Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-10-15


reliable source:
The Indians are again committing
~depredations on our frontier. On the
head of Denton and Clear Greek sew
eral families have been murdered, and
most of the stock killed OIL carried of.
Among the killed are Kilgore, Nc
Donald, Wainscott, Haynes, White,
Avis and Brady. The. neighboring
counties should try and send them re-
lief, as these depredations will be like
ly TO continue until the Indians re-
ceive a drubbing at the hands of the
whites.
The Frontier News Parker coun-
ty) of the 18th has the following para
graph:
We have just been informed hat
on last Monday week, a party con-
sisting ofsome four or five gentlemen
and two or three ladies', were going
out into Jack county On a visit; that
up north OF this, on the road from
Gainesville to Belknap, they had stop
ped at a place where there was wat
er, when they were attacked by sew
en- Indians and two of the men imme-
diately killed. The remainder started
towards their wagons, except one,
who caught up his child and broke off
into the brush, when the Indians, il is
supposed, concluding that the white
men who had run to their wagons
were going for arms, started off, but
attempted TO pursue the man who had
run off, who managed to elude them,
though not without having received
an arrow in one Of his arms, which
he carried fifteen miles before he found
any one to extract it. One of the
women also ran off into the creek
bottom, and bad not been found at
last accounts. 1t was not known
whether she had fallen into the hands
of the Indians, or had got lost. We
understood that one of the gentlemen
said he knew one of the lndians-that
he was a kickapoo and had eaten at
his house several times.
2. S-Since writing the above, we
have learned that the woman, who
it was feared had fallen into the
hands of the Indians, made good her
escape.
GOVERNMENTAL DRoNEs.-It will be
recollected that the Washington IN
ion, some weeks ago, Characterised a
large proportion of the Government
Clerks in the city as 'sniserable scay-
engers, who devote four or five hours
of Incidence at their DESKS" and de-
clared that sit is a notorious fact that
more than half the patronage OF this
Government is bestowed upon such
unworthy and untrustworthy men,"
AS an instance of an abuse of this
kind, we state the following facts
which have been communicated TO
US from such a source as to leave no
doubt of their correctness in all mate
rial points:
We are informed that a nea rela-
tive of a distinguished Southern poll
~tician has held a twelve hundred dol
lar clerkship in Of the Government
Bureaus for nearly three years,during
which time he has neverdone n single
days work in his office, although he
has regularly drawn his one hundred
dollars at the end Of every month";
For about three months last past, he
has illlCOo ShDSLllOtO Ut SiRtJ OhAA
per month; but daring all the residue
of the time he has received his salary
regularly, without in any way render
ing the slightest equivalent therefor.
Wash. Rep. z
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY in PnILA-
DELrmIA.-On Wednesday morning
Mr.. Scott, first mate of the ship Sham-
rock, lying at Race Street Warf, on
looking into the slate room of John
Smith,a carpenter employed on board
saw that it was empty, and that the
bed clothes were saturated with
blood. Under one of the pillows, .
bloody razor was discovered. A staI;h
for the missing man was Immediately
Instituted, and at last he was found in.
tins lower hold, in ar insensible copdi-
lion, and with his throat cut. A ply
stefan dressed the wound, and express
sed the conviction that it would not
prove fatal. Smith was the possess
or of a large sum OF. money, al OF
which is missing. The state room
gave evidences of a severe struggle,
Fhe first mate, watchman and Smiths
brother in-law, who were in his COM
pany the night previous, have been
arrested, though there is some reason
to suppose that he attempted 10 COM
nit suicide, and that after cutting his
throat he worked his way 10 the place
! where he was found. His wife states
that he had been melancholy and mo-
ping for several days. soa
The ATLANTIC TErEGRAPH.-The
electricians engaged on the Atlantic
Telegraph appear unanimous in the
opinion that the insulation Of tho
cable has become injured by being
suspended upon some projecting
point of a steep bank, and thus gra-
dually injured by its W weight. Tho
soundings taken a few hundred miles
from the Irish coast show that q bank
or steep range exists, the highest and
lowest points Of which are eight miles
apart, showing q difference in eleva-
ton ef 1900 feet, But no n can
form an idea Of the nature of the
ground in this intervening space OF
eight miles-wheiher the sides Of the
submarine mountain be broken by
ravines or PERCEPTIONS lifts, or Whsth-
ar ii be a gentle slope. This spot,
which is about 800 miles from The
Voienlia end of the cable, Is sup,
pos1d to be the one where the insula.
ion IF tba c,hfa bor baen ini,YrAd -