Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-03
GENERAL NEWS TENS.

b1iat LllG TIL VI GutSV C1ty i OIC ~DOuNlA A1do
not fallen off at all, but that it never was more
40 urishing than at present.
SThe Utica Convention of Garrisonian Aboii-
tiopists adopted a resolution congratulating
their brethren upon the accession of the New
York Herald to their ranks, and are growing
loudly over the fact that they can. reach the
Southern mind through its coIumnst 4.T5.s(
A FAcr-77The Union caunot be, dissel and
nobody but sd~emagogues ever dare to hint at
such a catastrophe. Let the Locofocos remain
in power and the Uhionis safeAturn them out
and it is sAFER-keep them out and it is the
SAFEST.-Bdhinaore Patriot. 81 Gs5t! E.rfe sGd
In answer to a correspondent, the New Or
leans Delta says that Mr., Douglas still holds a
large force of nagrocs, as guardian of his child
rem by a former marriage, which are worked on
a cotton plantation in that State, IN partnership
with a prominent citizen of Louisiana. tal Tu0
80 The accounts from Louisiana and Texas state
that the recent hard frosts in those States have
not seriously affected the sugar crop.
The Republicans of Chicago promise that all
who may attend the National Convention next
june, in that city, shall be taken care of. nh
there shall ibegany deficiency in hotel room, PIT
Vate dwellings Will be thrown open, an ys,tE-
It is stated that there, are now in Canada 49,
600 runaway slaves from the South, Valuing
these slaves at an average of 81 600 each they
amount to $45, 000, 000.' Hfi"-3t e : 57ia1
During last week nearly ten tons of cells were
6C1G W llOtA wv" AOAA AhdA Q ny ptI LIS III III
leans, Massachusetts,. araFn Iat .g.a ird-
Resolutions have been introduced into. the
Louisiana Legislatnre, proposing a conference
of Southern States. in relation to commercisl
RonIintercoufse with the North. NaA t,e"''toE
"a fatzbeati of immense dimensions is in pro-
gress at ST. Paul, Minnesota. It is designedito
carry a load of ice down the Mississippi. ia The
boat is built with three compartments each l4O
feet ID length, and 10 feet wide. VA
A BILL has passed the Legislature. of Virginia
appropriating half a million of dollars for arm
ing theeState and establishing an armory. e1A
decided opposition to the measure was made by
8 few members in both Houses. ~
a Japanese Ambassador is to sail for the Uni
ted States on the I'D of February.
N. G. Arthur, a Republican, has been chosen
as one of the delegates to the Opposition State
Convention of Virginia, which meets at Rich
mond on the 22d inst. The Richmond Wing
thinks he had better stay at home, as he will
not be allowed a seat in the convention. 1t
DR.. Livingstone. in his recent explorations in
the interior of Africa came upon a herd of 800
elephants z2o- gesi-Aot ' il 57 f5i- III
Mr.. Christian, the Speaker of the Virginia
Assembly, is now wearing a suit OF homeSpun;
SO also is Mr.. Mason, one of the u. S. Senators
from that State, Both suits were doubtless cut
out by a pair OF yankee shears, sewed with nee
die and thread from yankee land, and are but
toned with yankee buttons. -Ta 11d J
Exhibited States Senator James, of Rhode Is
land, has invented a cannon, which. a board of
army officers report, will carry a shot with ac-
curacy a distance Of oUer Sin miles
The Assessors in Kentucky report a corn crop
of three hundred and eighty million bushels.
It is valued at $50, 900, 900. ~fra i4r-r-
The newly elected chaplain of the Massachur
sets Senate, undertook tn address the Senate OH
the subject of prayer, when he was stopped by
the President, who told him it was out OF order
fofranv one NOT a JnoTnhar of that bod q r., ad-
dress the Senate. f. re- iF+- la .Ttas"t
Several very valuable diamonds have been
lately brought from Bombay and offered for sale
in Paris. There is one, as yet uncut, which the
owner values at f320, 900, Isl, 5000, 600 He
has been offered seven millions of francs for it
in Paris. - -s @f4
A copy of the Springfield Mass Republican
has been publicly burnt by order of the court
in one of the counties of Virginia. 1t WIS du-.
~ examined and declared to be incendiary.
Douglas comes up missing in Tennessee. The
Democracy of that State have appointed their
delegates to the Charleston Con vention, andin-
strQeted them to support Senator Johnson of
that State t.-,l.4 4ab +. o...a.-fiI adj 4.. ~
In the Fixes Peak regions, such deIicacies as
chickens bring 81 a pair, eggs 81 per dozen, and
sweet potatoes IS cents a pound. Common
dishes. such as wild turkey roasted and stuffed
with antelope hearts. choice slices of fat bear
meat and black-tailed deer, are sold cheap
Prentice says he has not yet read a solitary
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The Boston Journal says the Connecticut del
egates to the Chicago Convention, elected on
Wednesday of last week, ARE supposed to be
pretty evenly divided in their choice for a can
disiatc for the Presidency, between Gov. Chase
and Mr. Bates" hf f 1f ''
.Two desperate Young men. Clifford and Too
ny, who murdered Charles Wood. at Duhuque,
Iowa, on the night of November 9th last, sim
Ply to rob nm OF one hundred and Twenty-Five
dollars, which they knew he had III his pocket.
We're executed on Friday last. gs
Fred Douglas cknowledges. since he arrived
in England, that he did know of the Harpcr's
Ferry plan, as undertaken by Brown, disappro-
we'd OF the capture of the town and armory,
but approved the original scheme Of running off
slaves ana estaDlishing a rendezvous IN the
mountains @t-t- '9" es "fi -5.3tfse
V!cksburgh is an interesting place in which
TO edlt a paper. Mr. 10y, who was shot last
week, Is the sixth editor who has been killed in
street hgrts IN that city. SEA ~ t." 'i5 2o E7'
Eight persons. were drowned near Rhinebeck,
N T., on tuesday last A party of twenty OF
twenty-five persons from the opposite side of
the river were crossing on the ice in a large
covered sleigh drawn by four horses, when the
inc witb If einht IF the nassanaars IT. 80 80
oaaJ TIo ~ -, "Hp =
: ~ ~ 80 - 80 - = Se'tlhs GUY
= : vie S,e,sA D'tole : "on' 80" .s-
and u ~ tba ILLS . nioSe uuiy says OF !he
Of y Sneaker IDisnniop SneocbsS ~
for tbe Territor;es inv;tatipns 70 H. Sot1 ae
brSteEn nasuI m1st1 4m.Dedunss anu nrJtious Ill
Sontbern $4,000 do;n@s ~ a. e., = g.ztLn
House at Washington. Meanwhile the OPPOSE
tinA. S0Uth and North remain firm fiiuni6al :