Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-15
TERMS OF ADyEnTIslxGl
GENERALNEws SUMMARY.

NEWS from the lnterler OF miss0uri rep
resents the agricultural prospects as very
good The wheat crop, which IL was thought
would be almost failure, has much i'm
proved since the moderate weather cot in.
LATE advices from Gov Morton are BY
no means so favorable as was expected. He
has had relapse, and feels himself quito
discouraged about regaining his health. IL
is presumed that he sailed frsm Liverpool
Tor New York the last part Of February.
Boxes containing munitiots of war arc
being shipped from Indianapolis TO the
Fenian headquarters in New York,
The people Of Waukegah, illinois.
had an election for city officers on Monday.
The Copperhesds started q ticket headed
administration ticket" but the Republi-
cans, by a large majority, made clean
sweep, electing straight and uncom promis-
ing Unionists to every Office. "Straws," 30.
pr. DAVID JAYNE, Of Philadelphia,
well known Throughout the Union by his
extensively advertised patent medicines,
died IN that city, on Monday. at the age Of
slxty-siz and a half years. The very large
fortune which he left behind him was the
result Of constant and judicious advertising.
lie erected several magnificent buildings in
Philadelphia, which are monuments OF his
public spirit and taste.
The municipal election at Nswpert, Ky,
on the 9th, resulted in the election of the
whole Union ticket, except two ward officers.
AT Portland, Maine, elsction on the 5th,
the Union ticket was elected over the Dem
ecrstic by majority of one thousand in &
total vote OF about three thousand.
The Lincoln (Delaware) Herald congrstu-
lates the people Of that State, that owing to
the killing of the peach buds in New jersey,
the Delaware peaches will command a good
price this year. 1t says that although
many of the peach buds In Delaware were
Injured By the last cold weather. yet there
are enough unhurt 10 insure large crop.
GEN. MEADE publishes card in the
| Philadelphia Evening Telegraph denying
( the truth Of the report that be has been ask
/ ed by the President to allow the use of bis
name in the Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
I vention.
! Tue Washington Star says that the Gov
| ernn,ent willnot try Semmes, having decided
| be was duly paroed on the surrender ofJeh
ston's army to Sherman.
! GEN. JOE JOHNSTON is in Washington,
| to testify before the Reconstruction Con-
1 mittee.
The winter on the Pacific csast has besH
even more severe than heretofore reported.
Communication with Montan has been eus
off by the great depth of snew. and il is
feared there has been great suffering and
loss oflife. 1t is said that two hundred Mar-
mons, ON their way to that territory, are
known to have perished.
Cor Po,rppO ~ g. Hx...f- "a. r -.
killed on Tuesday at Garrison's Staten,
Hudson River Railroad, New York, while
attempting to sep On board train of cars.
UNION victori,s are reported in'the City
elections which occurred on Tuesday in
Buffalo, Oswego and Uticn, N. Y, and ia
Des Moines, Iowa. The result in the latte,
ease is the more gratifying, because 10 years
before, the city has been in the hands Of the
Copperheads.
The Springfield State Journal states tina,
reports are coming in from various parts Of
Illinois to the effect that the wheat crop has
sustained no inconsiderahe damage from
the alternate frpeziBgs and thsxings of the
past season. Where the land was strong.
and due care was exercised in the prepare.
tion of the ground, and in sowing the grain,
the prospect is fair for good crop. The
Indications are that the largest crop Of csru
ever planted in Illinois viii te put in thii
spring. -.
REPORTS as TO the peach crop are uHfavor
able from most parts OF the country.
The portrait of President Lincoln wal
} Kissed at a recent public exhibition in VI ash
in-ton City. Gen. McClelan's picture Was
cheered.
TIE number of widews, orphans and dis
abled soldiers now drawing annual pension,
from the Government is about 81 900, with
out incluting those granted during the
present month ..... .-. -. ..
: VALLANDIGnAM, in a recen. speech ia
Dayton, said, 1T seems to devove upor
| the Democracy exclusively to indorsa tn,
! President in his patriotic course" StronI
: support. -'- ....
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