Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-12-05
News Brevities.

Up to the lst of the present month, 2I9,00O
men, for Ion" and short terms of service, have
taken the field from New York. Up to the
ssIlne pt riod, over 73 0U0 volunteers have been
sent forward under the recent calls, and 10, 600
have been enrolled and encamped. kUF the
two quotas of 100000 men, the rolls show that
Ill 900 enlIstments have been made.
Some of the New York Democrats have
''slippcd through" to Richmond and have
been making proposals as IL basis of peace,
which, are informed, were rejected, the reb-
els demanding nothing less than seperation.--
The proposals provided for the election to Con-
gress of delegates from the rebel States by
the lst of January the repeal, of all the laws
furnishing and impoverishing traitors, and the
amending of the Constitution SO as to protect
the interest OF slavery. Further developments
are expected.
A man cant get married even without using
stamp. Commissioner Boutwell, has decided
that all marriage certificates will be invalid un
less stamped with IL ten cent stamp. "ThOsc
contemplating marriage" as the patent medi-
cine advertisements say, will take notice.
SKULKERs.--The military Ioungers in Wash.
ington Gsre So numerous to be a curse to the
city well as disgrace to the service. 1t is
said that on last MOndly brigade of military
loafers could have been gathered up in that
city. The grOg shops were doing fine bust
ness. The City Police Reports state that there
are over sir thousand places where liquor is sold.
be.
''The President in conversation last week
with a prominent gentleman from his own
State, said that in future success should be tls4
test of qualification in our Generals, and that
failure, after trial, should at once be followed
by removal, until the right men should he
found to occupy the right places
California has already yielded over six hun
dred millions of dollars III gold, since its dis
covery i'll lS4S. Its yield now is about fifty
millions of dollars per year. The gold quartz
rocks are the permanent sources of her wealth.
CoUNTERFzIT GREEN BAoKs.--The st. Louis
Democrat says 4hat an excellent Photographic
counterfeit five dollar Treasury Note has been
detected in that city. 1t Is we'll calculated To
deceive, and would never be detected at clsu-
al glance by one man out of five hundred
Compared closely with the genuine bill. 1t WIS
found to be about six tenthS of an inch long
er, and the paper harsher and stifler. The sig
natures show more plainly ON the back OF the
bill than in the good money, and the shading
of the engraving is heavier and darker. Other
defects woul1 probably be disclosed on very
critical examination. 1t is likely these coun-
terfeits have obtained a wide circulation, and
it will become necessary for the people to be a
little more careful in handling green backs
than they have heretofore been.
A VERY SAD RECORD, The losses sustained
by General McClcllan's army on the Penin-
sula are almost incredib BILE. From official sour
ces. however, it is ascertained that one hun
dred and sixty eight thousand men were sent
down to the Peninsula with NJ cClellan prior to
the seven days fighting that on leaving Har-
rison's Landing he had but eighty -four thous-
and. Of the missing, twenty thousand had
been killed in battle, died from disease, or were
taken prisoners there being large number OF
the latter--and forty-four thousand were in
the hospitals and ON furlough
The frauds in the New York Custom House
I. G. sNH
found to reach 500, 900 and probably $1,000.
900. There was collusion, it appears, between
brokers and clerks in the Custom HOUSE, by
which false invoices were substituted for the
genuine documents. One thousand of the lat
ter were found in the possession of singl le
broker. The clerks detected SO far, were old
employees, who were retained by the present
collector, Mr.. Barney.