Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

their last meeting in Chicago the propc
sition to adjourn at the call of the Pres
dent was defeated, and the motion t
adjourn sine die was carried to i, Com
missioner Taylor voting in the negative
The proposition providing for the trans
fer of the Indian Bureau to the Wa
Department was also carried, with tn
exception of Taylor's vote, Col. Tappal
even voting In the affirmative,
NEWS ITEMS.
Gen. Preston has been elected to tn
Lower House of the Kentucky Legisla
ture.
George Francis Train arrived at New
York on the Australasian on the 25tl
inst.
The State Auditor of Virginia for
warded to Europe e., 500 to pay tn
July interest on the two per cent. Stat
debt.
The London Times thinks this Ala
bama question must be finally adjudicat
ed on the basis of the Stanley -Johnsol
protocol. -.tfs,,,.,-,,s..-,9.
John C. Breckenridge is expected t
IcluI W IChAuShy III u EC" II
praises of Johnson are on rebel lips TO
pardoning him. .a@esls'sT"'-
Albany is very pertlnently desoriLet
as "a town of 1900 houses and 5000
inhabitants, with most Of their gabl
ends to the street"
The recent heavy dry goods failure il
New York vas the house of Turnbull
Claln f. 10 xvhnoa liabilities harf
ON two millions.
Hon, John Il. Hoffman, Gevernol
elect OF New York, was examined OF
the oath before the Gnngressianal Com
mittee on election frauds,
SAID friend to Gen. Grant, recently
General, see the Democratic paper:
are claiming you as their Preident."-
"Ah!" said Grant, ~ never see them
now nor read them. The last Demo.
cratic paper l saw had an editorial de.
nouEcipg me- as drunkard."
The full pardon and amnesty pFocla,
nation just issued by President Johnson
includes JEFF. Davis, Breckenridge, Jacob
Thompson, Mason, Slidell, and all 9TH
ers who were directly or indirectly en-
gagged in the late insurrection or rebel
lion. The parties shnve named are now
in foreign countries.
Gen. Grant, in conversation with a
Senator last week, took strong ground
against giving subsidies to so many rail-
roads. He said the Government must
begin to look closely to the payment of
the debt, and that TO do it greater econ
omy in public expenses of all kinds must
be practiced, and that at present all
TO secure Government aid, ex-
cept where 10 is absolutely necessary,
should be steadily frowned down.
Some time since an effort was made in
the Board of Education of Troy to abol-
ish corporeal punishment in the public
schools under ;IIeir charge. 1t did not
succeed, and hati ,i0ys aud girls IN pQn-
sequence occasionally suffered from the
inf1iction of the rod. The Saratoga Board
of Education, when it was established
two years ago, deemed whipping mex
pedient, and passed resolution forbid
ding the infiiction of corporeal punish
ment; but they have found the plan does
not work yell, and nd they have Fescinded
the resolution.
Reports come from New0rleans that
the, Thugs who havs broken up one
Constitutional Convention and prevent
ed one Presidential election in that city,
are now threatening to murder the
Union members of the Legislature, if
that body shall have the audacity to at
Tempt holding its regular session. Let
us tell these fiotsrs and murderers an
open secret: On the fifth day of March
next Philip H. Sheridan will resume
in New-Orleans. The fact
nay be of service to theln.-[Tribune.
THE official report from the officers of
,he Freedmen's Bureau of Georgia for
,he year ending on the 1st of this month,
show that II cOlOred citizens were muir
Tered during that time by the whites,
or which IS whites were arrested
Three were acquitted outright, and
hone were punished. The report also
hows that Is whites were murdered by
negroes, for which IA arrests were made,
even have been punished, two acquit-
,arison between the manner in which
White and black murderers are treated
% Georgia is suggested by these statis-
les. The report adds that four blacks
lied of injuries inflicted by whites, 3
'ciC permanently anu II oNSiJ ~
ured. tar
Mrs. Augustus n. Dickens, widow of
augustus n. Dickens, q brother of
;harles Dickens, the celebrated novelist,
Ommitted suicide in Chicago on the !
4th by taking an overdose of morphine.
The sent her children to the house of
Ter brother-in-law, Mr.. Lawrence, on
christmas eve to take part in getting up
Christmas tree. They remained there
ver night and on their return TO their
ome in the morning their mother was
on the floor dead, with bot
lie OF morphine by her side. Mrs. Dick
ms was thirty-fve years of age. She
caves three children, respectively, elev-
n, eight and three years of age, two
ons and one daughter. She has suffered
much of late from poverty, being de-
endent almost entirely upon her friends
Or the necessities oflife. The acrimoni-
us controversy, growing out of the con-
uct of hep distinguished brother-in-law.
,harles Dickens, towards Mrs. Dickens,
n the occasion of his visit will be re-
lembered by all.
With most of us, idleness is the parent
ot merely of uneasiness, but withal of
retfulness, maleovlence and the whole
ost of evil passions. The phrase ZACH
,g void" may be ridiculous to those
tho criticise grammatically, but is true
, those who feel humanity. To supply
ais void is an object, and moreover a
srtain effect, OF a regular and sustained
nd judieious method of sslf-insurrec-
on. The used key is bright. If the
eel we wrought up and refined to q
igh temper, the cloudiness of the vapor
ill perish from it almost at the instant
nat is breathed upon it.. u