Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-02-19
NEWS BREYITIES.

ARKANsAs.-Dr. Isaac Murphy, now the
Union candidate for Governor Of Arkansas,
represented his county Montgomery in the
Convention which took the State cut OF the
Union in 1861. he, like majority of the
delegates, was elected as Unionist he remain
ed true while all the rest deserted their colors
after the bombardment and fall OF Sumpter
The vote to secede was 60 Yeas ! No-Dr
Murphy's cast amid storm OF hisses,
howls, and menaces, that would have shaken
any man who could be shaken. All his best
friends surrounded and entreated him to make
the vote unanimous; but be answered "No-
I am a STAKEHOLDER, like the most Of you; and
I tell you that Secession will be the death of
Slavery" He now says Secession has killed
Slavery, and acts on that conviction. The
last chosen Governor of Arkansas having
turued Rebel and run away, we ardently hope
not only to chronicle Murphy's election, but
to record that be proved most worthy and
popular chief magistrate of the Free. State of
Arkansas.
The Bostsn Transcript says: 'Ve have in
teIligence from rebel source that a gold seeker
in one Of the soutern cities gave one hundred
aud forty dollars in cnfederate notes five dollars
in spcie. Although the notes were thus pass
ed at three cents and a half on the dollars, no
| reasonable man can doubt that the present.
possessor of the half eagle made an excellent
bargain, and that the present pOssessor of the
notes was actuated by partisan rather than
| financial motives in making the exchange
Sheriff Wolf, of Muskingum county, died
suddenly on Friday night of last week. He
retired at ten o'clock, apparently in good
health. About one O'Clock in the morning
his wife heard him breathing heavily. She
arose, and upon lighting candle, found him
expiring. Medical aid was summoned imme-
diately, but before the physician arrived, ht
was dead. His disease was apoplexy.
'' Wooden weddings " are getting to be the
order of the day The Quincy Whig notices
one which took place at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs H. n. Nichols, in that city, few
days ago. The gifts were water pals and era
dies clothes-pins and hoot-jac wash tub
and rolling pins, potato smashers and ra
traps, beef-steak maulers and match-safes, su
gar boxes and washboards, wooden trumpet
and jumping jacks, wooden shoes, and GLOW
stretchers. cordwood, &c.
Gov. Gilmore has issued proclamation
, showing that New Hampshire has furnishe
: her fnll quota OF men under all calls up to tn
last one, and has surplus which places he
] at this time at least 600 ahead OF all demands
that of March lst included. The Governo
t justly boasts of the Granite States, but urge
= that the good work be continued and car
) airy regiment be forwarded early in the spring
The Copperheads are disconsolate at th
loss of the bugbear cry of "draft, with whic
S they hoped to influence the voters in the al
I, preaching States election. tas.
Mrs Mary Greed, of Brooklyn, n. Y, hi
been arrested as a cmmon scold. The complain
sets forth, in legal phrase, that she dis con
mon nuisance, to-wit, cmmon scold; that sh
quarres with, rates, chides at and rails vii
ill humor upon and against divers persons in
camorous, rude and vulgar manner, to til
disturbance Of the public peace. Mrs. Cree
waived examination on the charge and gay
: bail to await the action of the grand jury.
Il WAsHINGToN, February 15.-The Nav
o Department has received the following
I NEWPORT News, Feb. IA.
d To Hon. GIDEON WELLEs b. .s-t.
: The Pequart has arrived, and brings the r
$ port of the destruction of four blockade rul
e ners, viz: The Nuield, on the 4th Februar
n by the Sassacus I; the Dee, February 5t
e by the Cambridge; the Emily, and the Far
D ny and Jenny, on the 10th by the Florida.
: (sigped,) S. P. LEE,
Acting Rear Admiral.