Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
Omen Gateways To The Pole.

This profound and beautiful hypoth-
esis may boast no sanction OF high
authority, nor count as its advocate any
/ Arctic explorer. For a while, it may
! have to rest its claims on deductions of
science, and be ushered into notice on
the quiet authority of mathematical
calculation. Was it not so with the
theory of Columbus? What of this?
! Cole, we know, with his powerful
/ telescope at Berlin, ard aided by host
| of astronomers elsewhere, was defeated
/ in his search for Il planet, when, with
no other Instrument but his pencil, it
was found and triumphantly pointed
| out by the French mathematician.
/ We cannot close without an appeal
| to the reader to weigh the facts, For
apart from the triumphs OF science,
apart from the settlement OF great
/ problem, affecting the commonwealth
of nations; apart from the saving of
4 human life in future fruitless efforts
to find the Pole, there may he wrapped
| up in this so lutiQn results not now
| dreamed of by the most visionary. De
Soto marched westward to find silver
and stumbled upon the golden giOries OF
The Father of Waters" Columbus
sailed in search of Il short passage to
! the East Indies, and found New
/ World. Who shall say that, within the
Arctic circle, dwelling upon some of the
islands or shores of that sea DR.. Kane
saw rolling and beating at his feet there
may not yet be found
lone touch of nature makes the whole world
KIM
some vestige of humanity-some frag-
ment OF our race, waited thither by
| these mighty currents we have heard Of
whose cry of welcome is yet to greet the
mariner who finds them, and among
whom there may, at least, be found
some one of Gods elect?- Putnam's s
Magazine for November,
PENDLEToN's nomination for Cover
ner of Ohio, and the confident tone Of
his friends here, kindled again in the
South the hope that the North was about
to falter, react, go back upon the war
record, appeal to the old class of South
ern politicians who rebelled and made
the war, to come back to US and conde-
scend to take charge of the Government.
Pendleton's chances weIe eagerly dis
cussed by all the irreconcilables of the
South, just as the chances of Seymour
and Blair were discussed last year; and
these who had proposed to accept the
situation haulted and wavered, waited
and watched. If Pendleton were cleo
ted, the election would signify reaction.
| The work of reconstruction would stop.
Now they have the news that in spite
of Mr. PendletOn's great personal pop
ularity, and his plausible greenhack
| theory that has deceived and misled so
many-in spite of the existence of
! temperance party taken exclusively
/ from the Republican ranks-and of the
unsettled Morgan Raid Claims-and of
the dissatisfaction with Grants appoint
ments, that is seXtensive-and the apathy
of the office holders and the people in
this "off year,"-still the Republican
majority in Ohio can not he even tempo
rarily overcome. They, therefore, may
see and know once more, the fixed pur-
pose of the North to hold the advantage
won in the war-that political equality
with the North can only be reached
through political equality, without dis
tinctiOn of race or condition, III the
South Gin. Commercial.
| THE ISTHMUs OF PANAMA.-The u.
| $. Consul at Aspin wall, who has return
ed to this country on Il visit, reports
that the opening of the Pacific Railway
has seriously interferred with the bust
ness on the Isthmus of Panama, by re-
ducing the number of passengers and
goods conveyed by the latter route. The
merchants at Aspinwall and Panama.
who have always largely depended upon
the custom of the California passengers,
! find that their sales have been reduced.
and the hotels report falling Off in The
number of their transient inmates. In
stead of four steamers month, rs for
merly, there are only two running on this
route. In case, however, Panama should
be made the capital of the United States
of Columbia, it is hoped that the pros
neritY Of the ISthmns will revive