Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-01

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

,ao"u'VseS heRiSlhturo approving tue frcti- .
dents veto, was laid on the table by very :
large msjority.
AN attempt was made Wednesday morn
ing to blow up the Office Of the Union paper
10 CharlestowD, West Virginia. by means
oi an Internal machine. A terrible explo-
sion was the result, which effected, however,
but little injury.
The Decatur, Illinois, Magnet and the
Mattopn Gazette say the winter wheat crop
has been killed in those localities by the
cold westher. and the Springfield Journal
says the fruit crop thereabouts has been
bopelessly destroyed.
News from Jefferson City. Missouri, says
that the Democrats aud Copperheads 10 the
Legislature are enthusiastic in their praises
Of President johnson and his veto message.
IT is proposed by the ladies Of Milledge-
vile, Ga, that fund be raised for the bene
fit Of Mrs. Jefferson Davis, by soliciting do
nations Of one dollar each from the ladies' OF
the State. The R,lcigh Progress thinks
that il they want to find real objects Of chari
ty they had better hunt up the widows Of
Union men who we're dragged IRON their
homes and murdered during the rebellion.
Mr.. CoLFAx wagered box of cigars with |
q member OF fCongress from Connecticut that !
the President would sign the Freedmen's
Bill. The morning after the veto box of
cigars was found on the desk of the member,
marked From victim of misplaced conf
dence." ...g ~. A
TIE Missouri House, by vote Of " to
as, and the Senate, by 81 to 3, on Thursday,
passed resolutions strongly commendiug the
patriotism Of the United States Senators
who voted tor tile Freedman's Bureau bill
after its veto by the President. 4.
THs trial of Major Gee, the commander Of
the rebel prison at Salisbury, N. O., has
begun before 4 military tribunal. The
charges are violation Of the rules Of civilized
warfare and murder. There are many speci-
6cations Of outrageous conduct.
Two U. 8. officers are now in Jail at Alex.
andrla, KY, for non-payment of fines i'm
posed by arebel sym pathizing jury, for carry
ing out the orders of Gen. Palmer
NINE months seo Pithole City, Penn,
consisted of two houses. Now it supports
thousand copies, receives fifty thousand let.
ters monthly, and sastsins twelve hotels
A Mr. WINTER of Louisiana, has engaged
$50 Germans to work on bis plantations
The N. Y. News in speaking of tn, veto,
says: mo act Of the Presidents has graft.
fed US so much"
ME. TRUMBULL, in commenting in the
Senate on the veto of the Freedman's Bureau
Bill, said that the bill did little more than
give the sanction of the law to what is
already being done without any statut, or
provision.
THE small pox is said to be prevailing and
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and further South.
POLLARD. of the Richmond Examiner, is
! again in Washington seeking another inter
view with the President. The order author
izing him to publish his paper containing so
many restriatisns that he refused to accept
, the terms.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Louisville
3 Journal says he thinks the peach crop in
: middle and Eastern Kentucky to be an en-
tire failure.
/ A BULLOCK was lately killed in New York
, which weighed 3,795 pounds gross, and
g made 2,476 pounds OF clean beef He was
sold for $500.
A LADY 10 New York has recovered three
thousand five hundred dollars from person
by whose sleigh she was injured in the
8 street.
!, ONE of the lions Of the skating season at
the New York Central Park is said to have
been a man who has lost both legs, but
:, skates swiftly and gracefully with pair Of
3 artificial ones.
6 THE Philadelphia Ledger says that the
white paper they use in printing the Ledger
costs them one hundred dollars day more
, than the sales OF the paper amount to.
A WOMAN in Harrisburg died from fright
at being told in joke that her husband had
been accidentally killed.
/ The President has ordered the heads OF
= Departments to stop advertising in the
Washington Chronicle, on account of its
opposition to his policy
IT is said that the Committee of Ways
8 aad Means are iavorably considering the
' proposition to tax tabacco on the leaf, in
stead as now from the manufactured article.
A MEETING of friends of the President
was held at the Cooper Institute, New York
t City. on Thursday evening. at which resolu'
J tions were passed commencing the Presi-
: dents veto, deuouncng the action of Con-
gress in refusing admission to the Southern
members, &c. Speeches were made BY
Messrs. Seward. Denpisen, Raymond, Dick.
, inson and Opdyke. Mr. Seward thought
there was but little difference between the
President and Congress He said the ship
oil State was about coming into the harbor
There are small reefs to pass as she comes
to her moorings. The pilot says she can
, safely pass these The other says she must
back, aud lowering sail, take time to go
around them. Mr.. 8. thought the Presi-
dent ought not to be blamed for refusing to
> accept the immense power and patronage
> too hastily rendered him by oon6ding
Congress-. Perhaps not.
Mr.. WADE has introduced into the Sen
ate arresolutiou to 80 amend the Constitu-
tion that the President Of the United States
shall be ineligible for second term.
! TuuRLow WEED recently bought house
on Fifth Avenue, m Y, for $50, 900. in
tending to occupy it as residence. He is
now connected with the New York Tines.
Mr.. VOORHEES, of Iudiana was on Fri
day elected from the House on the ground
that his election was secured by fraudulent
votes. The contestant, Mr.. Washburne,
was awarded the saat