Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-10-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Congress in California whose life has been ter
minated in a duel. One of the first members
elect from that State. Edward Gilbert, was
thus killed; Joseph McKibben, the late mem
Der, was challenged, but the difficulty was adj
justed by friends Herbert killed a waiter at
Wizards Hotel in Washington City, and Sem
ator Gwin has been in hot water for a long
time back.
-Four hundred slaves weekly leave Missouri
for the far South, while not a dozen are brought
into the State during the same time. The teti-
dency of Missouri is rapidly and surely toward
emancipation from the burden that hampers its
efforts and paralyzes its energies.
1t is stated that the Masonic fraternity con-
template the raising of Il fund of 500, 900, O
portion of which is to be devoted to the build
ing of Il Masonic temple at the seat of Federal
Government, and the Revenue to be derived
from 1t to be applied to the purpose of establish
ing a house for the support and education of
the orphan children of deceased Masons.
The colored people of Canada have been hol-
ding a meeting to consider the expediency of
seeking a new home. They propose emigra-
ting to Jamaica, West Indies.
Private advices from California to the 18th
ult. have been received at Washington, stating
that the excitement growing out of the death
of Broderick was increasing hourly, and aps
prehensions are entertained that it may lead to
other and serious difficulties.
Mrs. William P. Dana, of Perry, Me-, has
preserved and put up during the past season
tfty-seven hundred thousand pounds af straw:
berries! Three tons of preserved Strawberries !
Add the same quantity of sugar., and we have
nea.ly six tons of preserves.
There are in Selma, Ala, fourteen Artesian
Wells, which have an average depth of about
four hundred feet,
Thomas H. Clark of Tuscaloosa, Ala, an old
revolutionary soldier, died recently, in that
vicinity, at the advanced age of 90 years,
The Louisville Courier estimatcs the total loss
1- fro Sn flnH ~ on afrTr1 ~ VnTahf nf bio
the telegraph advised us, at S120, 600.
Mrs. Mary Stafford has bequeathed to the
Methodist Chtfrcit of Savannah, Georgia, a
handsome residence worth SO, 900, and seven
teen slaves.
Pnn4DELpu1A, Oct Pc C. Wilson, AID
jutant General Of the State of Pennsylvania,
has taken 40 muskets, which were in possessions
of a colored military company that paraded in
the city a few months since.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24.-An accident occurred
last night at Union city, caused by the explo-
sion of a camphene lamp one child was burn
ed to death in its mothers arms, and four ofheE
persons were badly injured.
At the last State Fair of CaIffofnSa a cabbage
was exhibited that weighed 6fty-three pounds.
That was beaten, however, by a beet which was
exhibited last year, at forty two pounds weight,
and then repllhtcd, and grew to one hundred
and fifteen pounds.
NEw YoRK. Oct pa letter from England
by the Ocean Queen says, Mr.. Ten Broeek'S
horses Starke and Prioress were beaten in rum
ning--for the Casarewitch stakes at Newmarket
on the 18th, Stark coming in fourth and Prior
ess fifth. The race was won by Sir w. Booths
mare Artless. 1la- rt
Frederick Tarr has been arrested at PffladcfI
phia for passing counterfeit gold coin, and Wm.
Conner for manufacturing the same. They are
supposed to belong to the gang who have been
flooding Washington with bogus coin.
L. S. Mail Agent, d. A. Williams, was shot
and mortally wounded at GarlinviHe. H., Fri
day evening, by a prominent commission mer-
chant of that place. The perpetrator it is sup
| posed left for the South.
The Opposition party of North Carolina have
/ called Il State Convention to meet IN Raleigh on
the I'D of February next, to make preparations
for the campaign Of 1850.
John Scylas. IF Rochester, committed sui
eide on Tuesday, because his wife refHEcd to
sign Il bond and mortgage ON their homestead,
to enable him to raise some money TO pay a
debt.
The telegraph has announced the decease of
the Hon. John Y. Mason, of Virginia, oar Min
lister to France, who died ut Paris, on The fin
inst, Of apoplexy.
Seven thousand PERSONS from the Isle of An
gleses alone. attended a great revival meeting
at Bangor, Wales, ON the 2lst ult., at which,
70, OGO were present mall. The revival in Wales
has not the same symptoms of the great mental
excitement which attend the same correspond
ing movement in trclanl.
Tic Louisville Journal SAYS that the Mormons
are all in faycF I'll. MY, Douglas frr the Presi-
dcncy. They are cmphaticllly SqHattcr-Sove-
( rCigltF men. They want no outside powers Of
infiurntt interfering with their polygarny, or
: any of their other institutions.
r. On the 9th nit. some eighty prisoners at
tempted To escape while Engaged in isadseE a
schooner at San Francisco, by securing the cap
tain and cutting the ftrtcnjDes uf the buat.-
tThcy were discovered and sired into with a sig
J poT'ndrr loaded with grape aEsi canisecr. One
of the prisoners was killet ami six others mor-
tally wounded. light shots wcrc fired.
WilMlvGTav. TT. oct. 2I.-About II o'rI'k
tbs morning ionrof Dupnnts Powder Mills ex-
pInGc,l. killing seven Of the workmen, They
! were leading cart with powder inst AT the time.
but is net ksGsh whether the Gss oFiE5Aated in
one Of the mills ~ at ihc cart. The horse at
t&ched To the ealt ras Also Killed. The names
of the killed have not yet been ascertaincd.
The Baltimore sun learns from the census
tlrat there are not less Sllan 30 O09 s5;sres. OF
whom probably 5,eG0 are Htn, IN tAR sOssaEies
of L0don. Jefferson. Herkley and Frederick, is
Virginia. and in the counties Of Frederick and
Washington, in Maryland, or within twenty
miles of Harpcr's Ferry.
ScnsxroS. Pa, Get. 2t.-Thc boiler of fhs
locoIHo tive Virginia. belonging to the Delaware
lLackawana and Western r. r., exploded R'tis
yard ut this place, abDnt one o'clock this after~
noon, Robert StaTIctt, the engineer. w. Brown
nrcman, Mr.. SWartI, Formerly OF MOSCOW, "a
and two others whose names are unknown,
were killed. The engine is a complete wreck.
The cause of the explosion was a pressure OF
steam.
Gov. Wise, IN the course Of conversation with
Old Brown. told him he had better be prepar-
ing for death. to which Brown responded that
he (the Governor, though he may live fifteen
years, would have Il good deal to answer for at
last, and bad better he preparing now too.
Gov. Wise Speaking of Brown, says lie
rs tee gaplest mau I ever saw"
BALTlMoRE. Oct. pat noon to-day, in the
Maryland Penitcntnsrv, a convict refused COM
plying with the orders of tAe Deputy Warden,
who, whilst enforcing the command, was seize@
by this conySet and stabbed twice in the neck
Gregory Correct, another officer Of the Peniten-
tiary, fired two shots at tAe Fysoner, hnfiCting
a fatal wound and died almost instantly. tits
tSoagAt Che DePSty Warden will die of his
wounds. ~ .-,.F
SEpERE FRoSr.-A killing frost fell in he
Glades, Ran dolf county, Va, on Monday night
last, destroying the late corn and utterly de-
stroying the gckwhca