Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-01-18
News summary.


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FATHER ToULLrEH, head Of the Order of
tho Jesuis in North America, died IN Mon
trea on Sunday.
EroBTY thousand dollars worth Of mu-
tilatcd currency is destroyed daily, and only
$50, 900 worth is manufactured.
THERE are 9i0 registered steamboats, on
Western rivers, valued at $24,556,600, with
an aggregate capacity of 292, l44 tuns. p
THE Union caucus at Columbus, has re-
solved to 20 into nomination for U. 3.
Senator on Wednesday evening, January
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Gov CURTIN writes from Havana that
there is steady improvement in his health.
He says he has been kindly and honorably
received. 0r-. NJ
GEN. GRANT proposes to increase the |
regular army to $4,000. The bi Il is now in
the hands of the Chairman of the Military |
Committee. .E
! The Hon. Jerome B. Chaffee, recently
elected u. s. Senator from Colorado. was
formerly merchant. in the village Of Union
Mills, Indiana.
, THE New York Tribune reports that
Monday Of last week was the most severely
, cold day in that locality that they have ex-
, perienced for rs years.
ELIJAH Il. PUnDY. the "wheel horse"
, of the New York City Democracy, and
Robert b. Minturn, prominent merchant
of the same place, are dead. .-st
, THE Atlantic & Great Western, and the
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railways are build
ing magnificent union depot at Mansfield,
= Ohio
The Secretary of War has revoked the
J, order for mastering out troops in Virginia.
IL Similar orders are expected with reference
/ to other Southern States.
!, = THE Governor of Missouri has seized tho
: Platte Valley Railroad, for non-payment Of
; 100000 due to the State, and will run the
II road on State account. .....,...
. HAssAURECK, the well-known German
VI orator, Minister to Etuador, is reported on
st his way tc Washington. He will resign and
&c take the editorial charge Of the Cincinnati
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TIE Louisiana National Bank of New
ID Orleans capital $1,000, 900 has been author
lied by the Com Dtroller of the currency.
t, The total circulation Of the National Banks
,e is $237, ,37l, 600. artH T.ti
THE Hon. John A. j. Creswel, Senator
from Maryland, has been selected by the
Committee to deliver the eulogy upon the
q late Hon. Henry Winter Davis before the
~ Members Of the House Representatives.
q Dr. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, has re
n. turned to Kane Lodge the Masonic flag
n which the Lodge intrusted him to carry tc
~ the North Pole. The Doctor carried il
u within five hundred miles of its destination
~ A NEW ORLEANS dispatch reports that
,u,,' yuarez, the President Of the Mexican Re
" public, arrived at San Antonio, Texas, OF
vi the LIST inst. lie was accompanied by Gen
to Negrete. The nature of his business is ne
all stated.
NC Gov. BRowNLow, in an address to tn
OF Freedmen's School at Nashville stated tha
ed should the troops be withdrawn from tn
lat State, colored schools would be broken up
1s- and mob of rebels would disperse tn
ls loyal Legislature.
lot The Sandusky Register say that consid
he cradle fresh pork seem to be coming int
by that city. Prices have somewhat declined
H. Heavy hogs are bought at $40 per hundred
:" while light weights are dull at So.
to TIE Sandusky Register chronicles tn
- playing, by telegraph, of game of check
ors by Mr.. Northup OF Elyria, and MIR. We:
Of Sandusky. Northup won by singl
man. Time, two hours. The first tel,
''' graphic game, we believe, on record.
ny A LARGE fire broke out in busine.
ar house on the public square of Nashvill,
zen early on Tuesday morning, destroying tn
,a building and an adjoining store, besid,
'ho damaging hotel. One person perished
ov. the aames. The loss will reach $3.50, ,Oo
adj BREvET COLONEL SwEENY, Major of Il
the 10th u. s. Regulars, has been dismisst
the service for absence without leave. Go
er Sweeny, we believe, is the officer who
re, name has been so prominently oonnectt
ro with Fenian matters His dismissal deriv,
' some significance from this fact
80 THE "New Party" movement was fair
m naugurated in the Lower House of Co
D. gross on the 9th inst. by ID. w. Voorhee
at of Indiana, whose resolutions offering
ng support the President, were referred to Il
err Reconstruction Committee by almost soil
Union vote.
l.; MRs. Dixon, the widow of Unite
III States army.oficer, has been ordered frol
ad her home in Farquhar County, Va, by r.
constructed rebels, and she is now, with h,
children, an exile in Washington. Hi
husband was murdered recently in Alexal
-. dria by returned rebel soldier.
or THE Now Haven Journal publishes Ii
Of the male inhabitants of that city of I
No. years old and over. Twenty nine of Il
nS number have passed their S0th year. III
p; President Jeremiah Day of Yale COLES
e's heads the catalogue. He is % years Of ag
of having been born August 3, l772.
yes PERSONAL Governor Anderson left 4
tea his home in Dayton yesterday (Wedne
ler day) afternoon. General Merrill Barlo,
les late Quartermaster General, departed &
gs, Cleveland on Tuesday morning. Gener
,soI Schenok and Hon. John Sherman left Il
@ @,o,, city yesterday for Washington. Il lColumb,
~. Journal, llth inst.
ose THE Nashville Press says that on Frida
I ,nJ while Gov. Brownlow and party of 81
the villa 10 Nashville The Govs,nor's .ns";
car was thrown from the track. The Go
ernor's left foot and ankle wore bruised 8
in verely, but not dangerously. The other i