Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-11

a bill in Opposition to lotteries; and
it is charged, instead of
working for the passage of the bill be
actually secured its suppression, and re-
ceived for his services a thousand doll!
lars from lottery men in Cincinnati
For some reason it devolved upon the
Cincinnati Commercial to mako q speci-
atty of the matter, and thesey charges
were from time to time reiterated in its
columns. COrcOran could endure It no
longer; and SO, week OR more ago, he
rose to a question of privilege, and after
denying the charges against him pre-
ceeded in the most scathing manner to
retaliate, upen the Commercial editor
Mr.. Hafstead. L make the following
extract:
sAif the parties concerned have again
and again, unequivOcally denied the
base charge, which had and has to sus-
tain it but the venemouS and irrespun-
sible assertions of Mufat HaIstead: and
those who know him best would not
believe him under oath. The vices of
other menare Halstead's virtues. Base
ness IS an instinct i'm him. The i'm
pulse which drives irhim from one in
Iadxersity TO onein prosperity is as In
tgesistible as that which drives the swaI-
low and butterfly toward the sun when
the. gloomy winter days arenear. z. sai
No one escapes his indiscriminate
abuse and shameless Inendacity. The
aged father of the President, stricken
downby disease; tottering on the verge
of the grave; Senators of this General
Assembiy--nen of untarnished honor
tandsuninIpeaehible integrity; the hon
ored speaker of this House-all have
beensmaligned, abused, yiilifed, and
tealumniated by this yenal seribbler,
who shrinks from no EN- ployment,
however Infamous, when others equal
llElbase ara willing tOienploy him.
= Mr. fCoseoraH then proceeded to at
tack Halsted's private character, and
teEen that of his family. SFhe above,
te6m pared with other parts OF the
lspeech, is mild. Corcoran after his
lspeeoh,,o hurried of to Cincinnati, had
. 1.-THE entire speech published in the En-
qRirer, and awaited a challenge from
the fighting editor. But no challenge
came, and the Representative return
led in triumph to the Capital. II, One o
RI his colleagues having intimated tha
there was truth in the C0D1n1erciGP
charge, an investigation was demand
{ ed. and.a committee was appointed
5 with power to compel the attenslaRe
: of witnesses, The Investigation begal
. Last Friday, and is still in progress
: The proceedings are kept secret. sd
!, GEOLOGICAL. 7a8il
} The Senate has taken action on til
!, question Of continuing the State Gee
Survey. The first bill was tha
fof Mr.. Wales, proposing Simply to cor
!, ftihue the survey till June, 1873. NJ
= Stimson introduced a bill providing #
a State beard of ritanagers, to be con
lposed of the Governor, School Commi
T lsioner. and Treasurer of State. Aftt
IS Esome discussion relative to the worl
x olings of the present corps, the substitut
- was adopted, and the bill in that shat
passed. It.has not yet been considere
e ip, the House. 1t is TO be regretted tn
p Eftnere have not been that harmony an
= mutual good feeling among our Sta
lei GeOlOgistsi which the best interests
It klse enterprise demand, Many of I'll
legislators, on. this account, .spea
m strongly in favor of a change in IL
"a corps. But this, too,<SYould be atten'
rsted with difficulties. l3i3 Is lsss,. iii
II MR.. BINGHAM's SPEECH D. 81
,k4at; the OperalHouse, on the evening
day of the Convention, was one
~ his best efforts. He spoke in an eas
,55 fyet firm and diguifed manner, wi
10 but little of the impulsiveness whi'
= usually characterizes him during p
: l4itical canvass. The speech was well j
~ eeiVed by the large audience, and W
N lin all respects worthy of theutoccasi'
II which called itfOrth.a h.a3Iet = .E@
- It's sometimes said that Mr.. Bin
- ham when preparing his speech
IL devoted his whole intention to the {
tnEgirneht,5 ireiyInga entirely hnpon I
re fhougf fits finding accurate and eloque
,aa lex preston ia a spontaneo How
tielIanguage; that he spends no time
!; z rounding periods or conjuring up t
II II fdeviees Of rhetorica Rev. Mr.. 'Pitte
ba I9er says something of this sort, il
= mistake not, in his work on Oratory,
al 1T Is safe tosay that Mr.. Bingham
recent speech was carefully write
lcommitted to smemOry and spok
a;Ikalmost word for word. Copies of t
"a Ispeech,Here sent to the Cincinnati j
IL lpeFs before the meeting began, and t
nsireports of the next morning gave [
hslspeech precisely as delivered. l..G.
w /. Most of the so-called Dispatches
ect the Cincinnati papers are sent down
IN the evening train, and then briefly ST
au pleinented by telegraph. This does
< well as any other way, of course, b
MOI ldDesn't coinport well with the Nigh
Drf ideas which people sometimes ent
inf tain of metropolitan enterprises. Il
for % THE SCHOOL BILL
yet so,hnodihed as to be but little me
siiEthan a codification< of the exist
Ich School Laws, has passed the House.
ish contains 1853 sections. +" .'.i
up, TR-s 20 IiiR a,tttffRRfoAl a,tttffRRfosAlDDi.f1 - ~"
US @ Fhe GAINESVILLE and Saltwater V
ar ley Railroad Company has filed cert
or cate of Incorporation. Capital sto
" $400, 200, to be divided into 5000 sha
of $40 eallars each. .s.aut.1li
-, = . 8sedf sflTFIE NUMBER liisHi ~.
: 't"l of Bills introduced in the House tt
nd far Is 1885, '.-''i iii'Fl ~. -
at .,,a ~ ! A1i1iAi---> 1i'1I~i--e'
pa pa POLITICAL REFLECTIONS
nAStas.I faeiS29l) --r--4-i ,i5eHas.i
-of1 ii by WILLIAM nLoY
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