Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-19
GENERAL NKws sUmMARf.

A LARGE number Of, postcfhcss In Mis-
sissippi were re. bpehed on Friday.
Gov. MoRroN has arrived II Indisnsps-
lis with his health somewhat Improved.
Ole BULL, the great v~iolinist, died ct
Quebec on the 10th inst.
War is imminent between Austria and
Prussia.
The work Of dismantline the Notifications
around Washington has been completed.
A f~aEEDtENs' pspot at Charleston. s.
g., nominstes Gen. Grant for the Prssi.
dehcy.
THERE 10 said to be no hope for the pas
sage Of . bankrupt bill BY Congress this ses-
sion.
PENNSYLVANIA has now $50 National
Banks, New York has 132, and Massachu-
sets s0S.
An incorporate man named John Ster-
rett, of Aurora, ILL.,, committed suicide last
week.
The President has declared that his late
proclamation does not do away with martial
law 10 the lately rsvoltsd States.
Acting GOVERNOR SIXTH, Of Missouri,
has appointed the 2etb inst. Is q day Of
fasting and prayer.
PARTIES from the North have opened q
school in Atlanta for the education Of poor
white children.
GEN. r. e. LEES name does not appear
in the list Of 1877 sx.Rebel generals who
have petitioned the President for pardon.
A Mas. LESTER died in Philadelphia on
Tuesday last from the effect of chloroform
administered by g dentist, at her request.
IT il believed that the Reconstruction
COMMITTEES will seen report the 6sal result
Of their Investigation, aud present their
plaH, for :restorxtion.
INDIANA has purchased, for $500, the
beautiful establishment known as Knights
town Strings, and will locate there the Sol
diers' Home.
THE steamer Financial was burned 20
miles from P%ittsburg, on the Ohio River,
on Thursday night, and ten lives were sacri-
feed. Loss heavy. 500
THE American Watch Company, at
Waltham, Mass. employs 700 persons and
makes 2l5 watches per day. The pay roll
is $50, 900 per month.
Or the nine Justices Of the United States
Supreme Court. but enc. Judge Wayne Of
Georgia, is from the Southern States
There is one vacancy. r
STAGE fare from Montana Territory to
San Francisco is about thirty cents q mile
! 10 gold, or two hundred and fifteen dellars
for less than seven hundred miles.
D%IspATCHEs from Washington assert
. that Henry Stauberry. of Ohio. will be ap
1 pointed to the seat on the u. 8. Supreme
Bench formerly held by Judge Cstron.
: TaE receipts Of crude oil at Pittsburgh
' for the three days ending with Tuesday last
amount to 81, ITO barrels, which is consider
n aba in excess of any corresponding time.
= MIssIssIpPI navigation is now open from
! st. Paul. Minnesota, down to the Gull. A
: steamer was sunk nv the floating ice nea,
!. Lacross, Wis, on Wednesday morning.
GEN. BUTLsR gave his views on recon
struction in an address delivered before tn,
e Pennsylvania Legislature at Harrisburg OF
5 Wednesday. He opposed the President
policy.
. HON. DANIEL 9. DICKINSON. formsrl,
t United States Senator from New York, ant
. ~latterly United States District Attorney TO
: the District Of New York, died Thursday
evening in Now York City.
!, THE New York papers contain detaile,
, and exciting accounts OF the movements o
the Fenians on the borders OF the British
Provinces. LARGE numbers of arrests ar
= being made in Canada.
= MARIE BOYER, q white girl, who has bee,
' a captive amsHg the Sioux Indians for tn
: last four years, has Just been released. Tn,
Q M:c-nck. ~tIA~o lat -.-
ated 81, 200 to secure this result.
TIE Freedmen's Bureau at Washington
has given seventeen acres Of the Arlington
estate to . Mrs. Syphox, colored, whe ha
had possession for thirty years. II is sail
. she is a half sister to Gen. r. K. Lee.
Q A SPECIAL dispatch to the Boston Ad
d v~ertiser says preparations are making I
hold the regular term Of the United State
q Circuit Court in Richmond next month, an
70 the trial Of Jefferson Davis for high Treason
msy DO expected within two months.
Two trains, numbering together .sixt
wagons, loaded with ninety. thousand de-
lars worth Of merchapdise. left St. Joseph
Mo-, a few days ago for Colorado and Mon
tana Territories. The emigration nov d
said to be almost . steady stream.
v Mr.. HENRY SInMosDs. formerly man
u aser Of Pixies Opera House at Cincinnati
10 is now in New York, making preliminar
n Arrangements for the csmmsncement @
o Pixies new Opera House, 10 be constracte,
in T~wenty-third street, in that city.
n TAG Fifteenth u. 8. (GoIofed} Caviar
was mustered out at Nashville last week
q Its baad sold their instruments for Eve hun
d dred dollars and devoted the proceeds t
, the Lincoln Monument fund. IF We kno,
|, ourselves, we have mo- prejudice but we d
hate a Niger
|, Col. L~UDINaroN, Chief Quartermaster q
y the Department, within the last few month
4 has succeeded 10 identifying and removing
TO the National Cemstery at Arlington
9 about /. 900 bodies Of Union Soldiers, burie,
" on the Bull Kun, Wilderness and Spottsyl
yania battlefields.