Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-14

Providence barracks on the previons day, aud
out of flfty-two substitute soldiers found there,
identified twenty-three as deserters from regi-
ments organized.
The amount Of the contributions received
by the Christian Commission in Massachusetts
for the benefit Of wounded soldiers reaches
$53, 1854.
Yazoo City has been stripped. The hoe
tile attitude OF the people-their planting of
torpedoes in the river-ths destruction of the
DeKalb, and the guerrilas firing upon our
boats-iuatifed this retaliation. Some two !
thousand bales of cotton &c. S. Az a large
quantity of merchandise and steamboat furni- |
/ ture, stored in the town, with two gunboat
loads Of cOntrabands, were taken away.
| Agnes Agan, convicted of the murder of
her husband in Buffalo, has been sentenced, by !
| the Supreme Court of that city to be hung on !
the 18th of September next.
! Substitutes are said to be plenty in Phs |
delphia at $50 to SIOO. In Rhode Island
they eau be obtained for 500 to $3.50. In
Boston they get $3.50.
| Miss Mary Pierce died recently at New Ha-
ven, leaving about$ 20 900 as the result of in
dustrious school teaching and iudicious invest
ment Connecticut people of former gener-
alton remember her as the proprietress of a
young ladies' seminary at Ltchfeld.
Seven young and likely" negroes were sold
a few days since near Rockville, Maryland, at
! eighteen dollars head, or one hundred and
sixteeA dollars for the lot. Three years age
they would have sold for 81 200 to $1,000
! each.
/ 4
! from Morris Island of Aug. 1st. says: 1t is
reported here that reinforcements, numbering
nearly 5000, have arrived outside the harbor
and will be landed to- night on Folly Island
A shameless Copperhead. of Pottsville, Pa.
pr esented child for baptism the other day
and gave the Hame of Jefftrson Davis IS the n
by which it should be christeued. The weak
clergyman officiating suffered himself to be
party to the disgrace.
Mississippi paper advertises no less than
two hundred and forty-one deserters from one
regiment, the 4th Mississippi cavalry, who,
their commander, General Jackson, says "have
disgraced themselves by basely and cowardy
desertng their posts at a time when their ser
vices were most needed
Two of the New York rioters have been
sentenced for robbery, one for FIVE years and
the other for two years in The Penitentiary.
Jacob Strawn, the great Illinois farmer of
Jacksonville, has collected one hundred COWS.
donated by himself and neighbors, which are
intended for hospitals at Memphis. The
matron of the hospitals asked for these one
hundred COWS, and one farmer has collected
and will forward them. Good for Strawn.
The Westward emigration this year is i'm
mense. The Lake propellers are carrying
hosts of people seeking new homes toward the
Getting sun. aud the roads from Omaha City,
Leavenworth City, St. Joseph, &c, cover
ed with wagons most of the time, some going
to Colorado, others to Nevada, Washington
Territory, Idaho, California and Oregon.
At the United States Court in Utica last
week, manufacturer of penny tokens was in
dicled, convicted and rentenced to one year
in the State Prison. The tokens were, 1.-THE
simultude of the coin of the United States
and bore the inscription, mot one cent"
The Hon. Columbus DeIanno has accepted
the nomina tion of the Union voters of Knox
county for Representative in the next General
Assembly.
There are counterfeit ffty-cent notes of
postage currency in circulation. To detect
them it is only necessary to observe the in
''Depositary" In the genuine it touches the
bordes surrounding the bill. In the counter
felt it does not touch. In the counterfeit the
word Assistant over the fignres so touches
the die work. 10 the genuine it does not.
The N. Y. Times very happily calls the ri
oters of that city 1.-THE lefs wing of the rebel
lion"
WASHINGTON, August 7-Articles appear.
ing in the journals of this city and elsewhere
represent war with Great Britain immi-
nent. The assumption that these articles are
authorized by the Government, or made upon
any knowledge of It's views, is without founda-
tion.
There are two reasons given by antidrafi
men why the draft should not be made. One
is that it is impossible TO pat down the rebel
lion by force of arms, and, therefore, that the
war should at once be stopped. The other is
that the rebellion is so subdued that no more
saldiers necessary.
A Niagra Falls letter to the Chicago Tri-
bune of the 9th says that the Blessed Mar
tyr" Medsry is at the Clifton House paying
a visit to VAllandigham.
Volunteer Militia Companies wishing to
procure uniforms can get them at the follow
ing prices: Blouse, SO, ,35, Pants. So ,25, Cap
73. Total $7.33. Further information may
be had by inquiry Of the Military Committee.
The amount of claims already filed against
the city of New York for losses By the late
mob, is ST. ,086. l48 10. OF these $l7,467,A8
are claims of colored sufferers.
Cool Yesterday afternoon.
just as the train of ears containing Morgans
men started from this city, several rascals
reached out and caught the hats from the
heads Of several Of our citizens, and carried
them off. One young officer especially was
decidedly nOnpulsed at the coolness and i'm
| peritnence OF the performance. Thus It seems
that the thieving propensilies of Morgan and
his followers continue until the last Zanes- |
vile Courier.
A pretty comment on the English policy |
touching the fitting out of pirate Ships is Civ |
en- in the news that The ship George Griswold, |
which took out cargo of produce to starving |
! Englishmen, was over hauled at sea by a pi- |
rate-probably fitted out at an English port.
aud supplied with coal by obiiging traders-
and only saved from destruction by giving |
bonds for 100000.
| FALLANDIGHAM TURNED OUT DooRs-The |
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says: We
learn that the proprietors of the Clifton House. |
Canada recently gave Mr.. Vallandigham no.
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