Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-01
THE NEWS.

partment, dated Aug q, muSterS out OF
the service 4 Major Generals, 35 Brevet
Major Generals and 43 Brigadier Gener-
als-in all 81. Their services are no long
er required, and most of them have been
unemployed for a considerable length of
time
The grand jury of Franklin county, Pa,
has found bills of indictment against the
rebel General M'Causland and other
prominent actors in the burning of Cham
bersburg during the last rebel raid into
that State. acquisitions have been made
by Gov. Curtain on the Governors of
West Virginia and Maryland for the rem
dition of the parties indicted.
A collision occurred on the morning Of
the 24th ult. on the Oil Creek railroad,
in Western Pennsylvania, by which nine
persons were killed and some fifteen in
jured,
The Mississippi constitutional Conven-
ton, having accomplished the work for
which it convened, has adjourned SINE die.
A proposition to submit the Constitution
to a vote of the people of the State for
ratification or rejection was voted down
by a large majority.
Aterrible disaster ut sea occurred on the
Pacific coast, on the 30th Of July. The
steamship Brother Jonathan, bound from
San francisco to Portland. Oregon, was
wrecked near Cape Lincoln. and of over
two hundred persons on board, only if
teen were saved. Among those lost were
RH4GAnA4EghtandEmil GEM
was enroute to take command of-the De-
partment of Columbia.
On the 9th nit. u collision between
two passenger trains occurred on the Long
Island railroad, near the village Of Jama-
lea, by which fifteen persons were killed
and a large number severely injured. The
accident was the result of gross careless
ness, on the part of the conductor and en-
.gineer on one of the trains.
The steamer Argosw No. 3 was recently
blown up on the Mississippi river She
was loaded with returning soldiers, eight
of whom were drowned.
Edward B. Ketchum, the New York
forger, was arrested in that city last Fri
day and is now confined in the Tombs.-
He was found at a boarding house in
West 10th street, where he had been
boarding under an assumed name ever
since his disappearance from Wall street.
His forgeries, thefts and entertainments
amount to about $780, 900.
An awful accident occurred last Satur-
day on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad.
A train of nine cars broke through a tres
tie bridge, and the cars were piled on each
other in the stream below. Fifteen dead
bodies had been taken from the ruins,
and one car containing thirty colored sol
diers had not been reached at last ac-
counts from the scene Of the disaster.
The Dayton journal announces a Great
National Horse Show, to come off on the
grounds of the Montgomery County Ag-
ricultural Society, near that city, on the
Sd, 4th, 9Th and 9th days of October
Liberal premiums are offered.
The National Bank at Wellington, Lo-
rain county, was robbed Tuesday night of
100000 in National Bonds, all of
which belonged to special depositors.
The full official returns of the recent
in Kentucky show the Demo-
cratic majority on the vote for State Treas
urer to be 1853. Last fall McCellan's
majority in the State was nearly forty
thousand. Something of failing off in
one year.
The three Bishops of the M E Church
in a letter to the clergy of that
Church, advise against the proposed re-
union with the NJ. E Church, and in
in bitter denunciatiens of the last
named body.
A Grand Musical Festival commenced
Tuesday at Columbus, and continues
the present week. The perform
RS consist of delegations from German
Musical Associations in various parts Of
he country.
Permission has been given to. paroled
against whom no charges are PEN
ling. to leave the country, and many Of
hem are preparing to avail themselves of
he privilege. They are not to return ex7
ept by the express permission of the
President.