Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

BY the latest intelligence from Great Britain.
it appears that an effort will be made to prevent
the fight which has been arranged to come of
the 10th Of April next, between Heenan and
/ Sayers. The authorities of the Isle of Ely. i'll
the British Channel. the spot selected for the
brutal and disgraceful exhibition, are moving
in the matter. They have determined on using
means to induce the Eastern Counties Railway
to refuse a special train to the parties going
down to the fight.
A communication has been laid before the
Boston Board of Aldermen, from John Wise,
o fLancaster, Pennsylvania, and John La Noun
tain, of Troy, New York, proposing to make
aerial voyages to London and Paris, the one to
start in May. and the other on the 4th of July
next, provided the city will pay the expense,
which is estimlted by La Mountain at ) 1000,
and by Wise at $4,000.
The scaffolding which surrounds the walls of
the new custom house at New Orleans, cost
fifty thousand dollars. The money already ex-
pended on this building amounts to So, 500, 900,
and it will require ST 600, 900 more to complete
it.
Hon. Clark B.. Cochrane, M. c., from the
Montgomery District of New York, has return
ed to the State Asylum at Utica, after a brief
visit to his family. His friends hope for his I'LL
innate recovery, but it is not thought probable
that he will resume his seat in the House.
The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian (Adminis-
tration organ informs the country that the
Republicans have opened the Presidential cam
plign with u~nexampled vigor. They are al
ready circulating the documents.
Mr.. Curry, a Democratic member of Congress
from Alabama, made a speech in the House on
"Wednesday, in which he demanded that slave
holders should be allowed to carry their slaves
into the States as well as into the Territories.
He denOun ced Douglas as too bitter d pill for
the South to swallow.
The Prince of Wales will leave England for
Canada about the LIST of June, in a 81 gun ship,
the Renown.
Another victim has been sacrificed to fluid
lamps, in Scituate, R. Miss nman, daugh-
ter of Ransom Inman, dropped a fluid lamp,
the flames caught her dress, aud she lived but
a few hours after.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that Mr.. W.
S. Bailey, the late editor of the Free South
newspaper, has been warned by DR.. Foster and
Albert S. Berry that unless he left Newport,
KY, forth with his life was in peril. The cause
of the warming is the fact that Mr.. Bailey has
brought suit against certain parties for breaking
up his printing office.
The California Legislature have passed a bill
to enable Judge Terry, who shot Brodcrick, to
carry the trial into Il district where his friends
are confident he will be acquitted.
Young Joe Smith, who is a son of the Proph-
ct, has received a call from some of the Nor
mons to set up an opposition to Brigham Young.
Joe, who is a chip of the oil block, and can fore
see things, had not been able, at last accounts
from Nauvoo, to see his way clearly in the fight
he would have to make with the hundred wived
Pope of the Occident.
The latest political news from California in
dicates the election of Seward delegates to the
Chicago Convention.
Among the late California items is a state
ment that Col. Fremont is sending down from
his mills to San Francisco "a chunk of gold
about the size of a Philadelphia brick, every
week.
Hon. #. w. Newman, Speaker of the Ten
nessee Senate. who resigned his office a short
time since, in consequence of charges of cor
%ruptinn having been preferred against him, has
been re elected to that office, the accusations
not having been sustained.
The propriety of removing the seat of gov
eminent of Pennsylvania from Harrishurgh to
Philadelphia, is being discussed by the Legisla-
ture of that State. A report favorable to tho
removal has bsep made