Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-03-04


The Commissioners OF Fairfield county have
offered reward of$8,OOO for the arrest of
John See, who shot the two soldiers in Ian
caster, on the goth.
THERE is authority for stating that there
are nearly twenty-one millions of dollars in
gold now on hand in the United States Treas
ury.
Hon. Eli Miller, formerly an Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and
prominent citizen of Knox county, died at
Mt. Vernon. Ohio, on the 2lst, aged IA.
THERE were six hundred thousand pairs of
shoes manufactured in Auburn, Maine, last
year, giving employment to fifteen hundred
persons.
The Union members of the New Jersey
Legislature have issued an address renomina-
ting Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency.
A letter from Chattanooga says $4,000
coIored men will be ready for service in the
Southwest by the 1St of May.
ABOUT two hundred freedmen a week are
enlisted at Chattanooga. They come from
Georgia and Alabama, in squads Of from FIVE
to twenty, many of them having shackles upon
them when they arrive.
A town may have very crooked name and
yet be eminent for the directness OF its patri-
otism. Crooked Greek, in Cumberland coun-
ty, Illinois, has less than one hundred and
twenty-five voters, but has furnished one hun
dred and thirty-six men for the armies of the
Union.
The rise of rent for houses in New York
has been very large, and the demand for
houses unabated. 1t is estimated that 5000
families, or 10000 persons, have taken refuge
in that city from the South till the war is
over.
The receipts of the Northern Ohio Sanitary
Fair. now in progress at Cleveland, were, for
the fret three days, in sales of tickets aud
cash donations, upward Of $4,000. 1t is
thought the net profits Of the Fair will exceed
100000.
The New York Net0s denounces James
Brooks, editor of the New York Express, as
an Abolitionist because in a speech 10 Con-
gress he has declared his conviction that sla-
very is dead. The NetUs is so irritated that
it is personally abusive.
The Richmond WhiS says:
"The first installment of Yankee prisoners
left yesterday morning over Petersburg read,
with the new prison post at Americas, Ga,
for their destination. They numbered four
hundred. The same, or larger number, will
be forwarded daily or tri-weekly until five or
six thousand are transferred 10 Ca"
GREAT YIELD OF CoRN.-The most extra
ordinary yield of corn was produced by Mr..
Fred. Hedell, of Ashtabula county, Chic, as
certified and sworn to by three substantial
citizens. On eight acres he harvested an Av-
erage of 204 bushels of corn in the ear per
acre. One-fOurth of an acre Of the best of the
field yielded 60 bushels of corn. At the rate
shelled corn, this gives l36 bushels Of shelled
corn per acre, and 40 bushels for the selected
quarter of an acre. That is about as good as
the Miami country or Kentucky can do.
The GAINESVILLE Courier says:
It is the universal complaint of our country
friends that they have not fodder or feed, OIL
any kind, sufficient to last them uHtil spring.
The very excessive drouth last summer great
ly shortened the fodder and hay, and though |
the utmost economy is used, there is hardly
enough in the country to keep the sheep aud
cattle from absolute starvation. II the |
weather should prove mild they may get
through without much suffering, but many
farmers have been short for month past, and
have been dealing out half rations.
A letter from HagertsoWn, Md, says that
owing to the apprehension of rebel invasion
EARLY in the anrin0 uapv of tho farmAra in |
that section of the State are selling their
arms and stock preparatory to moving West.
Washington County is one of the largest and
pest wheat growing counties in the State Of
Maryland, but since the breaking out of the
'ebellion the farmers have been such heavy
OserS, by having their crops destroyed by {
he rebel army, that many Of them put in an
unusually small crop Of wheat last fall.