Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-07-17

The Ohio Union Platform is everywhere re-
ceiving the concentrations of the Union men.
The Albany Evening Journal says of it:
..The Ohio Union Platform is a model Of
brevity and patriotism. It is in striking con-
trast with the profuse enunciations of the Val |
landigham Democracy, whose purpose seemed
to be not only to place party above country, |
but to make the Democratic party the instru- |
ment of destroying the Union by distractin G
and dividing the people"
The fall of Vicksburg was not known at
the rebel capital on Mon lay last. The Rich
mond Enquirer of that day reported the "gar-
rson to be in splendid condition-tull rations
of -four, meal, rice, sugar. mOlasses, &C., be-
ing issued to the men,"
The Raleigh IN. o. Standard, of June %,
publishes an elaborate and able article, sup
! posed to be from the pen of Hon. W. A. GRA-
HAM, denying the right Of secession from the
Federal Union, affirming the right of Federal
coercion, and disclaiming the propriety and
just cause of the pending results against the
Union, and strongly asserting the right OF any
State to withdraw at will from the Confed-
crate States.
Since the proclamation of martial law in
Baltimore the stores are closed at 5 o'clock,
and by the streets are pretty much deserted.
J The loyal men go to the military rendezvous,
| and the disloyal make themselves scarce
These latter have been nearly all disarmed.-
About 5000 negroes are employed on the
| trenches. and a regiment of them is to be rails
ed at once. A number of disloval male cit
izens, who were in the habit of insulting aud
scofing at the men-back and white-return-
ing from the trenches, were sentenced to work
in those same trenches for two months, on
half rations, without pay.
Gen. Blair had mined one of the Vicksburg
posts opposite him, and was about to explode
it when it was found that the reoeIs had coun-
termined and carried off the powder.
! The opinion of tie Solicitor of the War De-
partment in relation to the arrest of deserters
| is published. It is to the effect that the Pro
vost Marshal is to decline to produce desert
er or to subject him to the process of the
Court on a writ of ha6eas corpus, for the rea-
sons that it would be inconsistent with, and
a violation of the duty Of the respondent aud
that it is his legal duty to deliver the desert
er to the nearest commander or military post
/
The receipts of -four and grain at Buffalo
thus far this year have been in excess Of the
three years previous. From Jan. l to July
! l, 1868, the receipts we're 4,34l 1897 bushels
of grain and -four included. During the month
of June, u COL ,I99 bushels were received,
being nearly as much as the whole of 1861,
and over four millions in excess of 1860.
A malignant Copperhead meeting was held
in Concord, New Hampshire, on the 4th inst,
presided over by Franklin Pierce, ex-Presi-
dent of the United States. In his speech he
INDUCED in the customary Copperhead twad-
die about freedom of speech, the "despotism"
of arbitrary arrests, &C., striking high upon
the ValIandigham key note Once occupying
the highest seat of honor in the Union, now
a drivelling sympathizer with traitors TO that
Government over which he once presided =
What spectacle!
Let every soldier, and the friend of every
soldier, remember that G. L. Vallandigham
supported the resolution in Congress which
increased the private soldiers pay from $Il
to $I3 MONTH Ohio Democrat.
And let every soldier also remember, that
when the bills came up to pay the two dollars
thus promised, G. L. Vallandigham voted
against them, and afterwards boasted that he
J had not "voted a man nor a dollar" TO carry
: on the warI
THE New Major Gen. Meade
is described as TALL slim, gray-bearded man.
wearing glasses, an old slouched hat, blue
blouse, with corduroy pants tucked into his
long jack boots. He is ungainly in looks
and actions, plain of speech and familiar and
free in conversation when not occupied with
business. The whole style of the man is unas-
suming and plain even to severity.
The Louisville Journal in an article highly
lauditory of Gen. Burnside, takes occasion to
make this statement:
"His order, No 39, has worked like char m
} and given peace, quiet and security to many
portions of the State which have been infes-
ted by rebel sympathizers and marauders.-
Ptivious to its publication, many parts Of he
State were infested by Morgan's men and 9th
er rebels, whose presence brought fear and
terror; but since its enforcement there are
none to be found within our lines, except a
J few desperate characters, who cone and go
secretly to act the spy; and those are caught
whenever found, and executed"
While Gen. Paine lay wounded near the
breastworks of Port Hudson, his Assilanl
Adjutant General offered to any one who
, would carry him drink of water $4,000. a
! brave follow undertook the task, and succeed
ed in cooling the parched lips Of the hero
chieftain, and doubtless saving his life, but
death was his own reward. He was ridded
with rebel bullets.
How GENERAL MEADE FIGHTS. Rebel
prisoners, coming into Carlisle from our front
say that Meade relieves his army corps as Of
ten as possible during the day, and only fights
about one corps at time, except when char
: ging. This plan has wonderfully disconnected
the rebels, as they always like to have solid
columns to sweep away with their artillery
The REJoICING.-Acclamation of rejoicing
go up from every city, village and hamlet
throughout the loyal States, in view of the
great victories recently achieved over the reb-
els in Pennsylvania aud at Vicksburg. Can
non firing, iluminations, bonfres, public
gatherings and congratulatory addresses, show
how deep and all-pervading is the peoples
love of country. The whole free land is shown
s to be instinct with the vitalizing spirit Of Ma.
tional devotion.
DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY.-It is stated
that the returns in the Medical Directors Office
show that since the war commenced 1875 900
soldiers had been discharged from the army
on a surgeons certificate. This does not o
course include any one whose time was out
e but comprises those whose health and physi-
. cal inability to be a soldier prevented them
from being of service in the army.