Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-02-07

your cast OF garments, and you'li
have the satisfaction of knowing,
when old and gray-headed, that you
would have trained up useful mem
Der of society had he not died just as
he was getting well broken In.
Manuscript Found i'm q Drawer.
The late Edgar Allen Poe wrote
some curious stories in bis day, and
among them q story entitled manu-
script found in q bottle.' We were
about 10 head this article with that
caption to Poe's story, for on thinking
over the subject matter of what we
propose to relate it really seems as if q
bottle must have had a great deal to DO
with the concoction. There was in all
probability not only one bottle but
several connected wit the writing,
losing, finding and publishing OF the
private memoranda that appears IN
the Cincinnati Enquirer of Saturday
last, in the shape Of a letter from
Columbus, wherein is related some par
ticulars OF a visit to the Hon. David
Wagner and the Hon. Ross j. Alex
ander, at there homes across the water,
a short time before the meeting OF the
Ohio legislature. 1t seems by the latter
made public in the Enquirer, that some
ago an electioneering agent (some
time people would say sntemissary twas
sent out from Lancaster, Ohio, In the
Interest of General Tom Ewing, green
back candidate for the United States
Senate, whose mission it was TO &c
from county to county and feel the
various Democratic members elect IL
the interest Of General Tom. Natu-
rally, and we might say irresistibly
he came to Belmont, to see the mighty
men who had upset things there last
fall and redeemed not only the county
but the Senatorial district from Repub
lican representation in the last legis-
lature. 1t was the custom in old time:
to travel q good piece on foot, or on tht
back Of donkey, to see men OF heroi'
achievements-ac custom that has IL
these latter days degenerated into tne
practice of sending the donkey instead
OF the man. At all events, we presume
that the Hon. David Wagener and the
Hon. Ross Alexander, after reading
the EnQuirer's revelations, would
unite heartily in characterizing the in
dividual who was sent to see them OF
behalf of General Ewing as donkey
of the most approved Andalusiar
pattern. Here is the memoranda tha
the said emissary made (and fail
ed to destroy) in regard to his visit t
the statesman of West Wheeling and
the philosopher and orator of Bridge
port. For the enlightenment OF the
reader we will explain that X means
Ewing, Xxx Pendieton, and XAH
General Morgan:
DR.. John Cook, great friend of Alex
ander. who nominated and supported
him. Wagner belives Cook to be fol
Ewing. Wagner will at an early day
see DR.. Cook, and learn his views
Alexander declares he will vote fol
Xxx, and, if he can not get Xxx, he vii
then vote for X. He will not vote fol
Xxx iH any contingency, because o.
his salary grab and bis refusal to vote
| for Vallandigham, "a said he would
not vote for Xxx If any person would
show him that Xxx acted coTTrNptty il
the Kentucky Railroad matter-feeli
most friendly toward x. The tall
with sA' was full and open, and yer!
friendly. When it was suggested Il
him that VIC hoped matters might 81
shape themselves so that he could b'
! found fighting with us for X on tn,
FIRST ballot, he smiled and half assent
etf.
/ seWagener says that If "A, don't vot
for x, he'can never expect TO succeed
In this county again, and he (Wagener
thinks "a viii yet vote for x on tn
first ballot.
4 Wagner is an undoubted X man
Ialthough he did not say so, but ever.
word, suggestion and act were convinc
ling of this fact. He viii see Danfor'
Ion Thursday. January 3D.. He says i
sDanford' promised. .,he(D.) will redeem
MS promises to \, and finally told M
that he did net think it was neeessar,
to see 'Danford,' as he thought he wa
all right fork. 3asliS uf% ~ ~
| Frank Mckinney was over there 70
Xxx land Was the man who .fred "A
upon some prOmise). Both Mex. aR'
Alex. sought to deceive Wagner as t
the mission of Mckinney, which t.
my mind speaks volumes as to tCh
operated on A. II
If we can ascertain what Alexande
wants, we can capture him sure
Wagner, Danford and Alexander vii
reach Columbus on January Sd, ant
WAGNER will stop at the William
House, No. 120 North High street; s.
will William johnson, of Tuscarawas
johnson Is for xxx, beyond all hope
\ of recovery-so says Wagener. l-,
In explanation of the appearance o
this 'priuste memoranda in print, W,
learn that the Andalusian who got /
up left his manuscript in drawer il
his room atone of the Columbus hotels
, and after the defeat of his man LETT bi
quarters for home, in such state o
I utter decentralization as to be perfect.
Indifferent and Oblivious In regard t
all vestiges of the contest, and thus hi
memoranda fell into the hands of
successor who thought it would lool
well in print.
There is only one inquiry that W,
arise to make on this occasion, ant
that is as to what it was that Operated
on the mind of Mr.. Alexander to detacl
him from cooperation with his Sena
torial neighbor. 1t Is intimated tina
he was fixed for Xxx (whtever tina
means) upon some PROMISE
, further appears that he was party t
an attempt to deceive his Senatorial
,llegue as to the mission of Pendle
IONS man, which fact is put down a
speaking volumes as to who operated
on him. Why, we ask, did the Hon
Ross Alexander seek to deceive th'
I Hon. David Wagner? Why as I
neighbor and friend did he not et
that the latter as himself was dUl,
n 'fixed.' This thing of one man goinl
to the Legislature 'fixed,' and an
other, from no fault on his part, lef
Rnixed, strikes US as circumstanc,
| that calls loudly for an explanation
Will the Hon Ross Alexander vouch
a'e light to waiting public?-Intelli
u lgencer.
/ Sixty five Of the eighty-one live
Host at the Ashtabula disaster have beer
paid for by the Lake Shore and Michi
i gan Southern Railroad Company at ,
rate averaging S.. GOO apiece. The mos