Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-22
NEWS BREVTTIES.

Saturday morning this injunction was dissolved
by the same tribunal Justices STRONG.
AaNEw and READ delivering opinions ia favor
Of the dissolution and ChiefjusIice WOODWARD
and Justice THoMPsoN opposing.
Toothbrushea sell at Nachiloshes, Louisiana
for twenty-five dollars in rebel currency and
gold is valued at one dollar for eighteen dollars
in notes
New YoRK, Jan. l8.-The Raleigh n
o. Progress had an editorial proeIaimiug that
peacs only can prevent starvation. The
masses Of the honest hearted working people
want and will have peace. ia
The King ofthe Sandwich Islands, KAN
shameha w, died on the Both Of November
aged 29 As he left no Children, he has been
succeeded dy his brother. Prince LoT.
The damage to the rebels by the destruction
Of the salt works near St. Andrews Bay,
Fla, will reach nearly $3,OOO,000.
SANDvsKr, Jan IA scout just returned
from Point Pelee, Canada, 30 miles from
Johnson's Island, reports that there are from
two to three thousand rebels preparing for
dash TO rescue the prisoners oil Johnson'S Is
land
Gen. Terry has everything in readiness to
receive them should they venture across the
ice, Strict vigilence is maintained aud sew
cral batteries are in position.
This scout is reliable man, and has sailed
en- the lake twenty years.
A Nashville paper Of this week says;
Hon. E. II, Ewing, one nf the most diStin-
guished citizens Of eur State, last Saturda y
tsok ihe oath prescribed by Mr.. Lincoln 4
proelamation-the amnesty.
The population of Alexandria, Virginia,
nearly opposite Washington, has increased
from 5000, under pro-slavery rule, to $4,000
under the administration OF General Hough.
Senator Lane, of Kansas, has introduced
into the Senate bill to set apart a portion
Of the State of Texas for the use OF persons OF
African descent, wi6 the privileges Of the
homestead law.
The notorious Gel Cluke, one of Morgans
officers, died at Johnson's Island, one day last
week, of strangulation, caused by al liberated
throat.
Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Judge of the 0. S.
District Court for Indiana, and Secretary Of
the Interior during 1861 and 1862, died at
indianapolis last week, ia the courtroom.
An expedition left New Orleans on the Both
inst, the ultimate destination Of which is sup
posed to be Mobile, although it will probably
remain at PascAgoula until the rainy season
is past. The rairs have been very violent on
The Gulf coast and Nsw Orleans has been
almost flooded.
The sum of 100000 in Confederate notes
was seized on board the steamer Evening Star
at New Y Ork, bound to New Orleans, last
Saturday.
BLACK FBvER.-We learn that terribly
fatal fever is prevailing at Carbondale, Pa. It
is called the black or spotted fever, and With
the exception of very few cases has complete
ly baffled the skill ofthe physicians. From six
to eight deaths day occur, it is said, the
victims dying within few hours after being
attacked Harrisburg Tel.
Jabez Fisher, one of the Massachusetts
cattle commissioners, reports that the cattle
disease had appeared in Lexington, ,Hingham,
East Mansfield, Sherborne, Dover, Holland,
Ashland, Natick, Waltham, and Norboro',
and recommends active measures for its ex-
termina ton
NATIONAL Woo1. Growers Association.
The annual meeting of this body was held in
Columbus Ohio, on the 5th inst. They recon-
mended tax of ST head on dogs The loss
of wool growers in Ohio, by the destruction o. f
sheep by dogs, was over two hundred thousan
dollars per annum, and the number OF dog s
said to be half million. A resolution wa s
adopted in favor of an increased tariff on
foreign wool, putting wool growers on the
same footing as American manufacturers.
The state of affairs in Texas shows con
tinued and growing interes, in that region.
The rebel forces under Magruder do not exceed
$4,000 effective men; and even this number ia
daily diminishing. The additional forces, under
Dick Taylor, in the Red River region OF Louis
lana, do not amount to more than 1000. the
whole rebel force in the Southwest, including
the commands of Magruder. Taylor and Price,
does not exceed 10000 effective men, and
these are SO scattered as to render their mutual
support impossible. Their means Of transpor-
tation are so meagre and the distances between
them so great that it would require at least
two months fer them to concentrate al any
effective point.
The Southern Methodist Book Concern ir
Nashville has been taken by the civil au,hori-
ties for a Government Printing Ofics 1, was
a pestient secession and has now been put 10
good use.
WAsHNaToN, Jan. IA special to the
Tribune says; The Arkansas Delegation say
that in four months Arkansas will come nto
the Union as a free State. They recommend
Colonel Rogers for Military Governor
The rigors of the Southern -conscriptiou may
be inferred from the fact that the fiery Rich
mond Epquier endeaVors to moderate the zeal
of the rebsl Congress and urges them to leave
at least the producers who are old aud not able
bodied, out Of the army. 1t hints at the dis
affection which prevails, and hints from such a
quarter imply good deal which is not said.
The Richmond Wing, Of the 18th, thinks the
future of the South is involved in the next
springs campaign in Upper Georgia.
The last year was one OF great financial
in California. The mines have
increased little in pro ductveness. 1t is es
timated that $52 100000 of treasure has ar
lived at San Francisco. The exports Of trea-
Iure as shown by the manifests Of steamers
md sailing vessels, were Sac, 900, 600, of which
S2S, 100000 went direct to England, 81, ,009,-
700 to China, and 100000 to Mexico.