Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-05
News Items.

the would producing death. Bad health, IL
quor, and business embarrassment, are assign
ed as the cause
During the passage of the Baltimore ship
Kate Hooper from Macao to Havana, with a car
go of Coolies, the latter mutinied, Nov. 22d,
and got possession of the vessel between decks.
Tho ship was set on fire three times, and the Of
fcers were obliged to shoot fifty of them before
they could be subdued.
Ar old bachelor, living alone near Wheelin9.
was found in his bed murdered q few days ago.
His life had been taken for a hundred dollars
which he happened to have IN the house.
The Mobile Mercury boasts that in the action
of the Alabama Legislature, calling for a Con-
vention in case Kansas should not be Yecei we'd
into the Union as a Slave State, that State haw
lied off in Che Dance of Death to the Union.n
ToRoKro, Canada, Feb. III. McChesney, a
Inmber and coal merchant of this CITY, died
suddenly this morning in q dentists chair. Alter
taking Chlorcform for the purpose Of kayisx
some teeth extracted.
CHrSAsEN R~ETURNTwe.-Ths San Francisco
News Letter, of Jan. 5, says: aThe bodies Of
300 dead Cinnamon arc now lying on one of our
wharves, nicely packed and directed, ready for
81 ipmeDt to their long EoRe IN China. The
freight money on this lot is Il 500.
The total salaries received by the British
Cabinet Ministers is $2s9, 900 per annum; the
amount received by the President, Vice. Presi-
States: is $4,000.
n hONiElOA IA OSCiH III JHG GnHQCeI-
lor's Court, London, which will in effect inval-
idate all marriages by British subjects with N
deceased wite's sister, not only in Britain, but
all foreign States.
Sixty-four farmers, living in and about Mid
dietown, Conn, have given notice to the citi-
zens that, OH Monday, at IL o'clock, they will
come in with their ox-carts, laden with wood
and provisions for grutuitous distribution to
The poor, under the management of the Mayor
and a committee of citizens.
| The BATON Pou0a Ga1at+, aa-. .Lo4 n
gias has entered into a planting partnerships
with II gentleman of Baton Rouge, ami that the
negroes from his Mississippi plantation, re-
Gently SOLD, are to be transferred to that S tate.
According to an estimate of the Gazette, the
city Of Cincinnati has q population of PA. 900
inhabitants; an increase in ten years of over
$1,000. The value of manufactures and indus
try is set down at $50, 100000.
Probably the largest sale of slaves ever made
IL Virginia, lately took place in Brunswick
county. Ninety-six, of all ages, sizes and con-
dItlons, were sold at the unprecedented ag-
grcgate of about SIS 1000.
1t is unprecedented that the expenditures of
the Federalists for the fiscal year will reach
100000 900. Under The Democratic admins
tration OF Jackson the expenditures were loss
than thirty millions.
Col. Cross, an American, has recently arrived
from India, where he anlasSed upwards Of 81
3oo,OoO ami Is in treuty for the purchase Of
large estates in Yorkshire, England. The COL
onel left England in 17os, almost penniless.
General IIouston's bill to settle the Kansas
difficulties. is to have both the Topeka and tho
Ieccmpton Constitutions submitted at the same
time to a direct vote of the people, and tho one
that gets the majority of votes, to be adopted
by Congress.
Samuel c.. Wade, of Weymouth, Mass, in
tended to give his hand to Susan T. Merritt,
bat altered his mind and gave it to another,
and at the same time brought suit to recover
back a piano-forte which he had given the for
MGR, but the Court gave u verdict in her fla
vor' 4.i
The taxes of Nicholas ~Longworth, of Gin
cinnats, for the year 1857, amounted to tho o.
nermous sum of 523,405
Omnibuses wire first established in Paris, on
the 18th of March, 1862. They continued TO
run for several years, when the enterprise fail
ed; and the omnibuses were. forgotten for a
hundred and fifty years.
A German farmer, named Conrad, was sho,
dead in his own house near Chicago, a few days
ago, by 4 laborer, named Banner, whom he had
discharged. B. told Conrad, when discharged,
that he would not 1.-Two to discharge another
man." and in about three hours put his threat
into execution. H
A man at Lawrence, Mass, last week wsa
sent to the House of Correction for forty days,
for stealing a newspaper left at tho door Of q
subscriber. Served him right.
A young man, named Heiminway, who lcf
Halifax about six years ago, has Just returned
home with a forums of s3, 006, 600, got by keep
ing Il store in Australia.
One of the New York Herald's Washington
l correspondents whites that SteadmAn 81 Banks,
the recQutly elected Printers to the House, are
attempting to sell out to Wendell, the late in
cum5ent, asking the modest sum of $25o, 000.-
They estimate their position to be worth thai
amount, as they have not a press, type, or sheet
OF Paperin the way of material"
The Republicans in Congress viii oppose any
increase of the standing army, though they will
vote supplies and volunteers for the Utah war.
a recent decision of the Supreme Court OF
Indiana has suspended her pn 1lic schools. the
Court having decided that the tax for their
: support WAS unconstitutional. Great excite
ment is said to prevail in the State III eonse-
Guence thereof.
The Washington corresuondcnce of tho New
; York Tribune says that the War Department
+, has adviees which it dare not publish, commu-
nicat ing accounts of severe losses and suffering
on ;he part of the troops in Utah." We have
the same authority for the stataplent that it in
understood that Brigham Yoing can muster
5000 men.
A distressing casualty occurred at Brooklyn,
n. Y, Tuesday of last week. Public School
house No. Ia, the largest school building in
]. that city. being four story, brick, and covering
) a large plat of ground, took fire from the
heater. while it was filled with children, both
boys and girls. In the rush and scramble to
get out, s little boys were killed, having ; cen
either smothered or crushed t . death, and ma.
ny others badly injured.
VIM. Comstock, the cray wretch who muir
deled his father and neither in Hamilton, N. Y,
. says that during his bloody work, the family
dog, who was in the room, several times at
tucked him; that he tried to kill the animal and
get his heart, hut vas foiled in his ~sttemp.s
After he lay down, the dog sat all night watch
ingsby his lifeless mistress. During the whole
= examination of the bodies on the inquest, tLis
; faithful animal remained under the bed and
could not be removed from tae roem.
A duel was fought at the Chippewa Agency,
noar st. Paul, Minnesota, on the 18th ult., be-
tween Mr.. Griggy, a citizen of Cross Wing, and
a Chippewa Chief, called Hole-in-the-D Day
, At the first fire both were wounded. at the
second fire Mr.. Griggy was so badly wounded
that he with di1nculty could stand up for tho
third fire, but Hole in-ths<Day insisted on an
I other shot, and at the third hre the Chief fell
shot through the heart. So says the St. Paul
Pioneer. -.. - rr
A party of young men on the night OF lisa
4 january, at Whitewater, Wisconsin, was en-
gagged in giving a newly married pair-Mr. and
Mrs. Richard N. Pierce-a callithumpian ser.
enade, or in common p~arlanee, morning them.
When the din was at its height. Mr.. Pierce or
/ dered the party TO leave, which they declining,
i, he discharged his gun in the air. This only
inereaeed the excitement OF the horning pariys
when Mr.. p. re LOADED his gun and fired into
the crowd, killing one Of their number instant
ly.
q The ball given by the British Minister in
Washington, on the 25th ult-, is said to have
{ been one of the finest ever given in that city
the heads of Departments, Foreign Ministers,
General Scott and staff. &c. Sc Some of the
ladies' dresses cost thousands of dollars.
The Hon. Henry Winter Davis, Member Of
Congress from Baltimore, was recently invited
2 to address the Literary Societies Of the univer-
: sity of Virginia. The Richmond South called
for a withdrawal of the invitation on the ground
that Mr.. Davis il an Abohtionist. The Jofer-