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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
A Mountain of Gold.
From the Kansas City Times.


Miners from the great San Juan
mines of Northwestern Colorado say
that gold in marvellous quantities has
been discovered in the Sangre de Chris
to range of mountains, which lie on the
eastern border of the San Louis Park
and about IS miles west from Puebla.
The first discovery made on this range
was in November, 1874, since which
time the Cambria, Hidden. Treasure,
Little Giant, Jackson, Centennial and
Revenge GOLD lodes have proved them
selves of great value. Returns from
three of these mines tested in Swansea
showed from $40to $3.50 gold per ton,
showing some silver in each. The
Jackson lode, since the above test was
made, has given ores that assay from
$1,000 to 800 gold per ton. A stamp
mill of ten ton daily capacity has been
been erected at this mine and will be
in operation by MarIh next. Over 200
tons of this gold quartz ore is now on
the dump, from the mines on the San
gre de Christie, which will be reduced
next season. This gold belt, as far as
prospected, extends from MOscO Pass
twenty miles north.
South from Del Norte thirty miles,
lie the gold district of Alamoza, Sum-
NIT, Telluric and Decatur. Perhaps
South Mountain, in Summit district,
affords the best yield of gold in that
vicinity. A correspondent of Den
yer paper says that it is one solid mass
of gold quartz. Mr.. Harry Ansit, one
of the returned miners, who has pros
pected i'm the San Juan country for the
last three years, cOrrObOrates this state
ment. He says that South Mountain is
about two miles long, and that there is
but one true fissure vein in it; yet all
OF it, the whole mass, produces gold
more or less rich. 1t is upon this
mountain that the famous Little An
ME lode is located, one-half of which
was recently sold to parties in New
York for $3OO,OOO. This mine, avera.
ged, will run about $40 per ton.
Silverton is one hundred miles west
from Del Norte Juan county, and about
fifty or sixty miles south from Silver
ton are the La Plata gold mines, situa-
ted on the La Plata river. There is Q
gold bar running along the margin OF
that stream, about five miles OF which
has been taken up, and last season
considerable amount of placer Mining
was done. A system of bitches has
been constructed, and next season
promises some lively placer mining at
this point. -,
But it is to the quartz lodes that the
miner looks for permanent, reliable
returns, after all, and here we have the
Comstock mine, discovered by Captain
John Moss, an old California miner,
which perhaps is the richest gold mine
or the continent. One hundred pounds
of gold quartz ore taken from this mine
in October last netted 81 800, while ore
taken out in the following month ran
sl20, 900 per ton.
About twenty mines are being work.
ed in the San Juan country this sea-
son, and their winter products is vari-
ously estimated at from S60O,OO0 to
81, 100000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
A BAD LOT.
Those investigators.
lGath in the Graphic. ]


Congress is in bad blood? You see it in
the faces of the members. The pot thought
to call the kettle black, and receive no damage
in return, and the kettle retorted with vigor
The Democratic party is being investigated on
the score of personal character, and the very
committee which has proceeded with such
precipitation against Belknap is itself riddled
with exposure.
Investigating the Investigators.
Robbins, one member of this committee, re-
ceived a bribe of $40 while State Senator of
North Carolina, and was censured for it by
direct vote of that body. He says it is con-
doned by his subsequent election to important
trusts; but this merely shows the insenate
character of his constituents, yet this man is a
demagogue of the hour, and is one of Clymer's
committee which exposed the Belknap ladies.
He was bribed for low figure-less money
than negro legislator would consent to re-
ceive-but he rises in Congress and says the
exposure of his real character will not intimi-
date him from doing his duty. Robbins is
like the condemned felon who is pardonded to
fill the Office of hanguRn. A hangman let
him be; for of all men in the investigating
business he is best qualified for the work.
Blackburn's character is understood by the
whole country, but it has also appeared that
he is relative of that infamous Blackburn who
sent clothing impergnated with yellow fever
into the cities of the North. The evidence in
this case was presented during the trial of the
conspirators against the life of President Lin
coin. Trunks of the infected clothing were
stored in Washington City. This crime
against civilation was scarcely more atrocious
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

THE following were among the curl
Gus relics on exhibition at the Martha
Washington Centennial Tea Party at
the Academy of Music in New York,
for the benefit of the floating hospital
of st. Johns Guild: The chair used by
George Washington at his inaugura-
tion; lock of George Washingtou's
hair; Washington's coat and vest but
tons; Washington's queue tie; Mrs.
Washington's scarf; part of dress worn
by Mrs. Washington the day after her
wedding; Washington's wine coolers;
table used by Washington at Hacken-
sack; shoe buckles worn by Washing
ton; Lsfayette's camp bedstead; three
chairs used by Charles Carroll, of Car
rollton; official copy of the trial of Ma
jor Andre; com mnission issued by Gov.
Hancock, 1889; two letters from Aaron
Burr, 179S; the rifle used by Patrick
Henry, IVA; musket found on the bat
tle-fleld of Bunker Hill; sword used by
British officer at Bunker Hill; letter
of Secretary of War Kuox, 1871; Penn
sylvania scrip, 1775; commission of an
officer in the Royal Artillery, signed
Marlborough, Duke; watch owned by
Gov. Fitch, of Connecticut; two letters
written in camp of the Revolutionary
Army; part of bed-cnrtain presented
by Lafayette to Mrs. Washington.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
Relics Of Washington Going to
Philadelphia.

DIR. A. w. Washington, grand
nephew of Gen. George Washington,
the nearest living relative to the father
of his country, and resident of Deni-
son, Texas, ships tomorrow box con-
tanning the following articles for exhi-
bition at the Centennial: Gen. Wash
ington's court suit of brown silk, sup
posed to be the suit in which he was
inaugurated. Ivory seal, set in gold,
presented to Washington by Gen. La
fayette. Sword presented to Washing
ton by Gen: Darks, the famous Indian
fighter, before the Revolution. Knee
and shoe buckles, and, most valuable
of all. twelve autograph letters from
Gen. Washington to his brother Sam
uel, dated between 1772 and 1888, some
from Mount Vernon and some from the
field, and all giving Washlngton's pri-
vate views of the war then waging.
i Galveston News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
The Old Red Cent.

The history of the old red cents in
such common use before the war, is at
tracing much attention at this time.
The honor of the invention of this spe-
cies of coin is given to Robert Morris,
the great tinancier of the Revolution.
These coins we're first issued from the
mint about the year 1872, and the are
now vecy rare. Since the daWning of
the Centennial year two of them have
made their appearance, and it was the
fortune of the writer to see one. The
peculiar coin in question is the proper
ty of Mr.. s. d. Sholes, of the Alleghe-
ny Council. On the diverse or front,
it has an impression of the Sun and
Dial, under which are written the
words, Mind your Business and on
the sides, 'Fugio' and 1872 On the
reverse side circle of thirteen rings,
on which is stamped united States
and in the centre, we are One.' 1t
has always been. understood to have
been designed by DIR. Franklin. Such
ia correct description of the first cent.
In this Centennial era correctness in
matters of history is important.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
BELMONTCHRONICLE.
ST, GAINESVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY. MARCH 23, 1876

JUDGE BLACK thinks it will take something
more than the Belknsp scandal to float the
Democrats into power. When asked by q
correspondent of the Philadelphia Times if
he did not think the exposure would give the
Democrats the country, he replied: ''No, not
of itself, l hardly think so. In order to car
ry an election by excitement it is necessary to
keep up the fever-heat motive power" When
asked if he did not believe there was material
for helping up the fever heat, he said: "Well,
now, yon see by what mere accident this
has come out, and how hastily they are
covering up the debris of the explosion al
ready. 1t was nothing but a quarrel between
two women-Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Belknap-
which brought out this thing; a quarrel while
they were in Europe, possibly having its oc-
casion in some deeper scandal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

If Philadelphia was to throw open
her hotels and boarding houses, free of
charge, to all, possibly many people
would be gratified, but unfortunately
this is hardly practicable, yet it would
seem to be the wish of certain newspa-
pers and their correspondents, who
day after day grumble about what the
Centennial visitors will have to pay for
board and lodging in this city. These
things will be charged for as they are
everywhere, and always, according 10
the quality. We have in Philadelphia
hotels of every grade, and to suit all
pockets. The prices are and will be
just prices, and nothing more can be
made out ofthe matter.-[ Philadelphia
Press,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
How to Carry an Ok to Market.

This from correspondent at Rivere
du Loup, Canada.
When the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada was completed in 1860, many
farmers had never heard of, much less
seen, railway, but it soon got report
ed around that passengers conld travel
by it, and even cattle. A backwOOds-
man, who was indebted to acountry
merchant was pushed by the latter for
payment of the amount due, and the
only means of liquidating the debt was
by taking fat OK TO the Quebec mar
ket. For this purpose he tied his OK
to the back of his cart, and drove to the
railway station, a distance of nine
miles. On surveying the train and
seeing an iron railing around the plat
form of the hind car, he concluded that
that was the place to tie his OK, which
he accordingly did, taking a place in q
second class car himself forward. Pres
emily the train began to move off slow
ly. The speed increased; quicker and
quicker it went. The poor man got
very fidgety, the speed still increasing,
until large drops of sweat became visi-
BILE on his brow. BY this time the
conductor had reached his car to collect
his tickets. Nearly out of breath the
man ran to him, exclaiming:
My dear conductor, my OK will nev-
er be able to keep up to this pace; it is
not possible
'Your OK! Keep up TO this pace!
What do you mean? L don't under
stand you. Have you ali OK on bOard:'
Not on board, of course. / tied him
to the railing of the hind car
you tied your OK to the railing of
the hind car? Who told you to do so:'
NO one; but that Is the way we al
WAYS do in the country
OF course the conductor could not
stop his train before reaching the next
station, when, needless to say, on look
ing for the OK, they found attached to
the rope pair OF horns, with small
portion of the neck.
Mr.. Bergh could scarcely call this
cruelty to animals, as it was not inten-
ded.
The humane conductor made a col
lection amoung the passengers on the
spot, realizing larger amount than
the OK would have brought at market,
which he presented to the crest-fallen
farmer, who Immediately returned
home, vowing he would never have
oxen taken to market by railway again.
He has kept his word, and to this day
he leads his OK to market behind his
own cart.-Harper's Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

THE Washington Chronicle says: The House
Committee on Patents have refused to permit
the further perpetuation of the great sewing
machine swindle. For some years the poor
er classes have been the victims of extortion
upon the part of the combination of sewing
machine manufacturers. Controlling the pat
ents for the 'four motion feed;"' they kept
the price up to sixty dollars for a machine
that cost about ten dollars for manufacture.
Immense fortunes have been made at the ex-
pense of sewing women and the wives of me-
chanics, who were compelled to do their own
sewing. And these monopolists have had the
cheek to come before Congress and ask for
renewal of their privileges. The committee
have administered a proper rebuke, and next
year the best sewing machine will be some
thing that the poorest laborer can buy without
feeling the cost
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
A School Of fSbeDherds.

A school of shepherds is established
at the national sheep farm OF Bamboui-
let, France. In this school young
men, over fifteen years of age, are in
structed in all the arts of sheep hus-
bandry during term of two years.
After passing creditably through this
term and a final examination, the
graduates receive certificate of capa-
city, and the most capable are reward
ed with prize of s75; the second best
receive s.. They then become appren-
tices, and can either go to keeping
sheep for themselves or seek employ
ment from owners of fiocks.-Am.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

TIE resignation of Gratiot Washburn, son
of Minister Washburn, aud Secretary of Le-
CATION at St. Petersburgh. is understood to
have been presented in obedience to an impe-
rative parental request. Minister Washburn
heard nothing of his sons connection with the
business Of the circus, for which he adver
tised while at home, till the reports reached
Paris in American papers. Minister Wash
burn undertook Immediately to find out the
facts. The proprietor of the American Cir
Gus denied everything, but the tell-tale adver-
tisement sufficiently testified to the young
mans act. Accordingly Mr.. Nashburn tele-
graphed his son at Berlin, while the latter
was on his way to st. Petersbugh, sharp de-
mand for resignation, which was complied
with. Mr.. Washburn was satisfied from his
inquiries that Gratiot had been tnoughtless
rather than Intentionally wrong.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

Maryland could not see her way to
giving more than $4,000 to the Gen.
tennial show.
The eminent Swedish paleontologist,
Professor Nils Peter Angelin, died at
Stockholm on the 18th of February, in
his list year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

Professor Eaton, whose microscopic
revelations aided materially in the
conviction of Rubenstein, has sent In q
bill for $3.50 for making the analysis.
Prime Leopold of England, like the
Prince of Wales, has gone into Mason
ry. He has just been made Master OF
Apollo University Lodge, at Oxford.
Entertainments are given in the
Southern States, the proceeds Of which
are to go to build home for the daugh-
ter of "Stonewalr Jackson at Rich
mond, Va.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

SCIENTISTS are not agreed az to
whether it was u shower of butchered
cows or frogs they were favored with
in Keneucky last week. A facetious
journalist suggests that the fiesh-fall
was from flock of spirits who got
fooling so much with materializing
that they couldn't getall of themselves
back into the spirit state before their
toes and fingers fell off. Or might
there have been, he asks, prize fight
in the moon and some fellow got
knocked clean over the side of the lu-
minary and come down like sausage
meat?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has presented to the Mary
land Legislature a memorial, of which
we find the text in the Baltimore San,
asking for refund of $3.50, 1856 paid
by the company for the difference be-
tween gold aDd United States currency,
as advanced by the company for pay
meht of interest on the States sterling
bebt in London. The company urges
in this behalf that as it was compelled
to receive United States currency for
freight and passenger traffic it should
not be obliged to pay in gold, at high
premium, its obligations to the State.
The memorial alleges that summary
of the transactions of the State and the
railroad company shows the State to
have received from the road, from its
inception, a clear net gain of $S,577.-
316,SS. This large revenue has come
from the two hundred and fOrty-tive
miles of road within the state of Mary
land, including alt branches, while in
the District of Columbia, Virginia,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois the road owns and
works twelve hundred and fifty miles
of track, thereby contributing from
these great arteries incaiculable treas
ure to the commercial interests of Balti-
more and, generally, to Maryland.
Allusien is also made to the roads
terminal facilities at Baltimore for ship
ment of Western grain by means of the
stupendous grain elevators of the COM
pany at Locust Point, and the thereby
addition to the States commercial i'm
portance.
The memorial also alludes briefly to
the fact that Baltimore city is prOprie
tor of the company's stock to the
amount of 50, $50, 900, from which there
has been for many years an annual
dividend of 1925, 900. 1t is also suggest
ed that the chief source of revenue for
the Johns Hopkins University is its
accruing revenue from stock liz the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
as bequeathed by Mr.. Hopkins for that
great tbenevolence-that revenue being
now to the amount of $3.50, 900 per
annum.
The memorial also asks the Legisla-
ture to relieve the company from pay
ment of one-t fifth of receipts from pas
senger traffic on the Washington
Branch from the date when the COM
pany reduced its fare on said branch,
after the Superior Court of Baltimore
city decided that the One-tifth eXactlOn
of fare from passengers was illegal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
ADvERTIsIGN RATES.

THE l4th of April next, the anpiver-
sary of the assassination of President
Lincoln and of the emancipation of
slaves in the District of Columb a, is to
be a general holiday for all Govern
ment employees there, in order to en-
able them to participate in the dedica-
ton of the monument of Abraham
Lincoln, erected in Lincoln Park by
the colored people of the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

A convention of railroad officers of
the principal railroads of Canada and
the United States was held at Cincin-
natl, Wednesday of last week, for the
purpose OF arranging summer sched-
ules. Last summers schedule was
adopted, with few unimportant modi-
fications, to take effect April 6.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

IT was John Adams who wrote:
"But let us take warning, and give it
to our children. Whenever vanity and
gayety, love of pomp and dress, fur
niture, equigage, buildings, great COM
pany, expensive diversions and elegant
entertainments get the better of the
principles and judgments of all men
aud women, there is no knowing where
they will stop, nor into what evils,
natural, moral or political, they will
lead us.O
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

Gov. Tilden, of New York, has COM
muted the sentence to death of Michael
Murphy, convicted for the murder Of
Mrs. Hugus, at Nannet, April IS, to
imprisonment for life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
moral perceptions on fiat irons and spikes and
Mr.. Pendlet0u.

Mr.. PendletOn.
George Pendleton appears in the character
of Lord Mohun. George Pendleton is fascl-
mating voluptuous man, superior and 1reer IN
his manners than western politicians; good
looking, moderately rich, cordial, but unscru-
pulous in politics, and deserving the name OF
Gentleman George quite as much as George
". who was called '.the first gentleman in
Europe" Pendleton's brother-in-law was the
insinuating Philip Barton Key, who died in
the Rogers mansion, where Belknap went to
keeping house on his arrival in Washington.
| remember the latter once saying to me: ''The
old house is had luck to everybody who lives
in it. Everybody who has resided there has
either died, or lost wife, or something. MIR.
Pendleton is fond of wine, cOquetry, and
society. and has also shrewd business wit,
particularly on schemes bordering between
politics and business. Whether it will be
shown that this bill before the Secretary of
War had any reference to meeting Mr.. Belk-
knaps affianced in Europe, or that the meeting
was incidental and bill logical, l do not know.
But he invited Mrs. Bowers to join his party
at Paris and proceed to Rome, and she was
good deal elafed at the incident. gave some of
her friends hasty ''shake," and set off. Pre-
viously she and Mrs Marsh had fellcn out and
really hated each other. That quarrel was not
made up Mrs. Pendleton was with the party
some of the time, but not all the time after
they reached Rome. There are Americans
here who saw Mr.. Pendleton and Mrs. Bowers
on promenade frequently together. She made
the usual mistakes of new dynasty in suppos-
ing that there was some social superiority in
the decaved regime
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23


IT is common to say the greenback notes
are secured by the whole wealth of the Ma
tion. In what way are they secured by it?
They are not redeemable at any particular
time, and the Government may consequently
postpone their payment indefinitely, 10 mat
ter how able 80 pay. They are not a lien or
mortgage on property, and even if they were,
there is no chance for foreclosure. They are
not as well secured, in fact, as the French as
signats, which were based on real estate, near
ly quarter of the entire property of the ma
tion being pledged for that purpose. The as
signats became absolutely worthless, and so
would our greenbabks but for the efforts
which have been made and are making to
maintain the national credit 1t is not the
amount of property there is in the country
that regulates the value of the Nations prom
ises, but the faith it keeps in making those
promises good. Credit is therefore every
thing inpublic finance, and to improve, re-
store and maintain credit are the first consider
ations of financial policy. Credit, in fact, is
of more value than all national possessions,
and is the keystone of the financial ARCH
o. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23

The Democrats are trying hard to make
people believe that Preaident Grant frighten-
ed Marsh, the witness in the Belknap case,
away, when the fact is Clymer, the chairman
of the committee, had discharged Marsh, and
went so far as to help him collect his fee in
order that he might get off on the first train;
and that he actually did get off before the
President knew what the charges against Bel
KNAPP were, or that Marsh had testified before
the committee. 1t is also fact that the
President or Attorner General issued no order
whatever in the ease of Belknap. The truth
is, Clymer, for reasons that may hereafter ap-
pear, was anxious to get Marsh out of the
country, and he succeeded. The result is a
flat failure, so far, in the prosecution of the
ex-Secretary. The Judiciary Committee have
the articles of impeachment ready, but no ev-
idence to place before the Senate-Cin. Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-03-23
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

belmont Lodge, No. l6, & A. NJ. meets ev.
icon. H. r. BUMGARNER, W. N.
3 H FERRELL, Sec'y.
It. Clairsvilie Chapter. No. IL Royal Arch
hascns meets Sd Friday night each month al
a Clajrxville and the lst Friday each month
- Bridgeport. JAMES CLARK. ID. Z.
Z. h. FERRELL, Sec'y.
Belmont Council No. 81 Royal Select anc
Super Excellent Masters, meets on the second
RuSzdsy nIgl,t of every month.
c. W. CARROLL. T. ]. q. NJ
y d. BAILY, Rec.
Nope Commandery No. 26 of Knights Temp
sYs, meets IN the first TUESDAY night OF every
month. A. ]. BAGGS, I'm Com
=, D. BAILEY. Rec. marlEA