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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Conversational.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-House-peti-
tons were presented by Messrs. Sumner,
Wade, and Dixon, respectfully, praying
for the abolition of all distinctions on &C
count of color, and the modification of
the emu laws in certain respects
Mr.. Guthrie presented a claim for servi-
ces rendered by the home guards. Mr..
Wilson introduced a resolution explsna-
tory of certain parts of the pension law.
Mr.. Wilson also introduced a joint reso-
luton making al appropriation of $1,000
for the publication of the medical and
surgical history of the war. The bill to
organize the Judiciary was reported back
from the Committee with amendments.
Mr.. Stewart introduced joint resolutions
providing for the admission of Senators
and Representatives from the Southern
States whenever they shall amend their
constitutions so as to do away with all
distinctions as to civil rights on account
of color, repudiate the rebel debt, and
forgo all claims for compensation of
emancipated slaves. The resolution was
supported by MI. Stewart in q speech,
and called from several senators favorable
expressions regarding its adoption. 1t
was referred to the Reconstruction Com
mittee. The Deficiency bill was amend
ed and passed. The Senate adjourned
till Monday House-a resolution to
appoint a special committee to investigate
the cause of the disagreement between
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Comptroller, was rejected. A bill, look
ing to the re-establishment of ocean mail
steamship service between the Charles
ton, S. c., and Great Britain, was read
twice and referred to the Postofice Com
mittee. A resolution was adopted to in
quire into the e~xpediencY of concentra-
ting the Dakotah and Sioux Indians into
one reservation. Several resolutions re-
lating to post routes, public lands, ETC.,
in the Western Territories were intro
duced. Ajoint resolution was introduced
to include in the list of the officers of the
volunteer surYice who are entitled to
three months extra pay all those who re-
signed after the surrender of Lee, proVi-
ded they had been IN the service three
years. The Loan Bill was discussed at
length by Messrs. Boutwell,, Merrill, Ste
Vens, Garfield, Pike and others, and on
the vote being taken was defeated, ayes
sc. nays 68.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
New York Cattle MARKET.

TUESDAY EVENING, March Is, 1866.
BEEF CATTLE--Fully five thousand head
b34D have arrived since the close of last weeks
market. This supply. a trihe above the weekly av-
erage for all Of last year. is quite too much for n
respondingly. We have seen bullOcks really rank
ing as first quality, sold at rates which would hard
~ equal lSc per pound for the dressed four quar-
tiers. Half a dozen extras, such as are seldomseen
IN any part Of the country, have brought perhaps
lec, and one pair of nearly pure Durhams. from
massachusetts. which sold for $50 the pair, were
zJc. II we reckon 6S lbs dressed weight for the 100
IDS live weight at home. These are exceptions,
however; the mass of the medium to good cattle
range at I5el7c. or fully &c per n below last weeks
rates. The poorest have sold as low as 12c or un-
der, with the estimate of weights in favor of buy
ers. The tendency Of the market is downward, at
Ieast ull the end Of the month, which finishes the
MICH C0WS.-The supply is 1873. and quite
equal TO the demand. which continues dull. though
a trlne improved from last week. The poorest sell
at S3594l: from this prices range ali the wav M ID
SSugS. Tor what may be called first quaIity-fhat
Is, 4 large. far form, well marked. full mixer,
win ayoung calf at her side. Some extra fine
fancy mixers occasionally bring SlOO@ll59l2O
but such animals are rare. The bulk of good cows
GO at S'O9S0, with plenty of fair to medium at SIS
VEAL CALVES.-The supply is increasing and
prices are falling. A few extras have brought l4L
gl5c per Olive weight, but lower grades run ali
the way from l09lic, according to quality. 1t re-
quires a pretty fair calf to bring l3e or over. The
stringent surveillance established by the new
Board of Health bids fair to stop the tradei in hobs.
that Is, calves from two to six days old. which have
nitherto sold IN large numbers by the milkmen
who find 1t more profitable to sell milk than t.
SHEEP.-The arrivals Q4.s2g are large for tn,
season, and prices lower. Ordinary grades sell al
prices equivalent to 6A@7Ac per n. live weight
Some very good extras run up TO S69c, and over
while poor specimens hardly equal &c.
LIVE HOGS-The receipts, 7.022. fully equal tn
demand. which1-with Lent, with the warmer
weather, and with the "wOrm-pest " rumOrs.-ii
quite light. The selling rates for Western corn FED
are lO149l1c per n. live weight.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21

The Comptroller of the Currency is
out in a letter ~condemning the financial
policy of his Official chief, the Secretary
Of the Treasury. He objects to every one
of Mr.. McCulloch's recommendations to
Congress, and insists that there is ample
power already vested in the Secretary to
bring back the currency to a specie basis.
As the New York Times remarks, apart
from the merits Of this controversy, it
strikes us as being a very bad caste for
Mr.. Clarke TO come before the public as
an antagonist of the Secretary. This
circumstance shows the necessity for q
complete reorganization of the financial
department Of the Government, in accor-
dance with the recommendations of the
Revenue Commissioners. We must have
a system which shall insure discipline
and efficiency, and prevent antsgonism
between subordinates and their official
heads.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
A Problem.

The British writers upon financial af-
fairs are puzzled at the ann in which
United States securities in the London
market set at naught their wisest predic
tions. They have labored faithfully to
show that these securities ought not to
advance in value, but on the contrary,
ought to subside to low prices. They de-
mo~nstrate, entirely to their own satisfac-
ton, that the United States will never be
able to meet their responsibilities, and
that all who dabble in American stocks
and bonds will suffer immensely. They
are learned upon this subject, and pro-
duce a startling amount of so-called facts
and more startling differences. But their
logic seems to be unsvailing to stem the
torrent. When the Bank of England, in
order to repress the tendency to speculs-
ton, put up the rate of interest to eight
per cent, the securities with which these
newspaper inanciers pronounced good
were depressed in value, but the securi-
ties of the United States, which they de-
clared at the least to be doubtful, not
only held their own but advanced in
price. In a few days Five-twenties
mounted up from GO to GO, and, at last
advices, had reached 69s. The fnan-
ciers are disguised with the stupidity of
their countrymen. They have warned
them faithfully against their rashness,
but they do not listen.
There must be a cause for this, and it
my be found in the fact that John Bull
has discovered how much he had been
previously deceived by listening to the
Stock Exchange. He has come to the
conclusion that the United States are not
so desperately involved in their affairs
that they cannot pay the interest upon
their obligations, and he believes that
they will be eventually able to pay every
dollar of their Indebtedness. Confidence
is a plant of slow growth, but when it
takes root It is difficult to blast it. Uni
ted States bonds for 500, interest pay
in gold, are cheap at $40. The pru-
dent Englishman who buys at hat rate
receives eight and a half per cent. on his
money. Consols bring him no more than
three or four per cent. He argues that
the profit is so great that he can afford to
take some risk, and if he is a man who
examines for himself he cannot but &C
that the prospects of receiv-
.ng this interest from the United States
are very good. The English financial
are in the interest of London ban
kers, and the cause of their anxiety to
dealings in American securities is
low understood. Hence they have lost
their influence, and men take the liberty
acting upon their own judgments.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Rebel CrueIties at Salisbury.

The testimony in the case of Major
Gee, to which allusion has already been
made by telegraph, more than confirms
the reports previously afoat touching the
horrible cruelty prscticed by the rebels
upon our prisoners at Salisbury. As at
Andersonville, they were penned in a
small enclosure, commanded by rebel ar
tilleFy, without shelter of any kind, and
furnished with food so scant in quantity
and poor in quality that many died from
sheer starvation. In September, 1864,
there were 9,0Sl prisoners ct this place,
huddled together in the small place as
signed them. They were not allowed to
gather in groups, and the order was to
fire upon them whenever they did So
In consequence many were killed by the
sentinels, and upon n occasion artillery
was opened upon all the men in the in
closure, and many were slaughtered -
The average of deaths we're from eigh-
teen to forty per day. Gee was in COM
mand at the time when these atrocities
were perpetrated. 1t has been attempted
to be shown on his behalf that officers of
superior rank were present at times, and
that they were responsible for the cruel
ties which we're committed but Gee was
the regular commander, and although
others might have ranked him. he had
charge of the place, and, like Wirz, will
doubtless be held responsible for the fear
full cTuelties through which so many of
our brave soldiers were sent to their last
account. The trial is still in progress,
and il is believed a month must elape be.
fore a decision in the matter is came to.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Matters in Congress.

The proceedings in Congress on Friday
last were important and significant. In
the Senate, Mr.. Stewart, of Nevada, who
has been a strong supporter of the Pres
ident, introduced a series of reconstruc-
ton resolutions, prefaced by a explain
alton that there was an unhappy state of
feeling between the North and the South,
which the good of the country demanded
should be brought to an end. The reso-
buttons provide that when the South
shall do away with the existing inequality
between different classes of citizens, and
give other guarantees showing their loyal
disposition, their Representatives and
Senators shall be admitted, and the
States recognized in the full enjoyment
Of their privileges. They recommend,
also, that Northern States in which the
inequality before mentioned exists, shall
50 modify their constitutions and laws
that no conditions shall be required of
one section that are not asked of another.
Mr.. Stewart referred to the Presidents
course in regard TO Mississippi as indica-
tive of his approval of the policy set
forth in the resolutions. Mr.. Stewart
was followed by Mr.. Sumner and Mr..
Wilson. the former of whom with good
humored satire welcomed him to the
ranks of radicalism, while the latter
spoke kindly of the resolutions. Nj.
Henderson was glad to find from Mr..
Stewards statements respecting the Pres
ident that certain doctrines, heretofore
described as radical heresies were held by
the Chief Magistrate. The resolutions
were referred to the Reconstruction Com
mittee. In the House the loan bill was
discussed at length, the debate lasting
until midnight. The bill, as it came
from the Committee of Ways and Means,
was strongly assailed by Mr.. Stevens and
Others, while several gentlemen, Mr..
Garfield among them, defended it. Va
rious amendments and resolutions were
offered, all of which were defeated, ex-
cept a motion to strike out the foreign
which prevailed. A vote was
then taken on the bill itself, resulting in
65 yeas and 20 nays. The measure was,
therefore, defeated by five majority.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
From Columbus.
COLUMBUS, March I6.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS
ANOTHER MILITIA BILL.

ANOTHER MILITIA BILL.
Mr.. Warner introduced a Militia bill
which differs materially from the one
which has passed the House. 1t provides
for the enrolment and organization of
the militia, agreeable to the requirements
of the Constitution. but enforces no mil
itia duty in time of peace. The follow
ing classes of persons are absolutely ex-
empted from enrolment:
l. All persons in the army or navy, OF
volunteer forces of the United States.
and all persons who may be exempted
from service in the militia by the laws of
the United States at the time of making
the enrolment.
2. Every person who by reason Of per-
manent and manifest disability may be
unfit for the performance of militia duty.
8. Idiots, lunatics and felons convicted
of infamous crimes, unless pardoned.
Independent or volunteer organiza
tions are provided for; that is, the Gov
ernor may authorize their formation, and
the Quartermaster General shall furnish
them with arms, accoutrements and am
munition but the only inducements ex-
tended to them is that "the members Of
such companies, while they remain &C
LIVELY anu ldltAAuA1l III lAC OAoCudlk 10 VI
their duties required by the Governor
and their officers, shall be exempt from
service on juries and from labor on the
public highways" and perhaps the addi-
tional one that in case of war or insur-
r~ection, they are accorded the privilege
of being the first to be called into ser
vice. If the bill is to be passed it should
be amended in this respect, and some Of
the expenses, at least, Of those companies
should be borne by the people at large,
for whose benefit they will be organized.
oTHER NEW BILLS.
To authorize township trustees to IKE
cute a deed for real estate, that may have
been previously contracted for, when the
contract price has been fully paid.
THE EIGHT HoUR BILL.
Mr.. Sadler, from the Select Committee,
reported back the House bill regulating
the hours of manual labor, with several
amendments, which we're agreed to. The
most material one was that which substi.
tuted the word fourteen" for eighteen"
so as to make the bill read: "Any stock.
holder, overseer, employer, clerk or fore
man who shall compel any woman OF
child under fourteen years of age, TO la
Dor in any day exceeding eight hours
shall be liable to prosecution, &c.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The House disposed of a large number
of Senate messages, reports from commit
tees, and indefinitely postponed Mr..
Houston's bill amending the act relating
to agricultural societies.
The resolution adopted by the Senate,
ordering five thousand copies of the re-
port of the Commissioner of Statistics to
be printed, was, after some debate as to
the propriety of Mr.. Nixon's proposition,
to have an additional thousand printed
in German, referred to the Committee on
Printing.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Internal Revenue Decision.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in reply to a letter in relation to stamp
duty on a subscription paper, where the
subscribers each agreed to take stock in a
rail road company, has decided that each
person signing his name, and not paying
his subscription at the time, should afiz
and cause a stamp appropriate to a prom
issory note of the amount subscribed. If a
person signs a list and pays the subscrip-
ton at the time of his signing, the pa
per would be a mere memorandum, and
as such, would not be subject TO stamp
duty. If the subscription list is made in
such a form as that the subscribers bind
themselves to pay only in the event of
q certain amount being issued, then each
signature is held to prove an agreement
or contract, and as such subject to stamp
duty of FIVE cents. But if such signer
agrees to pay unconditionslly, then each
creates a new instrument, subject to
stamp duty as a promissory note.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21

ADVICE TO CoRREsPoNDENTs.-Don't
write long essays. Give US new ideas;
give US short, practical, common-sense
land bTief1 notes upon the vital questions
of the hour. Mind the hint to be brief
VERY brief. Life is short; news papers are
circumscribed; space is valuable; words
are many and writers are over garrulous.
If you are convinced that you can add
idea or an item that will benefit or en-
your fellow-men say it, but say it
in the briefest possible space. Don't
"take my pen in hand to inform you
that these few lines come hoping that
you are we'll" etc. Think carefully over
what you have TO say, reduce your COM
ments to the lowest possible fraction, ex-
press that by the most convenient log
and it may be that your little
gem will find a place in the onlniWm gather
of a great newspaper.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Trumbulr,s civil Rights Bill.

Below is the Civil Rights bill of Mr..
Trumbull, which has passed both Houses
of Congress, and was on Saturday sent to
the President for his approval:
1. That all persons, irrespective of col
or, or condition, born in the United
States, shall be considered as citizens
thereof, except Indians not taxed and
persons subject to foreign powers.
2. That such citizens shall have the
same rights to make and enforce con-
tracts, to sue and be sued, to inherit, pur-
chase, lease, sell and convey real and
personal property, and to full and equal
benefits of all laws for the security of per-
son and property, as are enjoyed by 9TH
er citizens.
3. That any person depriying any citi-
zen of any of the rights enumerated in
the bill shall be punished by fine and i'm
prisonment.
4. That a final appeal in any case that
may arise under this bill NAV be taken to
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
4 T SALE.

IA In pursuance Ofan order oftle Probate Ceurtoi
Trunbull CO., o., | shall offer at public sale. on the
premises at IL o'clock, forenoon, on Thursday the
18th day of April, 1856, the following real estate -
Situate in Southington. Trumbull County, Ohio.
being part of lot No. 30 in said township. and
bounded as follows: beginning at a black oak tree
in the south east corner of said lot thence north
2 west parallel with the east line of said lot 1924
pefehes to a post IN north line Of SAID lot; thence
east line 1853 perches 10 south line of said lot
thence north $50 east 10 perehes to the place Of be-
ginnin; containing Ill acres and II peIehes of land.
Tsrms-0ne- third in hand, the balance in two
equal annual psyments, with interest, secured by
mortgage on premises sold. GEO. +. BROWN.
administrators Of Thomas D.. Webb. decd.
Warren March q IS664W
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
A Singular

A stranger went to the Collins House,
in Ravenna, Ohio, on Wednesday even,
ing of last week, registered his name as
E. r. Payne, Cleveland. Ohio, and paid
for his lodging and breakfast the next
morning, after which he went out, and
was not again seen until the next after
noon, when he came into the house in a
dying condition, and expired in less than
two hours, from the effects of poison and
liquor. II has since been ascertained
that he had been a member of Battery
K, lst Ohio Light Artillery, where he
was always noted for his peculiar actions,
seeking but little association, drawing his
rations and cooking them himself and
sleeping alone. He was a Spiritualist,
and frequently said that certain spirits
followed him about wherever he went,
particularly that of a young lady whom
he knew and loved in England, but who
died before he came to this country. His
object in coming to this country was to
rid himself of her spirit this he was I'M
able entirely to do, though at times an in
terVal would pass by without its presence.
This continued haunting depressed his
mind, and his peculiar conduct was attri-
buted to his monomania on IL. On the
night before he committed suicide he
said this spirit came and stood by his bed,
and it troubled him that he thought he
had got rid of it. and when he came to
Ravenna he felt happier than ever before
in his life, but that presence had clouded
everything over again. He appeared
moody during Thursday, and refused to
to dinner. After taking the poison
oI1--1 H. ,,,1 - , NJ, n.-.I.z- -
said he had taken it full of laudanum,
and that lit would do the job" HE
had promised to meet her tomorrow in
the other world, and he would go there
and be happy" He resolutely resisted
all attempts to relieve him of the poison,
and died without further explanation.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
EGAL NOTICE.

- To George Olmstead who resides in the State
Of Pennsylvania. Henry 0lmstead. John 0lmstead,
Edward Olmstead aud Mary 0lmstead of Trum-
bull County. Ohio. heirs at law of William Ohm
stead, deceased: You are hereby notified that NJ.
G. WOodwOrth, Administrator Of the estate Of
William 0lmstead. deceased. on the 5th day Of
March, A D. 1866 filed bis petition in the Probate
Court of the County of Trumbull, Stats Of Ohio.
alleging that said decedent left deSts, and no per-
SOnal property 10 pay the same, that be died seized
in fee simple Of the following decribed real estate.
situate IA said County, to wit: known
as part of lot No. 3 of the Cowles tract. in the
township Of Mecca. County and State aforesaid,
bounded on the north by lands Of William Jefery,
on the south by lands Of Isaac TFOKel, on the east
by the highway running south from Powers Cor
ners, and extending so far west as to contain
one acre of land; and that the parties above named
as his heirs at law. hold the next estate of inheri-
lance therein. The prayer Of said petition Is for
tue sale OF said premises for the payment OF the
debts OF said decedent, and the charges OF admin
said petition will be for hearing on the
Gay Of April. A. d. 1865, at 10 oeloek AN.
M. c, WOODWOkTH,
Administrator Of William Olmstead deed,
Hutchins x Forrist. Att'ys.
March q lS66 4W
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
OHERIFF'S SALE.

GHERIFF'S SALE.
- Ell Mofat vs. Chsuncey MOfat- In Trum-
bull Common Pleas.
By virtue of an order Of sale issued out of said
Court, in the above case. and to me directed and
delivered. l have levied upon and shall expose to
public sale at the door of the Court House. in the
township of Warren, in said County Of Trumbull
and State of Ohio on
Saturday. h 9TH day of April, 1866.
between the hours of one and four O'eloekP. NJ.
of sid day, the following real estate. to wit; stu
ated in the township Of Bristol. Trumbuli County,
Ohio. and known as the One-eishth undivided in
terest in sixty-six(eO acres of land, bounded and
described as follows, to wit Situate in the town
ship Of Bristol. being township No. 8. in the 4th
range of townships in the Western Reserve, in the
State of Ohio. and which is also IN the County Of
Trumbull. and is known by being part of lot No.
IS in said township. and bounded and described as
follows; On the north by lands owned and Oecu-
pied by Aaron Fenton; on the west bv lot No. 81;
on the south BY lands owned by Abram Barb; and
on the east by the Ashtabula and Warrea turn
pike road. so called. and containing about 90 acres
Of land, be the the same mo Q or less. and which
is appraised to be worth s. Terms cash
SETH NJ. LAIRD. Sheriff.
Sherifs Office Warren. o. March 7 1876 5w
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-03-21
Union Victories.

The charter elections in Michigan have
been carried, in a large majority of cases,
for the Republican ticket. In st. Johns,
Clinton county, the entire ticket was
elected for the first time. The same was
the case in Rock Island, Ill, where the
Republican candidate was elected by 123
majority against nearly 200 Democratic
majority last Spring.