Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-06-05

The Richmond Enquirer OF the 5th, says
the reason why the rebel Governments SI5
100000 bonds, recently issued in London, sold
so high, was because they can be used by the
blockade runners in paying the export duty
on cotton, in lieu of specie, while no other
rebel Government issue is receivable for the
same purpose.
The two men Hides and Light, who were
arrested at Sheffield, England, on the charge
of forging Federal Z" greenbacks," have been
further examined, and committed for trial,
without the option OF bail It was shown
that they had printed off 5000 copies of the
$40 note and also, it was believed, large a
mounts in So and $50 notes
The birthplace of Daniel Webster, in Frank
| lin, N. H., has passed cut of the Webster
name. 1t was owned by the widow of the late
Col. Fletcher Webster, by whom il has been
recently sold to Mr.. L. D. ColIy. of Frank
! lin.
The Pittsburg Post makes an estimate of
the proportion Pennsylvania will owe under
the forthcoming draft. 1t puts down the num-
Der at 10000 for the State and 1000 for AL
legheny county.
Henry Saver, q. 8. Consul at Paramaribo
South America. has presented his salary of
$4,000 for one year to the Government to help
crush the rebellion.
A dispatch from SbelbyvilIe on the 28th
rays that Vallandigham was still at that place,
but would start for Virginia in a few days.
The Domestic Missionaries of Taunton.
Massachusetts, report the number of drunken
women in that town at five hundred!
The books of the Cleveland, Columbus and
Cincinnati Railroad will close on the Both of
May and open on the 10th of june for the
special meeting at Cleveland. The earnings
for April we're $I85OOO and those of May
show a very large increase over the correspond
ing period of last year.
Gen. Burnside has issued Order No. "a.
suppressing the Chicago Times, and forbid
ding the circulation of the New York World,
within the Department of Ohio.
The Adrian (Mich) Watchtower tells of a
couple who were married in a township in
Lenawee county, and before they left the room
the man was arrested, having enlisted eight
times, and deserted seven times. He was tax
en- to Detroit.
A report is current that the French captur-
ed Puebla on the 10th ultimo, and took Gen |
Ortego, nine hundred officers. and seventeen |
thousand men prisoners. If this news be true, !
Mexico has gone up!
The Portland Advertiser, in noticing the
case of an idiotic boy named Archibald, who |
murdered child in the almshouse of that city, |
says: " It is fact that should be known that |
the parents of this boy have had twenty-one |
children. all of whom were imbeciles, and this, |
again, owing to the fact that they were own
cousins.
The Glasgow Journal gives a list of thirty
eight steamers built on the Clyde since the
close of 1861, and used to run the blockade
Of these thirty-eight, ten are yet lying 10 the |
river sixteen have been captured or destroyed |
by our cruisers and twelve are still running
or else in rebel hands, as the Fingal. which is
now an iron-clad, in the Savannah river
A HEAVY FLEEcE.-Dr Trevitt of this |
city, showed us yesterday a Spanish ram, on
bis way to the Doctors farm in Illinois. The
ram was raised in Vermont. He was brought
here day or two since, and it was thought
best, in view CT the hot weather to relieve him
of his fleece, though not yet its full growth by
Eve pounds or more. The fleece which had
been growing only ten months and two days,
weighed twenty-five pounds and ten ounces of
wool Of the finest texture and excellent quail
Statesman
Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, says that
our prisoners in the hands of the enemy suffer
greatly from want of food, though they share
equally with the rebels.