Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-11-21

The L,feyetto (Tud Courier says that a lit
tIo girl near that city sSsInp4veI It bria5 thin
bic in the early part OF last N puth, and i6 now
gradually sinking under the effects Of the pOis
onous. metal and has been given UP to die.
y foreigner has made yarn, cloth and paper
from corn husks. The specimens shown
g,id to be beautiful. He hts applied for pat
ent at Washington. II this invention is per
feet success, paper ul23' soon get cheaper.
The States which elected Iasulbsrs of the
National House of Representatives, il October
and November chose 50 far as returns cll h4
depended upon seventy-scyon iminstrati0n
members. .-siz5y-nme Opposition AMI two
doubtful.
RISE II THE PREes or PoRK.-The Petersburg
Express says that pork will probably start Of at
yeTy high figures. Twenty dollars per han
dred is asked. This will startle all who have
been in the haiit OF purchasing their supply
at price not exceeding seven dollars.
VIRGINIA TOBACCO 5IARKET The Lynchbure
Republican Saws that Col. lew is @. Arthur, of
Bedford. sulei, last week, two Shipping hogs
heads of tobacco at the usual price Of twenty
pihe dollars per hahJred; the highest figures
set obtained for Shipping. He also sold one
worker at fortv-tiye dollars, two shipings at
twenty one dollars and fifty cents and one OF
lugs at thirteen dollars anil seventy cents.
The leading book publishers Of New York
have advanced the trade price Of their books
from ten to twenty five per cent on account OF
the increased cost Of printing paper.
BISHOP Cs4y Polk. after the battle of Chap
lin Heights, occupied himself by causing the
seizure Of persons looking after the bodies Of
friends and relatives. When seized, the Bish-
CD had them marched Oft and stripped. The
reverend hyena did quite 4 large business in
this way.
Elias Howe il, whose income is a quarter
OF a million year, carries the mail daily from
Washington seven miles. to the camp of the
Seyenteeth Connecticut regiment, in which he
is private.
A correspondent of the I2icBmoaI Dispqtch,
writing from the interior of the CJnfederacY says
'.our rual districts are literally oyerrua with pat
ridges thew have not been hunted since the Sc
we're winter three or four years ago. and since the
war broke out there have beea but few people
to hunt and less to hunt with. lead and pow
der being all in the hands Of the Government.
There would he SPLENDID sporting now if shot
were not selling at $3.50 to SO a pound
Volunteers, httcntiuni-Eor oe ngemect
of tue system incidental to til + cn e of diet
Wounds, Eruptions. and expos res Which eve
~ Volunteer is fable to- there are II, remides.
SO safe convenient, and reliable as HOLLO.
WAYS PILLS AND OINTMENT % cts per
box, ZO9
\ dedication has been discovred in the New
York Custom House. The amount stolen is
$50, 900 certain, and probably $3.50 ,OOG
General Popc's manage rnent of the Indian
war i'll Minnesota does not appear to satisfy the
St Paul Pioneer. That paper denounces his
conduct as calculated to prove ruinous to the
prosperity OF the State, and calls him a foot
ball Of evil destiny, the stick of an exploded
sky rocket, and number of other hard names
There is quite an excitement in the rag and
paper matkct ia Baltimore Prices of both ar
ticles have materially advanced, aud are still
upward. Even old newspapers and other re
fuse paper, will command four 10 five cents per
pound Owing to the drought and lowuess of
the streams, papermills in the surrounding
country have been unable to manufacture half
the usual quantity.
SoRGHuM.-From the report Of the commits
sioners Of Agriculture We learn the Sorghum
plant was iotrndUceI from China, yielded in
1850 ,25j0lD gallons of syrup and the esti-
mate yioid for 1862, is about :, 900, 00O which
is undoubtlblY much below the actual yield