Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-16
NEWS ITEMS.

Ezra Sayers, IN Wayneeburgh, Fay was deS-
troyed by fire, and two sons Of Mr.. Sayers,
aged respectively 2 and A years, were burned
to death in the building.
The Harper's Ferry Investigating commit
tee, after a long elaboration, have formally
agreed not to call Gov. Wise before them
The minority of the committee have been very
anxious to have the testimony of Gov. Wise,
in order that the contents of John Browns pa
pers, captured by him, might be brought to
light, but the majority refuse.
Michael O'Connor, of Memphis, Tenn, recent
ly interfered in a fight In which three boys
were engaged, when the boys turned upon him,
and beat him so severely that he died shortly
after. None of the boys have been arrested.
The aggregate expense paid by Virginia on
account of the John Brown raid is $l95,567.
OF this sum $8l lao was paid to the military
Gov. Wise called out for general training pur-
poses. The war on John Brown was also a
benefit to the railroads, the Baltimore and
Ohio coming in for over $4,000 on transpor-
tation account.
1t is stated that the stock of wheat in New
York amounts to more than one million bush
els, and the stock of -four to more than seven
hundred thousand barrels.
The slave Lewis, who murdered DR.. W. J
Keitt, has been tried by twelve free-holders
chosen by a large meeting of citizens, convict
ed on his own confession, and Immediately SEN
fenced and hung. He refused to implicate
others. Two others, suspected of being his &C
completes, have been committed to Jail.
The Democracy of Louisiana have resolved
-, S+o4o Convopfinp m cuctoip fboir hratbra,,
of Alabama and Mississippi in insisting on the
adoption Substantially of a slave-code plat
form by the Charleston Convention, and in in
s%tructing their delegates to withdraw if their
efforts to that end are unsuccessful.
Gen. Scott on Tuesday issued orders for the
movement of 500 troops from Northern sta
lions to the frontier of Texas. They will
leave on the 10th, in vessels direct to the
mouth of the Mississippi Captain Palmer
takes command.
BATAVIA, n. Y, March 8.-The Night Ex-
press train east last night struck three boys
six miles east of Buffalo, killing one instantly.
and injuring one other badly. The third one
is uninjured. The boys were about fifteen
years old
OF the two hundred or over on board the
Hungarian, not one escaped to tell the sad
tale. Capt. Shannon, of the steamer Africa,
arrived at New York, says the Hungarian had
about lao passengers. which, with the crew of
"A, makes 2l4 persons lost.
Ira w. Calkins, a student in the Methodist
Biblical Institute, of Concord, n. H., was kill
ed on Saturday last by being thrown from a
hand car in which he was taking exercise.
Tbo Viro;D;o EJouaa Of Donroeon+otiro IN
the 9th adopted a resolution adverse to a South
ern Conference by a vote of 80 to 40.
A committee of the Virginia Legislature has
reported it inexpedient to take any action in
regard to the communication of sentence or re-
prieve either Stephens or Hazlett, the doomed
Harper's Ferry conspirators.
Mr.. Malcolm Cameron has introduced a bill
in the Canadian Legislature to prohibit the
sale of liquors throughout that Province.
The pressure Of hard times bears heavily on
young Minnesota, the people having pretty
generally run wild in real estate and other
speculations instead of digging the soil. The
Legislature has passed a bill granting three
years for the redemption of property sold I'M
der mortgage, whereat the people rejoice great
~.
DR.. Israel Putnam, who was last Monday
elected as the Republican candidate, Mayor of
the city of Bath, Maine, received all but one
of the votes cast. Bath would be a good place
in which to build up a Democratic majority.
The Dallas, Texas, Herald mentions the
death of Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, widow of the
celebrated Davy Crockett, in the 74th year of
her age. Mrs. Crockett has been a resident of
Johnson County, in that State, for several
years. She died of apoplexy on the I'd inst.
SAD CAsuALTY-FIvE Persons DROWNED.
Thursday evening Mr.. David King attempt
ed to take four ladies across the C~onemaugh
river at the WaddIe Salt Works in a skiff.-
The wind was high, the boat capsized, and the
whole party were drowned. The young ladies
were Matilda and Hetty King, daughters of
David King. Mrs. S King. a daughter-in-law,
and Miss Waddle. They were all much res
pcctcd. 1t is supposed the bodies were swept
into the Allegheny river.
David Ayers died at Vernon Vt, a few days
since, at the age of IS. For more than fifteen
years he had lived entirely by himself, during
which time he had his coffin in his house ready
for use, except when it was occasionly used as
a receptacle for white beans.
ST. LOUIS, March 6.-A bill excluding free
negroes from the State of Missouri. under pen
atty of becoming slaves passed the Senate yes
terday. 1t had previously passed the House.
The same bill passed both houses last session,
but failed to re Give the signature of the Gov
ernor.
Two Negro women, charged with the MUIR
der of DIR. Croxton, of Essex county Va, were I
tried last Monday, and sentenced to be hung. 8
The women confessed the crime. One of the a
women was recommended to the mercy of the c
Governor. y
Prof Mapes has purchased one thousand !
acres of land in Burlington County, N. j., a
near the line of the Raritan and Delaware Bay /
Railroad, and has commenced a mammoth farm
there, which he expects will in time be with
out its superior in the United States.
New ORLEANS, March 13.-The Steamer g
Judge Porter from Montgomery, for New Or |
leans, was burnt this morning in Lake Ponch-
ertrain, about a mile from the wharf. The e
crew were saved, but ten of the passengers are 5
either drowned or missing. She had a cargo !
of 500 bales of cotton. The boat is a total u
loss, but is partially insured. a
SYRACUSE, March 8.-This morning a man a
named Tinker, died from taking poison. He
poisoned his two children aged about 8
and 6 years, and having laid them out, folded
their hands upon their breasts and left them in 9
IN unoccupied room where some of his furni- e
was stored, and went to his hotel and took J.
he poison himself. On Tuesday he poisoned u
l horse belonging to DIR. Searles of this city, !.
md it is supposed he intended to shoot DR.. i
as a loaded pistol was found on him. Il
The cause was the enlargement of his wife and n