Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-06-24
News Items,

isville on Monday. -
Crop reports in Southern Georgia al.
Florida are favorable.
+ The army worm is doing great dam
age in Knox County, Indiana.
Several deaths fromsunstroke, in New
/ York, are reported.
The custom receipts from the 9Th te
i1he 18th, inclusive, were Sz,S66, ,4I6.
Cars began to run from Topeka on
! Thursday. on die Atchison, Topeka and
SaRla Fe Railroad.
Freighued railroad cars were trans
7 ferred across the river at st. Louis Oh
I Thursday, for the first time.
Admiral Farragut visited the Naval
! School Ship, at Boston, on Thursday, in
company with Bishop Simpson.
The plurality for Burchard, Republi-
aan candidate for Congress in the Third
District of Illinois. is 4,370.
Miss Minnie Warren was married on
Thursday, at West Haven, Conn, to
Commodore Mutt.
One hundred thousand mUskets are
being shipped from Springfield Mass. }
afmory to the Turkish Government.
Governor CIafIin, of Massachusetts.
has signed the Prohibitory Liquor Law,
to go into effect July first.
The fifteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States has been
ratified by both Houses OF the Florida
| Legislature. The vote in the Assembly
was 26 to l3, and in the Senate l3
i.againsts.
The contractors for building the rail-
road between Nashville, Lebanon and
Knoxville are having considerable
trouble in procuring the requisite num-
ber of Laborers.
Senator Howe denies that he ever ap-
proved OF any scheme to make the Ala
bama Claims party issue, and says
that he is not aware OF there being any
such scheme Oh loot.
By the reductions in the office ex
penses, clerk heir, &c., of Assessors, and
COLLECTORS OF internal Revenue. .anount-
ing in each district 10 about a Thousand
dollars, which lIas lately been made 10y
Commissioners Delano, saving OF near
| ly million OF dollars per annum will
| be made by the Government, a. shown
lhy the receipts in the Fifth Auditors
office.
During the first week of June, Mr..
Boutwell, bought 81 ,090, 900 of five-twen-
ties, paying therefor, including the
premium, 81, ,l53, 500, in currency. To
obtain the funds devoted to this pur-
chase, he sold 81 ,000, 0U0 of the idle
hoard of gold i'll the Government vaults
at a premium in greenbacks of AZ 25 pei
and leaving a balance of S269, 600 in legal
tenders to go into the Treasury. So far
as the gold was applied TO the purchase
of the bonds, the Secretary obtained the
81, 900. COO investment at an expenditure
OF 1856, ,926, "A in gold saving by the OPP
Grafton not only S133,073, ,26 in coin to
the nation, but the interest on the
amount added to the sinking fund OF
the fiscal department of the Govern
ment, or S164, ,3S per day, Sl.070.66 per
week, 1881 40 per month, $50, 900 pei
year, in gold. y
Late dispatches from the Plains indi-
cate that the Indians are again on the
war-path in considerable numbers. a
surveying party were attacted between
Sheridan and Denver by a band OF
Cheyennes, whom they succeeded in
driving OF, with considerable loss
Spotted Tail has left his reservation,
with two hundred lodges, probably with
hostile intentions. A fight is also re-
ported between a party of Siox and a
band Reese Indians, near Fort BufOrd,
in which the former were defeated, but
sent for reenforcements, with the il ten
ton of renewing the fight.
Dispatches from the City of Mexico,
dated the 18th inst, report that Minister
Nelson would arrive at the Capital on
the following day, and be officially pre-
sented to President JuareZ on the 10th.
General Rosecrans was to leave for Ae
apulco immediately. There was con-
siderable excitement about the arrival
of Minister Nelson. The foreigners ex-
pect either the annexation of Mexico to
the United States or Protectorate over
the Republic. The Mexicans are jealous
and fearful. Parties concocting bogus
claims to lay before the commission to
sit at Washington have been arrested,
and Americans suspected of completely
were being watched.
The Indians.
ST. Louis, June 2l.-The Republican
has special dispatch from Hays City, |
Kansas, dated the 18th, which says thai |
Colonel Gretnwood's surveying party, |
who are surveying the route of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad from Sheridan |
TO Denver, was attacked this morning !
fifteen miles beyond Sheridan. by a |
band of fifty Cheyennes.
The Indians came upon them quite |
unexpectedly, but the surveyors were
ali well armed and, after a desperate |
fight, succeeded in killing four Indians,
weundIng several others, and putting |
the balance 10 flight. Two brothers
named Schuyler, in Greenwood's party |
We're wounded, one of them critically |
having received three balls ia the thigh |
The others were but slightly wounded. |
The conductor OH the Western |
bound mail train of yesterday reports
having seen not less than forty Indians
twenty miles west of here. l1a
An Omaha special says party of nine |
teen citizens started from North Platte |
IN Friday afternoon, to search for horse |
thieves. They returned yesterday, with
three Sioux prisoners aud thirty-six |
head of stock. The Indians report thai
Spotted Tail, with two hundred lodges |
has left the reservation, and is coming |
down, with what intention is moi
known
Army officers who came down on the |
steamer Cora report fight between the |
Sioux and Reese Indians, below Fort
Buford, in which the Sioux lost ten kill |
ed and fifteen wounded, and The latter
one killed and thirty wounded. The Si-
IouX have gone for re-enioIcements, and
intend to renew the fight.
IT seems probable that the question of
granting the Cubans belligerent rights
will engage the attention of the Presi- |
dent and his Cabinet. 1t is said that
they are divided in regard to it. The !
President would act affirinatively, but
his Cabinet are not ready-Mr. Hoar