Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-23
Matters I'm Brief.

EAIle MEXICAN leRduQu AS1l0ElOl re-
gard Santa Anna as q French spy.
"a There were $6.7SS.%5 in specie exported
from the port of New Y ork last week.
tA- The New York breadstuf market has stead
lily declined the past week on -four and wheat.
"a The Massachusetts, Legislature has defeat
ed the bill to license liquor selling in that State.
"a An article on the first page, entitled THE
Political Situation" contains some excellent
ideas.
IT, The monitors anchored of Cairo since the
close of the war have been ordered to New Or
leans.
4-John Minor Bolts has published a plan of
reconstruction. which he thinks will answer the
purpose.
nA- Gen. Beauregard was in Baltimore Tuesday.
on his way to New York. whence he would sail
for Europe.
~ A tornado passed over Orange county. n.
Y, last week, tearing down trees and blowing
movable articles of the,farms.
NA- The Navy Department has officially ap-
proved of the action of Commodore Rogers in the
bombardment of Valparaiso.
The Merchants National Bank of Wash
ington will be able to pay about three per cent. on
Y dnOuub u AS AhDAAAbAcSs
pa- The Rev. Geo. Burgess. D. D. Bishop of
Maine. died while returning to this country from
the rest Indies last month.
na-The Ways and Means Committee have de-
cided that sugar made from sorghum shall be add
ed to the free List.
~ The steamer Lion. on q trip Thursday after
noon, exploded her boilers two miles below Mon
treal. Six lives were lost and seven persons Sc
verely injured.
q. Head Center Stephens was to start on a
tour through tn United States on Monday. Swee-
ny says Stephens is nothing less than a British
spy.
HAA Convention Of southern railroads is in
session in Richmond. Va, 20 prepare a uniform
sksdule of time and rates.
81 Santa Anna. the famous old Mexican. was
in New York last week. 1t is said he is going to
try his luck again in Mexico.
e Ten millions Five-TwenS Bonds have
been returned from Europe in the last four weeks.
They have all been taken in this country.
na-A New York dispatch reports a single sale of
gold in that city on Government account to the
amount of $l.5OO.OOO at 1905. on Friday last.
"a. The eleventh National Woman's Right Con-
Yeution recently held in New York adopted an
appeal to Congress for the enfranehisement of
women.
nA-Samuel Kennedy, the last survivor of the
Wyoming massacre, diednear York Springs. Ad-
ans county. Penn. on the Ilth inst in the Esd
year of his age.
- No less than five of the new counterfeit
twenty dollar notes on the first National Bank of
Portland. Connecticut. have already been passed
in Pittsburgh.
ss- Notice has been issued by the Comptroller
of Currency for the holders ofnotes on the Yenan-
go National Bank of Franklin. Pa. to forward the
bills of that Institution for redemption.
ia The Tennessee Legislature has passed the
Metropolitan Police Bin. 1t will throw the ap-
pointment and direction Of the police force in
Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga into radical
hands.
So The statement some time since forwarded
from Washington, that the Senate would strike
ont the third section of the Constitutional Amend
ment, recently passed by the House. is pronounc-
ed premature
81 The Canton Republican says that the Cop
perheads of that place last week made up a purse
of 500 and forwarded it to Henry A. Wise. of Va.
"a fellow feeling makes us wonderOus kind"
- Another daring robbery was committed in
New York. last week. The cashier of a carpet
house, while returning from the bank with Sl6.40o
in a carpet sack. vas knocked down and robbed
by three men who escaped In a butchers cart.
Ss- The Annual Fair of the Stark County Ag-
ricultural Society win be held in Canton, on the
25th, 26th. 9th and 18th of September
RS-The contest for Congressional nominee in
the Cuyahoga and Summit District is getting live
ly. The a~spirants are r. P. Spalding and B. @
Parsons. of Cleveland and Gen. Voris, of Sum
nit. The newspapers are taking sides for their
f~a7orites and snarling like ours st each other
Pitch in g entIemen.-raks out the ehestnuts.
The Governor desires to receive proposals.
in writing from such localities as desire to compete,
stating what viii be done by counties. cities, asso-
Citations or individuals to secure the location OF
the AGRICULTURAL college in their vicinity.
M Belief prevails in diplomatic circles that a
European wsr is inevitable. that Napoleon viii
withdraw his troops from Mexico at an early date,
and tn at Macmillan viii ind himself Obliged to
return with them for want Of money
Ga The House resolution declaring M, pelarO.
Representative from the 18th District Of Ohio
entitled to his seat. was passed. Mr.. FOllett. con-
testant, was allowed mileage and pay for loss Of
time.
"a The steamer HelystiG. which left Liverpool
on the 2nd inst. for New York, after being out
one day put back with several cases Of cholera on
board, Two German emisrants died with the dis
ease. The steamer had 81 passengers sbosrd-
"a Breyet Major. General Charles R. Wood,
COMMANDING at Mobile. has issued an order by
direction of the President of the United States.
prohibiting Raphael Semmes from exercising the
duties of Probate Judge of Mobile, or any other
political Office of trust while he remains uapar-
doned by the President
The leading editorial in a late number OF
tho Washington RepublicGA. President ] hnson's Of
fetal organ, indicates a desire upon the Part Of the
Executive to harmonic with Congress. provided
the latter will yield some of their ultra views
about reconstruction. The President will no
doubt indicate his desire to harmonic with Con-
gress By Fetoing the next bill they pass.
81 Three Of the Cadi1 Bank robbers were sen
fenced last week. They gave their names, respec-
lively. as Riehar5 Rows. Jones and 0'COnneIl.-
Richard Rowe and 0'ConneI we're sentenced each
70 thirteen years confinement in the Ohio Peniten-
tisry. Jones got two years of, fol information COM
munieated, getting but eleven years. c. Dewey.
the remaining prisoner. heretofore reported dead
was not brought to trial owing to the severity o.
his wo und. and the critical state Of his health.
"a The Toledo Blade speaks to the point thus
John Brown made an unlawful attempt to destroy
slavery, which resulted in the killing Of a dozer
men, He vas arrested, tried. and hung. Jener
son Davis made an Unlawful attempt to perpet
nate slavery. which resulted in the death Of
million of men. he is in durance vile, but from
present indications stands 3 hundred chances o.
being the next President to one Of being hung
From all of which we gather that 1t Is treason,
worthy of death to take up arms agains slavery,
and no treason to take up arms for its perpetus-
ton. If Jefferson Davis is not hung, the exeeu-
ton of John Brown was cOld-blOoded. unjustiha-
BILE murder.
WASHINGTON, May 17.-LieutenaHt Cen
eral Grant has received a dispatch from
Major General d. w. Halleck, in California,
in which he says that there Is not a word Of
truth in the report that Fort Goodwin had
been captured by the Appachees and the
garrison massacred. He d~enounces the re-