Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-10-17

GEN, sooFrgID WHIPS rHr ENEMY At NEwTcN-
IA--Dispatches received at headq uarters bring
intelligence to the effect that on Saturday
morning Gen Scotield attacked the rebels at
Newtonia, IA small town 5 miles south west os
Spring field, and after hours engagement the
rebels broke and fed in all directions. The
enemys force vas estimated at 900. Oar
loss is triliing.
Ex-Gov. Lowe, of Maryland, writes to the
Richmond Despatch deprecating the disaifcc-
ton felt at the South because of the unfavor-
able reception of the Confederate army in
Maryland He says that the people of Mary
land needed to be assured whether the entrance
of the army was intended to be mere raid or
| a substantial occupation for relief. Gen. Lee
] proclamation was intended TO assure them of
the latter, but before it could accomplish ills
object military necessities carried the army
| away
! 4 boy twelve years of age named Hurd, e.
scaped from the Indian attack on a settlement
near Lake Shetck Minnesota, and actually
carried and led his baby brother two years
old for sixty miles, TO New Ulm, the nearest
settlement These babes in the wood" we've
fourteen days in making the journey, subsist-
| ing on wild fruits and roots. The mother of
! the heroic children has sinte been rescued and
re united to them.
The number Of slaves emahcipated under
the Presidents Proclamation is, according to
/ the census DI 1SUU, as IJllONS. Altballtt 900
| 1872; Arkansas, III l04; Florida. 6l.753; GeOr
gia, 4G2 232, Louisiana, 333, ,Ol0; Mississippi,
436, 696' North Carolina, 33l ,DSl: South Caro-
| lima. 400, j4I; Tennessee. ZI5,1o4 Texas, $50,
G82; Eastern Virginia, 372 900. Total, accord
! ing to census of 1850, g. 405, ,0lj. The natural
increase will probably nuke the aggregate at
the present time about $500 900.
There is an impression, that it is unlawful
to use the ordinary postage stamps as currency.
This opinion is based simply on an irrrsP P)ns-
/ bic telegram. The facts we think, are about
| these; The Post Office Department may refuse
to sell stamps to be used currency, but when
stamps are once sold. the Department has no
| further control over them. The owners may
burn them, eat them, sell them, swap them
! for iackknives or pLss them for their nominal
value or for more. for less, to any body
who will take them.
ABOUT A New DRArT The six hundred
! thousand men called for, by volunteering
and draft will in addition to those previously
! in the field make all the troops our Generals
cun autttary in the fieltlj and pIObabiy all
that the Government can arm ami equip this
fall. The measure most proper next would
seem to be the organization of the militia As
| national guard, and army of reserve These
might be put under regular dill, without TAX
ing them from their homes and W M form au
army of defense in case ofan emergency, aud =
reserve for future levies for the field For this
purpose they should be divided into classes,
according to age; and perhaps SlnRlH men
should be classed by themsvlvs. aud first sub
ject to dra6t In this way the Government
could have uTmy of reserve from whicI 1t
could draw troops already sufficiently disciplined
for service, without taking them away from
their labor until they are required.
''ExTRA' REBEL. 11Es.--About the 10th in
slant extras in flaming capitals were printed
in Richmond announcing the capture of Gin
cinnati. Others were issued declaring the cap
ture Of Washington, aud stating that President
Lincoln had fed to Buffalo. Copies Of the
former were sent to Gen. Lees army, and OF
the latter to the rebel army in Mississippi.
The late Government survey of the great
lakes gives the following exact measurements:
! Lake Superior, greatest length 800 miles,
/ greatest breadth l6J miles, mean depth 9sS
feet, hight above the sea 627 feet, area 81 600
square miles. Lake Micbig greatest length
800 miles, greatest breadth lOS miles, mean
depth 900 feet, hight above the sea 5S7 feet,
area 20 900 square miles. Lake Huron, great
est length 200 miles greatest be Idth l60
miles. mean depth 300 feet, hight above the
sea 5T4 feet, area 20, 600 miles. Lake Erie,
greatest length go miles, greatest breadth
80 miles, mean depth 20) feet, hight above
the sea 80 feet area 5000 square miles
Lake Ontario, length I80 miles, mean breadth
6j miles mean depth 800 feet. hi above
the sea 262 feet area 6 0JJ mi II Total
length of i've lakes, l.3l5 miles; ! area,
eighty thousand square miles.
KANAwIIA SALT WoRKs.--A captured retel
officer says that the main object of the late
rebel advance into SouthweStern NrEiniH was
to get possession of the Kauawhl Salt W orlSs,
the possession of which he declares to be Of
more Importance than victory. The works,
are running night and day, and immense
quantities of the salt are being sent South.
From another source learn that the salt
thus made is nearly the color of copper, and
Of very inferior quality. Meat packed with it
lately in Richmond has generally spoiled.
MILITARY ExEcUrIoN-Ten guerilla priso ners
were shot on Friday, by ordHr OF General Mer-
rilI at Macon city, Mo. They had been found
guilty of breaking their paroles and of again
taking up Rrms against the Federal forces.
The execution was in pursuance of orders which
will be strictly enforced in like cases.
"yATIcAN"- Many who see this word may
not understand it's import Il is pile OF
buildings covering a space twelve hundred
feet in length and one thousand in breadth.
or one OF seven hills of Rome The site was
once the garden ofthc barbArous Nero Early
in the 10th century the Bishop Of Rome cree
ted there an humble dwelling. This has been
added to by ono Pope after another until il IA
, one of the most spacious and magnificent psi
aces, stocked with paintings, statues, books
aud antiquities of the rarest kind.
II is stated in a Cincinnati paper that Hon,
John Forsyth. formerly United States Minister
! 10 Mexico and for several years editor of the
Mobile Register, was killed in "a skrmish in
] Kantuck Y "A few dava nro chief O