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

The Republicans have a majority in the Penn
Legislature of 90 on a Joint ballot in
Ohio of p and in Minnesota of 81. III sf34
An effort is being made to nave the next Re
publican National Convention held at Indiana
polls. '' Z
Money is scarce in Washington county, Hi
nois. The Treasurer. Of that county has not
been able to collect one cent of taxes in eight
townshlps- sfstfr- .-, H.
Rich lead deposits have been discovered near
Dubuque, Iowa, which are valued at from $780,
900 to $500, 600. tt iu q &
\ Yankee. music teacher in a seminary at
Richmond, Va. was dismissed from the institu-
tlon, 1ors expressing sympathy for John Brown.
The Washington Constitution thinks the
election. of a Republican Speaker would be Just
grounds for a dissolution of the Union. Reason
"hy-the editor is an applicant for public prin-
ter -..a.H r .5 $50 -. -t e.
The State Department, at Washington. ha-
been officially advised that War has been de-
clared by Spain against Morocco, and the
blockade of the ports of the latter country is
announced. '@H i-+t.i SH
s. A youngIawyer, of Evansville, 1ndiaua, MANS
ed Jacob Lunkenheimcr, shot himself through
the head, lately, killing himself instantly. i He
was a dissipated man, and had just got over a
protracted spree.
A Merchant of Benton, Ala, has been order
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North to be instructed in a SHOOT where blacks
attend. .-- t- Hr [---.a .
A man named Beauregard is under sentence
of death at Montreal, and sixteen amiable in
diriduals are competing for the pleasure of be-
ing his executioner.
A new half dollar has been SUI omitted to the
Government for approval, by the U. S.. Mint
1t is said to be a beautiful coin. .H5
There seems to be a prospect of the entire de-
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the worms having been affected with II most
destructive disease.
In a speech delived by Mr.. Curry. of Ala
balna. he maintained that the election of Sew
ard, or such a man of his party, to the Prcsi-
dency, would be cause sufficient for a dissolu-
tiou Of the Union. Applause followed the dec
laration from the Democratic benches.
The New York Express declares that never
before, not even at "A Presid ential contest, was
sons allegc that it has cost Wood $40, 900, Have
meyer $50, 900, and Opdykc SIS, 900.
Judge r. Hlrde.nm IN, of the Superior Court
of Georgia, has been removed by the Governor
on account of his having sunk into imbecility.
following in an attack of paralysis, which has
him physically and mentally unfit for
the discharge of his trust, or to appreciate the
anxious advice of his family and friends, that
he should resign. ID
Union-saving seems to be all the go in our
Northern cities just now. The Democracy mo-
,nUpolize this business, while their Southcrn
brethren busy themselves in shouting .~vocifer-
0usly for disdaion.
a man from Cincinnati, being suspected of
being one of the U. q. r. r. conductors, was
hung up five times in Pulaski county, Va and
finally let down with the assurance that if
caught in Virginia again, he would stay up per
manently.
It is now thought that there will be two
Democratic delegations to the Charleston Con
vention from New ICrS n1utralizing each other.
The teud i'll the Dc1locritic ranks has been ag-
gravated by the late municipal election in New
York.
The Philadelphia correspondent of the Tri-
hItne says Letters received from Richmond
and the vicinity speak of numerous families
who intend to close up and quit Virginia forey-
er. The perpetual alarm in which the poor wo-
men are kept is described in their letters as be-
ing dreadful. They do not Know What a good
nights rest is. F. ..a-f-
MIR. Orange Walker, of Elkhart county, Ind,
was killed by Nilsson last week, accidentally
They were coming home from the corn1ield in
a wagon, with a gun which they had taken to
kill u deer, and the son, in leaping out-of the
wagon with the gun, struck the hammer a.
gdinst a wheel, discharging the whole load in
to his fathers breast.
Mr.. Alfred Robinson, of Hartford, has a He
brew shekel, which is supposed to be more than
three thousand years old. They are valued
at one. hundred dollars. q, ts- < -r- fre Ia
Upwards of5O, 900 barrels of apples have been
taken to Chicago the present fruit season, from
stations in Michigan along the line of the Cen
trail Railroad. +a' " ''''' "a
An Act for the further protection of married
women is before the General Assembly of Mis-
souri,. 1t provides that all property bequcath-
ed to the wolnan after marriage, or of which
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hers, independent of her husbands control.
Sentence of death has been pronounced for
the third time upon James Stephens, lately con-
victed, in New York, of poisoning his wife
The I'd day of February next was fixed as. the
day of execution.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. I9.-Advices from Sierra
Leone report that a brig, supposed to be the
John Harris, of New York, was captured on the
African coast, by an English steamer and taken
to Freetown. TIL brig had 500 slaves on board
when captured. I
MADISON, IND, Dec. 20.-Charles B. Hobbs
committed suicide last night by taking lauda-
mum. He left a letter in which he stated that
life to him had become a burden and a failure.
In the Virginia Senate, on Friday, a resolu-
ton was adopted, instructing the Joint Com
mittee on the Harper's Ferry Outrage, to report
to the two Houses of the Assembly, all laws
enacted by the non-slave-holding States of the
Union, since the passage of the Fugitive Slave
law, hostile to the slave-holding interest of
Virginia.
Gen. james B. Foley, of letter writing mem
DRY, is u candidate for the Congressional nomi-
nation from the first Indiana district. At the
Democratic caucus at Grccnsburgh on the 3D.
inst, a resolution was passed expressing him as
the first choice of the unterrited of the District.
Mr.. Douglas has been Inundated again by
the Democratic members of the body to which
he belongs. The Senatorial caucus refused to
place him at the head of the Committee on
Territories, notwithstanding a vigorous effort
on the part of his friends to re-instate him.
The New York Fire Department has a perma-
ment fund of S97 ,250, the interest ON which is
devoted to the relief of members and their fam
lilies.
Captain Michael c.. Kenney, of the Boston
National Lancers, committed suicide last We'd
nesday by shooting himself with a pistol. A
morbid fear of proverty is supposed to have
been his reason for SO doing. &
On Thursday morning a heavy freight train,
going South, on the Illinois Central Railroad,
ran off the track about five miles above Jones'
boro'. A car load of twenty mules was terribly
smashed up, and all the animals killed. The
passenger train, bound North, was detained sew
eral hours in consequence of the accident.
The thorough-bre stallion Young Barnton,'
owned by the Illinois Stock Importing Com
pany, died of lock-jaw, on the farm of john
Crowder, in Sangamon county, Illinois, on the
10th inst. He was bought in England in 1857,
at a cost of 81, 900, and was considered the
finest horse in Illinois. and one of finest in the
United States. . 81 ..f 4-..af s..
q When the ire-eaters dissolve the Union, to
section will the Fourth of July and the
Declaration of Independence belong LOWS
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