Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-01-17
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News 3revities.
SHIP ISLAND is a spot which VIC have special
cause to remember. 1t was to that spot that
the great thief Secretary Floyd preten ded he
wished the big colunbiads from tn is city ship.
ped. Had the guns actu lilly gone there, the
taking of that important point might have
cost us vastly N bre trouble Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Fifty years ago, 2ith Of December, 1911,
the Theater at Richmond, Va, wits burned
1t is supposed about one hundred and fifty
lives were lost, among them the Governor of
the State. OF the members of the dramatic
com2iny but nne survives, Mr.. Charles Du-
rang, OF Philadelphia, who is now dancing
master.
G3N. Gen. sigcl's resignation was
dated on the 3lst, and the Post (CterInan) says
that some twenty or thirty other officers in
command at Rolla, have likewise rendered
their resignation. Major Hasscndcubel is un-
derstood to be of the number.
There are sli to be sixty seven rebel ftmi-
lies It the DOne5anI House, Montreal, and on
the receipt of the first news from England con-
joyful were they that a supper WIS given by
them at the house, costing Sl,509.
A lot Of printing pipcr, consigned to the St.
Clarisville (O.) G,zette, Southern symplthiz-
ing sheet. was seized by the Collector of Gus
toms at Wheeling, Va, a few days since.
1t is stid that the people of the South need
at this time %, ,00) tons of salt, having scarce
y any at all. Physicians say, that, if men
undertake to live for any considerable time
without SILT their flesh becomes filled with
worms. Perhaps it mdy yet be said of the
Southern Coafeleracy as WAS written OF HerOd
the King, ''-And he was eaten of worms and
gave mp the ghost. - Louisville 5urH-I.
CHARLES L. ;LLtR, job foren m at the Of
ic2 of the C..ic & , Tr Ouna WAS Kill C on Thus.
dizzy lust, by being caught in the machinery.
Some little children in Philadelphia con
ciudca, the other day. t. hive "bJnny fire p"
AMI, drawing from ''nainnL's bureau drawer
IL lot of bills AMI SIS in bunk notes which II ID
been placed there to meet them on demand
the children piled them up under the bed
applied the m Itch, an invited the servant
girl to see th3 fire, wLo rushed in in time to
give the alarm AMI save tn hou-e, but not the
bills or the 63l.
Whiskey i, worth $3.50 per qulrt ut Rich
mond, and Other liquors in the sme rate
This rebellion may be the means of converting
the Southern to2.rs into tenp1ranco men.
THOUSANDS of persons drafted in Tennessee
are offering large prices for substitutes. The
supply of Substitutes however, is not hall
equal to the de;nlnl, anl the IN lriet price is
going up daily.
The Laavcnw3rth Conservative says that the
number of troops belonging to LINES com
mand, expected to assemble at that pllcr is
%, 0O) Great activity prevails in every d 'plrt-
ment at the Fort and extensive prepIrAlio ions
are making in view of the new comcrs who
are expected to reach there in about five
weeks.
1t is supposed by the n Y World that MI
son and Slidell were lost IN the steamer Rinal-
do on the night of the first inst, that vessel
mr. At I,,I
! fax. The storm that commented Immediately y
! after their going on board, is sIid to have
been terrible.
THUR.Ow WE'D say he has ''rc,ilblc authori-
ty for saying that the last use Prince Albert
made of hispcn, was at the Queens rcqHrst
to softcntI; lisplt;l 5slt to Lpr LY)X;
OS TO RIcIMo.;D The New York Journal
Of Commerce says, two days ago u gentleman
| clllcl on the Secretary Of State for plsS t.
| visit Richmond, and the rcquc t was denied
! He was further informed, that if, at the end q
| two weeks he should want piss for that pur.
/ pose, he could be accommodated. This look
like action.
Madame jerome Bpn7p1rt is still residing in
| Baltimore. Ii is said that she enjoys goOl
! health; ami, though verging upon fUurscnrC
| years, has Il hand as pretty, chels as plump
a man died lately in London ut the aGc
ninety-siX years, who had been for the last iift,
six years Of his life in inmate Of the insane
/ asylum
| No English journal ola sufficient late date tC
describe the effect of the ;cption in that conn
| try of the news Of the surrender of Mason aud
! Siideil have yet been received; but there are
strong indications that that Intelligence viii
he hailed with joy by the great majority of til,
/ English people.
| q. jeff Davis is known to have given orders t,
| Gen Magruder to barn Yorktown on the ap
preach Of the Union fleet. The rebels persist
! in believing that Yorktown Norfolk is tht
/ goal of Gen. Burnsidc's expedition.
Reports having been circulated that exten
| sivc fortilicltions are heinz erected in Windsor
C. W, directly opp site Detroit, sHr. Munger
! u. S. Counsllar Agent ut tn It place, has pub
! lishcd cIrd in W lich h. says ''th9Se aSscr-
ton are not only uafouacI in toto, but arr
| suprcmely ri;liculou5."
IIoNoR q To VALEAVoTGuAM.---The Mcmphi
Ape Il, of the2)th nj Sty':
All honor to the brave Vallnn ligham w
| trust the South may fiul early OCCASION @
manifcsting their respect for his grand mora
courage.
LpuIsvuI.E Jan. 15.--A thoroughly rcliab
gentleman, just arrived, reports having seer
John G. Brcckinrilge at Bowling Green ON Fri
day last.
1t costs something to be elected Mayor o
New York. At tiie1ate election Guthric's bill
are put down ut S20,0J0. Opedyke's $20, 900
and Woods $4,000.
\ bill las been introduced into the Legsla
turc of Florida to relieve publishers of news
/ papers and other printers from military duty
except in case of the actual invasion of tn
State by the enemy.
jeff Davis in his recent message, declared
the arrest of Mason and Slidull an outrag ge OF
neutral rights and a violation of internationa
law that would Justify war without arbitration
Will the sympathizcrs with the rebellion pre-
tend to say that, if DAVIS was right, this III
tion has been huniiated by surrcndering th
rebel commissioners and so FIR repairing tn
! mroag!
A letter from st. Helena reports the clptur
by a British gnnbuat of the Elave bark Lyra,
New York, with S25 negroes ON board An
other is supposed to have got clear with 90
slaves.
Willie z. House, only son of Rev. Erwi
House, Of the Western Christian Advocate, wa
drowned yesterday at III An, while skatia
Oh a pond near the Widows Home. His ag
was nine years lie was in company with scv(
raj other boys, but was not rescuet TIL ne ma
been in the water over half an hour. ---ClI
sinnati Commercial, 10.
The Cause OF tho war-Tas Possibility Of Peae
The Hon. Charles An lerson, in his Cool
er's Institute sp ,ech in New York, Slturlu
night, gave the clearest and most correct STATE
mcnt of the cluss of the war that we have "
seen. lie said Of the South Carolina preienc
that the unjust operations of the tariff had som
thing to do with it:
"'The idea was an impldent imp1sture.
< Nor was it the action of the Norther
4 Anoli,IiouistS tbousrb Lao ho1 ,imsnlf onon a.