Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-05-02
personal ,NrnLLIcEScE.

-tornoy has taken the pledge.
"A. r. Stewards income last year was
81 ,27G, ,750.
Kate Fields says she is not going to
Europe with Ristori. e
Neal Dow Is making temperance
speeches In England.
1T ia stated that Blind Tom will play
at the great Exhibition.
Sake has gone to Europe. There is
no room to hope that hc Will stay there.
-Beaurcgard is experimenting with
the Nicholson pavementin NcwOrleans.
Gen. Wright has begun the perfom-
ance of his duties as Railroad Commits
sioner.
MIR. Frank Cowan, son of Senator
Cowan, has been appointed Special Sec
retary of President johnson.
1T is now stated that Edgar A. Poe,
as we'll as John Howard Payne, author
of Home, was born in Norfolk.
-Reverdy Johnson is to appear in the
Supreme Court as counsel for West Vir-
ginia, in a suit with the old State.
Miss Siddons, great granddaughter
of the great Siddons, is reading from
Shakespeare and Tennyson, in London.
Mr.. John Winland, the oldest resi-
dent of Monroe County, Ohio, died on
the 18th of April, at the age of one hun
dred years.
-Ex-Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, has
been appointed Register in the Bank
ruptcy at New Orleans. His is the only
commission yet issued.
Reports of the condition of Represen-
tative e. b. Washburne's health are not
at all favorable. He has left Paris to try
the virtues of the German mineral
springs.
-Ex-Congressman John Bidwell, of
Chico, California, is the proprietor of a
pleasant little farm of Is, 600 or 10000
acres-the difference is of slight conse-
quence to him.
Senator Wilson, while at Fortress
Monroe, called on ex-senator Jefferson
Davis, and had pleasant half hours
chat about old and new times, avoiding
any reference to the politics of the
country.
Aaron Harding, candidate of the
third party in Kentucky for Governor,
has declined, on the ground of i'll health.
Judge Kinkead, the candidate nomina-
ted for Lieutenant Governor, will run for
Governor.
-BayardTaylOr has written two or three
long letters from London to friends in
New York, giving very interesting ac-
counts of his feastings and communings
with Swinburne, the poet, who appears
to take very kindly to his American
admirers.
Gen. Ord has issued an order divid-
ing the State of Arkansas into eleven
registration districts. Registration Off
GERS are to be appointed Immediately in
the proportion of four from the army to
} two citizens. The work will commence
soon.
AS the result of rigid official inves-
tigation, 1t is now stated that Jefferson
, Davis did attempt to make his escape
disguised in female attire. Captain G.
w. Dawson, of the 4th Michigan Cavalry,
, states implicitly. upon the testimony OF
the officers present, that Davis in addi-
ton to his full suit of Confederate gray,
, had on "a lady's water proof cloak, gath
, cred at the waist, with a shawl drawn
) over the head and carrying tin pail. "
-"Pcrly," in a dispatch to the Boston
/, Journal, says: "Mr. Wade presides over
! the Senate in O decidedly original style.
Saturday morning, after the passage of q
resolution or two, there being no further
business to be transacted in open session
he said, THE Senator of Ohio moves that
the Senate gointo executive session, and
+, put the question, which was carried amid
, ageneral roar oflaughter. Mr.. Sherman
having sailed for Europe, Mr.. Wade is
! the only Senator from Ohio present" I"
The Boston correspondent of the
Chicago Times writes: I" saw ex-Presi
s dent Pierce in town among the law Off
A ces, the other day, after having taker
4 Speaker COlfaX out to ride behind fint
o pair of horses. The eX-President looked
. youthful and finely. Time had touched
t his head with gray, but there is that in
r nate kindness and gentleness of expires
: sion in his countenance which indicates
nature never liable to grow old; hi
. step is as prompt as it was fifteen year
s ago, and he promises to make well-pre
v served old gentleman.
d The New York Times corrects tn
n statement of the World that Mr.. Sewar,
Z has kept private diary. during tn
7 last six years, " and adds: 1--WE hav
u heard it said that Mr.. Seward, when h
II ministration began such diary, with tn
,, purpose to make 1t record of all tn
q private deliberations, decisions, opinions
~ incidents, &C., of the times; but after
:. few days trial, gave 1t up from a conviC
II ton that 1t would of necessity be of s
70 personal character and would consis
y so largely of the record of his own partic
70 patton in public affairs, as to be undul
4, and Extensively egotistical.
10 "A Mexican correspondent relates tn
NJ following adventures: When Marsha
a Bazaine left the city of Mexico with tn
French army, his nephew, Lieutenar
Iy Adolphe Bazaine, was about to be ma
" ried to beautiful Mexican senorita. 1
~ the hurry of their departure, however
n. was not found convenient to celebrat
the nuptials. 1t was therefore arrange
ie that the young lady should follow Il,
lie lover TO Orizaba, and that the weddin
e. should take place there. Meanwhile, til
,d Liberals closed In upon the retirin
il French troops, and occupied the who
to country, stopping the mails and trave
al This was sad state of things, but notl
of ing Is impossible to true lover. Arme
al with passport which stated the obje
rp of his retrograde journey, the your
NJ lieutenant started out alone for the eli
in of Mexico, passed through the Liber
a army and numerous bands of bandit
he which chivalrously opened right an
&C. left to let him pass, and bore off his brio
q ofnlx, fn Franco