Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-16
washlns.en Items.
WAsHfNsros, April s.

Gen. Davis physical condition has be-
come more critical; he has lost the sight Of
one eye.
The two special com missioner to Utah
Messrs. Powell and McCuiloch- viii leave
in a few days for Fort Leavenworthi thence
they viii proceed with the rcinforcements to
Utah.
Another murder was committed in this city
Yesterday. Two brothers named Devtin
killed a man named Berry who has seduced
their sister.
Ex-Judee Loring, Of Massachusetts. II is
said. is appointed q 5 sub-Treasufer Oh
Boston.
.WAsHIreroS, April 7.
Mr.. Collins u. 8. Comm erciai Consul for
the Amoor River, has completed his ezplora-
ten and submitted the result to the State
Department, together with two maps, one
OF the Amoor river, and the other showing
the relative positions of Northern Asia and
cur Pacific coast.
a company had been formed and sanction
ed by the Emperor u Russia. and placed in
the special care of the Gov. General OF
Eastern Siberia, 10 Promote and develop
commercial and Industrial pursuits in the ba-.
sin of the Amor.
ME-. Collins shows the prospective impor-
lance of that trade to our country.
w~AsHixGros. April T.
Enough is known to warran: the assertion
that Gov. Powell and MajT Mct,ulloch,
Peace Commissioners to Utah. will be in
strncted to assure the M5rmons that it is not
the desire OF the President and q. s. ~autfiori-
-. - - q . sNr than hart IN sncura the
endorsements the laws. to which end they
viii be counseiied TO participate. The Com
~missioners will Also iaform them that some
troops will be retained in the Territory to
protect tae eafigrants to the Pacific agaiRts
the attacks of hostile Indians= The Com
nissionens will 20 with the next reinforce
ment to Uaah~ 80 49,
NEw YoRk, April 8.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald says:
The plan now entertained on the Admin
i~stra,ion side is for the Senate 10 recede
from is disagreement, and then amend
-Crittenden's Substitute with q view to a
possible accom- mediation; this movement,
however, viii depend on future develop
ments.
Mr.. Badger OF n. C.i= here, and says
Mr.. Gilner's District will sustain him in OPP
position to L"cotnplou. Mr.. Toombs says
the defeat Of Lecompton will lead TO an or
g1nized demonstration in the South, but Jas.
L. Petiigrew, a distinguished gentleman
from s. c., writes TO Nr. Crittenden that
the masses of the southern people cordially
adopt his proposition,
II is now known that Secreteries Cobb
and Thompson aud Senator Toofibs are the
southern gentlemen alluded TO by Senator
Iyeson, as having advised Calhoun TO certi-
fly there was a Free State Legislature in
Kansas.
Great excitement prevails in clark Co,
Iowa, in consequence of gold having been
discovered about eight miles north Oceola.
Men are engaged in digging. aud average
from two to five dollars per day.
Another volume of Bancroft's History OF
the United States, the VII, will be publish
ed by Little, Brown & Co., of Boston. Oh the
the LIST of May. Though the seventh of
Bancroft's works, il is the fret 0! the His
tory Of the Revolution,
The manufacture of watches is getting to
be a large business in the United States.-
at a single establishment at Waltham about
700 watches per month are now turned OUT
The revival in Philadelphia, the papers Of
that city say, is on the increase,
ARMY ADMINISTRATORS FROM Han
sAs AND SANTA FE.--ST. Louis, April g.
The Leavenworth correspondent oe the
Republican says that Messrs.s RasseA, Ma
iors md Mobile have received orders to start
one hundred and ten trains of % wagons
each. @
These trains luke upwards OF three thou
sand ~teaInsters, and eleven thousand mules.
A company of Sappers and Miners from
West Point had reached the Fort. zas5 s.
The entire force at the Fort, on the 9th
instant, consisted of twelve companies of
artillery, three of infantry, and two of dra-
goons.
Horses and muiss were arriving rapidly,
and two hundred and six. teams were ready
for service.
Hoffman'a command had passed Fort
Kearney. and was rapidly pushing onward.
A move ment Of troops TO take post IN a
new district of Platte to guard the route,
would take place in a few days.
The same correspondent says that a letter
ia in circulation for signatures, assuring Gen.
eral Calhoun of safety against personal Fio-
lence in case he shall return TO reopen the
Surveyor Generals office. Mayor Adams is
among the signers.
The State Central Commdttee had issued
a call for a Delegate Convention, to nomi-
nate officers under the Lcavenworth consti-
tuition, to be held at Topeka on the 25th
inst. 50
The sense of the people will be taken as
to who shall be United States Senator's
The Convention is to consist of one hundred
delegates, to be apportioned among the
counties, on the basis of twenty-one thou
sand votes to the State.
GoING BACK TO FIRST PRINc1PLEs.-Pass-
ing along the street yesterday, our attention
was suddenly drawn to u scene not q little
novel and Interesting in its character. In an
alley, Paste-po III hand, and a rclI of bills on
his arm. whom should we see but Wesley
Smead, Esq, of the Citizens Bank, posting
his own bills of properly for sale, for the
purpose of paying off the remaining debts of
the bank. Needless of tue wondering gaze
of the astonished passers by he laid on the
paste, spread out his bills with as. mnch IA
cility as a practieed Poster, taking care to
place them in the most conspicuous positions.
and above the reach of boys and rag pick
ers.
Forty-three years ago, DR., Smead was an
apprentice in the Gazette establishment. and
being the youngest the duty devolved upon
him of posting mp the show-bills, bills of sale
&c. AT this late period Of his life, when