Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-29
GENERAL NEWS suM NtAaY.

OF April.
GoLp closed in New York, Saturday even
ing at l243(9l24I. !
TIE Government is about to commence
the rebuilding of Fort Sumter.
TIE Pacific States produced in 1865.
Sol 100000 in gold.
SrANroR FooTE is better. Senator Dixon
continues very i'll.
In Vermont, the annual dav Of fasting
and prayer is appointed for Friday, April 10.
THERE arc said to be forty thousand pau
pers in New York.
BASIL DUKE, John Morgsn's second, is
commanding Fenisn regiment in New
York.
AN effort to restore capital punishment in
Wisconsin has been defeated in the House
of Representatives by large vote.
CHICAGO packed SOL, 462 hogs this year
24S COS less than last year. Cincinnati
packed 345, ,089 this year
THE Ashville, N. c., News says that one
fourth of the real estate in that town is Of
fered for sale.
The Rhode Island Democracy held
State Convention yesterday, but decided to
make no nomination for State officers.
THE comics of the New York Herald con.
tanning Bancroft's memorial oration were
seized in France by order of the Govern
ment.
HORACE MAYNARD. Col. Stokes and
Senator Fowler, all of Tennessee, 60 to Con-
nccticut to take part in the canvass for Gen.
Hawley.
A DISPATCH from indianapolis states that
Gov. Morten's health is somewhat better.
He is expected to return homo during the
present week.
The violent hail storm eflast Thursday
extended throughout the whole of Illineis,
Southern Wisconsin, Eastern Iowa, and por-
tious of Michigan and Indiana.
THE New York Methodist Conference has
adopted resolutions of strongly anti slavery
character, and calling for the punishment Of
leading rebels.
TooMBs is trying to buy a sugar planta-
tion in Cuba 1t is sad'he intends going to
Mexico as soon ~ he is sure that Ma1imil
ian's throne is established. ..
The lady to whom Colonel Ellsworth, the
6rst Union martyr Of tho war;, was ,betroth-
ed. was married to Boston gentleman
named Brett, in Chicago. .. -a
HARRIET PINcKNEY, aged ninety years,
q daughter Of General Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney, of Revolutionary fame, died in
Charleston, 8. O., on the 18th inst.
A SON the Duke of Northum berland is
travelling 10 the Western States and Terri
tories. On the 10th inst. he left St. Joseph
| (or k,hs g. fko pon al
tsins.
ALL the colored troops raged in Ken
lucky are ordered to Louisville to he mus
tered out. The 7th Regiment of Infantry
(white) is also to be mustered out imme-
diately.
THE President has pardoned Thomas
Martin, a notorious blockade runner. who
made twenty successful VOYAGES and &C
qured large fortune, which is thus rescued
from confcation.
A NEW company has been organized for
laying the Atlantic cable. 1t is called the
Angie $mesiean Telasraph Company and
on its beard the old com m>any will be rep.
resented.
General ON the staff of Gen. Grant during
in Boston last week. He was one Of the
ablcst officers in the army.
THg census of Boston was completed last
! Saturday. II shows an increase in the pop
uls'ion of the city during the past five years
of ~ 1852, which Is not 40 large 40 the growth
Of previous half decades. The total popu-
lation is 1872, ,2s4.
A NEW counterfeit $50 greenback, which
is described as verv well executed. has made
its appearance. The border inclosing the
figures so at the ends of the bill is made up
of circles, while in the genuine they are oc
taRons.
GEN. SHERMAN has Written letter (which
Gen Grant indorses) recommending the
employment of Indians on the frontier and
en- the prairies, as mounted scouts, relieving
our cavalry from harrassing duty, which
involves large expense when they are
employed.
Col PARKER, the Chief of the Senaca
Indians, who is on Gen Grants staff. and
who has been employed as engineer upon
some of the most important public works in
the country. studied law about twenty years
ago, but was excluded from the bar because
Of his color.
| ' Eoi Iu'lo apprehension " rhtu tO Do
entertained in official circles in Washington
that the Fenians will attempt tho Invasion
of Canada. No act of belligersncy on the
part Of the Brotherhood which would justify
interference by our government has yet come
to its knowledge. 10
ALL the newly elected city officers in New
Orleans have been duly installed in their
offices except Mayor Monroe and Alderman
Wilson, whose functions have been tempor-
arily suspended as coming within the ex-
ceptions to pardon made by the Presidents
proclamation.
TUE Senate passed on Wednesday bill
giving New York Company tho sole right
to- lay cable from Florida to Cuba, on q
condition that II Is done within three years.
1t is understood that the parties will com
plete it at once, and extend the line down
the entire length of the South American
States.
TIE Grand Rapids mich. Democrat has
been informed, aud by reliable person,
that eighteen men were accidentlly poisoned
in the town of Lisbon, oil of whom have
died The men were engaged in logging,