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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
b. f. Butler.

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Times bestows his attention
upon some of the prominent men in
that city; and, among them, upon Gen.
eral Butler, as follows;
Whatever we may say of the New
England member, wherever he sits, he
is the head of the radical table. He is
the Macgregor of them all. l lounge
into the gallery aud look down-and the
eye drifts unconsciously to the large
brain, the wide, expensive forehead, the
profile that looks like an old Roman
coin stained with the face of the earliest
Cesars-and l know that most eyes in
those wide galleries rest with mine upon
the member from Massachusetts,. If at
rest, which is not often, he insensibly
sinks into the Napoleenic attitude-the
body slouching in the chair-the arm
thrown over it's back-the face looking
thoughtfully into some mental vista.
is he popular in the house? /
asked one who should know. No he is
too aggressive The thought came TO
me that greatness is always aggressive
that nothing is more aggressive than
the sea, the tides, the thunderbolts; and
as a man who believes in the Cromwells,
the Dantons, this Napoleons, the Gam
bettas, the Carnots, the Stantons of his
tery-who secs more true royalty in the
banished figure of the great Protector
than in all the Plantagenets, and Stu
arts, and Hanovers whose statues stand
in The English palaces-I retain for
Butler the same enthusiasm which came
to me wnen he solved the war by1
making the slave a contraband and pun
ished traitor in the sight of traitors foi
the flag. This representa-
tive, with all his enemies, is to-day the
strongest man in Congress-the strong
est with the Administration. You feei
his influence everywhere. Those who
claim to hear the whispers of the throne
say that no voice is more potent, and
that no mind outside of the Cabine'
more frequently impresses itself upon
executive deliberations. Hated and
feared as he is, he is one of the most
genial and courteous and generous OF
men. He has the rare gift of command
ing the awe and the affection of those
around him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
George H. Thomas.

The next President of the United
States died last week, in the person of
Maj. Gen. George II. Thomas-one OF
the best captains whom the American
army ever followed, and one of the
purest patriots whom the American Re-
public ever produced. OF course, when
we say that, had he lived, he would
have been President Grants successor
we do not pretend to be accurate clair
voyants of the future, or absolute pro-
phets of the next administration. But
we know that very many thousand
Americans have already said to them
selves, "If Gen. Thomas ever reaches
the Executive chair the country will
have in him as noble president as that
chair ever held" And the popular
sense of his fitness for the post had al
ready given rise to a widespread desire
that he should one day he called to fill
it. Perhaps, however, Gen. Grant will
be his own successor; or perhaps, If not,
the next president will be chosen from
civil rather than from military life. At
any rate, every man who aspires to the
next presidency may consider that one
of his chief rivals has just been laid in
Gen. Thomas's tomb. We have always
thoroughly believed in this good man.
II
be butt upon There was q moral So
lidity in his composition which made
him greater parsonage than many of
his far more brilliant comrades whe
outran him as competitors for public
favor 1t has become a fashion of our
day to find resemblances between some
of our public men and George Washing
ton. Lincoln and Grant are sometimes
named in this connection. But Thomas
was man who perhaps more than any
other soldier of our war resembled the
hero of our first Revolution. He had
the same firmness. the same caution,
the same patience, the same judgment,
the same courage, the same faith. The
American people, as mass, do not know
how great a man they have lost in Gen.
Thomas. Here aud there a warm eulegy
IS pronounced on his character and SER
vices; but 1.-THE half has not been told"
We hold him in reverential regard
He was one OF the truest heroes of the
war, one of the noblest citizens of his
country, one of the most sterling char
acters of our timo. Peace to his ashes
and honor to his name?-[ Independent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
The Hon. Henry Wilson, that staunch
anostIe of temDerance in q late address

The Hon. Henry Wilson, that stauneh
apostle of temperance, in late address,
said {:
"In spite Of much that has been dis
couraging, and an increase of drinking
in some circles, on the whole there is
great progress. There was five times as
much drinking in Congress when he en-
tered the Senate, fourteen years ago as
there is now. And those that now come
INTO Congress from the South have not
Drought so much with them. Liquor
shops are now banished from the Ma
tional Capitol. This is new thing aud
great improvement. There are also
six thousand pledged temperance men
in Washington. Two-thirds ofthe DRAM
shops have also been closed"
And he thanked God that We now
have President of these United States
Who does not drink drop; and Vice
President who does not drink and q
Secretary of the Treasury who is a ten-
perance man, and who is not in league
with the whisky ring. We already see
something of the effect of this in the i'm
proved condition of the Revenue and
the Treasury.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
Temperance,
'OUTOF THE DARK"
Air-"Jein anderson, my Joe"
BY FRANc1s 5. SMITH.

John Alcohol, my Joe, John,
When we were first acquaint,
My eyes were bright with health, John,
My breath was free from taint;
But soon my eyes were bleared, John,
My face was full of woe.
And all becase stuck To you,
John Alcohol, my joe
John Alcohol, my Joe, John,
My sky was very clear
Until met with you, John,
Then all was bleak and drear;
But now the pledge is mine, John,
And am safe know
I'm fairly raised "out of the dark"
John Alcohol, my Joe.
John Alcohol, my Joe, John,
My wife and children dear
Are glad to meet me now, John,
Whenever appear.
But, while kept with you, John,
Alas. it vas MT so,
They ran and hid awayfrom me,
John Alcohol, my Joe.
John Alcohol, my Jee, John,
Let all your cronieS mark
And inwardly digest, John,
The tale, "Out of the Dark"
'Tis. in the New York Weekly
And all will wiser grow
Who heed the lesson taught by it,
John Alcohol, my Joe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

~ anted.' "
The Baltimore American of the 10th
ult. prints, at the requesilof amember of
his rapidly-incrsasing parish, n sermon
recently preached in that city by Rev.
J. F. w. Ware, from which the follow
ing extract is sent us by correspond
ent. The statements are pointed and
pungent, and no one will doubt the
truth OF their sharpness and seasonable-
ness; but, alas! since time began there
has been only too much reason for like
complaints. Still, some consciences
may be guickened, and some sinners
taught humility and brought to repent
ance and self knowledge, by this fresh
breadside from faithful pulpit:
There is long catalogue of wants yet
wanted. Wanted, men who will con-
denim wrong in friend or foe-wrong for
wrong in themselves as well as others,
themselves before others. Wanted, men
who know their places and will fill
them: and not push for otherand greater
aud more lucrative and responsible,
which they can't fill. 1t is the push of
small men into big places, the overleap-
ing of ambition, which so embarrasses
affairs, movements of governments,
armies, and finance. Wanted, men who
know their own business, will stick to
that, and let everybody's else alone;
who will be content that God shall rule
the universe without their engineering,
and tnat man shall go his way without
their meddling. Wanted, men mot too
lazy to work. nor too proud to be poor;
willing to eat what they have earned
and wear only what they have paid for"
Wanted, men with no hinges in their
knees, no cringing in their manner, not
craven in their hearts. who are going to
stand up straight in their honest man
hood, no flunky to money, or learning,
or place, or only and al
ways and everywhere downright, self
respecting, honorable men. Wanted,
men who shall be men in treatment of
their wives-not bitter, cynic, supercil-
ious domineering, aggravating; but men
of the charities, and cOurtesies they show
to other women, with little of the
chivalry flung in. Wanted, men who
are going to stick by one another in
their straits, who are going to make
friendship no fiction, trade no cheating,
politics no barter, religion no form, life
no shipwreck, and death no horror!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
IneNIfnhln Rennlfa

The existence and continuance OF q
rum traffic tramples upon the rights OF
children yet unborn. Drunkenness Is
confessed to be, in u great measure,
hereditary; and the dIam-shops, in ere
ating slaves of appetite, aud holding
miserable beings enslaved through life,
are the cause of drunkenness in second
generation. Think of it, parents, We
have laws to shield children from abuse,
but while n rum trafile is PERMITTED to
exist, il lulliliess those laws. Cold,
hunger, filth, disease. and depraved
appetites grow out our shameful contin-
uance of the pestilential grog-shops.
Come out, an J vote them buried be-
yound resurrection.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
Am Responsible for Rum-seIIIng.

The rum traffic is annually costing the
United States more than the entire war
for the suppression of the rebellion. in
treasure, waste, and human life. Heca-
tombs of men annually die from rum
drinking. The cholera with all its her-
rors never swept over our land with
such deadly breath. Let US consider
the responsibility and the remedy.
That men have a right to legislate
against rum-selling we shall not argue;
for it has been done repeatedly for GEN.
turies. That they have a right to sup
press it in full is eveident: for the. will of
people make the law. If a wrong exists
for great length of time in the Ameri-
can people, they are fully responsible
for that wrong. The same testimony
which fastened upon the North the sin
of American slavery, fastens upon every
voter the responsibility for rum-selling
and drunkenness.
We are proud of our school system.
We boast OF the rights conferred by our
Constitution and four Government. II
we have any share in the responsibility
Of conferring rights and vouchsafing
privileges, then we are also responsible
for the wrongs of the Government-for
its want of protection, its weakness and
incompetency.
Ifthe offspring of the drunkard is or
phaned, the wife widowed, the peace OF
society disturbed, and the cost of aG
ministering our government and courts
quadrnpled, then are we to blame-you
and l are guilty. Weare parties to the
crime resulting from rum-selling-the
drunkenness, the q rson, the poverty,
the quarreling, the waste of time, the
bloodshed, the riot aud confusion Of
um-drinking-alla are counts in the bill
Of indictment against ourselves. We
stand together guilty. We as people alr
rum-sellers, because the law legaliZCs
and protects the sale ofrum as of cheese:
TO adulterate cheese would be fraud;
liquor poisoned with man-kilIiDg drugs
is sold under laws safely. The vocation
of the rum-seller is as safe at the hands
of the American people as that of the
teacher, and more reputable. 4 poor
rum-seller is myth. He owns and
rents blocks in every town. He thrives
beyond every other trade in the city
He plies his industry, and Golfers burst
with fullness. The school in the shadow
If his lofty structures is taught by one
who has given years to prepare for u
position compared with the rum-seller
menial and unrewarding. The gentle
manly and obliging servant of the peO-
pie, who dispenses rum, has position.
He is occasionally the direct means OF u
mans being drunken; but he apologize
the poor creature begged so hard he
thought he would let him have just one
drink one. Quiet, orderly. peaceful
voter, will you kill man because they
tease you T. do so? Yes, hut you do.
You allow rum-seiling, and you have no
doubt rum-selling kills; and you are
ever responsible for it-yOu are. ever
welding the government power in
America-the citizens ballot. Let the
words, am guilty of rum-selling and
the crimes perpetrated under the in
fluence of rum-selling, ring in the ears
of every voter. He is guilty-he en-
courages and protects it unless he man
fully fights it.-[Ex.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
Agents wanted (MnIe or Female, for
Belmont & Toledo Railroad

n pursuance of resolution of a majority OF
the Corporators of the Belmont and Toledo
Railroad Com pany, adopted at a meeting held
at st. Clairsville notice is hereby given. that on
MONDAY. THE 2STH DAY OF FEBRUARY.
1870, AT 8 O'CLOCK, A. NJ.
Books will be opened at the following named
places, or the purpose of receiving subscrip-
lions to the capital stock of the Belmont and
Toledo Railroad Company, to wit:
At the Office of Isaac Holloway, in the town
of Flushing, Belmont County.
At the Business House of Samuel Branson in
the town OF Uniontown, Belmont County.
AT the First National Bank in st. Clairsville
Belmont County.
At the First National Bank in Bridgeport,
Belmont County.
At the Banking House of Hoge, Sheets & Co.,
in Bellaire, Belmont County. and on
MONDAY, TIE 7TH DAY OF MARCH, 1870,
AT 0 O'CLOCK A. NJ,
At the Business House of William Alexander
in Uhricksville, TuScarawas County.
At the Business House of George Green in
Freeport, Harrison County.
AT the Business House of Hopkins & Wherry
in Mooretield, Harrison County-all in the
state of Ohio. Said books will be kept open
from day To day, between the hours of nine o.
clock A. NJ. and three o'clock P. NJ, until the
requisite amount of stock shall be subscribed
BY order of the Corporators, at st. Clairsville
the 10Th day of January. 1870.
ISAAC HOLLOWAY, Chairman pro tenn.
Ross ]. ALEXANDER, Secretary.
Jan.H-f
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

One! square (Ten lines Nonpariel, or less. .yona
or three insertions, 81. Each subsequent i'm
sertion 80 cents. -
per year.
Aerchants' advertising, not exceeding one
Ioqrth OF column at any time $50 per year
curing the year, sS5. A column, not over
once and half the rates of ordinary adyer.
tisements.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
Mi!Iiner and Dress-Making
MIs-Es B. 81 i. GATES.

M ~ EIs@ II ~ II. q 0AEES.
DESPECTFULLY announce to the Ladies of
II ST. CLAIRSVILLE and vicinity, that they
have removed to Mr. Kellers Rooms directly
over Bliss & COS Tin Shop, where they propose
carrying on the above business in all its vari-
GUS branches. The Ladies' are respectfully
elsewhere,
All work in their line will be expeditiously
executed in a neat and fashionable manner
and at very reasonable prices.
April Z lS70-tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

total cost ofiron-clad vessels for the navy
S35, ,S7i, ,064. Four of the monitors are
reported in commission, thirty-nins are
reported in good condition, aud one on
the stocks, two require repairs, and one
) incomplete.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

The total value ofimports ofdry goods
for March at the port of New York is
Sl2, ,993, ,l06. This. though S3@7, ,953 less
than these of March, 1859 is So, ,s2l ,452 IL
excess of those for March, 1865. The
amount entered for consumption, val
ued at S9,7o2, ,526, though a little less
than that for March, 1888 and about the
same difference of comparative totals in
favor of the past month is noticeable in
the amounts entered for warehousing
and withdrawn for consumption. The
total value ofthe goods thrown upon the
market during the month(Sl3, ,T95, llD
shows considerable increase rs com
pared with the totals for the correspond
ing months of the two proceeding years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

The most touching story ever told of
Abraham Lincoln relates how, q few
months after his death, negroes in Cuba,
recently kidnapped from Africa, and un
able to speak either English or Spanish.
were found wearing photographs of the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
8eImuut Gp. 8usiuess 9irsftnry
couNTY OFFICERS.

Icobate Judqe-A. w. ANDERSON. OLhc' s
un-stairs in public buildings, nrst door 70
NtSbe1iG-WILLIAMH II. HAYS. once IN Puoii'
buildings, first noor. o1,c.io nub.
Clerkof Cbrts-J. B. .CANPBELL: uni,se El1S pun
lie buildings, adjoining the court house. n,b.
A,ufltor-R. M CLARK. Office upstairs IL pun
lie building, entrance at let oooa. NJ in
TreasureT-JAMEs 1RwIS- Oinco on III 40
st reef first door West OF the Bank ,,,o
RecordeT-WM. H. BARNES. Onee e. IN Puoii.
bnii,iinp first floor, second door TO left.
Prosecuting Anorney-J. ~ SH ShASsoN' oA1o'
upstairs over Patterson's Drug SIore.
= fC,ns,aiSsioneTy James Alexander, BenalTe
Henry Frasher, Hendrysburgh; William M
"a, sslrpl,e,,or,NIoHN KENNoN, Bellaire, Belmont
County. pall.ire
Commissioners meet at st. Clairsville on tne
g. ,,o,aovs of March. June, September, and
Deem ber-and as Board OF EquailZalIon ol
the third wednesday of May IN eacn year. ysaIdo VS.
The probate Court meets on the nrst Iuesaays :
of January, March, May, July, Septetnpeii 81 no HS
November, as criminal court, ana is a." tinn ~
omen lin business hours for the transactlon Vi
other business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

The Secretary of the Navy has sent y
communication to the Senate in which
he shows that the total cost ofsea-going
monitors Nas ST., ,lS4,097. The total cost
ofharhor and river monitors was S., ,S70,-
ll3. The cost of light draft monitors
was Sll, $685. and the cost Of river
iron -clads was S., ,8s6, I53 81, making the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
Millinery and Dress Making
MISS T.. a. BUMGARNER.

MISS z. 4. BUMGARNER,
ID ESPECTFULLY announces to the pubic
II that she has purchased the establishment
of Miss Alban and Miss Mitchell. nearly oppo-
site Welday's Hall, where she proposes carrying
on the above business in its various branches.
The Ladies respectfully invited to giye her a
call. All work in her line will be neatly and
expeditiously executed.
Feb a lS69-tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The CHRONICLE is unsurpassed in this section
OF Ohio. 1t is printed on new, clear type, in one
ened Counties of the State and its circuIation
is STEADILY increasing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
REMOVED.

MISS NANCY B. FARIS, would inform her
WI old customers and the public generally. and
room formerly occupied by Watson & Gressin-
ger, West of the st. Clair Hotel, where she will
keep a full supply of MILLENERY,- FANCY
GOODS, and TRIMMINGS, fresh from the East
each season, to which she invites the attention
of buyers. Thankful for past favors, she would
invite those wanting HATS or BONNETS
MADE or TRIMMED, to call where they may
be expeditiously and neatly supplied.
mar2b 1865.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14
9pt9try,
y Millineru.
DRESS MAKING
kfSS II. j. HEiaSi )

MSS II. j. HESS.
TAKES this method of inforniing fine Ladies
i of ST. GAINESVILLE, and Nicihity, that
she is engaged in the Dress Making business,
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in that
line on reasonable terms. She may be found
at the East end of Town in the Hause owned by
Thomas Parker. noll-3m
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

Product OF Gold and silver Mines.
The report of Rossiter w. Raymond,
U. s. Commissioner of Mining Statis-
tics, has been transmitted to Congress
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and
ordered to be printed. 1t contains, in
addition to the usual current statistics, "a
large amount of permanently valuable
information. The Commissioner esti-
mates the bullion product of 1869 as
follows:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-14

A .'smile" that foretells sorrow-the
one YOU take in bar room.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-22
SESSION

AFIhtt1NOONo ESSlONs
On the reassem bling of the Convention,
nominations being declared in order, Gov.
Harris in eulOgistic terms nominated A.
T. Lacey, of Shelby.
Col. NJ. Magevney, of Shelby, asked
leave n was permitted to introduce the
following resolution, which was adopted
Be it resOtUed, That it is the opinion of
this Convention that Congress acted in
good faith toward the DISTINGUISHED peo-
pie of the South on the fourteenth day of
December, 1869, when it passed the fol-
lowing law:
SEQ 2. And be 1t further enacted, That all
persons from whom the disabilities imposed
by the 18th amendment to the Constitution
Oft United States have been or shall be
removed, and who have been or shall be
elected or appointed 10 any office OF place of
trust In or under the Government of the
United States, or either OF the States or Ter
~ritorteS, shall, before entering on the duties
thereof, take and subscribe the oath pre-
titled an act prescribing an oath of o flee to
be taken by persons from whom legal dis
abilities shall have been removed instead of
the oath prescribed In the act approved July
? 1867, untitled an act to prescribe an oath of
office, snd for other purposes, > anything in
any other act TO the contrary notwithstand-
ing"
After the reading and adoption of the
above, Colonel Mageyney put ID. X. Nc
Rae, of Shelby, In nomination.
Mr.. I. c. Lowe, of Hsrdeman, nomi-
mated George Dixon, Of shelby.
Colonel Magevney, by permission, with
drew the name of d.. X. McRae, of Shelby.
Mr.. A. l.. Warren, of McNairy, nomi-
mated J. f. Huddleston, of McNairy.
Colonel Robert Haywood, of Haywood,
nominated w. W. Vaughan, of Haywood,
accompanying the nomination with an
eloquent, sensible and timely speech,
during which the speaker took oc-
casion TO remind the Convention
4 - L. -.
all, whether Union or Secession, Federal
or Confederate, must unite for the COM
mon good. This sentiment was heartily
Endorsed by the Convention.
The nominations having been closed,
the hrs5 ballot was taken with the follow
ing result:
First Ballot-Shelby county voted as
follows: Lacey, 10; Dixon, g.; Vaughan, 2.
HardenIan county-for Dixon, IL. Fay
cite county-for Lacey, Al; Dixon, IL;
Vaughan, 8. Madison oounty-for Dixon,
10. McNsiry county-for HuddIeston, II.
Upton county-for Vaughan, g. Hay
wood oounty-for Vaughan, IL. Total
for Lacey, 2SH; for Vaughan, %; for Hud-
dleston, II. Total vote cast, 90; necessary
to a choice, Sc. No nomination.
The second ballot was taken and re-
suited in returns in every particular the
same as the first.
On motion, the name OF duddleSton, OF
MeNairy, was dropped, and the Conyen-
ton proseeded to the
Third Ballot-On this Shelby gave La
cey, IS; Dixon, g.; Vaughan, 2. Harde-
man gave Dixon, II. Fayette gave La
cey, *; Dixon, IL; Vaughan. 9. Madi-
son-Di1on, l5. McNairy-Lacey, 6;
Dixon, 8; Vaughan, 8. Tipton-Vaaghan,
6. HsyvVood-Vaughan, II. Totals: for
Lacey, 26K; Dixon, 3s1<; Vaughan, 81.
Fourth Ballot-Shelby gave Lacey 10;
Dixon, g. Vaughan, 3. Hardemsn-Dixon,
IL. Fayette-Lacey, AZ; Dixon, N;
Vaughan, Q, Madison-Dixon, 10, Nc