Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-12-06

out OF lnlS feOelfiOh III 4 rev nlOntLS, anu tnuS
verify the predictions Of our !oreiathers, that
man is capable of seffgorernment. .
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ae aa5' s News Brevities.
70 Col Coreoran, three Captains and eigh-
teen Lieutenants, captured at Manassas, have
! been selected by lot to be hung in retaliation,
should the Federal Government hang the pi-
rates now convicted in the U. S.Court.
The election returns from Wisconsin are nm
liexpectedly favorable. The whole Republican
State ticket is elected, sumo of the candidates
/ having full 10000 majority, The Republican
! candidate for Governor is nearly 1900 ahead
of his opponent.
| The U. s. Grand Jury sitting in Frankfort,
/ Ky, indicted for treason, thirty persons.
| Humphrey Marshall indictments for high
misdclneanor We're found against twenty per-
sons.
The Seneca falls On Y ) Reveillc states that
/ the Sen ecstR Knitting Mills, now engaged on
government contracts, employ between three
and four thousand men and women, and yet
this force is Inadequate to meet demand Or
ders for many thousands of pairs of stockings
have been turned away, and gone elsewhere.
The returns for members of the New York
! Legislature are now all in. The Senate will
| stand as follows Republicans, l0l; Repub!i-
| cans and Peoples Il, Democrats S. To the
House there are elected 70 Republicans IS
Republicans and Peoples. So Democrats, 5
Democrats and Peoples and 20 Union Demo
cratS-
. CHANGE OF NtME.-In an order Of General
Sherman. datei Hilton Head, November 18th,
we find the following; |
''The fort on Hilton Head will he known ~
Fort Welies, and the one on Bay Point, here
tofore called Fort ReaurcgaTd, will be known as
| Fort Seward ...
SEDEIA's MATUH-A Richmond paper some
days since boasted that mir. Dayton is no match
for Mr.. Slidell at Paris" That may he,
though we doubt it; but we may add that Mr..
sIi,lelI is no match for Captain Wilkes. Il am
kiptiin of this ship, . said he when the envoy
refused to touch his hat, and the envoy
| ''caved. ~. j. Iost.
PorAToEs BURIED FIVE FEET DEEP VIII. NOT
| SPR0UT.-A correspondent of the Scottish Far
mct says that potatoes buried Mt the depth of
three to FIVE feet below the surface Of the
ground will not sprout, but keep fresh for an
indefinite time.
EXPORTS OF CHEEsE.-- One of the remarkable
features of the large export of provisions now
making from New York. is the immense guam
| tity of cheese exported to England. There has
already been exported the enormous quantity of
twcty-six millions of pounds. Two millions
of pounds of butter were exported in 1859. The
first ten months of this year fifteen millions of
pounds have been exported
| HoRsK REsERvE--The Harrisburg Telegraph
states that about GOO government hpiscs are
| to be distribu uted throughout Cumberland and
hDauphin counties, Pa, to be fed and taken
cure of. They are to be held reserve to be
| called for just they are needed. The
! governiAnt stipulites that they shall be fed a
| peck of oats and fifteen pounds of hay per day.
for whirh forty cents per head is paid
II AZ.
shortly to visit England for the purpose OF
delivering series of discourscs in London,
| Liverpool, Glasgow, and other cities in Great
/ Britain. on the origin and progress of the
/ American war, in the hope of hnparting to
John Bull such ideas of the present struggle in
! this country between the North and South as
viii be likely to restrain him from bcstowing
| his sympatlios on the rebels.
The telegraph tariff between st. Louis and
san Frlncisao is four dollars and twenty-five
cents for the first ten words; thirty-six cents y
word additional mp to ninety words; twenty.
! four cents for each word additional between
ninety and four hundred words; eighteen cents
between four hun.lred and five hundred words,
and twelve cents between five hundred and
| one Thousand. Bet"cen New York and San
! Francisco the rates are five dollars and ninety
/ five cents for the first ten words, and forty
| eight cents for each additional work
Tie whole number of Secesii prisoners sent
to Camps hase is 365, Of which number 342
are still there. -a m
| A hemp crop has been raised in Kentucky,
and it can t. be wasted. 1t must be used either
in baleing cotton or hanging traitors Louisville
Journal
/ Mr.. John Jacob Astor, has Joined the staff of
! Major-(iener Mcclellan with the commits
sion of Lieutenant Colonel. Mr.. Astor is the
representative Ofthirty millions of property
with an income of two millions per annum.
! a woman and her little daughter were re-
Gently burned to death at Bryan, Williams
county, hy the explosion Of lamp she was
! filling while the wick was burning.
/ Kentucky has furnished her full 1uota of
kthe bait million men for the National rrtcnre,
and proposes to False rs many more for State
defense, until the rebel armies are Withdrawn
from her soil. H.H
John Browns Sharp Shooters have arrived
at I.eaFenworth, Kansas, and now ready
to enter upon duty $50
| Ifa 'oluneI GprcDraT has been. troubled since
the threat ot.tle rebels with unc lsy sensations
about the throat, he ought to feel relieved by
the capture of Mason aud SlideIl. They will
hardly play gtlnt. Of hanging when two such
important persGnaSes aS Mason anu Slidell arc
| liablc to a hemp crayat, C5k (oTcoran can
sleep onights hereafter without any vision oi
strangulation.--lS lSlndusky ltrg
On Monday a sad casualty oecurrcd in the
| !
little giil between three and four wears old.
while at play ran against aud fell into u buck
ct of hot soap, and -'xas bulHed to death.
Only three of the Transports belonging TO
the Port Rnya fleet were l,rt in the storm.
Thvy were the Osccula, LEO tons, an old but COED
vessel; the side wheel iron steamer Peerless,
British built. reported to I've very stauneh
vessel, 100 tons; aud the side wheel Steamer
'foYernor, 644 tons ass. t asa -
Barnum offers 81 ,0a0 for the lone represen-
tative OF SoutlIeh rhiyalry found drunk at
BeaptnIt, =. o., when that place was takBn po-
session of by the Northern troops. lie will
draw If he can I've Obtained.
The y: Y. World sass of the Springfield
Mass) Arusory:
1t produced &. 900 arms last muntl,,- will
produces 10, 0a9 next month, and by the end at
another year it will be easily plopred to pro
duce 2O0,0 900 per annum.
Thirty-eight negroes arrived in Leavcnworth
on Sunday, having been freed 10y Jennison,
and great number went TO Lawrence. Mil
lions OF dollars worth of this kind OF property
are now running about in Kansas. Leaven
worths is crowded with them, and Lawrence
has large number