Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-02-13
From EeY 0rIeaEs.

| NEW York, FEB. 3-Advites from New
! Orleans 27th, states that Tie last Of the trans
ports of Banks ex edition LEFT for mp The river
on the 26;h. Gen. Banks went up Oh the 24;h.
/ Only sufficient troops were left to defend New
| Orleans with fUur or FIVE gupboals. It is in-
Grrcd that thcir destination is Port Hudson
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ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR FEoA
VIRGINIA Tile IFaeciing IaftEtgsncef, Of Fri
day, says; The Legislature yesterday elected
Judge LenuCl j. I}owtlen of Williamsburg,
Senator, TO succeed Mr.. Wiley, whose fern
expires tie coming / i Of March. | may ex-
cite some sarpiise that Air. Wiley was net re-
| elected, but ii is sufficient TO say that npmer-
Gus letters were rocieYed by members of the
two Houses from that gent eplan positively
declining 10 be candida for reelection.
REBEL. PRIcEs-The Mobile papers quote
country butler at 1880 els, Icr poundi colfee
at wholesale, $s3 4OA3 81 per pound -four, $5O.a
/ $50 per harre';. bacon, 50a60 els. per pound;
rice, ) cts. per pound; Liverpool salt, $I0u80
! per sack-the last an extreme quotation; sugar,
38a40 cts. per bcund; moiagses, 81 75aS200
Per gallon.
The Western Sanitary Commission Of ST.
/ Louis, an independent Organization, has receiy-
cd and distributed hospital stoYes TO the value
of 100000, aud Sl0O,GOO in money. On the
lst of Dec, it had on hand 81 5 eco, and its cx-
/ penditures are at tie rate Of SI6,000 month.
/ The Whole of this is purely voluntary gifts
from individuals.
NEW YORK, + brytary 9.-Dispatches from
Charleston states that reports brought there
by the British irigate Caduas, had alarmed
The citizens, who were leaving rapidly.
| y jackson Miss, dispatch, Of the 4th, states
! that ihe federal ram which passed Yicksburg
/ On Ike 2d was OF Naichez The sane evening,
whcte she dispersed a parry cf rebels. The
rebels state that she then steamed down the
/ river, destroying cUcrg thing IA her lruy.-
Their batteries h,.G no effect upon her.
Rebel correspondence from Fredericksburg
states that the Iunkec army IS liGcy to be an
nihiia'ed any time By sudden dash Of the
scbcls.
CAIRO, February .
Tic gunboat Jue!to, Capt Shaw, arrived
went to Point Chlcot, captured 40 contra
btiue, ,)OU Daito OF COttOu, aGu Two persons I'M
/ plica,ed in burning steamers and brought a.
way Two families Of refugees.
The negroes were brought here 20 be turned
over 10 the Post commandant.
The cotton was usedto protect tue gunboats
Tie prisoners are on h9ard now.
FuuR IEpN CLAns ORDERED TO SEA.-Ibe
Navy Department has ordered the following
| iron-clad vessels to be prepared for sea, and
sent South at once. 1t is believed here that
they can be all ready in four days. The ships
are, Keokuk, CatslSiil, Nantuciet aud Sanga.
mon. The Secretary Of the Navy has receiy-
ed information that the Putnpsco left Fortress
Monroe 10 join the other mailed vessels
Thus all the Ericsson batteries may be expect
ed TO be engaged in fight before two weeks.
N. Y. Times.
John Minor Bolts, according to the Rich
mond Examiner, has recently purchased an es-
tate or 2,800 acres for 81 o. 500 in Orange Co.,
VA aud gone into rural retiracy.
The Richmond Dispatch says that Major
Reed Sanders was betrayed into the hands of
the Federals by the crew of his yacht, who,
as soon as ,tey got out of Charleston harbor
tied him and steered for the Yankee fleet