Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-04-29

for several days, and, while scrfifng, Zone at
tempting to put the other into q barrel of wateT)
Sebra snatched up q gun and shot one side Of
Jarold's head entirely away, killing him
instantly. Sebra was arrested and lodged in the
Burlington Jail.
The last mail from the West Coast of Africa
brings tidings of the death of Gezo, the notori-
Gus slave king of Dahomey, who, for upwards
of TWENTY-FIVE years, supplied all the demands
of the Spanish and Portuguese slave dealers
who infested the Blight of Benin, ravaging and
devastating the interior far and wide by his
slave hunts to obtain victims for his European
customers.
The Port Gibson Miss Reveille gives an
account of the death of Sarah Holly, a free
woman of color: She was the widow of Chris
topher Holly. At the time of her death Sarah
owned a thousand acres of land and thirty
slaves. r}s-r -FI s-. rz FIX
The Legislature of Massachusetts, at its late
session, passed an act to the effect that all boar
ding house keepers shall have a lien upon the
baggage and effects of their guests and b~oarders,
except seamen and marines, brought to their
respective houses, until the proper charges due
to such keepers for the fare and board of all
such guests and boarders shall be paid.
The examination into the election frauds in
the Detroit Congressional District last Fall
closed on Saturday. 1t has been ascertained
that at least III fraudulent and illegal votes
were polled by the dishonest Democrats. Cooper
fDe1nUcTaI) VINO WAS declared elected, ndQ only
IS majority on the votes, which number is
more than overbalanced by the discovered frau
dulent ballots.
Ex-senator James c. Jones, of Tennessee,
formerly a Wing, but of late an Administration
man, has come out for Col. John Netherland,
the Opposition candidate for Governor in that
State. This shows the tendency of Old Linz
Wings in general IN the Southern States.
A gentle man from the east, an ~invalid-died
on the BellefontaiDe train on last Saturday,
from hemorrhage of the lungs. He was travel
ing alone towards st. Louis, but his name could
not be ascertained. The circumstance excited
much sympathy. among the passengers In his
behaf.
The prisoners taken on. board the brig Echo,
charged with the crime of piracy, for a viola
ton of the laws of the United States in the sup
preston of the foreign slave trade, are now on
trial in the Circuit Court of the United States
at Charleston.
1t is reported that Mr.. Kimball, eldest SON of
Heber c., and Jos. Young, SON of Brigham,
have apostatized, and are about leaving for the
States with their first wives, leaving their
''spirituals'' behind. At least 5000 apostate
Mormons will leave for California early In tho
spring.
The latest style of hoop-skirt Is the grand,
self-adjusting, double back-action hustle, etrus-
can. lace expansion, spiral Piccolomini attach
ment, gossamer indistructible! Il i a "love Of
a thing" H
The several cases involving the Van Rensssl-
aer claims to rents from lands conveyed in fee
in Albany county, N. Y, have been decided by
the Court of Appeals. The decision is adverse
to the tenants. All the Judges concur in the
opinion, that the rents and arrears must be paid.
This action of the Court of last resort, is neces-
sarily final.
it the Republican, celebration in Portsmouth,
N. H, last week, a letter from us. Senator
Clark, said: Zone week ago, / saw the last
Democratic. Senator from New England depart
from the capital of the nation. His place was
assumed by a staunch Republican, and there is
now from New Engfand no Democrati In either
House Of Congress
The ELEPHANT SEEN!-The Chicago Herald
notices the return of a couple of Pike Peakers
who went out to that country at thc4ifst stages
of the gold fever, and who announce that they
have been ''clean through the menagerie."
A terrible explosion of fire damp, occurred at
the Bright Hope Coal Pits, Chesterfield county,
Va, on Wednesday morning last week. There
were nine men in the shaft at the time, four
whites and five negroes, all of whom must have
been instantly killed.
Iowa PRoDuoE PRIcEs.-A letter April /,
from Home, Iowa" gives the following prices:
Oats, Soc. a buslel; Potatoes ST; Corn, 75c.;
Spring wheat 81; Flour SO 80 per cwt. The
letter speaks of awful hard times among farm
ers, in consequence of; bad crops last season
Cattle, too, are dying
IL Is pOSl1VclJ QSClaICQ IndL MISUNDERSTANDING
protestations to the contrary, Ex-President
Pierce will be brought before the Charleston
Convention for e-nominatio to the Presidency.
He doubtless bases his claim upon the fact that
Buchanan's blunderings and corruptions have
made his administration ilustrious-
Tn grand jurv of Wayne county, Indiana,
recently indicted James Hope, of Richmond,
for keeping a billiard-table for gain. On the
case coming to trial. the prosecution failed to
prove that a billiard-table was q gaming
apparatus, and MIR. Hope was accordingly ac-
quilted
A daughter of Mr.. Joseph Conklin. residing
in the village of Warwick, Orange county, New
York, met with a sudden death on Saturday.
She had been up stairs to get some sugar, and
while returning stumbled and fell upon the two
last steps, breaking the bowl, pieces of which
cut the jugular vein, causing her death in a few
moments.
Jacob Karsteter, a resident of the Sugar VAL
ley, Clinton county, Pa, was robbed at Phila-
delphia on Saturday last of a belt containing
$4,000. -Karsteter was on his way to Pixies
Peak.
John Mitchell's paper, the Citizen, draws this
from the result of the recent slave scsse
in Philadelphia, that mo slave owner viii ever
more recover a runaway or stolen negro, from
any place North of Mason and Dixon's line"
A law recently passed in Maine, establishes
the annual salary of the members of the Degis-
lature at $3.50. They can sit twelve months,
if they please, for this princcly sum-. Ia rot
Baron Humboldt, who is the confidential adj
wiser of the Prince Regent of Russia, writes to
a diplomatic correspondent at Washington,
war cannot be postponed beyond July.
In Coshoctcn Common Please the eases Of
Geo. Bell and VIM. White, charged with rob
bing the treasury of that county, have been
to the next term Of court.
Last year the Republicans Of Wiscon IN eleo-
ted their State Ticket bysaoout 1000 utajoFity.
Atthe election week before last, they swept
the State, by about 1900 Majority
The New York Herald says thnA ne DezeO-
cratic party is as irrevocably dead rs the Wing
party after the defeat Of General Scott IA 1851.
We guess none are 30 fo0lhardy as 70 gninsay
the Hcrald's assertion. sly 5
A cotemporafy says they haveA soyl of rep
tile in the torid zone called the glass fnaka-
Glass snakes are very common outside Of that
zone. Many is the convivial fellow and Jolly
Prick, in this region, who has felt their sting.
John NJ. Crane, editor Of the Bonkam TEX
Independent, was recently killed Ia an sE
ray with a Mr., Sadler. lkds
The Minnesota papers say the grass cou6A-
.,rations have commenced, and the night skieS
re lurid with the prairie fires glow.
Easter day, which in the present year fell on
he Oath of April, has not occurred at 80 late .
,eriod since 1871. ed
Prot. Finney, the American revivalistF L.
,reaching to crowded audiences IN London,
lear Rev. Mr.. Surgeons tabernacle.
The editor of the Savannah Republican bad
to him on Tuesday, April 9th, a
of ripe blackberries
DIR. John l. Scatter, of Pikeville. Tenn. lost
ls life on "Wednesday. evening, 50th ult., by
he accidental discharge Of his gun.
Jane Bishop, a eolored woman, died In
annapolis, Md, last Thursday, aged about 100
ears.
Hor LYs G Sn M n ~ Aa
positively declines to serve his constituents
ny LONGER tet -
The latest political party is the ''heTse-TaiI-
Dad marty. >" which tTiumDhed in the town