The Baltimore County union., 1866-02-24

A collision tdbk place It Lafiu;et's Statiou on
the Penna. RNltoad, fetshtly. car load Of oil
took fire, one man was burned to death, aud
several badly injured
The Quarterniaster . Department proposes to
send to the Worlds Fair at Paris France, adj
ver.ised to be held in the spring, novelty in
the shape Of the first army wagon. used by the
national army during the rebellion. This wag
on campaigned against Richmond under Nc
Hooker to Tennessee, it was transferred to that
army, and was with Sherman in his grand
march to the sea, and from Savannah TO Wash
ington.
The great Cincinnal bridge about to be sus.
pended across the Ohio, will, i. is said be the
longest in the world, being over two thousand
feet longer than the suspension bridge over the
Niagara river, and five hundred and forty feet
longer than the celebrated Menai bridge. Its
total span will be one thousand and iifty-seyen
yards. The massive stone piers tower one hun
dred and ten feet over the floor Of the bridge,
and two hundred feet above their foundations.
One year is the period allowed for building it.
A petition has been received in Washington
for presentation to the President asking for the
pardon OF John @. Breckinridge. 1t is signed
by upward Of 10 members of the Kentucky Leg
islature. HHpfs4l
Gen BENZ. f. Butler has just closed negotia-
tions for valuable mill property on the James
River, near Richmond intending to erect extern
sve cotton factories The Cox farm, contain
ing 2, 800 acres, through which runs the Dutch
Gap Canal, has been offered TO Gen. Butler, and
he has in contemplation its purchase. New
England families and mill operatives will settle
upon it.
The intelligence of the transfer of Jefferson
and Berkley Counties from the State of Virginia
to West Virginia was received by the citizens ol
Harper's Ferry with great rejocings.
The bill providing for the permanent location
of the Capitol at Bnchannon, West Virginia,
passed The Assembly on the 9th.
The bill appropriating $500, 900 for the relie
of the Chambersburg sufferers passed the Penna
House on the 9Th inst M
The Artesian wells at Chicago are now dis
charging one and quarter millions of gallons
per day ofthc purest wafer. These wells are 10
Gated near the city lmits--about three miles
| from the City Hall--are seven hundred feet deep
and discharge an immense volume OF clear colo
water. The water which rises to the surface
stands at 81 degrees Fahrenheit, which is below
the mean Temperature of the locality, while il
the other deep wells the temperature increases il
proportion to the descent. e,..a.
Gen. Weizel, who arrived at New-Orleans or
the 9th inst, says it is very difficult to keep s
strict neutrality on the Rio Grande, but the Off
GERS of the Army there concur in his opinion a!
TO the inutiIity of going to war with Mexico
The trial Of the Adams Express robbers CLARK
and Tristram, terminated at Bridgeport ON ih'
l4th inst They were found guilty and sentenced
to hard labor in the Peniieniary.
| DR.. Craven, the medical adviser of jeff Davis
since his capture, was on the 7th mustered ou
ofseryice. lie represents the health and spirits
ofh late charge as excellent and being fur
nished with the various papers and magazines
keeps well posted upon the current topics of tht
| day The cell of the. prisoner was accessible a
all times to the Doctor; but little conversation
however, was at any time carried on but from
remarks dropped from time to time, he appeared
resigned to his fate, whatever il may be.
| The oil region of Western Penna. has become
the scene of new marvels, the accounts sounding
much like skilful hoaxes, though but the simple
record of another chapter in this very wonderful
development of our material resources. Min,
Months ago Pithole City consisted of two houses
A daily paper issuing 5000 copies, twelve thriv
ing hotels, over 80, 900 letters received month
indicate what the place now is Last week i
was discovered that the oil at various places wa
oozing from the surface Of the ground, wells o
water seemed suddenly to be changed TO petro
leum fountains, and men, women and chi!drel
rushed with every available vessel to scoop III
the fluid from holes only few feet deep.
| Fifteen miles below Franklin, in Western Pa.
an oil well was accidentally set on fire last week
the fame at hrst being small, but defying all at
tempts to extinguish it. 1t soon increased il
volume and at last accounts presented q mos
wonderful appearance, shooting mp from sixty t
a hundred feet and lighting the country 70
many miles. The ground had become heated 70
several hundred feet, starting vegetation int
the greenness of Spring.