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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

A LAST SHOT AT DoUGLAsIsM.-The Missis
sippian, of the 10th inst, pitches" into Doug
lasism after this f~erocious fashion:
With our issue of to-day, we have thrown
the last shot into the rotten hulk of Douglas
ism, until the meeting of the Charleston Con.
%vention. If that body blow it into atoms, OF
sink it to the bottom of the sea, with its pira-
teal crew, we will have no occasion to resume
hostilities but if the National Democracy
droop their oelors and make it the flagship
in the approaching Presidential contest, with
its Squatter ensign, whatever servile wretches
who hope to profit by the subsidies Of yenal
men, may do, with the Mississippian the fight
will have but commenced, We go where
+" principles lead. When they disappear we
cease to follow"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

The WAY TO STOP A PAPER.-1f you wish
to stop a paper, pay for it in full to the time
when you cease taking it, as an honest man
should do. Don't go sneaking to the Post
master and tell him to send your paper back
refused but send your bill, deposite the
amount with the Postmaster, and gk Inn to
forward it or what is a much b ter way &c
to the Office of publication pousseif, and pay
your honest dues like a man. Some people
complain that they can't stop a paper they
have once subscribed for, but there is no diff
Guilty in it if you take the right way. Pay up
all you owe, and then if the paper be contin-
ued contrary to your orders, you are not liable
for it. Don't undertake to cheat the printer
out of his due whether it be ten cents OR ten
dollars. You have had the benefit of his labor,
and are bound, upon every principle of justice
and fair dealing, to pay for it
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
CONGRESS is doing nothing in the way of bu-

Congress is doing nothing in the way of bu-
siness at this time, the Charleston Convention
having taken away many members of the
House, while the Senate is not in session and
has not been the present week, the Senators
remaining at their posts merely assembling
every three days and again adjourning for the
same length Of time, which is the longest peri
cd for which an adjournment can take place
under the rule without the concurrent action
of the lower branch. The members of the
House who have not left the city meet daily
in committee of the whole to afford an oppor-
tunity to those desiring it to deliver buneomb
speeches, &c effort being made to transact gen.
era1 business as there is not a quorum present.
Among those who have made speeches the
present week are Messrs. Bingham, Corwin
and Howard, of this State. There will prob
ably not be a regular resumption of business
in both branches till after the Chicago Con-
~ventiOn.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

A terrible affair happened recently at Shell
hank, Texas. A Mr.. Stephenson sold a piece
Of land to Gen. Bishop, and after the purchaser
had made improvements on the land Stephen
son wanted to get it back. for the same amount
he had been paid for it, but his proposition was
refused by Bishop. This i~nccnsed Stephenson,
and accordingly he, with his wife, son and
daughter, went to ten. Bishops house, where
they found young Bishop sick in bed. The
wife and daughter held the sick man down
while young Stephenson cut lin literally to-
pieces with a knife, killing him almost imme-
diately, While this was going on, Gen. Bishop
knocked out the eye of the elder Stephenson
with a Ratchet. The Stephcnsons were arrest
ed.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

The last challenge to mortal combat at
Washington is a missive from Hon. r. j.
WALKER, one of Buchanan's repudiated Kan
sas Governors, inviting Attorney General
BLACK to the field for having charged that
there was no such letter in existence from Bu-
chan as that in which it was claimed he ex-
pressed himself in favor of having the Lecem-
ton Constitution submitted to a vote of the
people of Kansas, and that if Walker had a
document of the kind in his possession it was
a forgery. BLACK declined to accept the
challenge, and there the matter ends and to
vindicate himself from the aspersions cast up
on his character by the charge, Walker has
produced the letter, which is in all respects
precisely what he claimed it was, and shows
Buchanan did change his views on that CUES
ton and discarded Walker because he refused
to follow suit and insisted upon carrying out
the instructions upon which he agreed to act
when he accepted the Office. The develop
ment was made through the operations of the
Covode committee. and is decidedly damaging
to j. B..
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

GENTEEL DuELING.-The difficulty between
Messrs. Pryor ana Potter has led to much dis
cussion as to the relative propriety of using
lead or steel in dueling. A late number of
lie Nord contains a plea for the blade as OPP
posed to the ball, written by way of comment
upon a duel at st. Petersburg in which an
officer had been sorely wounded by a pistol ;
it thinks 1.-The pistol adds greatly to the obi
business of the duel. Firearms MAIN and dis
figure you when they do not kill you. The
cold steel kills, too, but if it wounds it does
not spoil you. Then with the sword you de-
fend yourself while you attack you put your
courage into your blade, which becomes ami
mated, as it were, and a part of yourself. The
steel, in a word, is simply your arm armed
OF course, chance plays its parts in sword-du-
els but that part is less important than is
played by courage, GOODNESS, and skill"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
q lew words to Baggage Masters.

We are not often called upon to copy any
thing from the Cincinnati Enquirer, by reason
of the intrinsic excellence of an article, and
we transfer the following to our columns, with
great cheerfulness on that account
Don't throw thut trunk out of your car, Mr..
Baggage Master. as though it was freighted
with pestilence, or an Internal machine on the
point efexpiosion! Its owner has paid his money
for its rapid transit and safe delivery at the end
ofhis journey: Suppose he is not by to watch
your recklessness, and rcbuke your disregard
for his property and the interests of your com
pany, you are no less bound by the duties of
your position and your own conscience-if you
have any-to treat his baggage with the same
respect you would its owner. Don't show
yourself what too many of your calling are
Justly denominated a baggage smasher."
That old hair trunk, g~uiltless of a lock. but
secured by ropes or strap, which you look up
On so eontemptuously, belongs to that young
who has made a trip by rail for the
first time, and, as a receptacle for her mice
Clothes is the first object of solitude and care.
Suppose it is an old thing, and indicates pow
erty and the lack of influence or position-so
much less excuse have you for your reckless
ness in handling it. Don't throw it down as
though it was an eobject offensive to your sight
which you would bury ten feet under ground
ut @ single dash. When its owner timidIy seeks
1t out, don't gaze at her until you stare her out
of countenance, and then permit her to seek
out her baggage without assistance. Come
down from your dignity a little, speak a kind
word to the poor girl, or the grayheaded old
lady, and her blessing will do you no injury
You can be q loafer or a gentleman. Mr.
Baggage Master, and the one or the other will
be determined by your own conduct. 1t is &
question for yourself to decide, but You vii
find a deal more satisfaction in taking such +
course as will entitle you to the universal in
aorsement of the "Model Baggage Master
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

4 BLooD-CH1LLING I'RAGEDY.-The How
ard County (Ind) Tribune says that one day
last week. Mr.. Levi Siz love. in the eastern
part of the county, after he had chopped down
Il tree ard walked out on to the top, discovered
something w%rithing, and slowly approaching it.
thinking the tree had fallen ON a pig. What
that it was his own six year old girl? There
was his child, its head almost entirely cut apart
and one of its eyes lying on its breast The
lower extremitics still moved, but life had been
thus horribly taken. TIE child had gone to
the woods to seek ifs parent without any one of
the family knowing of its absence.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
a For the Gazette.
THE Long Agony is Over"

Mr.. THOMSON The above we find in the
Editorial columns of the Democratic Standard
of April 9TH. One might suppose from the
tone of that paper, that the good people OF
Delaware have been left in agonizing suspense
for some time at the possibility that Mr.. Stay
man might not be ~re-appointed Post Master,
for a third term of four years. Whether he
would be likely to receive a third appointment
under the old rule of rotation in office, is a
question. But certain it is, that the unwar-
rantable personal abuse of the President has
long since placed his re-appointment in the
minds of everybody, himself included, beyond
a probability. Even those that signed his pc
tition for re-appdntment, did so out of com.
pliment ; not that, under the circumstances
they had any idea Of his being appointed
But many we're surprised that he vas not re-
moved, and not permitted to serve his time
out. Any one would suppose from the two
last numbers OF the Standard, that Mr.. Stay
man thought the Post Office was made for his
exclusive benefit, and that no other person had
Il right to enter into competition with him for
the office of Post Master. And that The Pres
ident had no right to appoint any person but
him without imputing to- him vindictive and
improper motives. He tries to create a synl-
patiy among the people, that the reason why
he did not receive the third appointment was
because he differed with the President on LIE
compton Squatter Sovereignty principles
Now all this is too silly. What does any man
suppose that the President cared whether he
was Lecompton or Anti-Lccompton. The rea-
son may be this LIST. The President acted
on truly Democratic principle, rotation in of
fee. ID. As MIR. Stayman says that the AID
ministration tools have succeeded in Riding
themselves of a thorn that has been sticking
them for some time.
Now is it not the duty, is it not natural, for
the President to try and rid himself and his
friends from this thorn. Will men nourish a
viper in their bosom? Now l should think
that a man must have a great deal of assurance
or i%mpudence to ask for a disappointment I'm.
der the circumstances, especially after Boosting
that he has been a thorn in the side of the Ad-
ministration. ] think the good people Of
Delaware will survive the calamity of Mr.
Stayman not being appointed Post Master
and it may be that after you have examined
more closely you will find other reasons thar
his Douglas proclivities was the cause of his
not being appointed. Although there is nc
one complains but what Mr.. Stayman has per
to the people, but it may be some other mar
may perform the duties equally as well.
Yours, W.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

TERRIBLE CALAMITY.-1he Murfreesboro
{Tenn.) Telegraph learns that the dwelling
house of Alex. f. Todd, residing about three
miles east CT Woodbury., in Cannon county,
A young man named Phillips, about II years
OF age who was spending the night at Mr..
1odd's, was burned to death. Two of Mr..
Todds sons-young men-were burned very
badly, one Of them so much that it is impossi-
bic for him to recover. MIR. Todd himself. in
endeavoring to rescue the young men, was very
badly burned, but it is thought he will recover.
The fire was thought to be the result of acct
dent,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
x.ater from Pixies P~eak--rdining Pros
aHectas -

Late from Pixies P~eak--N9ining Pros
-zpectss
The Sts5auis Democrats Denver letter Of
che 18th inst, states that the consolidation of
Den7ef City aud Auraria under the name of
Denver, had been celebrated with great enthu-
siasmby b mass messing. In regard to mining
the writer says
Scores who do come here go rambling around
on-the genteels searching for ready made mug
gets and surface chunks, too lazy to dig down
and collect theirsdust by the sweat of their
brow, and indheend, do not realize as much
as if they had gone directly to work and wash
edaout their own pay dirt. Hundreds have
goue down to the Cherokee diggings, some SIX
tyamiles southwest from Pixies Peak, on the
southwest branch of the Arkansas, where they
saysthereiaare bar diggings ten miles long,
which will pay S. to SIS to the rocker per
day. Others are trying to cross the Snowy
Range insearch of new rich placers on its
vesters slope. In Gregory's and Russellis,
thsresare thousands at work making some great
wages aud others less, and others-who have
rich quartzleads and quartz crushers-fortnnes.
There is a great demand for laboring hands in
allths mines, aud fine wages are offered in vain.
Some large sales of lead claims have been made
lately /; In the Secreto lead, so feet commanded
$500 40 feet on Russel's sold for $4,000 F;
leo feet on the same sold for $4,000, and an
mother of 800 feet.on the same gulch for 400.
In the Nevada district, Willow Flats, they are
making from Sl5 to $40 per day to the single
TONS Mining tools are awful scarce and high
inithe mines Drills are 81 so per pound, and
sledges the same rates, crewbars, pick and
sledge handles and shoyels at prices correspon-
ding. In most of the diggings the ground is
yet frozen two feet deep, yet they penetrate it.
In most of the lead or quartz rock claims, the
quartz rock yields from $500 to $500 per cord.
On parts of the Gunnel lead, it pays as high as
$500 to the cord. In some of the gulehes,
they are doing extra work. In the Russells
gulch, ON ;. n. Blossengame's claim, eight
hands make 200 pennyweights a day, some days
they find nuggets weighing Is and 10 penny
weights therein. Capt. Packard is washing
dirt on his claim ON the Gregory lead, from
which he takes out 800 per day with his
sluice, working seven or eight hands. While
parties and individuals n~eighboring these claims
are, ia some. cases. making comparatively moth
ing. -,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

A HINT TO CoEREsPoNDENrs.-Dr. Steph.
ems, of the New York Advocate and journal,
after nearly twenty-four years of editorial life,
recently gave the following estimate of the
probabilities in regard to communications be-
ing read =
"a communication which is a fourth of a
column long, is read by most readers, unless its
subject is manifestly repulsive over half q
column long is read by half of our readers; a
column long by "a third of them a two col
umn article by one-tenth a three or four col
umn one by nobody whatever, except the wea-
nv editor and his proof reader, aud the few who
may have a personal or very special concern
in the article"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
nat.ne HABITS of Japanese.

The San Francisco Times mentions several
pecnliarities exhibited by the japanese during
their stay at the international Hotel, and a
mong them the following: a7 4ds 49,,
nssThey have all shown themselves very easily
pleased and exceedingly well bred. When ask
ed to try some dish new to them they do so ;
if they like it, they continue eating, expressing
themselves pleased if moi, they taste no more,
but pever express dislike. The Ambassadors
are very dignifed and command respect. The
inferior officers never entered their apartments
without bowling, and their servants invariably
drop on the knee.
aThey are all very light eaters, but they take
their meals very quickly Almost everything
they do slowly. but eating with them is a rapid
operation. The subordinates eat nothing but
nice, but the dignitaries are fond ofsweetmeats,
cakes, cenfections, ofai kinds, and sauces
None. Of them eat amy Raeat. except that the
dignitaries fake q little chicken, and none Of
them use either niilh or butter Thcv drink
both tea and ia
their mea'
tobae
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
Aneedote of cassiug N. Clay.

There may be those who fancy that the
shareholders mob in kentuL. will succeed in
silencing or driving off Uassius NJ. Clay but
such persons win probably change their opin-
ion on reading the following authentic anec-
dote: In 1886, just before the commencement
of the Presidential canvass. the Rev. John G..
Fee. one Of the persons lately banished from
the Stale by the chivaIry, was advertised to
deliver a lecture on abolition at a certain
court house Whose name we have forgotton@
When the day came Il mob assembled, and
gave Mr.. Fee his ch0iee-to leave the place,
without lecturing, or to be Immediately tarred
and feathered and he left. When Mr.. Clay
and gave, notice, the Rev. John g.. Fee would
lecture there on the abolition of Slavery, and
that he fCassius NJ. Clay would be there to
see that the lecturer was not interrupted. The
time came. The men were in the rostrum
which had been prepared at Mr.. Clay's direc-
ton. A large assenlbIage stood below. Clay
stepped out in front, and said an. Fee is go
ing to lecture on Abolition. l don't altogeth-
er agree with him but / like fair play and
l want him and every other man to have his
say. If any man offers to touch him, he'll
have to do it over my dead body and | am
going to defend myself to the last" MIR. Fee
l~ectured without interruption. The chivaIry
knew their man they knew that Clay was
not to be iDtimidated, and that he was an ug-
ly customer to handle. And they know that
now.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

The following despatch was received at
Charleston on Wednesday, and is said to have
produced great excitement
battle GROUND OF SAN JAcINTo, Texas,
April 2l.-The people assembled en- masse,
have at this time and place nominated Sam
Houston as the Peoples candidate for Presi-
dent in the November election. A strong
electoral ticket, the Platform, the Constitution
and the Union. Down with all sectional is
sues. lSigned] A. M. GENTRY"
The New York Herald's correspondent
adds 81 am assured it is extremely proba-
BILE if the Wood delegates are rejected, and
the Platform does not please the South, the
s~eeeecrs win nominate the old hero for Presi-
dent and Fernando Wood for Vice President"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

The prac tice of insulting Northern Senators
and Representatives, who are know to repudi-
ate the code duello, Oh the part of the chiyalry,
is becoming every year more prevalent-afford-
ing as it does a cheap display of braverS~to be
paraded before the constituents of the gentle
men thus indulging as remarkable exhibitions
of pluck in defence of Southern institutions"
A few such affairs as that between Pryor and
Potter will probably have a tendency to check
these bullying demonstrations, which have been
of such frequent occurrence during the present
session. 1t is gratifying to notice that the bet
ter class Of Southern gentlemen do not approve
of such performances. In abiding to q recent
case in the House, in which Reuben Davis OF
Mississippi, figured conspicuously. the Frank
fort (Ky.) Commonwealth thus comments
GAS a citizen of a Slave State, it is with
modification we write that this disposition to
browbeat is too frequently manifested by the
Representatives of slaveholding constituencies;
but we must protest against their being regard
ed as types of the Southern gentleman, who is
usually courteous, anu T"cHldFhdDIC lUT tHc dU-
scenee of everything like buster and brayado
in his department towards his fellow men. The
excuse which Barksdale, Davis and their con-
freres give for their indecoros and seemingly
reckless conduct is, that Northern men are
towards, and can't be made to fight, which is
about the greatest mistake that mortal man
ever made. The native born American is nat
urally brave, and we care not whether he is
found in New England or in the Gotten States.
whenever and wherever the courage of the
Yankee has been fairly tested, it has been
found equal to the necessities of the occasion.
Whenever patriotism, duty, or the defense of
the country calls them to the tented field, there
is no peril they will not dare no sacrifice they
will not make. We have but little patience
with those who cast siurs upon the valor ofany
portion of the people of our common country.
Away with the foolish idea that u Northern
man is a coward because he does not recognize
the dleuo as an institution. Those who des-
pise them on this account would be much more
chary of their own lives if they were conscious
that theirs would be the forfeiture"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
Az oRrcos1Ax oRcnARD.-Thc Portland

An OREGoN1AN ORCHARD.-Thc Portland
(Oregon) Advocate, referring to Meek & Ed
dy's orchard, at that place, says:
There are fifty acres of orchard and nursery
grounds. Forty thousand feet of lumber was
used last year for making fruit boxes. This,
at $50 per NJ, would cost $500. This year
their business will require sixty-thousand feet
of lumber. From thirty-six to thirty-eight
thousand bushels of fruit were picked, inclu-
ding apples, cherries, pears and plums. The
gross sales last year, above all freights and
commission, after the fruit left Portland, were
$4,000. The year before they were $4,000.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

In May the General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church for the North will be
held in Buffalo. 1t will be one of the most i'm.
portant conventions ever held, as we under
stand the slavery question is to be agitated.-
There will no doubt be a large amount of ex-
citement. if the question is started in the phase
it is intended to be, I e., no member of the
Methodist Episcopal denomination is justifabe
in holding slaves, and although he may be a
mere member, and own them, yet it incapaci-
tates him from being an elder, class leader, OF
minister. Another important question that
will be brought into the convention, probably
will be that Of Lay Representation both in the
General and Annual Conferences. The mem.
bership of the denomination are beginning to
claim their right to a share in the deliberations
and decisions of these bodies whose action be-
comes yearly more important and extended
Pttsburg Gazette.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

The Republican State Central Committee
will meet at Columbus on Wednesday next for
the purpose of fixing the time for the assemb-
ling of a Convention to nominate candidates
for the State Offices to be filed at the next
election, and transacting such business as may
be deemed necessary for the advancement Of
the Republican cause in the approaching State
and Presidential contests.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27

Mr.. Robinson, Chairman of the Vermont
delegation at Charleston, died on Wednesday
of apoplexey. The heat is said to be Excess
sive in the city. A correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says: "Ihe sun shines
fercely hot, and northern men in black clothes
and stovepipe hats are painting like chickens
in one of our July afternoons, and drinking
and perspiring profusely."