Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-12-13
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Cleaned from Late Mails.

Cleaned from Late Mails.
Gold closed in New York Saturday
evening at 1874.
"A steamship which left New York on =
Friday, carried 300 passengers, the most of |
whom are supposed to have been Fcnisns f
There is q rumer that Maximilisn has
teleeraphed by the Atlantic cable that he
will soon land at Gibraltar.
1t is reported that the nomination Of ,
Gen. Dix as Minister to France will be
rejected by the Senate. q
1T il reported that Surrstt has said in .
conversation that the assassination was ;
planned at Richmond with the assent Of
JEFF Daxis.
The Governor Of Alabama has recon-
mended to the Legislature the adoption Of
the Constitutional Amendment. The re-
commendation Produced considerable ex-
element. Both Houses are opposed to it.
-The'New York Herald's Washington
special says that Mr. Eliot, of Mass, will
be chairman of the committee appointed by
the House to investigate the New Orleans
riots
The Committee on the constitutional
Amendment in the North Carolina Senate
has reported against it's adoption.
Tho condemned Fenians in Canada
have been respited till. the 18th Of March.
1T is stated that the profits OF the Fifth
Avenue Hotel during the month Of October
were 100000. The average number Of
guests was six hundred, which would give
q profit on each Of three dollars day.
Buffalo hunting on the plains is no
longer serious undertaking. A party from
Philadelphia hired q sleeping car, and were
carried in it to Fort Riley. There ambu.
lances were hired, and in them buffalo
grounds, 200 miles beyond. were reached,
five or six animals killed, and the party re-
turned home in the ear, as they came, after
an absence of only three weeks.
, Forty thousand Ibarrels of oil were
, brought. down the Kanawha river to Par
kersburgh in two days last week, in barges.
There is q wonderful temperance revi.
val in Northwestern Missouri. No section
of the country needs it more.
@ "A passage from Sacramento to Salt
. Lake City costs one hundred and twenty.
4; five dollars in gold, besides the cost Of
meals, from one dollar TO one and bali
; each, aud about five dollars day tor
J. etccteras.
o Among the wealthy oil men Of Pom
. sylvania is old John Bennehof, whose in
J. come, estimated from the present produc'
!. ton Of his oil farm is not less than $500, 900
y He still lives in bis antiquated Dutch home
stead, near the head Of Bennehof Run.
is The excitement about Irish affairs i.
h incre easing in London. There has been nj
y actual outbreak, but the military and nava
IN authorities are actively pre- ,,aring for one. =
e, Three more iron.clads and two regiments o
= regulars have been ordered to Ireland.
N The Montreal Herald publishes lette
le from the person who identified and reportet
es Surratt to the American Minister at Rome
D. He says he was in the papa service, hat
~ formerly served in the American army, AM
"a became acquainted with Surratt at tn
South.
I. "A system Of telegraphing is now il
"a operation in France, by which exact copie
Of the original messages are produced q
n the terminus Of the lines, solely by mechan
a ical means. The telegram is written o.
or paper coated with q lead-colored noncou
b, Quoting surface. The ink employed change
h. every point touched by it to the Oppost
ia electrical character. Two pendulums a
n: either end of the circuit swing in unison
he the upper end OF each is divided into man
lis points BY this contrivance, the messag
at being passed over these at one end, q ourreu
Ia, to correspond with the writing is sent, an
. q facsimile copy on prepared paper. bel
is to the vibrating pendulum, is produced a
%. the other extremity.
X Eight Of the Southern members {
as Congress elect had arrived at Washingto
: up to Friday night last.
,ol 1t is said that tho influence of Go,
en- Pierpoint in favor Of the Constitution
, A amendment in the Virginia Legisatui
At amounts to but little. 1t is thought fe
a of the members would be in favor of it,
nd they could be induced to express themselve
- The Council of Columbia, Pennsylvan
'g have just started movement to rebuild Il
10 bridge across the Susquehanna at that plac
sse, which was destroyed in the summer of 1856
TN when the rebels had possession of Yor
MS Wrightsville and the Cumberland Vale
I'd. The correspondence of the New Yo
ds Herald from Western Georgia, states tn
ore since the result of the Northern election h
he been known, the people there seem
tsr have made up their minds to submit TO d
nc. will of the majority. They have chang
,ve in their tone toward Union men, aud O
ant quie.ccd cheerfully in plans for eduoati
I'VE the negroes. and look hopefully upon Il
lis. future, willing to labor to retrieve their mi
de. fortunes, and to cooperate in building |
ria. manufactures and railroads.
res The Atlantic and Pacific Railroa
ar which. although starting ut St. Louis, is
ties ally The Southern Pacific. has recently be
'lm permanently organized, with Gen. Fremo
ust as President. As sketched by the Pre-
rer dent. the road is laid in Southwestern M
re-; souri,, and the Valley ofthe Canadian, al
u generally along the thirty. fifth parallel
ed, the head Of navigation on the Colorado, a
ON thence to the Pacific coast. IL is the sho
all est route by five hundred miles Of any 81
hen yeyed for that purpose, and presents 4
It fewest difficulties.
The New York Worlds special "a
i'm. that the United States Supreme Court b
/, "a decided nv n vote of & to A. against 4