Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

FRIDAY last, ana attempted TO nre the DulldInS.
A sum of money aud a roll of postage stamps
which he had stolen were recovered. He has
been committed to Jail,
The Charleston Mercury very frankly says
THE Democratic party must be a Southern party
or no party. 1t cannot serve shareholders and
also frec+soilers with their arrogant and ruinous
pretensionS. --H- H .
The grand jury at Norfolk, Va, have found
a true bill OF indictment against 5. Dlnen-
burg, who keeps a clothing and a shoe store in
that city, for seditious language, calculated to
incite insurrection.
Asa A. Gore, of Preston, Conn, died in that
town on the list inst, at the age of eighty-one
years and five months. He Was the last survi-
yor OF the Wyoming massacre, having been
carried away when "a child, in his mothers
arms. His father and all his relations, but his
mother, were killed. =..I ."- Hl ..ar...
The Trinity Church office, in New York, was
robbed last Sunday night by burglars, who stole
$500, and plate. tiagons, cups, pitchers, &c, to
the amount of $500. The plate comprised the
entire communion service at st. Paui's Church,
and had been in use in that congregation many
years. ..4.r.a e. .s.g -,.s. ... -...H
On the 9Th inst, Martin Van Buren, passed his
18th year. He lives in quiet retirement at
Undertook, very seldom away from home,
and coveting no attentions of any kind. He is
seid to BE- writing a memoir of his times, and a
curious book it will be. -.. 800. ,
Sir John Browning. the English Governor OF
Hong Kong, is an a~poligist for the opium trade.
In u letter to the home government he says
that the injurious effects of opium have been
greatly exaggerated that the evil produced is
nothing in comparison with those resulting
from the use of intoxicating liquors in England
and elsewhere. 'E
AS old John Brown is called Ossawatomie
Brown, a correspondent of the N. Y. Evening
Post suggests that old Wise should be called
What-an-ass-amie Wise. -
The Richmond Enquirer thinks that the ma
tional protection is what slavery wants. The
Mobile Register laughs at Virginia, and sa VS.
''more slaves are what is wanted. Let the
democracy carry the country next year, and per-
haps both Virginia and Alabama will get their
wishes.
AT Indianapolis, Dec. Z, an Irishman, named
Patrick Quinn, murdered his wife in mn awful
manner. He is in prison. .H
Immediately after r~esolvieg to buy no more
goods at the North, Gov. Wise expended S25,-
900 in Hartford buying Sharpe's rifles and re-
volvers to arm the warriors of the old Domin-
ion, and now the Rockville ! Conn Republican
says that the American Mills in that village,
have an order from the South for cloth for the
uniform of a military company down there.
which is. scared up, probably by the John
Brown affair.
The term of Gov. Wise expires the first of
January He has disposed of his estate in Ac-
comac, and VIII locate himself pcTInantly near
Richmond Hon John Letcher will enter upon
his duties as Governor of Virginia, the first
Monday in january.
Boar CArsIzED THREE PERSONS DRowYEp.-
During the prevalence Of the storm on Friday
last, a small fish boat from South Haven, in ell
deavoring to make st. Joseph, capsized, and
her crew, consisting of a man named Purdy
and his two some, were lost.
Fernando Wood is reported to be SO i'll with
brain fever. that he will hardly recover.
The procession which followed the remains
of Mrs. Fernando Wood to the grave, was
two miles long according to the New York Iri-
bune.
Miss Ann Benton of WapeIIo. Iowa, drowned
herself recently through fear that she was not
loved at home rs much, and was not us useful
as her sister.
a key of powder with a slow match attached,
was found under the Il tzette building, at Nash
vile, Tenn, on the 18th inst. Supposed to
have been Il plot to blow up the editor.
~SlGNIrIcAxr-The Liverpool Times naively
remarks The British public must sigh, as
they f:inember she quiet days ofold Louis Phil
ippe. He was selfish and insincere, but he was
not pugnacious. We had no dread of an in
vlsion in his time
A German s~ilversmith of New York, who of
tered to walk |arefcoted from the st. Nicholas
to the Astor House, accompanied by IL band of
music, in case Haveneyer was not elected May
or, fulfilled his promise on Tuesday, to the edi-
ticltion Of an immense crowd of spectators.
SURPRISING SEDtriox.-A locll agent of the
National Era, in Maryland, has been thrown in
TO Jail on the charge of circulating incendiary
documents, sid documents being copies of
the Era.
FORREST DIVORCE CASE EFT vexed question
of this case has been settled by the referees APP
pointed, who decided that MIR. Forrest must
pay his divorced wife S4,O 900 IL year from the
time of the divorce. which, together with the
costs of the suit will amount to nearly $780,
OO0 Mr. Forrest however is worth half n
million.
Six young ladies, most of them belonging to
Philadelphia, took the white veil in the Catho-
lie Church of Reading on Thursday last. The
ceremony was exceedingly interesting, and was
participated in by a large congregation. A
great many clergymen were present.
Twenty years ago the number of colored men
in Canada West was 3, 400 now there are more
than 40, 600. In four months after the passage
of tho Fugitive Slave law 10, 200 poured into
the country.
The John Brown fund has already reached
nearly $4,000. His family will probably get
from various sources, at least Sl0, 900. A writer
in the New York Tribune suggests a So, 600
in memory of Brown.
Capt, j. Egbert Farnum, formerly comman-
der of the slave yatch Wanderer, was arrested
i'll New York, Friday, and on Saturday remain
ded by Judge Belts to the custody of the U. S.
to be taken to Georgia for trial.
1t is proposed in the Virginia Legislature to
negroes competent witnesses in case of in
This change might be found very
Inconvenient, should the negroes exercise their
new privilege in denouncing their masters as
conspirators,
The Nashville Union AMI American is con-
vinced that some wag has been poking fun at
the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, when he
five of the Tennessee delegation to
charleston will support Douglas"
DAN. E.. SIcKLEs, who murdered Keys, enter
aimed the House Tuesday, upon the Helper
His reception by his brother Demo-
rats has been quite chilling.
Reports from Washington assert that Doug
as has made his peace with the administration
Forney and Others of his frieads refuse to fol-
ow his lead into the camp of the enemy.
It will he well enough for all who talk about
to remember that in both branch il
IS of Congress the 'irrepressible conflict was II
pened and is being continued by southern n
The Republicans are there to vote al
nd to work, but the Administration party is ht
onsuming the time with avowals of disunion ne
and speeches tending to a weaken y,
lg of the bonds of the government. tr
The Legislature of Kentucky proceeded, on ra
londay last, to the election Off United States in
to fill the seat now occupied by Mr..
The vote stood--for Vice Presi- Re
John G. Breokinridge 81 for Joshua f. ~
late candidate for Governor, 90. Majority an
II breckenridge %. du
Theodore Sedgwick, an eminent member of co
10 New York bar, and U. S. District Attorney
II the Southern District of New York, died on Me
le night of tho 9Th inst, at Stoekbridge,
LASS ]
The grandson of Tecumseh Is now living in ito
atchez, Miss, He is q well educated and ac- mo-
gentleman, having travelled over a COT
eater part of Europe. He is Il physician, and rec
said by the Free Trader to be an excellent SdGs
lie. In his pharmacopeia is a lot of medical Hes