Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-13
GENEWSRAL NE ITEMS.


The New Orleans papers announce that Col.
John A. Wilcox, of Texas, has started ON @
tour through the country to canvass for Gen.
Houston for the Presidency. He made his frsS
speech in New Orleans
In Missouri both wings of the Democracy
will nominate tickets for Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor. This split will probably give
the state to the Americans, who are preparing
for vigorous campaign.
There are supposed to be at this moment in
Canada, A., 900 runaway slaves. At present.
prices they are worth $54 600 900. What n
pity it is that slaves lave legs.
A Breckenridge and Lane electoral ticket will
be started in Iowa. Hon. Lemuel Summers,
of LeClaire,a leading Democrat, is out for Breck-
nrt &c and LIna.
At Printers Festival, recently, the follow
ing sentiment offered = WOnlan-Second
only to the Press in the dissemination of news.
Two meL, named John W. Mathews and John
Walton, were murdered in New York. on Sat-
urday, by an unknown person.
4AnolIer &" Uorlds Far. There is no longer
any doubt that the contemplated London ex-
hibition of 1862 will be undertaken. The
guarantee fund OF 4250, 900 has been raised.
The friends of Gen. Houston have called O
State Convention to meet at Schenectady, n.
y, on the 18th, to nominate an Electoral tick"
ct, and designate candidate for Vice President.
The Nashville Patriot (Opposition) reviews
and comes to this conclusion
here is, tha refore not the least chance for
the democracy. Both Of its candidates ar0
bound to be defeated. This result is inevitable,
and cannct be disguised. The chances at pres
ent, decidedly favorable to the election Ut
Lincoln. SIT
A paper published mt the extreme South bids
Douglas remember Milo end and for fear that
the Senator's memory may he at fault, the ed
itcr adds an explanatory postscript telling him
that Milos end y was sA
wcdrel in tliAt Ter which he srove 10 rsnd.s sl
This looks as if the South expected to catch
douglas in trap made Of sl,ln rGiI. 4ae
Dotglas Demonstrations. The Democrats grow
jolly as the old hulk Of the party is sinking
out Of sight. They doubt feel very jolly
jolly a with toothache, and five coFnS
under tight boot detroit Tribune. sbs
CnIeAon. July 7.--Kepheart the murdererof
Mrs. Willis and two children, near, Batavia,
| Iowa last week, Was hupg in that place yestSr-
day by IL mob numbering $50.
The New YORK Liquor Dealers Association.
an OF gan zation vi Ii 500 0O0 capital, designed
to prevent the execution of the State temper
ance laws. has been indicted hy the grand jury
for mistemc;n"r in conspiring to commit nm
act injurious to the true administration of the
laws. 1 ~ 2lsisa3 afa t9Ego
The maltitudes laid to rest in Green wood
Cemetery, New York since September 9, 1870,
wlieh. the first body WAS placed beneath ths
tulf Of that beautiful place. to. June 9th, 1900,
nunber seventy-sx thousand seven hundred
and ninety seven persons. aA1H sf%2g
Judge Fl. p. Ham, late C slifornia u s! Sen.
ator under executive appointment, died nd
Marysville, on the 9Th, of congcstive ,chiln.
The effect of the disease he CONTRACTED On o
steamer while returning from Washington.
Hereafter California steamers will leave New
York on the lst, llth, and 2lst ~ each month.
4 Topultr Candidate in 1913 Mr. Herschel ".
Johnson, the Douglas nop-interYcntions slave
Code candidate for Vice, President was cmmdi-
date for Congress in one Of the districts Of
Georgia. against A. II Stephens, and was boat
en- b;.dIy by him In 1858 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor in the same State,
and was elected by only $40 majority, though
the Democrats had over lS, 600 majority the
year before e7t D7is
The prospects are that the Senate Of che nsrs
Congress, commencing on the 4th Of March,
1861, when Abraham Lincoln will, Inn all hu-
man probability, be inaugurated az President
OF the United States, will contain 35 Democrats
30 Republicans and American. This Ia ON
tue suppusitiou that Kansas will be admitted
into the Union next winter. bipsw sds
About nine O'Clock on Friday evening, the
boiler of the stciuntug A S. Field. lying nd the
dock between Bates and Randolph streets, De-
trot, exploded, killing five men and wOunding
several Others who were upon the boat nj the
time. -.a .-.5 5s ff s,ffif 10
DIR. Alex. Shields for twenty odd years enc
of the leaders 'f the democratic party in HAIs
Canon c. unity, has come out from the safIul
party and 5ined the Republicans. He recent
~ made a strong speech at hepublican meet
g.-lChicaRo journal .ass
NORFOLK, VA, July Cat the celebration
of the Fourth, in Accunac county, VIVA Gar
rison was killed ty the premature discharge of
Il cannon, and Jan e, V. Hill, Principal of the
Seminary there, terribly injured. Ee has pfob-
ably since died.
The ckinridgc men call the Douglas Con-
ve.I,lon at Baltimore the Rump Convention,
a re k cking it mercessly. How long will
the b ugla' party submit to having its rump
so "uta5, ol sly kicked .-
A livery stable and eleven horses the prop
Q y u iAuliIas GoA, "cio ueetIo3ctl 10y Ilrs an
Detroit on the morning of the 4th inst
A man named Perry johnson hung himself
in Freed m district. Carol county, Md. on
last Tuesday two weeks. He became dissatiH-
fled about distribution of a legacy between
him and his brothers, suppnsing parlality had
been shown his younger brother He hal q
key suspended on belt, tied round his waist,
which unlocked chest that contained $s 900,
which 1T seemed he WAS also troubled how to
dispose of
Nine of ti.e leading Locofoco papers Of Mas
sachusrtts have out for Breckinridge,
headed by the old Boston Post the most influ-
cntial Democratic paper of New England.
i he President has removed George Sanders,
Navy Agent at New York, because he supports
l'etE lIIStGf1u ol u. oInc1Af8
must either go against Douglas expect to
lose their heads.
Mr. John Hughes. of Gloucester county, Va,
committed suicide Thursday last by cutting
his throat with "A razor in an out house OF his
farm His mind affected by the recent lOss
of a son. He resided near Gloucester Point ON
an estate purchased from Ex- President Tyler,
and his wealth is reported at from SIS 900 70
100000 n
of n l.
the Artic explorations. took farewell a 10
large number of friends in the Chamber of Coma
r'erce at New York on Saturday prior to his
d .parture on his new cxpcdi n. There were
two flags presented him.
Tie Bohon Falling O,a.-The Pittsburg Ca
zette says that of the 80 Opposition journals
in Pennsylvania, hut two support Bell and Ev-
erett, with one Doubtful.
A. I Richardson. of Oldtown. Me. Wac In
stantly killed and benjamin whipple fatally
injured by the premature discharge Of cannon
at tie Douglas Jubilee.
Mr. Iincoln's Youngest child. q bright boy
of six years, is lying at the point of death with
scarlet fever.
The amount of property invested in literary
institutions by the p e. Church, is over
So. 900, 900.
A disease has broken ont among the cattle
at Shahbona Grove. DeKalb county illinois,
which is causiF,g some alarm in that region.
LOUISVILLE July 7---Cassius NJ Clay. to-day
a great crowd in front of the Court
House, on the Pacific R. r. and other political
topics.
During exciting game of poker. played
recently in a Texas town. one of the players
died from CONGESTION Of the brain, caused by
his interest in the result
Two hundred ladies in Syracuse are regular
patrons of billiard saloon there. kept by tho
late sergennt-at-arms of the State Senate. who