Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

fore gets the vote OF that State by a plurality
only. The vote of the border States may be
regarded as decisive against disunion, and we
believe the Bell and Douglas vote in Georgia
may also be safely counted on the same side,
when the issue made by the ire-eaters is sub
mitted to the people.
A journeyman printer, named Pasco, of Troy,
n. Y. has been driven out of South Carolina
where he had gone to accept a situation Offered
him in the office of the Charleston Mercury.
His only offense was, that he had been a New
York printer, and had worked on the New York
Tribune. His friends from the Mercury Office.
although declaring their willingness to become
responsible for his good behavior, were unable
to prevent his expulsion.
A recent law of South Carolina requires all
free coIored persons to wear a badge distinguish
ing them from slaves. This is regarded as a
great indignity, and many left the State
Eighty families, of various shades of color
have emigrated to Philadelphia. The blood OF
the chivalry'' flows freely in their veins
showing that they love an inccstuous union
with negroes better than a Federal Union with
white men. r4ssW
Gov. Letcher is out against Ex-Gov. Wise's
attempts to sow discord in Virginia, and tells
him plainly that the regular constituted author
tiles of the State are capable of taking care oil
all disturhcrs of the public peace, whether in
or out of its limits, A capital hit that.
1t has been said that one years crop of coru
is worth more than all the gold in California.
In addition to its other uses, it has been discov-
cred that it produces a clear fluid, that burns
without odor or smoke, and is inexpensive af-
fording a good light in an ordinary KEROSENE
lamp for half a cent an hour. The corn oil is
clear and cOlorless as water.
By the U. S. Census, just taken. Kansas is
asccrtaincd to have I09, 40 inhabitants. As
the English bill only required 90, 000 inhahi,
tahts to make her a State, Kansas must be adj.
mlted this winter Messrs. Pomeroy and Lane
are spoken of as the Senators who will then
take seats to represent her sovereignty.
A narrow iron girder bridge. over the canal
at Manchester, England, recently fell with some
l50 girls upon it, who were looking at some
public shop. Swapping the stone from the piers
on each side, the bridge fell without turning
over. the center only breaking after it had
reached the bottom. Only one life was lost.
The Wheeling Intelligencor truly calls Ritch-
ietown, Va, the most glorious place this side
of the Elysian Fields. Just think of a clear
1874 votes for Old Abe, down there--52 more
than Douglas got 83 more than Bell got, and
123 more than Breckenridge got 56 more
than Fremont got in the county,
TIle 29th of November will be observed very
generally as the an1ual Thanksgiving Day. 1t
has already been officially set apart in New
York, Pennsylvania. Massachusetts,, Maine,
Connecticut. New Hampshire, Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, and Iowa.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.--The New York Herald
says that the vote in the State on the amend
meut to the Constitution to allow negro suf-
frage, is overwhelmingly against such an
amendment. a" A
The New York Tribune, before the Prcsiden-
tial election, estimated the mnjorities for Lin
coin in the counties of Jefferson, Oneida. St
Lawrence, Oswego, Washington and Onondaga
at 25, 600. The actual majority was %, 747-147
over the estimate.
JACKSON, MISS. Nov. I3.-Gov. Pettus has
iSs11ed n DrDcIo IN ofioD ron vapinu the TaoicIot ,-o
on the Goth inst, to consider the propristy and
necessity of providing surer and better safe
guards for the lives, liberties, and property Of
Mississippians, than the late election and past
action of the Northern State Government
promise,
A Broadway fashionable bootmaker reports
that the day previous to the Z" Princes Ball, :"
he finished mp and delivered | 800 pairs of pat
ent leather boots, which were ordered express
ly for the occasion ut n cost of Sl3 per pair, a
grand fooing up of SIG, $50. -
Missouri ELEcTToN.--Accnrding to tables in
the st. Louis Democrat, Douglas is 500 votes
ahead Of Bell with five counties to hear from
which cannot change the result. Be-
Godfrey J. Lcyallc. who was shot in a fight
with r. 3. KcIhaw, at Petcrslurgh. va. died
fon the 18th inst. The wound wis inflicted on
the 18th of October. and the pistol WAS charged
with q horseshoe nail, The nail was found in
his brain, where it had been for nearly a month.
tToE. NJ NItlFFIS AGAINST ~RCESSIoN.-GOV
Mag"fin, Of Kentucky, has written n semi Of
fetal letter, in which he takes decided ground
against secession. This declaration is of more
significance from the fact that the Governor is a
Breckenridge Democrat. and naturally i'll sym
Pathy with the extreme South. !.
The news of the loss of nearly four hundred
men. by The English and French, in the taking
of a few Chinese forts shows that the Cham
pions of Civilization as the Allies call them
! selves, arc learning the OrientalS how to fight.
The fllibustering of the European powers in
China seems likely to turn out Improbable. .
The people of Illinois have voted for II Con
stitutional Convention. The majority for the
Convention is %, 964 in 81 counties.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 2I.-Eleven persons. thus
far asccrtained, were lost by the burning Of
the Pacific. Mostly boat hands and deck pas
sengers no Northern people were among the
lost.
Recent experiments show that "A Minnie rifle
ball. which will pass through a thick board or
a bag Of oakum at n distance of 600 wards. is
flattened into a shupeless mass in a bag of sand
at 200 yards.
BosToS, Nov. 2O.--The Faculty of Harvard
College to-day suspended nine students of the
Sophomore class for terms of one to two years
for an attack on two Freshmen, followed by
some riotous demonstrations.
Mrs. Elizabeth Blout, aged sixty eight, was
married at Kingston. N. c., last week, TO A
V. Bulger, aged twenty-five. The fair widow
had $40, 900 to counteract the INNER
which have passed over her head.
Andy Vance went into a bar-room in Angus
tn, Ga, ON SatuSday, and offered to fteas the
crowd, ard taking Il bottle Of audanuin from
his pocket, said it was his last drink. and swal-
lowed it. All attempts to save his life were
unavailing.
Mary Smith, residing at Ncwbur9, OFF the
line of the Baltimore g. Ohio Railrod. having
been disappointed in love, committed suicide
a few days since by placing her neck over one
of the rails just as a train was approaching.
The wheels severed her head from her body.
The Cincinnati Price Current publishes the
asscssorH' returns Of hogs in Kentucky from all
but fourteen counties. the aggregate of which
is $50. 90S, against l LA, I04 last year; a de-
iicicncy of $50, 202.
Cattle are dying of in large numbers in the
Pixies Peak region. The murrain is supposed
to be produced by the dust on the AIkala plains,
which are suffering from drought.
A Dutchman mistook a window for a door in
q farmhouse at Harrington, n. J. -, on Saturday
night, and on knocking, was stabbed in the
breast with a pitchfork by Mr.. Alsaloln Davis,
the owner. He died a few hours after.
CARRIED THEM ALL.-EiEcoln carried his own
ward, city, county and State. He Also carried
Douglas ward, city, county and State,--[Chi-
cago Tribune. -H
Several American volunteers are in Garibal-
dis army, One. Charles Carroll Hicks, of
Columbus, in this State, is attached to Gen.
Avezzana's staff.
A Philadelphia policeman. while taking a
felon To prison, on Wednesday, who escaped
from him.. missed his mark with his pistol. and
shot a child. five yeaIs old, in the neck,
Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher has received five
hundred invitations for this Winters lecturing
tour. He has as yet accepted but twenty five.
Mrs. Washington. the wife of John A. Wash