Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-09
News Items.

News Items.
MARYLAND, nearly the last State to abol.
ish Slavery, is the FIRST TO ratifv the CoDsti-
tutional Amendment. Gov. Bradford Off
cially announced the action Of Congress, and
the House Of Delegates immediately sdop-.
ted ratifying act by the decisive vote Of
So yeas to % nays.
HARRIsBURa, Feb. 3.-The State Senate
has ratified the amendment to the constitu
tion abolishing slavery. The house is de-
batting the question.
BosTON, Feb. 3.-Both branches Of the
Massachusetts LEGISLATURE this afternoon
unanimously ratified the amendment to the.
Constitution abolisbing slavery. ,.s
TuE Herald reports that the magazine at
Fort Fisher was exploded by the rebels by
means Of telegraph wire leading into their
lines.
PART of Shermans' army was at Shade
vile, South Carolina, when last heard trem.
1T is now reported that the election of W.
ID. Snow to the u. S Senate from Arkansas
was legal and by quorum of the Legisla-
ture.
Two escaped prisoners from Salisbury
report great suffering among the prisoners
confined there.
THE partial destruction of the Smithsonian
Institute will not interrupt the regular OPP
erations Of the institution. af
Col. NORTH, of N. Y, who was charg-
ed with complicity in the soldiers voting
frauds, has been acquitted and released.
THE Federal government has agreed to
purchase the Custom House at New York
| City, for one million dollars.
Tine total casualties in General Terry's
army in the attack on Fort Fisher, were six
hundred and ninety-o one.
THE New York papers think that Mr..
Blair's mission did not amount to much.
GEN. SHERMAN has issued an order
encouraging yeusg and able-bodied negroes
to enlist 10 the army. The old ones are to
be taken care of on the sea islands Of South
Carolina and Florida.
ALL the distractions in the harbor of
Savannah have been removed and it is now
open to navigation. '' ''
TwENTx-sEvsN persons were killed in.
stsntly by the explosion OF she boiler Of the
steamboat Eclipse, and number are sup
posed TO be drowned. Sixty were scalded.
They are mostly of the 9th Indiana battery.
The Constitutional Amendment has been
ratified by the Legislatures OF seven States,
viz: Massachusetts,, Rhobe Island New York
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Maine and Illi-
nois.
The Sentinel publishes Foote'S letter to
the Speaker OF the rebel Roaer of Repre-
senatives. He announces his mission to be
| Ax, 81 nd nvA ktrA ,oaIf
is responsible for it.
One thousand four hundred Union prison
ers died at Salisbury, N. G., during the
sixty days ending December 18th.
There is strong pressure on the War De-
partment to procure poatponement Of the
draft. os a
In the contest that has been going on in
Kentucky between Gov. Bramlette and Gen.
, Burbridgs, the latter has triunphed. The
! latter retains command. Avery proper dis
position Of the question:
The Lake Erie pirate Burleigh, who ha,
! been on trial at Toronto, was delivered tc
, our authorities at Suspension Bridge before
daylight yesterday morning.
TEE Hon. Jacob Vanatta, a. Democrat
has written aletter in favor of the ratification
! by the New Jersey Legislature, of the Con
stitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery.
Ifa dispatch from Carlo is to be believed
the Rebel army Of the Southwest is meline
/, away rapidly. 1t has already been stated
|, that Gen, Reddy had given up the cause. =
|, Now it is reported that Chalmers has de-
: serted, and told his men to take care oI
: themselves. Forrest is said to be dsgusted
also.
: A letter from the Army of the Potomac
: dated the lst inst, says that for five hours
after the truce was declared along our lines
: in front Of the 9th Corps, thousands Of oul
. boys threw down their arms and engaged ia
: ball playing with the rebel soldiers. The
utmost good feeling prevailed and during
Q the time the probabilities of peace were full
9 y discussed by the ef6cers aad men from
; both sides. The rebel soldiers told oul
II boys that they were promised peace within
J, the next thirty days, and that they hoped
: the rebellion was at an end
!, REPRESENTATIVE Wilson of Iowa, chair
i man ofthe Judiciary COMMITTEES, has intro
d ducsd bill to establish the supremacy oI
y the Constitution in insurrectionsry States
q declaring that hereafter ne Representatives
l. or Senators shall be elected to Congress il
# any States which have been in insurrectior
y until il has been announced by Presidentis
proclamation that armed hostilities have
+ ceased and q Republican Constitution hal
y been adopted and approved BY Congress-