Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-12-14
GENERAL NEWS 1rEmsL,.

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Tie last arrival from the Pacific brings. ts
| Intelligence Of the sIercssse of Dclazon Smith,
| Late United States Senator from Oregon. TEs
| adventurous character of Mr.. Smith, ord tffe
noted eccentricity of his career, bad given him
! a notoriety greater than is tfsnaI to men Of "a
similar grade of ability and attainment. hra
Henry r. Riddick and Adrian Snider, two
| prominent lawyers of Cofeeville. Miss, had a
street nffray few days ago. which resulted in
the instant death of the former, whereupD1 "a
brother of the unfortunate man seized d pistol
/ and shot Shidcr dead. -.7
MARINE DISASTERS ron NUvEMBER.-T The
number of American se,s-going vessels reportc1t
Ms totally lest and missing during the past
! month amounts to 81, viz l steamer. ships.
4 barks, \ brig and IS schooners. Of these
are missing. % wIecJteal. 4 burnt, foRsders6r
! 2 sunk by collisions ntSl cHfyised.
Miss Ormsi,ee. citizen of Warren, " II.
| has been deprived Of sight and the power tU
articulate single word for the last hftyTiiHe
] years about tlyIee weeks ago aF@Aedcscritetk
! 10, witIsorst any extra effort on her own plrt,
she ftgau 81 csHverse md now holds CONVEX
satjou with all who visit her. Miss Ornisl'ce
IN ,oyy seventy five years old. aud became duInb
! when she WAS twenty years nf age. fr-.-
| Gov Seward has the credit of the most pun
/ gent aid concentrated criticism made ON the
| President Message. He is reported to have
| said that the President had established two
things that State may not sccesie, unless d
wants to; and, in case of secession, IL woHld
becuine tIIe tluty of the Executive to enforce
| the Iaws--ff nobody objected.
dispatch from Columbia, S. c., few days
ago announced that Gov. Gist had received an
/ offer from Baltimore of the services of a regt-
n,ent of Maryland troops, under charge of
Philip Henry Ice. The Baltimore Patriot says
that no such major or regiment belongs Ia the
city. t'''at2
About twenty young gentlemen of New Oh
leans, wishing to display their Southern spirit
Il rIs& l,Itf hat Nrna
manufacturer NJ Southern State; SO they
bought some pieces Of Keitucky jeans. and l1t.d
it made up into suits, but too late they dia-
covered that the Kentucky jeans had been
made in Massachusetts -Y.I fsii
A riot took place at funeral, at Detroit, on
Sunday last growing out of the refusal OF q
harkecper 20 swrply the Irishmen with liquor,
during which one German was killed, and two'
others wounded. The Irshmen have been apr
pretended. sf-.s.yras
Mr.. A d. Tittsworth, of this city. has taken
the measure of the President elect. for the purN
pose of making him an elegant black suit IN
which to he inaugerated on the 4th of March
next Chicago Journal .re aai
In Newton county. Mo, on the Gath ult., the
Rev j. j. Baxter. a Mr.. Morris and Mr. Rog-
ers commenced fighting about land claim
The conflict resulted IN the denth of Baxter,
Rogers, and friend of the latter named Nor
The Boston Post says: 1--WE hear of several
furniture orders this week from the Southland
more than that, from Charleston--and more
than that, accompanied by remittances. In the
piano forte trade also, the southern orders seem
uninterrupted. ,-u..r
The VoTE OF THE CoUXTRY.--AccOrdiRg to
the latest returns received the whole number
of votes cast is $500, 600; of which Abraham
Lineoln received 800. 900 Stephen A. Doug
las, 800, 900; John @ Breckenridge, SOOs0OO;
and John Bell. 500 900.
A NortheVs disunioR sheet prints exultingly
the following as item of cheerful news
An AbolitioniSt. whose opinions were obnox-
ioaS to some Mississippians, was hareled mp
and rolled into the Mississippi river few days
since.
Rev. Mr. Yates, in a recent speech in Charles
ton said that II the South required it he would
go into the foremost ranks with Bible in ons
hand and revolver in the other, ..
Crowds of disaffccted Saint are on their
way from Salt Lake City TO Sandiego, Califor-
MIA Brigham Young is threatened with de-
population Of his empire 't
The value of the hop crop of the United
States this year Is estimated at "a, ,oO0, OO0,---
nearly all in Otsego. Oneida and Madison
counties, New York.
A Correspondent of the Columbus Georoia
Times prOnounces our experiment OF Popular
Government failure and advocates "a Consti-
tutOnal MDnnr chy. .
Ths Ropkinsville (Ky.) Press on Monday
Dessmber Sd, says that at that time fifty Of the
lAsAatics who escaped from the asylum building,
were roaming through the woods in that
county.
A Mrs. Nesbit of Green township, Mercy
county, Penn, was beaten to deatha few days
since, by a lunatic son. who had been recently
removed from the asylum
South Carolina is tho only SasttheTn State
which has an armorx of her own. 1t has been
in operation some years and tarns out good
vror