Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-02

amount to $4,000. Considerable other
damage was done.
John d. Strong was recently nominated
and confirmed as PDstm aster ut ] ack sonville,
Ill, and on Monday was notified Of his ap-
pointment. Mr.. Strong Immediately re-
piled that he was not supporter OF the |
Presidents policy, and could not accept |
the Office at his hands.
Reports received from various parts Of
Illineis, Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana are |
to the effect that the wheat crop will be
more than an average one in respect to both
quantity and quality. The barley, oat and
rye crops also promise well.
The population of St. Louis, according
to a census just published, is 204 327. This
is an increase since 1856 of 1926.
The bogus detectives, who succeeded
recently in swindling Mr.. Bristol, in
Huron County, out of 81 900 in bonds, and
$4,000 in gold, have been arrested, and are
now awaiting their trial.
The Rev. r H. Gardiner, missionary
Of the M. K. Church to the freedmen Of
Kentucky, was mobbed and ducked by
party of rebels at Georgetown, KY, on Fri
day night. .... ,
"A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
states that the Sioux Indians have already
commenced numbering along the Smoky
Hill route. Three Ohio men have been
killed. The settlers have been notified to
leave.
"A ST. Joe (Mo., } dispatch to the Mis-
souri, Democrat says that there was snow
storm on the llth of July on the Jurith
river, one OF the upper tributaries of the
Missouri
The nomination of A. w. Randall as
Postmaster General was confirmed by the
Senate on Wednesday. Creswell, Howard,
Lane, Wade and Wilson, voted against it,
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that an amount lost iu conse
queace OF becoming security for another or
by Endorsement Of the paper of another, is
not deductible from income.
The Auburn IN. " Advertiser (Mr.
Seward's home orgap) regards the proposed
Philadelphia Convention as a movement
hostile to the Union party and in the inter-
est of the Democrats.
The President, on Wednesday appoint
ed Ulysses s. Grant to be General of the
armies of the United States, and David G.
Earragut to be Admiral Of the Navy of the
United States. The nominations were sent
to the Senate, taken upin Executive session,
and at once confirmed.
| ID spatches from every parts of ILL
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, &C., have been re-
ceived at the Chicago Tribune office, in re.
gard to the crops, and all are pretty nearly
Of the same character. The crop of wheat
will be above the average, and of very fine
quality. The corn crop is immense-away
beyond precedent. Oats have not looked
better for many years. Rye is plenty and
good in quality; barley, ditto Fruits of all
kinds look we'll, and the yield will be about
an average.
The President on Thursday appointed
Msj. Gen Sherman and Rear Admiral Por.
ter, respectively, to the vacant Lieut. Gen
eralship, and Vice Admralship. Their
nominations were Immediately confirmed by
the Senate. without reference to any Gem.
mittee. He has also promoted Hancock to
a Major General in the regular army, in
place of Sherman, and Ord to Brigadiel
Generalship in the place of Hancock.
The Youngest son of Henry A. Wise
John s Wise) received the medal awarded
by the University of Virginia to the best
debater.
Gen. Bailey, who saved Porter's fee,
by damming the Red river, has settled in
Missouri end gone to stock raising
"A correspondent Of the Boston Com
monwealth gives Anna Dickinson the follow.
ing puff: "As we stopped at the pump fol
drink Of water, brace or two of girls came
up, and among them your Aurora (Anna).
Setting her hat emphatically on the back OF
her head, and pushing up her sleeves, she
took drink from the brown mug, dashed
the water over her hands and face, scrub
bing and toweling vigorously with her bit
of snowy cambric. The pretty vehemence
with which it was done is indescribable. !"
"A grand barbecue is to be given at
Athens, Ohio, on the 30th of August, to the
surviving soldiers of the late war Gen.
Logan, j. A. Garfield, Attorney General
Speed, Ex-Gov. Dennison aud Gen. Sherma an
are expected to be present.
While the apprentices on board the
Sabine, at Newport, r. l., were at practice
with the guns, few days ago, much remar
was caused by the action Of the propretors
of the Ocean House. They substituted for
the American flag which flies above their
roof, piece of white cloth. An officer OF
the irigate, who landed to inquire what the
proceedings meant, was informed that pieces
OF she'll occasionally struck in the vicinity,
aud hence the surrender.
Among the expressive placards over
the stand at the great meeting at Salem, I'll.
en- the 4th, when Gen. Sherman, Gen. Lo.
gan and Gov, Oglesby spoke, was the follow.
ing: "Johnson as he was-Congress as it is. +"
AT the Democratic Congressional Con.
vention for the district composed of Holmes,
Lorain, Medina, &C., Ohio, upon PROPOSE
ton in to appoint delegates to the Phila.
delphia Convention, Mr. Estslls, Chairman of
the Holmes delegation, said that delegation
would retire while the Convention was enga-
ged in the Philadelphia movement. The
unterri6ed in Holmes are not disposed to
bury the Democratic party, until they see
something better.
Senator Clark, of New Hampshire, has
resigned. His term will expire on the 4th
of March next. Mr.. Patterson, Represen-
tativs from the Third New Hambs Dis
trict, has been elected as his successor, for
six years from next March. The person to
Oil the vacancy at the next session is to be
selscted by the Governor of New Hsmp-
shire.