Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-18
POLITICAL.s

p II Is rumored that the Democrats ofthe
country lost good deal of money i,y betting
on the election.
-WashiGgton township Hamilton Coun.
tv, Indiana, gave 7l5 Union, und not ono
Democratic vote, at the election on TUESDAY.
Gov Cox has gone 10 assist in the New
York canvass. Oher Ohio speakers will 20
to that State and Illinois
.-Horatio Seymour on visit to st. Paul,
Mimi, has expressed himself, il is said, in
favor of the Constitutional Amendment.
The Union men are having Publications
all over the land.
Doubts we're thrown upon the election
of the Hon, A w. Hubbard in the With
Iowa Congressional Disrct, owing to aras-
cally trick of the Copperheads, who circu
lated forged document, purporting 20 come
from the Union Central Committee, inform
Later reports, however, render his election |
certain.
The soldiers monument at Peoria, ILL.,,
was dedicated on Thursday Forty thou
sand people were present. Speeches were
made By Gen. Butler, Gen. Logan, and
others II was by all odds the largest assem-
blage ever gathered in that city The en-
thusasm wrs very great aad the loyal utter.
ances of Butler and Logan were received
with cheer after cheer. s,r
The Union majority on joint ballot in
the Indiana Legislature will probably he AZ.
Gov. Morton will be likely to succeed Henry
8. Lane as U, s. Senator.
Mr. John f. Potter, y. s. CONSUL
General for Canada has written The Presi-
dent spirited letter resigning his position.
He informs Mr.. johnson that his policy is
warmly applauded by all the friends of the
Rebellion and every hater of Republican
institutions.
Returns from Pennsylvania, part of
which are official, appear to reduce Geary's
majority below 10000 The Legislature, IN
joint ballot, has, however, majority of
thirty.fse and the vote in the Senate will
remain unchanged. ..
In speech delivered at Charlestown,
Mass, Gen. Bank, has given his judgment
of the disastrous polcv which culminated in
the catastrophe ef' New Orleans As the
General was the agent of the Government
under whose auspices the FreeState Con
ventiOn of Louisiana was Fl st formed his
opinion as to the legitimacy and respectable
~ OF that body has nnquastonable value. -
He pays an eloquent tribute to the good
men who fell in New Orleans
The Republican msjority in Iowa is
now estimated at 40, 900 to 45, 900. ro.. p
Harmony township, Posey County, Ind
which had never given any thing but Demo
cratic majnrlties Of from so to Is since it
was settled, some 40 years, gave. on Tues
day last, small Republican majority. Do.
-Vinton County, in this State, has given
nine maj j)rity for the Republican Safe off
GERS, and elected all the County officer
exoep, Sheriff and Clerk. Last year. the
County went Democratic by about twenty
five.
An officer recently returned from South
Carolina. states that the old Twenty ninth
rebel regiment OF that State has reorganizcd,
and offered its services to the President, to
assist him in suppressing Congress.
The election in Memphis Saturday, re-
suited in the triumph of the Union Reform
ticket for city officers, and the CONSERVATIVE
candidates for the Legislature
The indications are that Joan Tsfft
and j M Marquette, true K pusicans, are
elected as Representative and Delegate tc
COnpress by 800 majority, from Nebraska
The Republican Territorial and State ticket.
are elected by the same minority.
The Slndu,ky Register says that tn,
, day after the election, Jldge Rush r.
Sloane, Special Mail Agent, received dis
: patch from Washington, announcing hi,
final decaptation, his successor heiug Shad
rach nj. Penn, ofCincinnati The Register
adds that it is only just to Judge Sloane tC
say that, however much his Republican
friends may have disagreed with HIM in the
early days Of the rupture between Cnngres,
and the President, since the Uni Rcpub
lican party of Ohio took its stand upon tn,
Constitutional Amendment, there have
been few more earnest or efficient workers il
: the good cause than Judge Sloane.
John Van Buren. a noted Democrat
politician of New York died yesterday.
: George s. Hilliard has been appointed
to the United States District Attorneyshil
at Boston. .. ..,'...r'
A Chicago dispatch gives report tina
Gov. Stone will soon issue call for an exit
session Of the Iowa Legislature.
: The Hon. Horace Greeley has beer
nominated for Congress in the IVth New
) York District. ..a ........,,
, General N p. Banks was yesterday re
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Of the With Massachusetts District Or
the first ballot General Banks had Ii;
: votes ont of l5I and his nomination wal
made unanimous amid great cheering.
The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph say,
that nearly thousand more votes were poll
ed in that city on the 9th than ever before
The city officials we're Copperheads and, al
the Telegraph asserts, received the votes d
large number OF Baltimore roughs,
SO far as heard from only one Count,
in Iowa, Decatur, has gose Copperhead
and that by only Is majority. 1st
Hon, Thos. D Eliot. o" New Bedford
hps been nomipa ed for CONGRESS fora sixth
term by the Republicans OF the Ist Massa
, chusetts District, in spite Of his earnest de
/ clinstion.. In the cise of Mr.. Eiq,' o ,cept
ance, Massachusetts, will have only tw,
changes in her delegation in the Fortietl
Coneress-in the lid District, Gener,
Twichell, in place of A. H. Rice; and in tht
Vth, Gen. Butler, ihplace of john B. Alley
The Philadelphia Press says of th.
Pennsylvania election: Our figures give
Geary l7l25 majority, the returns froa