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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Tribute of Respect.

On the morning of the 18th inst, the MEM
bers of the Bar of Delaware County, held a
meeting at the office of Messrs. Powell Van
Deman. Leonard H. Cowles was called to
the chair, and Geo. H. Purdy elected Secreta-
ry !; on motion Messrs. Powell, Hubbell, Reid,
Carper, and Allen were appointed a commit
tee TO prepare resolutions expressing our res
pect for The, memory of our deceased brother,
Hon. JAnMasss.W GRAwFoED, and TO make. ar
Engagements for his burial.
Wbereupon Hon. 7. w. Powell, as Chair
man of the Committee, reported the following
Preamble and Resolutions, which were adop-
ted
WHEREAS, The members of this Bar having
been informed of the death Of their brother
and fellow-citizen james w. Crawford, ESQ,
who, for the last forty years has been a promi-
ncnt citizen Of their County, and for more
than twenty years a member Of this Bar; hay
ing occupied during that time prominent posi-
tions amongst us, in politics, as well as in civil
and military employment and having served
as an officer in the wars of 1872
Therefore Resolved, That the death of a
brother who Las occupied Sc. prominent q posi-
ton amongst our fellow-citizans, forci5ly re-
minds US Of our mortality, and that 't is APP
pointed to all once to die " from which Meth
er position nor t~alcnts, nor earthly honors will
exempt us. ,s
Rssolved, That We condole with the widow,
children and numerous friends Of the deceased.
in this sad bereavment, and that we will in a
body attend the funeral Of Col. Crawford and
wear the usual badge of mourning.
Resolved, That the Chairman of this meet
ing transmit a copy of these proceedings to
the widow and children of the deceased, with
our coincidence upon their sad affection.
On motion the following resolution was
adopted.
Resolred, That Hon. It. W. Powell present
a copy of these proceedings to our next Court
of Common Pleas, and respectfully request the
Court to have the same entered on their Court
journal as a token of our re7pect to the mem
DRY of the deceased and that the Secretary
cause these proceedings to be published in the
papers of this County.
LEONARD Fl. COWLES. Chairman, ,
G. H. PuRDF, Secretary. 81,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Remedy for the slavery Agitation.

A large slave owner and Gotten planter at
the South writes to the New York Courier
and Enquirer, that the spirit Of disunion is
found solely among those who are kept in ig-
norance by their leaders, whose political exist
enee depends upon slavery agitation. The
remedy he proposes for slavery agitation
sounds oddly in contrast with the %outcries
coming from the politicians of the sane sec.
ton, but it is based on sound sense and correct
philosophy, and if the Republicans take the
administration of the Government in 1860, we
expect to see it verified
i am more than ever convinced of the truth
Of, what [ told you last summer, viz: that a
very large majority think four-ffths, of the
Southern people, never desired the repeal of
the Missouri compromise and quite as large
"a proportion of them do not wish to see the
institution of slavery extended into free Terri
tory What they do desire is to see this slave
ry excitement brought to an end. 1t had its
origin in the repeal of the Missouri Cemprom-
Use and l agree with you, that it will never
cease until the Republican party gets poses
sion of the Government, and proves by its acts
that it is conservative, and will abide by the
Constitution, and respect alike the rights of
every section of the Union. Do this, and you
will kill slavery excitement, and with it the
present party leaders of the South, who live
by slavery aritatiOn."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Seven Females Burned to Death.

HARTFORD. Conn, Dec. 29.-The fuse fac
tory Of Joseph Terry, Simsbury, took fire at
half past seven o'clock this forenoon, and was
entirely destroyed. The fire took in the lower
part of the building, while The. employees were
at work in the upper store. The flames spread
with such rapidity as to cut of. all chance of
escape, and consequently seven females were
burnt to death, and two others, together with
a boy, a son of the owner, so badly injured
that it is believed they cannot survive. The
names of the dead, as far as ascertained, are
Caroline Brissey, of New York State /; Mary
Jane Bacon, Of Simsbury; Hannah and Har-
riet Head, sisters. and two other females,
names not ascertained, and a married woman
named Sampson. Physicians from this city
are in attendance upon the injured. The pri-
gin Of the fire is unknown loss not reported.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Field Crop Premiums.

Premiums awarded by the Delaware County
Agricultural Society Dec, Goth 1859 on Field
Crops. ~ a.....:lr.
The Board having been satisfied that W. C.
Steward of the township of Berlin raiseda34116
bushels of buckwheat on one acre of ground
awarded to him the lst premium on the same.
Also the lst premium on oats was awarded
to said w c.. Steward he having raised IT'S
bushels on 311a acres.
L. Curtis of Genoa township having raised
255 bushels of Corn on three acres of ground
was awarded the LIST premium on Corn.
1t is perhaps proper to state that there was
no competition for premiums on feld-crops
there being no applications except those
upon which awards were made. The Society
therefore respectfully invite competition in this
class as nothing is of more general interest than
an increase in the production of the soil.
j. S. JON Els, Sec.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

~INCENDIARY MAIL NATTER Postmaster
General Holt has notified the Southern Post
masters that they have 4 right to burn what
ever they find in the mails which they deem
+" incendiary," and the work of suppressing the
circulation of tho n. Y. Tribune and Nation
al Era under his pronunciamento has been
commenced in portions of Maryland and Vir-
ginia. .ut i@t. 5lt ..' M
In speaking Of this extraordinary Democrat
ic official censorship of the press in the South,
the Albany Evening Journal remarks
This is imposing very onerous duties upon
these gentlemen, and rather dangerous powers.
In the despotisms of the old world, the Oensors
of the Press are generally intelligent men ; but
a great many Post-Master at the South land
at the North, also, for that matter) are pro-
found blockheads. And yet they are to decide
upon what should and what should not, go
through the mails Extracts from the wri-
tings of Washington, lafayette, Jefferson and
Patrick Henery would be tabooed; and no man,
who exercises his guaranteed right of freedom
of speech, however mildly in protest of wrong,
is sure that his utterance can find conveyance
south of the Potomac. The censorship of des-
potism is tolerable compared with that of our
glorious Republic. xtaasui o.; s~es1
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
vallandigham.

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1t is hardly fair to congratulate Ohio on the
possession of a baser man in Congress than
we car boast of in Illinois but, in view of
.Mr. Vallandigham's yesterdays speech, we can
not but be glad Of the opportunity to say that
Logan is eclipsed-that, in all that is servile
and base, Vallandigham and Ohio have the
palm. We congratulate the. people of Ohio
on the ownership Of the meanest man in the
House and on the fact that his meanness can
not be hereafter disputed. He has issued the
patent himself.-Chicago Tribune
This is severe. but fair. Ohio has acknowl-
edged the humiliation, There is slight hope
OF Val, yet. however, for he was so ashamed
himself Of his speech that he did not allow it
to appear in the Congressional Globe as de-
livered, and will alter and modify it for circu-
CIeceIand Leader.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Plain Talk about Wise.

There was some very plain talk among the
epauletts at the Oharlestown exceution-talk
Of a very interesting political tone. BY a
characteristic blunder. Col. Baylor, the very
man who commar ded the Harpcr's Ferry mill
tia in the attack against Brown, was, put. under
arrest. He was highly incensed at the indig-
nifty and when the officer of the guard learn
cd who he was, and directed that he should be
set at liberty, his insisted upon being brought
to headquarters. and on receiving from the
General a written order of discharge. There
his indignation found vent in a very free and
open expression Of his private sentiments in
regard TO the whole military array. He de-
nounced it as a -Disunion movement, got up
by Henry A. Wise. who wanted to be Presi-
dent of a Southern Confedcracy. at is a
vile political scheme said he, ito destroy this
Union. The command is given to a near rel
alive of Wise's; many of the officers are rela-
ted to him, and nine out of every ten. men
here afp his political supporters The object
is to increase the excitement. After | was
succeeded in command, he told me to. hold my
self in readiness for orders. l answered that
/ would hold myself in readiness to obey Gov.
Ietcher's orders, but not his. He could not
deprive me Of my commission, except by court
martialing me and that he dare not do"
Baylor said in addition, that though there
were more slaves owned by his family than by
any other in Virginia, he would rather that
slaves, and John Brown and all should escape
than that this Union should be destroyed. His
grandfather had fought and bled in the Rev
olution, and he was not willing TO see the Gov
eminent overthrow for the political advance
ment of any man. He saw nothing but trea-
son in all this movement. He had heard that
white-haired old man, Edmund Rufin. make
a reasonable harrangue.in the street to-day,
and had gone up and told him that he was
protected by his white hairs and by the Mill
tary but if he came here a month hence, and
made a similar speech, he would be taken
down to "the run" and well ducked, and then
driven out of TOWN.. Y. Tribune.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

A TowN OF BLooD.-Therc are few villages
in this country, if any, where as L any deeds of
blood have been perpetrated as at Bardstown.
Ky. Within a half a score of years as many
men have met a vio,ent death. Among these We
remember that Robert Logan Wickliffe shot
Pat Gray; that James Pottenger was killed
by George Wilson this was followed by a
fight between Tho. Wilson and Lud. and Mon
roe Able, in which Wilson was killed. In less
than a year, Lud. Able was killed by J ohm
Wilson,a brother of the deceased. VIM. Har-
din and John Robertson had a street fight, in
which Hardin was MORALLY stabbed. and died
in a few days. He was a son of Ben. Rowan
Hardin, who was murdered on the Isthmus Of
Panama in 1949-'50, and grandson Of Hon.
Ben. Hardin. And last, as we have rec orded,
John Talbot was slain by Thomas Hinds.-
Slaughtered in his own house. Truly, this is
q bloody and fearful record.-Louisrdle Cour-
Ter.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

SOUTHERN DEGENcY.-The Virginia papers,
we believe, take considerable pains in the in
terest of Southern society, to avoid publishing
advertisements of Abolitionist books and news
papers. What if they extend the rule of pri-
waite advertisements of subscriptions to reward
anybody who will assassinate certain citizens
Of the United States, designated by name, and
under no legal ban whatever. We know that
these absurd Offers excite nothing but the dis
gust of sensible people, but this does not make
them iHhthe least degree less Objectionable
The Offer of Il reward for peoples leadsb y pri-
vAtc or political enemies, is either a very re-
pulsive joke, or a very brutal expression of
hate, and in either case, common decency, to
say nothing else, demands it's exclusion from
the columns of any respectable paper. IF our
Eerginia contemporaries think this sort of thing
is funny, we can only wish them better notions
Of hamor and if they think it serves the
South, we wish them a better cause.-N. Y.
Tines. .. en-. rf.. e.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

SourR CAROLINA SEoKssIoS.-The Charles
ton, s. c., Courier says that the. COMMITTEES on
Federal Relations in the Legislature OF South
Carolina, on Wednesday, recommended the
passage of RESOLUTIONS reforming the position
of the State as expressed in the Convention of
1912, declaring her right secede from the Fed
eral Union and that the people should make
common cause with those Of Virginia. and, be
prepared to snstain her in her yindication of
the institutions of the South. -
The minority of the committee report reeo-
buttons that the frontier States especially, and
the Southern States generally, may rely upon
the aid of South Carolina in Yindication Of
their rights in or out ofthez Fuion, and that
the Military Contingent Fund be increased 10
100000. e la.. "a. sr.- 4t.1 t.f,,-,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

DouGLAs-Thurlow Weed writes to the
Albany Evening Journal from Washington:
1T is true, as reported, that Senator Doug
las has "caved." He goes back, however with
out the true men who stood by him in defend
ing the right in the last Congress. His deser-
ton is felt kcculy by the AntiLecompton
Democrats of PENNSYLVANIA, and by thesfriends
of Broderick and McKibben, one of whom sac
rificed his life and the other his election for a
cause which Judge Douglas took up, and has
laid down, as men put on and draw off their
garments. Like Daniel S. Dickinson of New
York, the Illinois Senator goes back to be
strangled. Their heads will go into a bag and
into the river, just as go the heads of rebel
Pashas who offend the Sultan. There are
no men more truly and firmly fixed in their OPP
position to the Democracy, Rowland through
the war, than Mcssrs. Hickman and Schwartz
and Col. Forncy. with their twenty thousand
Democratic friends in Pennsylvania. Indeed
the men who carried Buchanan through Penn
s~ylvania on their shoulders in 1856. will now
help to swell the majorities in that State,
mountain high, against the Charleston non1lila-
ton. -sts OF 1"'i-LE0+ -t- -4rF7HiT JA sH--t
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

5 MoRE SOUTHERN LYNCH LAw.-What a Sc
cure stale Of society it must be where such
outrages as following are perpctratcd and pa
raded abroad will, appreciation 10y the public
press! The. Waynesboro' (Ga.) News of Dec.
18th, states that g travelling agent for maps was
reported by Il NEGRO to have been talking DO
litionisIn to the slaves, when the master seized
the agr mt and made the negroes hoist and hang
him to a joist in their quarters, then dug II
hole and hurled him the same night.
The Sylvania (Ga) News of the 9TH reports
that two book agents were treated to thirty
nine lashes each, after the style of Russian eX-
ecutioners, by a planter, in that vicinity, be
cause they had visited his plantation and rem
'dcred themselves not only disagreeable by their
volubiIity but suspicious by their conduct
This is a great country! ar -lF.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

SECESSION OF MEDICAL STupENTs-PHTLA-
DELpH1A, Dec. 20.-A meeting of southern
medical students to-day resolved to secede in a
body from the schools in this city and go to
southern colleges. There was a large attend
ance. Jefferson College looses 200, and Penn
'~sylvauia University 100 students. They will
proceed in a body tomorrow night in a special
train from the Baltimore depot. The proceed
fngs throughout were conducted with great
decorum and propriety and with no exhibition
of violent. feeling. A number will go to Rich
mond Medical College. .t." ta ss2t j
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

A DILEMMA.-Gov. Wise as is well known,
looks to the oyster ffundun of Virginia for the
means of relieving her State treasury and for
paying, we presume, among other things the
expenses Of the late Harper's Ferry excitement.
But then his adherents and his Richmond Or
gan are in favor of complete non-intercourse
with the north. Where then, is it asked, will
be the. productiveness of the ftndum? We
presume that even the Governors financial in
genuity can find no profit for Virginia in eat
ing her own oysters and paying herself for
them.-Boton ddu.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Excitement on the Eastern Shore of
g "a ~ 4~larYland. , .-- 5r'f =. -

1t was rumored about town yesterday, says
the Baltimore American of Thursday, that
another Abolition and negro insurrection, had
broken out in Talbot county, Md; that the
country people were in the greatest consterna-
ton. had deserted their homestcads and flock
ed into the town of Easton and ST. Michacl's
in great numbers. It was also currently re-
ported that two hundred and fifty guns had
been discovered sccreted on Packers Island
and that alarge body Of slaves was prepared
at a moments notice to pounee down upon the
whites and massacre them. AS a matter
of course little credence WAS given the ru-
mors-many of which were of the widest
character. An investigation, however, showed
that the people of Talbot are in a state of con-
siderable excitement excitement, and that
many of these reports, and others much more
exaggerated, had obtained, had obtained cur
rency and belief among them. At Easton and
Saint Michael's a number of families had con-
gregated from the surrounding country, leav-
ing their houses shut up and deserted: Armed
patrols quar- the country, while all the towns
and villages ave bodies of armsd men ready
for the INSURGENTS. ST. Il. 1s j 7
Ne learn from Captain Beckworth. of the
sclo0lcf Eert. Oh Ibis ely, that the 'StaillpeQe
and, exeitement originated with IL negro wo
man belonging to Vim. Townsend, Esq, who
resides some FIVE miles from st. !Michaelis.-
According to her story she was met by two
strange men, who, after threatening her life if
she betrayed them. told her that if Brown was
hung at ChaTl astown, q large number of whites
and blacks were combined to lay the whole
county of Talbot in ashes. murder the white
people, carry off all the money, etc, etc. This
ridiculous story, told by the negro woman,
gained eFedence, and Mr. Townscntifed to St.
Michael's. The alarm then became general,
and hence the thousand and one -rumors atioat
at present. Captain Beckworth also states
that the story of the $50 muskets on Peakcr's
Island is entirely unfounded. r-I.I
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

GOV. SEwARp.s INDIGNANT DEXIAL-From
Malakoff s last letter from Paris, published in
Saturdays Times, we learn that Senator Sew
ard arrived there, November 18th, from his
trip to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and is
in good health and spirits. He has had some
adventures of a dramatic nature, and has found
besides not a few obstacles to. travel on the
route he has passed over. Mr.. Seward indig-
nantly denies ever having even heard of the
projected instruction at Harper's Ferry and
although he reeollects having received a call
from a man known as Col. Forbes, there. was
no mention made! of such an attempt at insur-
r%ection.- Col. Forbes asked him for means for
another object, which he refused, and that was
all he ever saw of the individual in question:
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

The indianapolis Atlas says "a few years
ago Elias Howe, Jr, the lucky fellow who now
receives 100000 a year from five dollar CON-
missions, which manufacturers of sewing ma
chimes pay him for the use of his lock-stitch
principle, offered to sell his patent to DIR. Frink,
of this city. for the small sum of 1915. As
there was then some doubt whether MIR. Howe
could retain his patent, it being in litigation,
the Doctor declined the offer, and thus lost the
chance of receiving a princely revenue.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
Agricultural Convention and Lectures
i -r! at Yale College. 1T. f.

81" GU
e 1t is proposed to have what NAV be termed
a great agricultural ''protracted meeting'' at
Yale College during the present winter, to last
throughout the whole month of February. The
exercises are to consist of lectures by leading
reliable men, eminent in the different depart
meants of agriculture, horticulture, stocktrais-
ing, etc. About eighty lectures are provided
forAtwo to four each day-each lecture to be
followed by conversational exercise, questions
to the lecturers, and discussions. Twenty or
thirty gentlemen. well known in Agriculture
besides the Professors in Yale College, are en-
gagged to take part in the exercises as lecturers
and teachers. while numerous other eminent
agricuiturists and horticulturists have expires
sed their intention to be present and partici-
pate in the discussions.
Among the lecturers arc Lewis F. Allen,
Cassius NJ. Clay, and Francis Rotch. on Cat
tie; Sanford Howard and DR.. G%nlliver, on
Horses c. l.. Flint and others, on the Dairy !;
Hon. Marshall p. Wilder, DR.. G. w. Grant,
MesSrs. p. Barry and r. G. Pardee, on fruits f;
Prof. Porter on Organic Chemistry Prof. s.
w. Johnson, on Agricultural Chemistry Prof.
3. Silliinan, Jr. on Meteorology J.. Stanton
Gould on Grasses and Irrigation Judge
French on Drainage; joseph Harris on &C.
reals Prof. Brewer on Commercial Plants,
flax, hemp, tobacco, etc J Geo: b.: Emerson
on Forest Trees Dr. Comstock on Fish chi
ture Donald G. Mitchell ok Marvel) on Ru-
raj Economy.
The whole is to be free, except the nominal
| charge of say ten dollars or less to meet the
necessary expenses of lectures and other Incl
dentals. The occasion will doubtless be one of
great interest to cuItivators generally, and call
together a large attendance from all parts of
the country. Inquiries with reference to this
project may be addressed TO Prof. John A.
Porter, New Haven, Conn.-Agricuturist. u
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

Gov. Wise is death on Yankee Pedlers and
school masters, and warns the Slnve-ridden
South to drive them out. Here is his digui-
fed pronunciamento; 7.r.-, ~. lrila, aas
81 RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 25th, 1859.
My DEAR SIR:--I have time only, 10 sack-
nowledge yours. Say to your father, and all
Others that these are serious times here. - We
are arming and have need to do so , and abe
Southern States all had better be rnasinE@
Drive out pedlers and school mastersaaot assI
known9 from YankeedOm. SO Yours, &e.se
10 7a s iasu HENRY A WISE
'l wM. soOrs, ~Esq-[Atlanta (GA.4 NamS.
-rAsfsta5HS y~lsossysJ % m.~,um
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

MARRIAGE OF CousINs.-Gov. McGoffin, of
KY. recommends the Legislature of that Safe to
prohibit by law, under severe penalties, the
marriage Of cousins. He says that the imbe-
Giles. insane, deafmutes and blind in the differ
ent Asylums in that State, who are the off
spring of cousins, is from sixteen 10 twenty per
cent of the whole number and he claims that
it is the right and duty of the State TO protect
herself against the evil and expense, by forbid
ding such unions, which nature plainly forbids
by the natural penalty she uniformly inficts.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

DIsUNIoS-The Senate of South Carolina
has adopted a resolution which declares that
South Carolina respectfully announces to her
Southern sisters that in her judgement the
safety and honor of the slaveholding States
imperatively demands a speedy separation from
the free soil States of the Confederacy, and
earnestly invites and urges her sister States OF
the South to originate the movement ofSouth-
ern separation, to which she pledges herself
promptly to unite" The Hosze has adopted
a resolution that South Carolina owes it to
her own ~citizers to protect them and their
property from every enemy, and that for the
purpose of military preparation in any emer-
gency, the sum of 100000 be appropriated
for military purposes"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23

DEMocRAcr:-Mr. Pryor, late one of the ed
itors at Richmond, and now a member of Con-
gress from one of the Va. districts, declared
during the debate last Wednesday, that the
South would not submit to the installment of
a " Black Republican " President, and if Mr.,
Sherman was elected speaker they would pre-
vent him from taking his seat c u" '-