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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
Mcclellan and Lees Interview.

From the Washington Chronicle, March o.
In the New York Tribune of Monday, the
7th inst, there appeared the following ar
ticle:
IAN INTERVIEW BETWEEN GEN. LEE
AND GEN. MoCLELLAN.-A written COM
munication was sent to the Secretary of
War on Saturday last by former member
of the Maryland Legislature, and a cousin
of the rebel General Lee, stating that during
the battle of Antietam General Lee had his
headquarters at bis house; that on the night
after the battle he sent messenger into our
lerview at his headquarters that General
staff, rode that night through the rebel lines
who, among other things, informed McClel.
The writer has been subpenaed before the
Committee on the Conduct of the War.
[ wish to correct many errors therein.
lst am not cousin of General Robert
e. Lee.
ID. No interview could have taken place
between the parties during the battle Of
Antietam at my house, as l live about tea
miles from the place.
3d. The interview took place three or
four days afterward, and was rather at the
suggestion of mutual friend than courted
BY either party.
4th. At the time of the meeting General
Mcclellan was alone, and General Lee came
through the lines of the United States Army
under my escort, l having received sol
emn pledge of personal safety from Gen
Mcclellan for us both.
5th. The communication was not made
by myself.
The interview lasted some three hours
during short part of which time l wa
present.
(Signcd,) f. NJ.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

SOME cases Of virulent disease, some
Ike the old fashioned spotted fever, have
recently occurred in Lafayette, Indiana
We vote from the Courier of that city:
If the patient is suffering from severe
attack, he generally becomes delirious, and
often becomes perfectly insensible. When
death takes place, it occurs in from twelve
hours to four days. If the disease lasts a
days the patient RECEIVERS. The treatment
which has thus far been successful is this
Avoid blood letting; put the patient onstim-
ulants, such as the best brandy, wine, or
whisky; also give quinine freely, and apply
to the back ofthe neck, and down the limbs
mustard poultioss. Keep up external
cooling applications to the head.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
A Jubilee In the Pennsylvania
Legislature.

The Legislature of Pennsylvania, which
has been kept unorgsnized for some months
by the factious course of the opposition,
was finally organized on the 1st instant.
Dr. St. Clair, chosen to the Senate in the
place of Major White, resigned, having
reached Harrisburg, was escorted to the
Capitol by "a procession of four thousand I'm
ionists on that day, and took the oath of Office
after the reading of the official returns. The
bill enabling the soldiers of Pennsylvania
who may be in service. next fall tovote where
they are was then called up and passed-yeas
seventeen; nays, sixteen--a square party
vote. This result was hailed with loud
cheering, which did not abate when the old
clerks were re- elected by seventeen votes
to sixteen blanks. - + a.. ..a.. .-l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

fighting the only fit occupation for him,
while the inferior race does the work. What
q charming set Of neighbors these would be,
with two Governments established on this
theory. / have not known OF anybody who
would suggest the way Of dividing the Mis-
sissippi, and what time we should have
with Custom Houses and passport system,
with such neighbors having no other bust
ness but to fight us, who desire to pursue
the peaceful avocations Of private life. But
we have taken Vicksburg; we have taken
New Orleans; we have taken the Missis-
sippi River, and before the 4th Of July next
we will have taken Mobile and Atlanta
[cheersl, and see from their paper they
admit eleven surrenders, which they say are
the most disgraceful of history. But there
is one fact which should not be forgotten.-
Right or wrong, the North has relied upon
itself in this struggle. 1t did not ask the
aid of any foreign Power; but the South,
which claimed all the chivalry, basely, at
the moment of the outbreak, bended the
plant hinges of the knee, and lowly and
obsequiously sought that Louis Napoleon
and Great Britain would come over to help
them. Laughter And before the war
had continued long, it was conclusively dem
onstrated that each section of the American
people was superior to the authority OF Eng
land in the fight. 1 beg of you, on the
bended knees of my soul, as LONG as you
think the American name worthy Of any
regard, to consider whether the position
which | have assigned to the North does
not give it deserved eminence. Standing
by itself in majesty, disdaining any aid from
that power of England, which has nothing
better to do to-day than to murder New
Zealanders and Japanese, and leave Den
mark out in the cold, though related to it
by blood and marriage. But l look to you,
who will enlist under my friend, Gen. Han
cock, one day to avenge the insult which
the nations of the old world have attempted
to put upon us, and though it may not be
true that the Cossack shall let the velvet
snout of his horse rest upon the waters of
the Thames in England, yet | hope to Ged
that the banner which see before me may
be carried by our posterity from people
ranging from the Aristook to the Pacific,
and may teach the whole world that as we
were peaceful in our prosperity, we were
fearful in the hourof our revenge. Cheers
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

GENERAL RosEoRANs has prescribe a
very rigid oath of allegiance, to be taken by
all persons attending Religious Conferences,
Conventions, and Synods, within his Depart
ment A stringent oath is also imposed
upon sll officers Of the Missouri State mill
tia. No man who has been or isnow disloyal,
can hold or get commission without gross
perjury.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
The Better Day the Better the
Deed. '-.' II

The rebel Congress has appointed the
first of April as the day on which one-third
of the value Of MIR: Memninger's currency
will be "repudiated. The sufferers BY that
act Of foonfscationprobabl think this day to
have been chosen in compliment to them
selves, the victims ofthe hugest practical joke
ever played off on ALL Fools Day.-lN. 7.
Post,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
GEN. sigeI I'm Wheeling.

Major General Franz Sigsl sIrired in ths
city yesterday morning.aud stopped ct tho
Mcclure House. He was engaged during
nearly the whole of yesterday in oonsulta-
ton with prominent officials who called upon
him. As will be seen by our advertising
columns Gen. Sigel has issued On order a..
snd Msste'f as sTs"ls sTss 6 asld9ps,,sFi at
quarters. - Intelliecncer, Friday. '1
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
III you do use
Hoofand's German Bitters
From J Nepton Bro,un, D. d., Editor Of the
Encyclopedia of Religious knowledge,

From J Newton Bropn, D. d., Editor Of the
Encyclopedia Of Religious knowledge,
Although not disposed to favor recommend Patent
Medicines in general through distrus Of their ngred-
ents and effects yet know Of sufficient why
man cannot testify the benefit he believes himself
have received from any simple preparations in the hope
that he may thus contribute the benefit of others.
do this The more readily in regard TO Hoofands Ger
man Buers prepared by DIR. c. NJ Jackson, Of this
city, because was prejudiced against them for many
years III der the impression that they chiefly All
alchoholic mixture am indebted TO my friend, Robert
Shoemaker. ESQ., for the removal Of this prejudice by
proper tests and for encouragement to try them when
suffering from great and long continued debility, The
OF three bottles OF these Btters At the beginning OF
the present year was followed by evident relief and
restoration to degree OF bodily and mental vigor which
had not felt for six months before and had almost de-
SPARED OF regulating therefore thank God and my
friends for directing me to the use Of them.
J. NEWTON BROWN.
Philad ephia, June %, 1861.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
A Cool Operation.

The Skowhsgan (Ms.) Clarion, publishes
the following marriage notice; 9s.e.
Married, on Moose Head Lake, forty rods
from the shore, on Wednesday, l7th inst,
(msrcury 20 degrees below zero), by j. H.
Eysleth, Esq, Mr., Samuel Dalton to Miss
Maria Hartford.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

The exchange OF prisoners has begun. Six
hundred snG sixty soldiers, and forty-ssvsn
officers, released from the Richmond prisSHs
on Monday, have arrived at AnnspOliA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

FEAR God and love the women. By
doing thus you will feel 40 bnoysnt a. .
phnnix just rising from his ashes, or sirl
getting nicely squeezed in a polka.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
no. o3I, ARCH sTREET.
aIs49 Primeipal Office asa Maastactorys
a, JONES EVANS
Gsusc..ser. to c, M. Jackson a cO,l
tI... PIornImoas

Price rs sis per bottle, or sir bottles foI "a 90.
uJiFor sale BY Druggists and Dealers every rywhere
he Unsssd ssstss, sAdbv J. n. WEST CO.. 81. Clair
vAie. f'f'f '.ds /, t. I'd osts-ay
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17

A GENTLEMAN whose father hsd bsen
hanged, was accustomed TO say Of him he
died suddenly upes q platform ss A'ss
srs,iiS meeting
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-03-17
: Trussserss and supporters.

NEW wlPATENT LEVER Tfassss ana
wv ouppWVsss. Also, IRanbow's seebratsd TrusS
RH saR a NNkHkx D oo3GpaNsfN
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23
ATTENTION, FIREMEN!

All, THE FIREMEN OF THE CITY are
"A hereby requested to meet at the Market
House, on this Monday evening, promptly at y
O'clock, for the purpose Of participating In a
Torchlight Procession in honorsof the or'noay u
the Father of oufeeountry.
fe22 By request Of the Joint Committee
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23

a,l't FERNANDO WooD, the other day, in Con-
gress was DESTROYS of having committee
appointed to investigate some sharp trans
.Gh1h actions of Gen. BEN BUTLER The General
-, 49, having heard of FERNANDo's proceedings
las wrote to friend of his in Washington
.ss when he made the following candid, but
unexpected admission:
'i8' "TwiIl rely on your friendship always to
vote in favor of having any official act o.
'''.@t- mine investigated; such investigations will
show Mistakes blunders, and failures Of
- judgment innumerable, and for these must
90 suffer; but fear nothing else l should
even be willing for them to be investigated
~ Il by Fernando Wood, were it not for the
maxim, set thief to catch thief" 81 :.
Very good: make public show of in
Z y Neutrality-suspicious. some thck-headed,
honest member from the county, who takes
it for granted that everybody else is as hon
az ''' sst a. he is, on the committee and BUTLER
--- 10 sharp enough to cover his tracks, and
come out all right. Investigate, of course
.sI9Zbut don't put any sharp, ythief-catchcr like
FERNANDO WOOD on the ommittee.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

MONDAY, Feb. %.
The House came to order at ten o'clock.
Prayer by Rev. j. L. Simpson.
On motion of Mr.. Lamb a special COM
mittee of three was appointed TO wait upon
the Senate and inform that body that the
House was reedY to execute the joint order
of the day,-the reading of WASHING TONS
Farewell Address.
The Speaker appointed Mesrs. Lamb, Ruff
ner, and Soper as said committee.
The Senate appeared in body when the
Address was read by Mr.. Carskadon.
he ouse then proceeded with its regu-
lar business.
Mr.. Soper, from committee on Counties,
&C., reported adversely to the change of
the boundary line between Richie and Gill
mer counties
The same gentleman, on behalf of same
committee, reported An Act to amend the
Act entitled Gan Act relating to the town.
ship officers
Mr.. Crooks, from Committee on Roads,
&C., reported Bill declaring Dents Run, q
branch of Buffalo Creek, Marion county,
public highway; and Bill to incorporate
the West Virginia Central Railway Com
pany. Also that further legislation was
deemed unnecessary in the case of the col
lection of tolls on the Kanawha river.
House Bill No. AZ, to regulate the fees for
appraising property, was passed.
On motion of Mr.. Hagar the Judiciary
Committee was instructed to enquire and
report as to the expediency of reporting by
Bill or otherwise making provisions for
those who have lost their patent deeds or
other papers by rebel raids. FIRE otherwise,
so that they may obtain others in lieu
thereof
Mr.. MGrew presented the petition Of
citizens of Preston county, asking the re-
mission Of militia fines. The petitioners
set forth that they are now, and have been
/ for many years, members of thu Dunkard
Church, the discipline of which forbids the
shedding of blood or the taking up of arms
against any person. The petition was re
ferred to Military Committee.
House adjourned.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23
,lieyed. General Howard can be relied

believed. General Howard can be- relied
upon. q
ATRurH is sometimes stranger than fiction
OF the latter We read where asheep was kiIl
ed that was all fat but; his tail and that was
candle with very small wick;o the ior'
rner that three hundred pounds Of plckerel,
weighing from half pound to ten pounds
each. were blown out of the water near
Tonawsnda by the galesIon thel LIST OF Janu-
ary.
VALUABLE mines of nickel have been
opened recently in Litchfield Co., Conn !,
aboet eight miles from the Naugatuck Rail
road, on what is known as the Prospect
Mountain. The yield of this ore is high COM
pared with most other mines of nickel,
being from three to tour per cent. OF pure
metal. A single ton will yield, according
to the estimates, at least seventy pounds OF
nickel, worth at present prices So per pound
The works now nearly completed will have
q capacity equal to ten tons per day
About two thousand tons are already min
ed.
CANADIAN PosrAGE.-The rost Office
Department of Canada having, for the sake
of uniformity, consented to so modify the
postal arrangements between the United
States and Canada of 1851, as to establish
uniform postage for letters of ten cents, the
single rate between Canada and all parts Of
the United States, it is ordered by Post
master General Blair that in future the In.
ternational postage charged upon all letters
between Canada and any part Of the United
States shall be ten cents, the single rate
for half an ounce, or under, prepayment op'
tional without regard to difference of dis
lance or route of conveyance.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23
WEST VA. LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.


MONDAY, Feb. %.
Prayer by the Rev. j. M. Phelps, Sena-
tor from the VII district.
A message from the House reported the
passage of House Bill No. Z, to exempt .
certain amount of property from execution
or other process.
A message from the House by Messrs.
Lamb, RuHner and Soper announced that
the House was in readiness to proceed to
the execution Of the joint order of the day
which was celebration in joint session OF
Washington's Birthday, by the reading of
his Farewell Address, and requested the
presence of the Senate in the Hall of the
House.
After listening to the Address, which
was read by Senator Carskadon, the Senate
returned to its own chamber and proceed
ed to the ordinary business of the day.
House Bills No. Sc and 80, ga Bill for
the relief of Margaret Ray, and Bill to
authorize recorders to make orders allow
ing ministers to celebrate the rites of mar
rage
The Senate passed House Bill No. %, to
regulate Municipal Elections.
House Bill, No. 80, "a Bill authorizing
the Auditor to appoint Assessors in certain
cases." with two important amendments,
and House Bill, No. IS, ga Bill providing
for the confinement Of persons sentenced
to the Penitentiary.'
The latter dill, which authorizes the
Governor to use the Ohio County Tail as a
temporary penitentiary. and to make all
necessary arrangements necessary to carry
out the act, elected some discussion.
Mr.. Phelps endeavored to substitute Ma.
son for Ohio county, and MIR. Hubbard and
Mr.. Carskadon advocated the bill as it is at
present, showing the advantages possessed
by Wheeling over any other point, as a
site for Penitentiary.
Mr.. Phelps amendment failed.
House Bill, No. %, which provides for the
payment of certain militia claims allowed
BY regimental courts" and Senate Bill No
II providing for proving title in or from
the Comm onwealth of Virginia, were read
the third time and tabled
The Senate took up the bill releasing Ger
tain border counties from taxes for the
years lS61-2-3," which was variously
amended on the motion Of Senators from
the districts interested.
Pending its discussion the Senate took a
recess until o'clock, and reassembled at
that time, when, in consideration Of tho
day, or at least the afternoon, it adjourned.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23

EASTERN market reports quote @bread-
stuH's heavy" The fault is in the (y)east
TEE Administration is bountifully sup
piled with men.
FoRaEY, the Presidents dog, is sick. His
Well-known avenion TO water has probably
ended in positive bydrophobia.
THERE is no greater oppression in this
country than that which conpels women to
work for q mere pittsnce and live in, con-
slant fear of restitution.
The claims for pensions already filed by
widows and mothers of deceased soldiers
exceed one hundred and fifty thousand.
Four hundred rebel prisoners have been
transferred from Washington and vicinity
to Point Lookout.
JOHN W. FoRNEY is lying very ILL., Elk.
Amazing! John W. Forney had been
lying gerry soeu up to the date Of his illness.
THE interest on the national debt, paya
BILE in gold, is one hundred and eighty mil
lions. This is more than all the gold fields
of America annually produce.
JEFF DAVIS domestic troubles seem to be
terrible. He has to eat hashed turkey, his
house is burned, his servants run away, and
his wife seolds like blazes. Poor unhappy
Jefferson.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-23
News Paragraphs.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, is the oldest city of
that State was named from Gen Knox, who
was Secretary of War at tho time the city
was laid out, in 1893.
GEN. Howard says that Gen. Grant is a
strictly temperate man, and religious. His
marked characteristic is wonderful faith
in his success, amounting almost to the
fatility in which Napoleon so strongly
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-31
THE WORDS WE USE.

Be simple, unaffected, he honest in your
speaking and writing. Never use long
word where a short one will do. Call a
spade, not a well known oblong instrument
of manual industry let home be home, nc t
a residence place a place, not a locality {:
and so of the rest. Where a short word
will do, you all ways lose by using long
one You lose in clearness, you lose in hon
est expression of your meaning and, in the
estimation of all men who are competent to
Judge, you lose in reputation for ability
The only true way to shine, even in this
ia Sc world, is to be modest and assuming
Falsehood may be very thick crust, but in
the course of time, truth will find place to
break through, Elegance of language may
not be in the power OF all Of US, but simple
ity aud straigntforwar1ncss are.
Write much as you would speak: speak
as yop think, If with your interiors, speak
no courser than usual; if with your superb
ors, speak no finer. But what you say, and,
| within the rules Of prudence. say what you
are. Avoid all oddty Of expression. No one
| ever was a gamer by singuarity of words, or
| in pronunciation. The truly wise man will
| so speak that no one win observe how he
speaks. A man may show great knowledge
| of chemistry by carrying about bladders OF
| strange gases TO Dreatht, out ne VIII enjoy
| better health, and 6ud more time for busi-
ness, who lives on the common air. When
| hear person use a queer expression, or
providence a name in reading differently
| from his neighbor, the habit always goes
down, minus sign before it stands ON the
side of deficit, not Of credit. Avoid, like
wise, all slang words. There is no greater
| nuisance in society than talker of slang.
TT is only fit (when inocent. which it seldom
| is) for raw school boys and one term fresh
. men to astonish their sisters with. Talk as
sensible men talk use the easiest words in
| their comm0nest meaning. Let the sense
conveyed not the vehicle in which it is con-
veyed be your subject Of atten ton.
| Once more, avoid in conversation all sim
| gularty of accuracy. One Of the bores OF
| society is the talker who is always setting
you right who, when you report from the
| paper thet 10, 600 men fell ia some battle,
tells you that it was 9,999, who, when you
| describe your walk as two nAes outand back
| assures you that it lacked half furlong Of it.
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy Of
detail. but in conveying a right impression
and there are vague ways of speaking that
are truer than stlict fact would be-
When the Psalmist said, Rivers of waters
run down mine eyes, because man keep not
thy law" he did not state the fact, but he
stated truth deeper than fact and also truer
-Deon Aiford. sss s
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-31
-
Gems of Thought.

Ifyou would not render your children
helpless all their lives, never compel or per-
NIT them to help themselves.
The louder tones in which some people ap-
peal ts reason imply that reason is great
distance from them. ..
The door between us and heaven cannot be
opened if that between US and our fellowman
is shut.
Always be as witty as you can with your
parting bow-your last speech is the one re-
membered. ... '4.-
Absence is TO love what fasting is to the
body little stimulates it, but long absti-
nence Is fatal.
Superficial knowledge is like oil upon wa
ter; it shines dcceitfully, but can easily be
skinned off.
The loveliest faces are to be seen bV moon
light. when one sees half with the eye and
half with the fancy.
Not in unmanly characters does mildness
charm, but in manly ones as energy does,
not in nnWomanly one, but in the unwoman-
ly. ...-
Whose weuld feel the tenderest participa-
ton in Joy, let him not look at happy children
hut at the father and mother who rejoice 10
see them happy.
A shilling idly spent by fool, may be
picked up by wise man, who knows better
what to do with it /; so it is not lost,
Women are fond ofdeferring men OF go
ing ahead. With the former we gain by ex-
hbiting patience with the latter, as with
public functionares, by impatience.
Men of quick fancy more easily reconcile
themselves to the loved one when she is 90
sent than when she is present.
Well mated lovers are like the two wings
OF dove, bearisg ono heart between them
and always moving harmoniously., .. ...
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-31

e When the news was received here
that Chambersburg had been burned by the
rebels, some of the abolition jacobins openly
expressed their delight declaring that it was
just what they wanted to hear OF, as the
"copperheads" had suffered heavily 10 the
loss of property and it would operate to ex
asperate the people of the North. Such dew
lish malignity turks only in the hearts Of
fiends Shame Shame i-Bedford Gazette
North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-31

E A lady at Brussels is known to be
so extremely humane that she will not allow
even her carpets to be beaten, ard was fright
fully shocked on hearing boy, who was re
lating story about donkey, tell his com
panion to cut his tail short and she actually
tainted away when relative said he had
been killing time.