Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-03-11

tant rates Gold is S26 5OC927 so for one.
One of the Boston rioters concerned in re-
sisting the draft in July last, has been senten-
ced to ten years hard labor in the State Prison
The Washington Star says: OF the 80, 600
veterans whose term expires within the next
nine months, $4,000 have already reenlisted.
Trinity NJ. E. Church, Philadelphia, at its,
m missionary anniversary, Sunday week ago,
contributed to the noble cause of missions,
seven thousand dollars.
The Democrat State Convention of Con-
neeticut have found still another Seymour.
They have nominated Mr.. Orisgen S.Seymo ur
of Litch6eld, for Governor.
Oil springs have been discovered in Michigan.
The Detroit Tribune says: "The oil region lies
just on the margin of the great interior coal
basin of the State, the outcroppngs of which
have been traced over a section nearly one
hundred miles square. 1t is safe to predict
that this State will yet take front rank among
the petroleum producing States of the coun-
try"
The Lafayette Courier states that Hon. Jes-
Sc D. Bright, of Indiana, has met with a po-
litical change, now holding that the South has
ris1ed the institution of slavery upon the for
tunes of war, and having lost in the desperate
chance, must abide the result.
A negro man who, one year ago, hired for
$780, was sold to the highest bidder at
Henderson, KY, on Monday for $50, Such
is the status of the institution
At the election in Nashville, the Radical
Emancipationists carried their ticket by eight
hundred majority. b
Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Rhode Island Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
Iowa have raised their full quotas under the
five hundred thousand call; Ohio, Wisconsin,
and Missouri very nearly so. Pennsylvania
and Kentucky continue to make the worst
showing.
Austin B. Williams, a highly respected
printer, and for twelve years an employee of
the n. Y. Times, died Of apoplexy on the 2lst.
He weighed 42o pounds, and it took seven
teen yards of broadcloth to make him an out
fit. He was very temperate, using no liquor
or tobacco.
A German who had fifty dollars in gold in
a drawer, in his workbench in Colts Armory,
had to leave it there at the breaking out of
the fire. On digging in the debris, near the
spot where his bench stood, the gold was found,
last week: melted into one nugget.
JAMES EMM1rr has purchased the farm of
james Caldwell, in Pickaway township, Pick
away county, 700 acres at $50 per acre amouD-
ting to $56,0OO.-SciOta Gaz.
The wife of the Hon. THOMAS EWING died
on Friday night last, after an illness of sew
eral weeks.
Rev. Thomas Starr King, the eminent Uni
tartan preacher, formerly of Boston, late Of
San-Fraucisco, died at the latter place on the
morning of the 4th inst, of diptheria.
CAIRO, March 8.--The steamer Luminary
arrived from Vicksburg last night, having left
there on the Sd. Passengers say Sherman,
with all bis forces, was there when they left
Bituminous coal of good quality has been
found in large quantities about thirty miles
of New Ulm, Minnesota, at depth of SO feet
| beneath the surface. company has already
been formed to mine it. which expects to de-
liver coal in the st. Paul market before July
| lst. The st. PaulPress rejoiceS over the disco
very in half a column of startling headlines
and two columns of details.
In the recent reverse to our arms in Flori-
|
killed and severely wounded according to their
own confession.
Two hundred and forty thousand persons in
London get their living by theiving, beggary
and other disgraceful means. One person in
six of the whole population d es in some pub
lie institution of charity or correction.
In Cincinnati last week, a wealth Quaker
refused to give any money to aid the war, but
said there was loose 500 note at his Office,
which the committee might find.
! The steamship Bohemian was wrecked of
Portland, Me-, on the morning of the 22d ult
! There were 2lS passengers and 80 crew on
| board, of whom about thirty, mostly steerage
passengers, are supposed to have been lost. =
The vessel run upon and over rock, and sunk
| in four fathoms water. The Bohemian was
an iron vessel of 2 200 tuns, and its estimated
value was $3.50 ,O00
The Raleigh North Carolinal Standard, has
been suppressed By order of JEFF. Davis It's
editor is candidate for Governor of the
State-election next Fall. A good deal is
said about driving the Union forces from
| North Carolina, this being necessary, owing
to the anti-rebel feeling prevailing through
out the State. But barking dogs do not often
bite; hence we do not regard this noise of
much consequence.
ARRANGEMENT FOR TREAsoK-John w. An
| drews, the Virginian who, it is said, was one
of the aiders and abetors of the July riots, was
arraigned in New York, before the United
States Court, on Wednesday. The prisoner,
who had just been brought up from Fort Lafay
! cite, looked rather pale, but apparently in ex-
| cellent spirits. On the Indictment flor trea-
son, ETC., being read to him, he pleaded not
guilty. The trial will probably commence on
Monday next.
! A VENERABLE GoUPLE.-There now reside at
Razetta, Trumbull county Ohio, Mr.. Marvin
and his wife, whose united ages amount to one
hundred and seventy-fve years and they have
not only been blessed with a hale old age, but
also with an extraordinary lease of their matri-
monial union. On the 22d of January they COM
memorated the sixty-seventh anniversary of
their welded life. They were married Janua-
ry 2d 1898, and commenced keeping house
| April 18th of the same year, aud still contin-
ue to live by themselves and manage their
nomestic affairs in their own way. Mr. Mary in
was born in March Goth, 1772, hence should
he live until the 26th of this month, he will be
aged ninety-two years. Mrs. Marvin was born
June 18th, 1881, and is now in her eighty
third year Their youngest son is forty-fve
years old, and their oldest nearly sixty-fve
WASHINGTON, March IA recent cores
pondence between the President and the Sc
cre!ary of the treasury has occasioned some
injustice to both. There is authority for say
ing that neither letter contained more than a
frank explanation of their respective positions,
aud that nothing in them evinced the slightest
abatement Of mutual respect and confidence.