Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-11-22
POLITICAL.

! the Argus, supposed they were voting
yainst the Constitutional Amendment pro a
osed by Congress. Albany Eve. Journal. V
The Lancaster (Pa.) Express strongly y
rges the election of Thaddcus Stevens as Il
Inited States Senator.
The Reading Journal nominates Cen
raj Grant for President and Governor Cur
IN for Vice President. !
The Norwich Conn. Bulletin calls the
lew York Herald the "only successful a
omic paper that this country has ever pro.
|uced.
The National Union" Executive Com
nittcc was broken up it is said, by a pro.
position to tax the clerks in the department
$50, 900 to pay the Indebtedness Of the con.
,ern.
Neither Frank Blair nor his opponent,
Branscomb. have yet received certificate
,f election to the seat in the Missouri Legis-
ature, which is in contest between them.
"A recent dispatch from Washington
says: The movement of leading Democratic
papers in the East and West in favor of
impartial suffrage had caused decided sen
sation in Washington, especially among off
cals and Southern men. Tie latter declare
that the South will accept impartial suffrage |
in preference to ratifying the Constitutional |
A we'll known New Orleans
editor now here, lavors it, and Hon. w. Ii. |
Prescott, OF South Carolina, who was an |
officer of the Confederate Government, and |
formerly Assistant Secretary Of State under
Buchanan, arrived here to-day, aud says
South Carolina prefers it to tie amend
ment.
The St. Louis Evening News claims the
Missouri Legislature elect as follows: Sen.
ate, 2G Radlcss. 4 Conservatives; house 90
Radicals, 40 Con Sc vutyes.
lit is said that the forthcoming report
of Secretary McCullooh will show that the
public debt has been decreased one hundred
and ten million dollars in six months.
Gen. Sherman will stop in Havana,
where he will be Joined by Sheridan. They
go thence to Vera Cruz by the Susquehanna.
The French Minister has sent dispatch to
France on the subject Of their mission.
The rebel press at Memphis unite in
denouncing the apostacy of the Chicago
Times.
Schuyler Colfax has been added to the
already long list OF nominees for the Presi-
dency in 1868. His name appears at the
bead Of an Indiana newspaper rs its choice
for that high office.
John G.. SAKE has said many good
! things, but few better than the reason he
lately assigned for moving from Vermont to
New York city, that he might find an op.
portunity to vote the Democratic ticket. V
The Peoria Transcript tells the follow.
ing story, drrOpos Of the Chicago Times
recent political somersault: "A man was
imbibing raw eggs once upon time. In
swallowing one chicken chirped as it wen,
down his throat. Says he. 'Ah, my little
fellow, you spoke too hteP"
The St. Louis Democrat gives the fol
lowing az one of the results Of the Radical
victory in Missouri: Every business mar
and property owner can judge whether the
Radical victory has or has not been benef
to him, from the single fact that Mssour
New York market as soon as the result wa
known"
Hon. Charles D. Drake will probabl.
be chosen by the Missouri Legislature t
succeed B, Gratz Brown in the Unitet
States Senate. He is ap able man, and
fearless Radical.
-"S Shall the Democratic party live o
die?" asks quondam Democratic news
paper. Such question at ''poSt niorten,
says the Chicago Republican, with TIT
corpse of the deceased in ghastly reality
lying in full view, seems very much out o
place. The only pertinent questions on sucl
an occasion would be, Of what did it die, ant
who killed it2
The Radical Union men have elected
Representative in Maury County, Tennes
see, to fill tho place made vacant by tn
election Of the distinguished patriot s. NJ
: Arnell to the Congress Of the United States
The Copperheads of Colorado nre OF
!, gani2ing their opposition to the admission
of that Territory as State to the Union
!. Gen. Grant was in Baltimore on Satur
. day, the guest of VIM. j. Albert, the lat
s Radical candidate Tor Congress.
q Gen. Dick Taylor, it is believed, wi
write letter iavoring impartial suffrage
He is one Of the most prominent Souther
men favoring the new movement.
t "A dispatch from St. Louis says G. II
Branscomb has been declared elected to tn
Legislature over Frank p Blair, the vot
cast after sundown being decided legal b
4 the Attorney General of the State. Thi
? decision also elects s. ID Ridgeley, Radical
! to the State Senate, and increased Geners
Piles majority. Branscomb and Ri1gele
received their certificates from the Count
: Clerk,
"A special TO tho New York Post cor
| tains the doubtful information that Andy
y not disposed to make any more removal
D from Office on account OF politics
-"Wen," said an old Democrat, afte
a reading the Chicago Times article in fave
d Of impartial suffrage, ''if il has come I
r this, am going to vote the straight r,
publican ticket hereafter. If the Dem,
cratic party has been wrong, aud the r,
. publican parry right, the manly way is I
/, acknowledge the corn and 60 with the part
i that has been right all the time"
In the little town of Maine, in Broom
e County, New York, l2l soldiers voted
il the last election, and 10 Of them voted th
a Republican ticket.
}. The New Era, published at Greenvill,
Tenn, the home Of Andy johnson, th
town where he began the giddy round frol
# Alderman to President; has come out Dol,
/. ly in its last issue in support Of Copgre
' and fnr tha .annliat,on ~ tsnnv Nol;o,, -