Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-06-14


York Tribune states that''nO payments have
been made to this Southern troops beseiging !
Fort Pickens since they were mustered into |
servlce-not solitary dollar
The number of prizes taken IN Hampton
Roads since the enforcement of the blockade
Is about forty. and the aggregate value is es-
tmAted at about one million dollars The
schooner Haxall, captured by the Minnesota.
had cargo Of man faCtuTed tobacco Of supe-
rior quality. valued at 100000.
Chambersburg. June Clinton Reutch, a
wealthy SecessiOHist, Was shot last night 10y q
Union at w Il4iamspOTt, Maryland
Reutch boasted that he could whip any Union
man living.
a special agent OF the Government just ar
rived from Richmond at Washington, informs
Gen. Scott, that JEFF. Davis announced in
speech, that he had 68, 600 men under arms
in Virginia, and p, ,00O more en- route 10 that
State he intended to M AXE stand at Man
assas Junction, but sould retreat from Fairfax
at the approach Of the Federal tIocIs-
A few days since the Stars and Stripes were
raised on the flag staff at middle Haddam Ct,
by Jacob HuId, one Ct the lew seTEiFoTs vi the
Revolution.
Aqua Creek. the location of the battery that
was attacked by the United States ships. 1t
is a small river in Stafford county. Va. hOwt
ing into the Potomac. So miles below Wash
ington. The river is navigabie for a shOr-
distance by small craft, and is connected
with Washington by a steamboat line, aud
with Richmond By the Richmond. FredeTicks-
burg & Potomac Railroad, IS miles long
The object tf its occupancy by the Government,
is to get Possession of that IaiirCad-
IMroE1Axr TO 1nE TUIuc-py late act Of
Congress all drop ie1tels must be prepaid by
aftixIng ore ceut postage stamp OF they can
not be ie liveTed.
seccSsionist. named John Swain. was shot
dead on Friday evening, while using strong
and abusive sccesSiOList language to Henry
! Merritt, in a Now York saloon, by the latter.
who then gave b mself up to the police They
had been engaged in warm discussion Oi Sc
cessiunism, before the fatal termination Of the
dispute.
After ali the boosting of the rebels. theil
| Confederate LoIn' has uOt been taken.
| Witness the following notice from the ia cllson
| AississlRpfaH:
ave are authorized hy the Treasurer Of the
! Confederate States 10 reopen the books toT
subscription to the Confederate Loan. The
( local Commissioners in the different counties
are requested TO solicit additional subscT1p-
| tions. We appeal to patriotic citizens to come
! forward and invest in this most desirable stock.
] Come one, come all james D. Stewart 81.
/ u. Haynes, L. L. Burt. Central Commissioners
A correspondent at Philadelphia informs the
/ Boston Journal that one cOmptny of the Ohio
Regiment. which is now encamped below that
| city, contains sixteen brothers. Their name
| is Fisch. They were born in Germany This
[ remarkable incident has attracted general
notice, and the brothers will be made the re-
cipients of an ovation soon to be given.
There are seven thousand Federal troops
now in Grafton. Many of the SccessionlstS
have taken the oath Of allegiance to the Uni
el SITES.
From a table Which the North American
| publishes, it appears that Philadelphia has now
enlisted 1884 men, forming tTenty regi-
! lnents. This is very little behind New York.
Joshua r. Giddings, our Consul to Canada.
! is reported to have caused the seizure OF an
! iron gun boat at Quebec which supposed
10 have Teen purchased for the Confederate
State rebels.
! A Coon SUGGESTION. would he we'll for
those no correspond with volunteers now in
camp OF on duty away from home to inclose
postage stamps. 1t is difficult in many in
| stanCes fer kUldiCs to procure them, and this
may be the occasion of letters remaining un-
/ answered. To make rune of receiving letter
| fIUm your ritnds at the sert Cf war. don
neglect TO inClose postage stamp when you
write.
The Secretary Of War, in general order,
suggests to tie Amy, that aIl tie c>leTs oi
the Republic should be draped in mourning
in hOnOr of the memory of lr. Douglas.
all accounts frsn mats in lio.te tn 1t t'lc
growing cIop of wheat will be good onq-
Tic following note is fair sample of many
from that section. This comes fIum Sabetha.
Nchama Co.. k9ns 1t says the wheat crop
is very promi.ing now; the heavy rains of the
last three weeks have given it a heavy thick
growth and hca thy look. Judging from
present appear anccs we will have an extracrop-
The O. $. Presbyter ian General Assembly
adjourned On saturday last after fifteen days
session. The next Assembly will convene ~
Columbus. Ohio, on the third Thursday oi
May 1867.
the "a hours ending Thursday neon from Eng
land, exceeded taro and qvarteT millions Of dol
lars. The City of Washington brought 81,
600 900, and the Austsalasian the heavy ship
ment of 81, 3G9, ,274-
SPRINGFIELD. Ills, June I2.-O Fl. Brown
ing has been appointed Senator by GOV. Yates
!, to ill the vacancy occisioned by the death o.
Senator Douglas.
The great gun Union" sunk at Baltimore,
weighs 81 500 pounds, and of course will re-
GuiIe immense machinery to raise it,
The IIaytian Emigration Agent in this conn
try has proposed to the War Department that
stations be established Ivy the Government
, where human eontrabands can be received and
| cared fJr until freed by confiscatUn, or other
wise disposed of. In this event, he offers in
behalf If the authorities of Eayti, if they he
! forwG led rs emigrants to that republic, t.
) provide them with free farms on their arrival
The Sewell's Point affair was quite brush
: after all, if reporteo be true. a WaShingto.
dispatch says ''informatinn has been received
J here to-day from Individual who visited
Sew eli's Point Battry. on the morning afte
, shc Mnntcello's attack upon it, that fragments
ct hJf nan remains were seen scattered about;
that it was admitted there then that nine OF
its =. lenders had been killed. and Iargc
number wounded, and it is not now den'et
thet the battery was we'll nigh destroyed
ing been Silenced and abandoned for tk'
time being
AN ABoLITIoNIsr HUNG.-John Bcman, II,
watch man the steamer W. NJ. Morrison
Whose arrest we mentioned in our last wa,
yesterday hung by the citizens of Mound City
He was a most uncompromiSing Abolition
u ibts and expressed such sentiments as left the
Indignant citizens 70 otlri alternative. HI
,.i was upward ef sixty years of age, had beer
employed long time the river and came
ifOm B'ston. Aass.. where he said he haC
: friends living g'--FFom the Memphis 14ralGncke
,IlRss7i.
H GrRsroyy Nd june l0-The rebels