Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-21

A San Francisco dispatch states that the
American Minister and Consul with their fam
lilies, hastily left YedO, Japan, about the 18th
of June, apprehending assassination. They
irst took refuge on the United States steam
er Wyoming, and subsequently, removed to
Yokohama:
A hogshead of tobacco was sold in st. Lou
is the other day at the enormous price of SOL
so per hundred pounds. 1t was raised by j.
Croft, in Franklin county, Mo.
The arrivals of cotton at New Orleans from
the OpeIousas country, liberated by General
Banks advance, continue to Increase. For
the week ending May %, the receipts were
2,452 bales. The receipts Of sugar and mo-
lasses are also increasing, amounting during
the week. to $50 hoghsheads of sugar and q
COG barrels OF molasses.
Hon. JAS B. Clay, who, some months ago,
left his home in Kentucky and went to the
South as a sympathizer with the rebellion, is
now at Niagara Falls, on the Canada eide,
where he is said TO be in the last stages of
consumption.
A Liverpool paper says that there were. at
dia TO that town, with no less than l66, 500
bales Of cotton on board.
The Richmond Examiner is gloomy over
the prospects at Charleston, and says it will
fall. That it would be the most mOrtifying and
disastrous event of the war. and fatal blow
to the cause of the Confederacy.
A New Orleans letter says;
I g. 40 a.
ued call for three or four regiments of men
to serve for sixty days in defense of the city.
IN just three days, four full negro regiments
were raised. organized, clothed, armed and
equipped"
JEFF Davis has published an appeal to the
Rebel soldiers, conjuring them to stand firm,
telling them they will win in the end, and that
the Yankees are meditating horrible ouirages.
He offsrs free pardon to deserters who return
to duty, and ends by begging the women of
the South to lend helping hand by inducing
enlistments and the returning of absentees.-
The document indicates very plainly that the
Southern army and people are much discour-
aged.
Mr. Vallandigbam's classic friends remark
that be is reposing under the egis Of the Bit
sh lion. The egis is the animals tail. 1t is
n nice place for Val. Let him repOse. The
egis of The lion is an appendsge always carried
high by the Leo Britannicus.
Gen. SrheDck has promptly assessed upon
the dsloyal men of Hartford County, Md.
the full value (slO,OOO) of certian property
of Unionists destroyed few days ago by iu-
cendiaries,
The Baltimore correspondent Of the N. Y.
Commercial states that Ex-Governor Aiken,
Of South Carolina, has been incarceTated in
the Libby Prison, at Richmond, for refusing
to submit to the traitor tyranny OF JED. Da-
Wis. Gov. Aiken was one of the most wealthy
men and the largest shareholders in South
Carolina, and, according to the writer, has
laid his three thousand slaves on the altar OF
his country as slaves no longer, but as free
men, and adhered to the Star Spangled Ban
ner."
SYMPATHY WITH VAILANDIGHAM.--The
Lounger,' in Harper's Weekly, has a scorch-
ing comment on the speeches of Seymour and
other politicians in New York on the Fourth
OF July These orators he says, forget the
soldiers who are dying for the rights of the
people, in their eagerness to howl oyer the
wrongs of man summarily arrested for help
ing the murderers OF those soldiers
YoUR APPOINTMENT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED.
Such missives are now all the fashion, over the
telegraphic wires, and they are good news for
some, and bad ews to others. For one boy.
of Bryan's Pumonic Waters you pay rs ceats,
They cure cold. Eoarseness, sore throa:
etc, in few hours. Sold BY. 80 - -