Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-12-13
News Brevitiess

| 1t .srumored, on what is alleged to bo good au-
| thority, that six hundred thousand volunteers
arc now enrolled in the different States! It is
/ also stated tltat no Iifore volunteers will be
accepted, from the States, after the six hum
dred thousand are in the field. After that the
only opportunity tc become attached to the AZ
my will be through the regular service.
The Columbus correspondent of the Gin
| cinnati Gazette understands that dl tha dcpots
| for prisoners at the East will he abandoned
and that the distinguished Confedcrates at
| Fort Warren and Fort Lafayette us well as the
| undistinguishcd at Fortress Monroe, will be
| placed under the of Colonel Huffman, on
| Brli Island, Sanduskt Bay. .#.
The Richmond Examiner quotes the follow
| ing articles at wholesale prices: Butter, fresh,
45 to 80 cents per pound. and very scarce at
that Farmers advised to turn their attcn
ton to this special branch of business. Salt.
fine, 50, 80 to SO for Liverpool; pepper 40 to
IS cents. very scarce; coffee, none in market:
% to 24c; leather; 60. to G5c.-ih demand,
stock light; silver is selling at l5c; gold, lSc.
to zoe.
\ man in England named Secrs accused hinf-f
self OF committing Il fearful murder. w;ts arrcs-
ted, tried and acquitted--it being proved that
he was thousands of miles from the scene of the
murder when it was committed.
In Madison county, Illinois, Il few days ago.
Il crazy German, named Friheart who had lost
his relsun on the death of Ills wife, shot dead
his four children and then blew his own bI;tlns
out.
Dispatches from Washington show that the
Administration will fully and unequvocdlly
sustain Captain W likes. And tile Nation will
IL fully sustain the Administration. No mis-
tske about that. s,ff
The Pa rot gun. which was tested a few days
since at West Point, has arrived in New York,
cn r,ltte for Fortress Monroe. The glia throws
/; one hundred pound shot five miles
monwealth of Virginia, the 2Sth ult.. Oh
served a dty of thanksgiving, and Governor
Picrpont is the first Governor that ever proclai-
med one. .s
The most Ultimate friends of Gen. Scott
have no hopes that he will ever return alive to
this country, many even anticipating that if
the sra is rough he may not survive the voy
age. lie was very feeble on the dy of his
departure.
Senator Wilson has determined to introduce
bill Immediately to abolish the office of Sutler
in the Army. He has been impelcd to this |
by reason of the gxt0rtions and abuses practisdc
upon the soldiers.
A new punishment for Virginia is at hand |
Congress will probably be cllle,l on to change /
the terri itorial boundaries of Delaware as to |
give this little State all the territory between
Chesapeake Bay ana DedNafe FLYER, and to !
change the boundaries of Maryland so rs to give |
hcl all the eastern counties of Virginia. and to |
leave to the State at lr8tHiaj the tUrfltC'rt as
organized by the Convention at Wheeling, and /
that which lies between the Blue Ridge and the |
Ohio
The London Watchman in an editorial on
the Seward and Lyons correspondence, styles
the letter of the former "a very rapid, clever,
and someM hat cauStic answer"
Within the past eight days, ten thousand /
overcoats have been issued from the depot at
Cincinnati. to regiments located in different
parts of the State and the same number will /
be iSued within tlie! lie3t fortnight.
CAM IN AT GAIRo-TIters afe already one hun
dreI and sixty-four pieces of canitOn at Cairo.
none of which less than 81 poItndefs and
over one hundred tons of animuIfition have ar
rived an more is still to arrive.
C1MN1DoRE HoII.IxS, the hero of the attack
on our fleet at the mouth of the Mississippi. /
it is stated. has fallen into disgrace at New Or
leans. On tho strengths of his dispatch the city |
went into a general illumination; but the pco-
pie, on looking into the details, could not dis
cover the extraordinary briliancy of the c3.
plot and now give HollinS the cold shoulder. |
SULLIVAN FAY, a wealthy citizeh of south
sent year. about fifteen hundred days labor of
men, in improte on his farm, for the pur-
pose of giving employment to those who need- |
ed it to support their families
Secretary Chase gives notice that the Treas
Ury Department is now reidy to redeem the
Treasury Notes of December, 1860, and interest /
will cease on them on the first of next February