Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-02-08
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the 1ss of January, 1862, or be sold into
Slavery.
It is generally believed that the organizss-
tion against the Capital exists principally in
Virginia. Sums of money have been raised
by the different counties and it is supposed |
have been used to arm and equip men for this
enterprise.
Fort Hamilton, below New York, was gar
risoned on Tuesday evening. The fort has
been for long time without garrison.
The Alabama Convention holds its session |
on Sunday. This is something like the revo-
lutioDsry days of France. The next enormity
will probably be a declaration that the Bible I
is fable. that there is no God, and that death I
is an eternal sleep -Nasicle Democrat
The lsboring classes of New York have in
the Saving Banks of that city four millions of
dollars more than the entire valuation of the /
city of Charleston, negroes included.
By the latest news from EugaHd we have /
an account of terrible accident in explosion /
Of one Of the coal mines in Wales by which |
ITO lives were lost.
The villanious Washington Constitution, the |
organ of treason and revolution at the Capital, |
has died a miserable death. The traitors, !
Cobb and Floyd, having lIankrupted the treas
ury, the thing was left without means Of sup
port.
IEAUGURAT1oN BALL.-Governor Seward,
says Washington Correspondent, has taken
the initiative, with other prominent gentlemen,
in getting up grand Inauguration Bail, at
which men of all sections can join, and dance
"all hands round.7
The London papers are urging the necessi ty
Of Engiand's engaging in the cotton. culture,
either in India, or some other country fayora-
bic to its growth.
Secretary Dix has issued orders that Cap
tains of revenue cutters shall not deliver up
their vessels to rebels, but defend them to the
last, and if overpowered, run them ashore and
! blow them up.
Wheeling (Ya has only thirty~one slaves
in a population OF l4.3l4.
Col. Fremont Arrived in New York on
Friday the 25th nit Il is probable that he
will be tender ed Voroigu Mission by Mr..
Lincoln.
The late Secretary Cass is about to shake
off the dust of w 4shiugton from his feet for
ever. Fe will return to Detroit in a few
weeEs, whefe he will reside the balance Of his
l;Fe,
GREAT FALL OF SNow.-We learn that the
I depth of snow in New Hampshire, at tie
present time, is almost unparalleled. Measure
ments made of the quantity fallen 10 to the
present time show that in all there has been
about seventy inches. -
LATEST NEws.-A Quebec paper saws =
"Whie the North and the South arc on the
eve of civil war, ii is interesting to learn, as
we do on unquestiOnable authority, that the
! Leading men of the State Of Maine are prepar-
Ing the way for annexation to the British
American Union. 1t is the most hopeful
movement in the hour"
CHICAGO. Jan GA fire at Menomonoe
Wis. on Monday night. destroyed the house
OF VIM. Castigan. postmaster Of that village.
and four of his children. aged from 4 to 10
years, perished in the fame.
Rev Peter CARTWRIGHT. in a rrcont lecture
in New York city, said: Let the Heavens
fall Int rrcserve thr Union. Old ~ 7 am.
stiff as I AM, I would shoulder my rife for the
Union
It is announced in European Journals that
by a recent discovery, paper has been made Of
the leaves and hnsks Of Indian corn, equal and
in some respects. superior to that mnde from
rags. IF this be true. it is good news to the
farmers of this country. and not less so to
newspaper and book makers.
The n Y. Commercial Advertiser mon
tons rumor that 'chsrges of treason will be
preferred against Mr.. Toncev. Secretary Of the
Nary. by the House of Representatives"
There is a growing disposition among Re-
! puhIicans to effect a settlement Of the present
controversy. on any fair basis which will not
! require Slavery to be established or protected
South of the Missouri line That point will
not he conceded. and without this concession,
the South refuses to be satisfied.
Bishop Green. of Mississippi. has issued a
Pastoral Circular directed to the clergy to
substitute in their PRAYERS The "Governor of
: States" and "the legislature nf the state -
for "the Congress of the United States" &c
A clerk in the Land Office, named IT .ustor
of Ohio, resigned some time ago. Five one
hun dred and sixty acre land warrants. in his
charge, are missing. Three other warrants,
in charge of another clerk. discharged yestnr-
day, arc also missing. Floyd's case is terrible.
= The amount Of Ills acccptances is cnormous-
= Some are now due in New England Banks
: belonging to manufacturing people.
e South Carolina has 275.0O0 white inhabt-
ants between the age of five and twentv Of
e these, 81 200 can neither read nor write.
Henry Clay, in his great speech in 1880
remarked-"I must take the occasion to say
that, in my opinion, there is no right on the
part of one or more Of the States to seceds
from the Union"
The Coal Dealers of Pittsburgh have held
a public meeting, and resolved to send no more
' coal south this winter. The insecurity of tn G
boatmen. ard the financial difficulties in the
= Southern States, are the reasons for this ac-
l. ton.
& A dispatch from n. Orleans 6th, says or
f ders from Washington to the Gulf Squadr on
f indicate that fleets will be concentrated at he
mouth Of the Mississippi, River, Pensacola Ma
: Wy Yard, &c.
CoNsP1RAcY.-The Washington correspon-
, dent of the New York Tribune says there is
reason to fear the formation of a conspiracy to
assassnats General Scott, and that several
reckless scoundrels from Mississippi and South
Carolina came on for that purpose.
= The Louisiana Secession Ordinance "an-
nuls' altogether toe much for the purpose ap-
narentlr intended That State owes her