Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-07-25
PERsO4AL.

Governor Geary, Ex-President Bu-
chanan, Senator Cameron, and Thad-
deus Stevens, are expected to spend
short season at Bedford Springs, at the
same time.
General Schenck will be for q time
at Atlantic, Rode Island.
Gen. Sickles says the fine carriage,
in which, it has been said, he rides In
state, was presented to him by his old
army corps.
-Ex-President Buchanan intends to
lecture during the coming winter.
Cincinnati will be the first city in which
he will appear.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York World says the Sultan is very
cOrpulent man, with small head and
diminutive features and his people are
afraid he will die of appoplexy before lie
can reach his native Kingdom.
"A brother of Fred. Douglass was
found recently in New Orleans by a
Northern clergyman, and sent North.
A letter from Fred. Douglass to the cler-
gyman announces the arrival of his
brother at Rochester, and their reunion
after forty years separation by slavery.
Miles O'Reilly alludes as follows to
the late General Mcagher's wife: "How
noble wife she has been-with what
fidelity of warm devotion she has clung
to the varying fortunes OF her brilliant
but erratic lOrd-only those could tell
whose lips must remain silent under the
seal of social relationship. Reared in
luxury, and as much tlattered and follow
ed for her beauty as Meagher had been
in earlier days for his genius and gift OF
eloQuencc, she never ialtered in her
allegiance to the exile who reached his
highest fortune, when he won her heart
! VIII ither he went she followed him; his
people became indeed her people, and his
! God she made her God. We dare not
write more upon this branch ofthe subject
| though we write from an overflowine
heart, and have many thoughts surginp
upward and clamoring for expression. y
AT the distribution of the Exhibition
prizes on Monday, the Empress Eugene
wore dress of white satin, the sleeve.
of silver gauze thrown back so rs to dis
play her arms and bust. The skirt was
fully and tastefully trimmed with gllsten
ing silver and tulic. On her neck lay 4
magnificent necklace of diamonds, tn,
front consisting of riricrcs of diamonds
her head wreathed with u cOrORne o
small green velvet leaves, from whicl
rose her coronal of diamonds, an ample
tulle vail falling from the back of thi
coronal covering her shoulders. Tn
Sultan wore q dark blue uniform, tn
sleeves of which were mass of gol'
embroidery. He never removed hi
scarlet feZ. Princess Clotilde wore
coiDtue with masses of curls, which fel
over the back of her head from spien
did comb and wreath of diamonds.
Ben Perly Poore, who was an at tach
TO Hon. Henry w. Hilliard, within fiv
years from the time he was a printer
boy, had dined with the King of tn
French, with Victoria and Albert, an
with the King of the Belgians, and ais
danced with "poor Carlotta, who wa
! then u girl.
In his address to the freedmen ,
{ Portsmouth, Va, on the 4th of Jul,
, Frederick Douglass is reported to hay
/, said that there remained in his heart Il
rambling feeling of ill-will to his maste
> he had very good wishes for his master
family living In Maryland, and they al
among his best friends.
/ Mr.. ShanlSs, formerly correspondei
Of the Herald, IL now the editor of Ha
per's Weekly. Mr.. Alden, the form
:. editor is engaged upon forthcomir
: book.
r The faint hope, inspired by stat
ment In the Times of India, that L
Livingstone Is alive, has been dispelle
r The Sepoy who contradicted the story
his death proves to be false.
4 --Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor of Il
i sewing machine, is dangerously Ill
d London.
Q The health of the Hon. John Bell
q gradually failing. His mind is st
:, clear, but the exhaustion of his physit
ls system Is extreme. He resides near I
Cumberland Iron Works, In Tenness
which were formerly source Of immer
p revenue to him. But the war wrecl,
IS his fortune, health, and social and POI
n. ical reputation, and the old man Is pa
n. ing away from generation with whi
n 1t is his misfortune that he has
Id sympathies.
IN Victor Hugo has at last put an emo
o. his voluntary exile, and has gone TO Pa
az TO see one Of his own pieces ("Hernan
'if played at the Francois.