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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

BULFoRD WILSON gave his testi-
mony before the House Whisky Com
mittee, Thursday. He said letter
written by him had been falsified by
the introduction of the letters w. H.,
referring to the White House, and in
that condition had been shown to the
President. Mr.. Wilson said that there
was no lack Of cooperation on the part
OF the President in the whisky cases,
generally, until Babcock became in.
vclved, when coolness between the
White House and Treasury Depart
ment arose. The President said that
he believed Babcock innocent, but that,
if guilty, he was the most guilty wretch
in the country, and that no punish
ment could be too severe for him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
Charged with Robbing the Mails.

John Reeves, for thirteen years an
employe in the Columbus Post.office,
his service extending through the
terms of three Postmasters, was arrest
ed, on Monday, for or ening letters and
abstracting money. More than six
mouths ago, losses in the mails were
reported by the Columbus office to the
department, and, since that time,
Special Agent Henry and the Post-offies
officials have been engaged in patient
but difficult investigation. At last sus-
picion fell on Reeves, and he was
shadowed and watched through per-
foraied walls and places. He adroitly
avoided great many deeoys, and, al
though detected two or three times of
late in opening letters, was not caught
in the act of abstracting money until
now. When charged with tine crime,
he confessed. He was taken to Cincin-
natl and upon arraignment before Com.
missioner Hooper, he waived an exam
ination, and was committed to await
the action Of the Grand Jury, which
meets in October next. Bail was fixed
at at t$5,0OO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

JOHN KELLY was one of the numer-
Gus Vice Presidents of the Tammany
Hall ratification meeting. At St.
Louis John could not have got certi-
ficate for common honesty from the
New York representatives of the Til
den interest, while the forces he mar
shaled to defeat the nomination of Mr..
Tilden were pointed out as the most
disreputable representatives of the
slums of the metropolis. Since the
Convention the Tildenites seem to have
undergone marvellous change of opin-
ion. John now trains in the company
of the very elect, and would undoubt-
edly be as welcome at the Executive
Mansion as Augustus Schell or August
Belmont. And Tammany! bless you,
there is not short-haired member OF
the organization who is not shivering
with apprehension lest the patriotic
scheme for reforming the Government
by the election of Tilden should mis-
carry Cincinnati Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
And Still They Come.

MAJOR P. Fl. GRADY, war Demo
crat and veteran, of Albany, N. Y.
has just been elected Captain of a Til
den club, and, in letter to ex-Mayol
Perry, President of the Club, declines
the position as follows:
Ialways l have been a Democrat, and
have not been accustomed to boltine
regular nominations; but I have also
been a Union soldier, and 1 may as
well confess that find it very difficult
to work up any great degree of enthu.
siasm for a Presidential candidate who
pronounced the war for the Union 9
disgrace" failure" and who did
all he could to discourage enlistments
to the army in field. AS war Demo.
crat l claim the right to vote for pat
riotic and honest Union soldier in pre-.
ference to man whose selfshness and
partisanship has always been more con.
spicuous than his patriotism; and l
claim further: that do not forget my
rights as member of the Democratic
party by doing so.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
TiIden.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Democratic.
ITC CouLDN NOT BUT BE THAT A MAN
EDUCATED IN CUNNING, IN HYPOCRI-
sY, IN INIoUITY, NOMINATED IN COR
RIyPTIoN AND SHAMELESS EFFRoNTE-
RY, EVEN THOUGH HIS MILLIONS
GUILD ELECT HIM, WOULD GIVE US
THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINS
TRATION THE COUNTRY HAS
EVER KNOWN.
The Campaign Challenge of 1876.
"Name single reform in doctrine, lao or
sspractice that the Democratic party has indu-
s.gurated and carried ont since 1910. O."-Sena-
tor Sherman, July, 1876.
Shame one single good act Of any kind that
''hse Democratic party has performed IN t'oer'-
ty.fve gears. Senator Morton July, 1876.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

THE Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
does not take much stock in such 'sre.
formers" as Wilson and his co-intrig.
uers. Hear it:
sit is amazing with what devilish
ingenuity this man Wilson perverts
the truth so that offences perpetrated
by him and his confederates are made
to appear as acts of virtue, while the
Presidents righteous acts are represent
ed as efforts to cOuntenance frauds of the
worst description. 1t is fact, beyond
all question, that when the eternal
truth respecting this whole business is
made clear in the interests of Justice,
instead of being dribbled out in frag-
ments which are distorted by personal
hate and partisanship, the Presidents
conduct will be proved worthy of the
highest praise, while Wilson and Var
yam will be proved to be tricksters.
Pratt will be shown to be weak tool,
and perhaps even Mr.. Bristow will be
revealed as a man who sought personal
aggrandizement at the expense of the
public interests.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
SpefiaI Nufifes.
Few Things THAT We Know.

We know that disordered stomach or liv-
er produces more suffeEjng than any other
esuse;-we know that vesy few physicians are
ders;-we know that DaCasto's Radical Cure
will, without the shadow of doubt almost
Immediately relieve and permanently cure all
OF these distressing symptoms;-we know Of
thousands who are willing to testify that what
We say is true to the letter;-we know that if
your name to the "cloud of witnesses Will
you give us a trial, and do it now? Trial size
25c- Sold by HOGE, the Druggist, oppo-
site the St. Clair Hotel.
Prof Parker's Pleasant w orm Syrup IS per-
fectly safe, extremely palatable No physic
required-eosts % cents. Try it. -.
lime 1876 -'-a--'-=-s -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

THE Sandusky Register has this to
say of the gushing Lamar, whose Gre
dentisls are sealed by the blood oil
black Mississippians: "While all due
credit should be given Congressman
Lamar for admitting the unjustiiable
strocity of his white friends in the
Hamburg massacre, it is well to re,
member that no other ex-rebel now in
Congress is so thoroughly the repre-.
sentative of Southern outrages, White.
League prostitution of the ballot-box
and intimidation of poor blacks, as this
same Lamar. His crocodile tears at the
grave of Sumner, the victim of bully
Brooks, or his apparent grief at the
Hamburg atrocity, cannot and should
not blind us to the fact that Lamar has
been elected and now claims seat in
the Senate of the United States on a
local majority obtained by the grossest
frauds upon and violation of the ballot
box"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
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Prophecy by Carl schurz.

From Letter in the N. Y. Stats Zietung,
July 26.
1 will hazard prophecy as to what
the future has in store for US. / should
not dare promise the people an ideal
political situation if Mr.. Hayes be cleo
ted; but as regards the three points
which the address of the May
conference touched upon, the following
appears to me as sure as anything one
can ever count upon the future: Q)
The application of the whole COnstitu-
tional power of the Executive to secure
a prompt resumption of specie pay
ments, and apparently an agreeable
majority in Congress. (2) A wedding
out of bad officers, and subsequent
carrying through OF his programme of
civil service reform on the part of the
President, as far as his constitutional
powers will permit him. The employ
ment in the public service of not one
moro party agent. The abolition of the
booty system. Opposition to these re-
forms on the part of the booty politi-
clans in Congress. The overthrow of
this opposition at the next Congress
sional elections. (3) An intelligent
execution of the laws, Joined with q
just, conciliatory, and honorable policy
toward the people of the South.
In the event of a Democratic victory:
Q) A soft-mOney majority in the House
of Representatives. Efforts on the
part of the President in behalf
of. a resumption of specie pay
ments, which are ruined by the major
ity in the House of Representatives.
A continuation of our uncertain fnan-
cial position for an indefinite length OF
time. In case of the succession of Mr..
Hendricks to the Presidency, universal
confusion aad revival of the imitation
ists' plans. (2) The wedding out of
the bad officers, but also of the good
ones. A Tremendous, irresistible rush
of otfice-seekers from South and North
to divide the booty. A substantial con-
tinuance of the booty system and the
civil service as party machinery, and
all the decentralization which would
flow from that sundry efforts in the
right direction, borne down by the
pressure of partisan interest from all
sides. (3) The rousing of false hopes
among the lawleSS element in the
South by their party victory, and the
increase of terrible excesses and reac-
tionary efforts, in spite of the desire OF
the government and of the better part
of the Southern people to suppress
such disorders.
This is my view of what would result
from the triumph of the one or the 9TH
er party. You may hold a different
view; time will tell which of US is
right. May the sequel not prove inju.
rious to the public veal.
Very respectfully yours,
C. SCHURZ.-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

result? 1t was to be expected that this
complete overhauling of every depart
ment of public affairs by hostile in
quest, armed with full powers, and
bent upon making the worst possible
showing, would develop many things
that would put Republicans to blush.
And yet, after every corner has been
thus searched, the result has simply
proved the general honesty and good
management of nearly every branch of
the government. Aud when the few
cases of fraud discovered are held up,
honest men should remember that
these are everything that partisan in
genuity, clothed with full power to
examine, could discover in seven
months of persistent labor. Forty
committees working night and day
through these long months have devel-
Foped only what is before the country.
Have they not made the conclusion in
evitable that in the main the Republi-
can administration of affairs has been
honest as government under our syS-
tenn can be?
Instead of proving the existence OF
general Republican corruption, have
not these committees fairly proved the
reverse?
AN OHIO WORKER.
The people cf Ohio, and indeed of
the whole country, are under deep OBJ
legations to representatives DanfOrd and
Harris for the efficient work they have
rendered in connection with this pro-
longed and most laboriOus investiga-
ton of the wide field covered by the
term-the Navy. In too many of these
House investigations the Republicans
have allowed the Democrats to have
their way. After struggling for time
to extort fair and decent treatment
from them they have virtually aban-
dondoned the field, and allowed the
testimony of such witnesses as have
been described to be loaded into the
record by the volume, uncontradicted
and unquestioned. This is now being
hurried through the press, to be cited
on the stump as evidence taken in the
sight of every department of the gov
lernment, ,and by them allowed to stand
without even an attempt to dispute it.
But Messrs. DanfJrd and Harris pur-
sued different course. They have
fought unfairness and injustice at ev-
cry step, and at the expense of eXces-
sive labor, and in the case of Mr.. Dan
form, through long attack of sickness,
they have waged continued battle
for fair play, and, in degree, have
compelled the majority to heed them.
The result is that the truth goes out in
measure with the enormous mass OF in
Justice and unfairness, to which no one
term applies so we'll as falsehood.
Few men in the present House have
done the Republicans more valuable
service during the past session than
those two gentlemen. III. V. B.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

In the Senate debate over the Ham
burg massacre, Mr.. Nor rison took Sen
ator Morton to task for frequent refer
ence to the late war, and the answe
he received is worth noting:
My friend says 1 referred to the war
Is not the war constantly forced upor
US? Is not the War the cause of all thi
objection Are we not, to-day, deal
ing with the results of the war? Ger
tainly we are. We want peace. No.
body wants it more than we do. am
sure the Republican party desire il
quite as much as the other party do;
am afraid very much more, and why :
There are slaughters going on in the
South from time to time. Need ]
mention the Mechanics Institute in
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Coushatta
Red River, Colfax, Clinton and Ham.
burg, within few days ago, where the
blood is scarcely cold With these
things happening from time to time,
because we raise our voice in objection
to them, and say that we ought to pro-
tect those people, and that they ought
not to be murdered, we are charged
with reviving the issues of the war,
and calling back memories of the war.
1t does not lie in the mouth of the
Democratic party to make charges
against US on this subject.
We are just on the eve of a great cam
paign. speak what is in the mouth
of everybody when L say that Demo-
cratic success in that campaign depends
upon carrying Louisiana, Mississippi,
Florida, North Carolina and South
Carolina, States which are largely Re-
publican, having an aggregate Repub-
lican majority OF nearly 100000. Their
chances Of success depend upon over
coming that majority, and how?
AS it was done in Mississippi last
year, as it has been done in Louisiana :;
and the campaign has recently been
opened in South Carolina by the events
at Hamburg within the last ten days.
Give us peace, give US fair election,
give US protection to men of all parties,
to men of all colors and races, and then
we shall have quiet, and no more will
be heard but as long as these terrible
events continue we must be expected
to raise our voices against them.
And we must do something more
than "raise our voices"-we must act.
These massacres must meet with the
punishment that such crimes deserve.
The cold-blooded murderers of Ham
burg deserves hanging as richly as
Sitting Bull, for the slaughter that they
planned was more deliberate and more
nexcusable than the slaughter of Gus
er and his troops. 1t is the hope of
hose gentlemen in the South to recov-
'r South Carolina for the Democratic
'arty as they have recovered Mississip-
ii and to dissipate the 100000 major
ty in the five States mentioned, by
daughters like those of Vicksburg,
and Colfax. The Govern
nent which permits such course, can
ommand the respect of no one. We
ave made citizens of the colored peo-
lie, and we must protect them In the
lghts Of citizenship. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

The following official statement of
the expenditures of the Government
from 1869 to 1875 inclusive, shows the
utter falsity of the Democratic charge
that the Administration is plunging
deeper and deeper into extravaganza
each successive year: In 1869, $780,
49e, ,S54 95; in 1870, s164, ,421, ,5O7 Is; in
1871, $157. $50, 1927 5S; in 1872, SIG, ,2O1,-
s56 10; in 1873. $3.50, ,4SS, ,696 60; in 1874,
sI94, 1886, and in 1875, s171, ,629, ,S4S.-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

THERE is little doubt of the serious
consideration of the proposition among
leading Democrat to depose Tilden
from the head of the ticket. They find
he is too heavy a load to carry. His
railway steals in the West have exasp-
Grated the Grangers. His completely
with Tweed has disgustcd all real re.
formers. His relation to the perpetra.
tion of election frauds in New York by
Tweed and his gang in the fall of 1868,
when he was chairman of the State
committee, and for which he was de.
nounced and held responsible by Gree.
ley in an open letter, brands him as ut.
terly unprincipled and unscrupulous.
AS Mr.. Greeley then said to him in
speaking of the frauds of 1868 50 his
Democratic friends may say to him to-
morrow: ION the principle that 'the
receiver is as bad as the thief you are
as deeply implicated in them to-day
as though your name was Tweed,
O'Brien or Oakley Hail." 1t is no won.
der that those Western leaders, who
feel that they have b.en tongue-tied
and ignored at st. Louis, are now rest
i've under the exposures of their reform
candidate that are coming to light.
They are now clamoring for Hendricks,
and even threaten in large numbers to
bolt the ticket and vote for Peter Coop
er and greenbacks if Tilden is not de.
posed or the platform changed. The
Democratic committee here is already
issuing separate editions of the finan-
cial and Chinese planks of the platform
to suit the different localities. Tilden's
INSCRIPTIONS hand and ill-gotten mon.
ey are apparent in this way of conduct.
ing the canvass.-[ Washington Repu6.
icdIl.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

On Saturday the Republican Central
and Executive COMMITTEES, and num-
Der of prominent Republicans from
various parts Of the County, met at the
Office of w. S. Kennon, Chairman, for
the purpose of completing the Repub-
lican ticket, by the nomination of a
Commissioner and Coroner.
1t was a meeting composed of many
of the best mon in the party and was
such an one as to inspire confidence in
the complete success of the party, in
the coming elections. Many good
names were canvassed for the Commits
sionership, and finally the Committee
fixed upon Hiram w. Smith, Esq, a
prominent citizen of Martins Ferry, as
the man eminently suited for the place
and his nomination was accordingly
made by acclamation. Mr.. Smith is
one of the firm of Smith and Gray, OF
the Commercial Bank, of Martins
Ferry, and is one of the staunch business
men of that growing young city. He
has for years been one of the most &C.
tive parties in advancing the material
interests of his adopted city, and has
spared neither time or money, to as
sist in the building up of her mills and
workshops, and all of her varied in,
dustries. He is thorough business
man, careful, prudent and economical,
and is in every respect, well qualified
for the onerous and responsible position
of Commissioner: better nomination
could not have been made.
Thomas Garrett, of Bellaire, who has
twice been elected as Coroner, was re-
nominated by acclamation. He has
proven himself a faithful officer in
whatever positions he has held-in the
Union Army a gallant soldier, and he
carries to-day the marks of his fealty.
Besides all this, he is an answering
Republican, a clever gentleman, and
one worthy of the united support of the
party. Let him receive it.
Our ticket, with the exception of our
Judicial nominee, is now complete.
1t is good one and should command
the hearty endorsement of every true
Republican. No dissensions should be
encouraged in our ranks. 1t is time
when Republicans everywhere should
be united, for only by unity can we
succeed. Close up the ranks, bury per-
sonal matters, and let us march in
solid phalanx to victory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03
TAMMANY resolved that il had &C

TAMMANY resolved that it had "s
most intense desire for purified Ad
ministration. The old "boss," with
whom Tilden was so intimate, who
stole so many millions from New York
and who now escapes from the peniten'
tiary through the connivance of Tilden
always had an "intense desire for 8
purified Administration" so intense
in fact, that he preferred JEFF. Davis te
Lincoln.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

BLAINE was charged by rumor will
receiving few thousands from rail
road company, and the Cincinnati Con
vention did not nominate him. Tilder
was charged under oath, in court, with
embezzling 81 100000 from a Western
railway corporation, and he was nomi
mated by the Democrats. That is Just
the difference between the two Conven.
tions-Neao York Commercial Aduertis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-03

THE report that General Crooks
command had been defeated with
heavy loss, on Goose Creek, and driven
back, is now ascertained to be an exag-
gerated account of his first fight with
the hostile Sioux. A dispatch from
Fort Laramie states that Crazy Horse
is coming into Red Cloud Agency, and
is anxious for peace.