Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-12-30

peal the present prohibitory tax on foreign
paper. No revenue has been realized as the
high duty has cut off importation, aud the
Government has suffered to the extent OF half
million BY the raise in paper consequent up
on the monopoly thus enjoyed by Am erican
manufactures
Ono LEGISLATURE ad ,ourned session
of this body commences next Monday. One
of the first duties Of the Iiouze will be to
elect a Speaker to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the resignation Of Hon. Jas. R. HUBBELL,
There are a number of candidates announced,
but it seems to be generally conceded that if
he will consent TO serve the position vii be
conferred upon Hon. COLUMBUS DELAEu.-~
Apart from the passage Of the annual appro-
priarion bills, aud some legislation that may
be rendered necessary by the exigenciss of the
public service in connection With the existing
war. we know OF 20 important measures that
are likely 70 come up lor consideration, and
it is therefore to be hoped the session will be
short one We shall probably be able to
lay the message of Gov. BRoUeH before the
reader in our next issue.
When Sherman commenced his march South
the rebel papers claimed confidently that he
was marching to destruction, and that not
man of his expedition would ever reach the
coast except as prisoner. During the prog
ress of his advance they were claiming impor-
tant victories in which immense numbers of
our men were slaughtered and captured, and
they constantly represented his army as hem
med in, surrounded, destitute of supplies. and
on the point Of being captured en- masse.-
This was al outright lying He met no
serious opposition, succeeded in everything he
undertook, did not in any case deyiate from
the course marked out before starting, was nst
delayed by opposition, bad an abundance of
supplies of all kinds, and the only affair that
approached the character OF Ggbt consisted
10 the precipitation Of lot of raw militia
against our veteran columns, which resulted in
a terrible slaughter and disastrous repulae of
the assailants-and the result would have been
large
This affair occurred on the 23d ult., near
the village of Griswoldvine, and is thus de-
scrbed by a correspondent of the New York
Evening Post who accompanied the expedi
lion on its march,
''Gen. Wolcot, i'll command OF a de,ach-
ment of cavalry and brigade OF infantry,
was thrown forward to GrisWoldville. toward
Macon, for demoustraiive purposes merely
The enamy some five thousand strong, advan-
ced upon our troops, who had thrown up tenn
porary breastworks, with a section OF a battery
in position. The cavalry fell slowly back on
either flank of the brigade, protecting them
from attack in flank aud rear The rebels
we're composed Of militia chiefly, although
portion Oi Hardees old corps was present,
having beeen brought up from Savannah.
With ignorance Of danger common 10 new
troops, the rebels rushed upon our veterans
with great fury. They were received with
grape shot and musketry at point blank range,
our soidirrs firing ceolly while shouting deri-
sively to the quivering Oolumns to come on,
as if they thought the whole thing a nice joke
The rebels resumed the attack, but with the
same fatal results. and were soon in full flight,
leaving more than three hundred dead on the
field. Our loss was some forty killed and
wounded, while their killed, wounded and pris-
oners are estimated TO exceed two thousand
five hundred. A pretty severe lesson they have
received