The
murderer was confined in the guard-house,
where large and excited mob of citizens
and soldiers were collecting, when some one
went to the church and called out Col. Chiv-
ington who, until then, was ignorant Of the
excitement. The Colonel, looking very good
naturally, advanced through the crowd to the
steps of the guard-house and addressed them
in the following sensible language:
Fellow Citizens and Soldiers /: Two wrongs
never can make one right. A man, com
rade of some of you, was last night shot down
in the prime of life, from window. The
2owardly villain who took this advantage of
The man, is now in this building bound hand
and foot, heavily ironed. We live in a land
IF Law-where every man has melted out to
him equal and exact justice. 1t would be
ust as cowardly for 10 or 20, or all of you
men, to take him out from here, bound as he
8, to hang him, as it was for him to shoot your
,omrade from that window. | did not know
!nything of this excitement until a gentleman
allied me out ofthe church just now, else I
hould have been here much earlier. Now l
equest you all to 60 home, let the law take
IS course, respect yourselves, and do not be
uilty of row here. And to you, soldiers,
1t me not hear that any one of you has said,
it would be a good thing to take him out
ad hang him" or, should like to see it
one" or anything of that kind; for l tell
gu, he viii meet with the full punishment of
is crime, and if you should hang him with
ut q trial, you would be Just as guilty of a
lWardly murder as he is"
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

AS CHARLES SUMMERS cases of books were
lately being carried to his rooms at Washing
ton, one of the packages broke, and there
Was a grand chaos of law religion, romance
and poetry. A Holy Bible straddled Kent's
Commentaries; somebody on international
Law got mixed up with Hervey's Meditations;
the jaws of Statutes at Large swallowed up
the Psalms of David; Tom Jones, the rascal,
dis6gured Shakspeares frontispiece; Byron
and Blackstone reached the pavement at the
simultaneously; the Life of A. Lincoln
was lost in the Anatomy Of Melancholy.
and the Constitution of the United States
made large vacuum between Summers Ora
tons and Common Sense.
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

DEATH OF THE PoUeHKEEPs1E BLACK
sMITH.-William H. Van WAGNER, known; fol
ten years throughout the United State, as the
PoughkeepSie Blacksmith" expired at his
residence in this city on Thursday. Mr.. Van
Wagner was very popular speaker, and for
years made himself felt in the political Geld
and in the advocacy Of total abstinence. His
stentorian voice has been heard during the
past % years in almost every place of note
in the Atlantic States, and to his forcible and
purely natural eloquence can be attributed
the salvation of many>a poor soul that was
tottering on its way down the road to perdi-
tiOn.-E POughkeepsie Press.
Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27

EXECUTION IN NEW JERSEY. Charles II.
Brooks, convicted in Burlington county IN.
j., Court of Oyer and Terminer, of the muir.
der of his father, suffered the penalty of his
crime in the yard of the Mount Holly Jail on
Friday, December 18th, in the presence of
700 people. Between eleven and twelve
o'clock Sheriff Lippincott, accompanied by a
clergyman and several other persons, entered
the cell of the doomed man and endeavofed
to converse with him, but he appeared quite
Indifferent. After prayer by the clergyman
the prisoner was removed and placed under
the gallows. Here he made brief statement,
confessing his guilt and duplicating others in
the awful crime. He said he was there to
suffer for the murder of his father and that
while he acknowledged that he committed
the crime, Ridgway This orother-in-law) ought
to be in his place. Ridgway, be asserted,
had for more than year urged him to kill
his father, and on the day of the murder,
while he Brooks was drunk, Ridgway told
him to meet "the old man at the corner of
the lot and knock him over" He according
ly stationed himself there, and when his faith
er came by knocked him down, killed him
and threw his body in the ditch. His state
ment of the circumstances was substantially
the same as the first story he told of it. He
said that afterward Ridgway and his mother
came to him and persuaded him to deny all
knowledge OF the murder, and he allowed |
them to induce him to say on Ridgways trial
that no one had anything to do with it but
himself He was sorry that he had been
weak enough to let Ridgway and his mother !
persuade him 10 commit the crime he had !
never harmed any one else, and never had
struck man in his life, until the blow he
struck his father.