Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS
The United States Supreme Court adj
journed on Saturday to the first OF De-
tober.
The Fenian raid on Canada is indefi'
nitely postponed.
IT is rumored that the Central Pacific
Railroad Company have purchased the
Cali fornia Pacific Railroad for three
million dollars
Comm issioner Parker considers an
Indian war inevitable, and that it will
be the most expensive and destructive
ever waged.
The results of the Richmond calamity
are 81 killed and 153 wounded.
The Missouri River at Fort Scott and
Galveston Railroad was, as,completed to the
Kansas State Line on Saturday, it being
the first road to reach the Indian Terri
tory. Regular trains will commence
running to-day.
The Treasury report for April is very
satisfactory. The public debt was redu.
ced by more than eleven and half mil
lions during the month, while the bal
ance ofcash on hand includes $50 900, 0OC
of free gold, nearly S34, ,000,00 in certili'
Gates and about $4,000 of currency.
This shows, for the month, Il reduction
of five millions in the certificates, and
an increase of nearly eighteen millions
in the actnal coin assets.
The new hospital of the Soldiers Ma
tional Home, at Dayton, Ohio, said tc
be the largest in this. country, will be
dedicated OH Thursday, Grantand Sher.
man are invited
The Treasury Department has reason
10 he pleased with its condition. In
April last year the public debt was de.
creased little over SC, ,000, 900. The
statement to be issued Tuesday morning
Will show adecrease ofat least S. 600, ,000
4,he Secretary issues orders tonight fol
the Nav programme. He sells 81, 900, 00C
of gold and buys So, 600, 900 of bonds dur
ing the month. which is an increase over
: April of 81 ,090, 900 gold and. s., 900, 00C
bonds. ID addition the Treasurer sold
$fe0a, 900 of interest gold yesterday, and
( wiz Tomorrow buy one million ofbonds
zea shat account.
On the Goth inst, near Assawan, Va,
woman named Ellen Bunting killed
an idiot named VIM. Onley, with whom
she had been drinking in her husbands
doggery.
The coin disbursement at New York
on account. OF May interest during last
week amountedto SIZE, ,407; other coin
interest disbursements Sll3, ,S5S. Receipts
ofcustoms s., 07,e99,52.
Collector Bailey's .,defalcation is
officially ascertained to be one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, as shown by
the final examination of his accounts,
justseoncluded. His sureties have been
notified to make good the amount, and
il is believed that they will respond to
the amount Of their respective bonds
without waiting for a suit to be brought.
Contracts for the completion of the
Chesapeake and Ohio road from Gauley
to the Ohio Zone hundred miles, have
been awerded, and the time fer their
, fulfilment fixed, under heavy penalties,
at May l, 1871. The contracts for the
heavy work on the line from Gauley
es stward have also been let. This
portion of the road, owing to the tun-
neling heavy cuts aud embankments
along the route, it will require two and
a half years to finish. About two thous-
and laborers are already at work, and
their number will be increased to six
thousand within two weeks.
sAIhe Engineer Department will short
ly commence work in rebuilding Fort
Sumter, which yet remaius in the con-
diticn in which it was left at the close
of the rebellion. 1t is proposed to use it
as battery rather than as a fort, aud
consequently the works will not be re-
built in the original dimensions, but
of less height aud greater thickness,
and better fitted to Withstand the
effects of continued commandment.
Much of the original material is availa-
ble, and the expense of rebuilding will
not be eXorbitant. It appears lit and
proper that the Government should
again establish this defense, not only on
account of its value in time of war, hut
for reasons of national character.