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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.

Clasp thy hands meekly over the still breast
they've no more work to do; close the weary
eyes-tbey've no more tears to shed; part the
damp locks-there's no more pain to bear.
Closed alike to loves kind voice, and calum-
ny's stinging whisper.
o, if in that still heart you have ruthlessly
planted thorn; if from that pleading eye
you have carelessly turned away; if your low
ing glance, and kindly word, and clasping
hand, have come-all too late-then God for
give you No frOwn gathers on the marble
brow as you gaze-no scorn curls the chisel-
led lip-no flush Of wounded feelings mount
the blue-veined temples.
God forgive you for your feet, too, must
shrink appalled, from deaths cold river-your
faltering tongue asks: "Can this be death ?"
Your fading eye fingers lovingly on the sun
ny earth, your clammy hands feel its last fee
BILE autter.
o, rapaciOus grave yet another victim for
thy voioelesa keeping What no words of
greeting from the household slsepers? No
warm welcome from a sisters loving lips p
No throb Of pleasure from the dear maternal
bosom
Silent all
o, if these broken limbs were never gather
ed up If beyond deaths swelling food there
were no eternal shore If for the struggling
heart there were DO port of peace If athwart
that lowering cloud spraDg no bright bow of
promise
Alas, for love, if this be ALL
And naught beyond.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
NEGROES AS EEeRo BUYERS.

The following from the Richmond Examiner,
shows new plague in commercial transac-
tions at the South
q This is another innovation that the times
have brought upon us; another symptom OF
the breaking down of the barriers that, until
this war, kept the negro in his proper sphere.
Now, ladies and gentlemen at auctions are
forced to bid in competition with swarthy
negroes, who mouopolize the most eligible
positions and claim the nod of the auctioneer
Not an auction is held but the negro element
is largely developed and some dusky Mrs.
Toodles' is always around enjoying her first
pick and putting her label on the goods of her
choice. Auctioneers would consult their in
terests and the convenience and comfort of the
citizens that attend upon their sales, if they
would adopt a stringent rule excluding negroes
from their auctions. It is rarely that they
attend to buy it is only the innate curiosity
Of the negro that prompts him TO attend and
bid, and put himself or herself in the way OF
white citizens who really desire to make bona
fde bids aud purchases. Again, this promis-
cuous selling to slaves without the permission OF
their owner, is violation of a city ordinance,
and every auctioneer so violating the law is
liable to the penalty provided We hope the
police will see that the law in this respect is
enforced.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06


Also, Out-lot No. So, (origina number IL, in Bonn
ford and Sweetsers addftion) containing acres and
1S664 100 perches Of land Whereabouts, lying east
OF and adjoining said last mentioned In-Ots, free Of
dover. Appraised at $4S1.IO
Also thirty -four tract, being the south and
part Of Lot No g. Section A. Township s. Range 10
Delaware township, Delaware county, Ohio. Cmore
particularly described by metes and bounds in said
petition I free of dover. Appraised at S2210
Also, fnots Nos. 33-appraised at $50, 34-apprased
at $780, 6T-aFprised at S65, and I32apprased at $40
in the town OF MiddletOwn Marion county, Ohio, free
Of dover.
Also the so acre tract in Wood county, Ohio, being
the north Onefourth Of south onehaf of Section
&C. Township A. Range IL. to be sold free OF DOVER
Appraised at $1200.
Also the 40 acre tract Wyandott county, Ohio,
being the south east fourth of Section No Is,
Township 8, South Range No 13, to be sold free OF
dover. Appraised at $4O0.
TERMS OF sAI.E.-One-third OF purchase money on
ay Of sale: residue in and two years thereafter
with interest day Of SALE and secured by mort
gage the premiess
ANN SWEETSER, Administrative
Charles Swsetser, decd.
By RED & EATON, her Attorneys.
December 80, 1S64-ts. $4,000.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

DUPONT POWDER Mills ExPLosIoR.-'The
explosion of the Dupont Mills at Wilmington.
Delaware, on the 18th inst, were the most
terrific and destructive Of life for some years
Three of the mills engaged in making Gov
errment powder were blown to atoms. Other
buildings were very much injured, and ten men
were instantly killed, torn to fragments. An
account says:
1t may be cited, as an evidence OF the ter
ribls force of the explosion, that great heavy
beams were lifted up like rushes into the air
whirIed distances, sometimes, of over 300 feet,
and imbedded so deep in the ground, frozen as
hard as flint, as to stand firmly on end. Great
hollews were scoeped in the ground by the
mere conclusion, seemingly, and timbers scat
tered in prOfusion over the fields around Not
a vestige of some Of the exploded mills re-
maiued, save the foundation walls and sub
scare, earth. The heat generated by the wod
den ignition Of such large quantity of pet
der was SO intense as to char great trees 10 q
twiDkling-the moist green bark burning as
readily as tinder, but seasiDg to burn when
the last rumble of the roar OF the explosion
had died away. The windows in the surround
ing country were, OF course, damaged much
In Christ Church (BpiseOpaD every pane was
crumbled, and in the house of Mrs. Alexis
Dupont, which is situated $50 feet from the
scene of disaster, the glass was shattered 80
violentIy that some of the family were cut by
the flying fragments. The house was shaken
from roof to foundation end ssriO0sly dsmag-
ed
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
A MINE OF THREE CENT PIECIs.

The Lockport Bee announces the deatt
of an eccentric individual named William
Colley, in the Lower Village. He lived alone
kept grocery, and wied bis property, val.
ued at $4,000, to his relatives in England
He kept his specie in an old boiler, buried il
the cellar. Among the deposits in this pri
vate vault we're fifty thousand three cent pieces
How many million of coins are thus boarded
in various parts Of the country!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

ILLINOIS CoTToN.-Illinois will yet talk OF
the "snows of her cotton fields" without be-
ing suspected of poetic extravaganza. A
friend handed us this morning sample,o of beau
tiful unginned cotton, picked on an "old plan
tation" of our own State, in Alexander coun-
ty, There are two hundred and ninety acres,
end the average yield is bale-four hundred
pounds-per acre. The successful experiment
has demonstrated that the cost of cultivating
cotton does not exceed that of corn. Taking
cotton at fifty cents pound, and corn at u
dollar busheI, little cheap arithmetic will
show a balance in favor of cotton of not less
than $3.50 per acre. To the grand staples Of
Illinois-the three m's-men, maize, and meat
she must soon add the deposed king of the
sunny South. Chie0go Journal.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
VOL XLVI.
WITHOUT THE CHILnREN

o the weary, solemn silence
OF house without the children,
o the strange oppre ssive stiffness
Where the children come no more
All the longing Of the sleepless
For the soft arms OF the children,
All the longing for the faces
Peeping through the open door
Faces gone for evermore
Strange 1t is to wake at midnight
And net hear the ehildr en- breathing,
Nothing but the old clock ticking,
Ticking, ticking by the door.
Strange to see the little dresses
Hanging up there all the morning;
And the gaiters-ahi their patter,
We will hear it never more
on our rth-iorsaken floor
What is home without the children
'Tis the earth without its verdure,
And the sky without the sunshine;
Life is wit hered to the core
so we'll leave this dreary desert,
And We'll follow the Coed Shepherd
To the greener past ures Yernal,
Where the lambs have gone before
With the Shepherd evermOre
o the weary, solemn silence
OF a house without the children,
o the strange oppressive stiffness
Where the children come no more!
Ali the longing OF the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children,
Ahl the longing for the faces
Peeping through the open door
Faces gone for evermore!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
LEGAL NOTICE.

ARARY A. DAVIS will take notice that John B. Da-
l Wis fled his petition in the Court of Common Pleas
OF Delaware County, Ohio the 25th day Of Novem-
bsr A D. 1884, charging the said Mary A Davis With
wfu absence for than three years, and praying
the Court for divorce from the said Mary A, Davis,
and for the custody of their child, Mary A. Davis.
Said petition will be for hearing the first day OF
the next term Of the said Court.
CARPER Il VANDEMAN,
Dec q 2,64-6cw S3 25 Att'ysfor Plaintiff.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

Contraband Tom, who has come into Sheri-
dams lines, says the rebels are having "right
smart talk" about arming the colored men, and
the negroes are talking about it themselves,
but the blacks are about equally divided on
the matter. Says Tom: "Bout half de col
ored men think dey would run directly over
to de Yankees wild de arms in her hands, and
toder half think dey would jess stand an fire
few volleys to de rear fust, fore dey run
dat's all de difference"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

Mr.. Rathbun, the famous Buffalo business
man of 1886, who broke down, went to New
York, and subsequently settled in the soli-
tudos Of West Virginia, died a few day ago,
leaving to his heirs an 81 land fortune valued
at three millions of dollars. Such are the ups
and downs Of the wheel Of life.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

BIG FIGURES For A SHEEP.-Mr. f. A.
Smith of Dekalb county, ILL.,, notifies the pub
lie that he has purchased the yearling Span
ish Merino ram Tiger, bred by A. L. Bing-
ham and E. @. Ellis Of VT, for the sum of
$500 dollars, after spending several weeks in
looking among the sheep focks of the Green
Mountain State.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
stockholders Meeting.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,

FIRST NATIONAL BANK, |
DELAWARE, ONO, December 1st, 1854.
IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION NO. 10 OF THE MA
il tional Currency Act, and Section No. Of the By
Laws of the Bank Stockholders of The First Ma
tonal Bank Of Delaware hereby notified to meet
at their Banking Room in Delaware, TUESDAY, the
10th day of January 1866, between the hours OF 1C
O'Clock a. m and O'Clock p m, for the purpose o.
electiug i've Directors to serve the ensuing year.
W. E. MOORE, Cashier.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

II you want Table or P0sket Cutlery, go
to j. s. Oox's CrOCkery Store Delaware, D.
Oct. 9I-9m.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

No man is so Insignificant, as to be sure his
example can do no hurt.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06
DELAWARE. OHIO, JANUARY 6, 1866.
4 STORY OF OUR OWN TINES.

HOW JIM BLANDER SALFED
and PICKED THE QUAKER
FRIEND.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-06

I reed in the Scripters, Ia book alluz pc
rooze whenever I'm bad sick,) sutbin about
ten tribes Of Izrel that wuz lost. An ice
struck me. I see a way by wich the present
unholY, devastatin war kin be stopt, and after
given the matter doc consideTashen, I'm con,
viust NV its feezibility. Its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-04-08
FROM CALIFORNIA.
Effect of the Fall of Richmond-Green.


SAN FRANeIsCO, April THE steamer
Brother Jonathan, from Portland, Oregon,
brings Si6, 600 in treasu ure. The wreck Of the
bark Industry, in shoal water in the bay,
caused the death of seventeen persons. The
miners OF Crodna, Idaho, have driven off the
Chinese. A large emigration to Idaho from
California is expected. The roads to the north.
ern mines are beginning to reopen with warm.
er weather. The bullion receipts for the last
ten days have been S1,700,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.-Kennard's fire.
alarm telegraph is now in operation in this
city.
The amount Of trade is small for the
opening OF spring. The uncertainty as to the
price Of gold, and the lack Of knowledge con-
corning the new tariff, induce buyers and SELL
ers to contract operations till more definite
turn OF affairs. The money market is strong,
consequent upon an active demand tor pay
ment Of duties by which to draw goods in
bond. The duties paid last month amount to
about one million dollars
The first weekly overland mail arrived at
Prescott, the capital of Arizona, ON March u.
in fifteen days from this dity. Its arrival was
the occasion of much public rejoicing.
Considerable shipments Of copper and silver
are coming forward ria Colorado.
SAN FRANCISCO. April i.-The fall of Rich.
mond caused great rejoicings throughout the
State. Greenbacks have gone up to 65, and
are rising.
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FROM NORTH CAROLINA.

Important News from Newbern-Attemp pt
to Fire the City-A Rebel Officer and
Others Arrested-Reported Movements
of Rebel Cavalry.
NRWBERN, April "A preconcerted plan to
fire this city was developed this morning, at
half-past ten O'Clock. Several large buildings,
containing forage, ordnance, and commissary
stores, were set on fire simultaneously, with
the aid of phosphorus. The alarm was given
and signalled at once throughout the city.
The fire department and entlre population
promptly turned out, and the flames were
extinguished in short time, without doing
much damage. Seventy bales of hay and q
few other articles were consumed.
The extension bridge over the Neuse river
was fred at the same tune, In five places, but
was extinguished.
A rebel officer has been discovered and is
now in confinement, with other suspicious
persons.
The fire department has been on duty since,
and will be renewed to-day.
A double guard has been stationed through
ont the city to prevent like occurrence, and
to arrest suspicious persons.
The excitement was very great yesterday
and last night, but is now subsiding.
There is a rumor that rebel cavalry made a
dash yesterday and struck railroad this side
ORG oldsborough
No such report has reached headquarters,
and as the telegraph is working to Goldsbor-
ough, and the track strongly guarded, the ru-
NOR is undoubtedly without foundation.
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OFFICIAL.
The First ccfps-Nstics to Veterans.
HRApeuARTERs FIRST CORPS,


WAsHINsToN, ID. O.. Dec. 81, 1854.
Veterans desiring to enlist In the list Army
Corps, should report In person at the Office Of
Dol. g. +. johnson, Soldiers Rest, Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Depot, washington, d. @.
Any Veteran who has served two years, has
been honorably discharged, and is physically
qualified, may enlist In the Corps for one, two
Or three years.
These enlistirg VITA receive from the Gov
eminent bounty eG 5000 soon as they are
mustered in, and, in addition, the regular in
stllments from the Government, in proportion
70 the period of enlistment, as follows: 300 for
one years service, one-thfrd Paid on enlist
nent; 500 for two years sDfvice, one-third on
enlistment; 1900 for three years service, one
hfrd On enlistment
They win be credited to the quota OF tie
district IL which they or their families may be
donicifed and will, therefore, be entitled to
local bounties
Free transportation will be furnished them
.oWashington by any Provost Marshal.
The best arms in the possession OF the
Government will Be furnished these troops,
and they will be allowed to retain their arms
when hOnorably discharged.
Headuuarters Major General Hancock :-159
Fstreet between 10Th and 20th streets.
Once of the Board for the Examination Of
Gfficers :-Brigadier General John X. Brooke,
president, Is5 q street, between 18th and goth
streets.
BY order Of Major General Hancock.
FINLEY ANDERSON,
dee 27.n Assistant Adiutant General
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AHINr 70 BOTH sEXRs.-How TO Gal

HINT TO BOTH SEXES.-H How TO GAIN
AND RETAIN AFFEcTIoN.-It has been frequently
suggested that PLANTATION BITTERS are, in
another form, the Elixir of Love" OF the
Ancients. That they do much to quiet family
Jars" ard reconcile fretful wives to cross hus-
bands, We verify believe. When domestic quiet
is restored and connubisl felicity resns supreme,
How great the charm. how sweet the bliss
That finds expression in a kiss"
A free and proper use of PLANTATION BIT
TIERS will inspire the souls of beth sexes with
pure and high toned sentiments of afection,t
and capacity for rare and exquisite enjoymen
in each others society. Remember there is no
place like home, and no passion like love-and
nothing to link the two together and you to both
like the great Family Blessing, PLANTATION
BITTlRS 8p7-1w
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TELEGRAPHIO NEWS.
FROM MOBILE,

Rebel Accounts-Investme Of Spanish
Fort-FishtiDs on the 2sth and 29th
ultimo.
MOBILE, March 9s.-There was heavy skir-
mishing at Spanish Fort to. day, without ad-
vantage to the enemy. At four o'clock the fleet
took part.
Our troops are in the best spirits, and every
thing looks encouraging. Our casualties have
been slight.
The enemy seem inclined to make a regular
siege, as there has been no general assault. All
is quiet on this side.
MOBILE, March 2a.-Fighting continued all
day in and around Spanish Fort, with the ad-
vantage decidedly with us. The enemy's loss
is said to be severe; ours very slight. One
Spanish Fort. The Yankee fleet took no part
in the fight to-day on the eastern shore. The
enemy's gunboats commenced shelling the wes-
tern shore at two o'clock, but were driven off
by Pinto's battery and sectlon of the Missouri
battery. Two men Of the Missouri battery and
a Mr.. Frederieks, citizen, were wounded.
Forty seven vessels of all classes are in sight
Everything looks encouraging.
The Very Latest.
NEW ORLEANS, March 81, (via Cairo, April
6.-The Times and Delta say that at head
quarters they have received information that a
portion of General Canby's army was within
toons. from which shells could be thrown into
the suburbs OF the city.
The attack on Fort Blakely, the main defense
Of Mobile. had already commenced.
Maury commar ded at Mobile and General
Dick Taylor commanded Spanish Fort.
Generals Candy, Granger and Smith were
five miles up Fishing creek oI the 2ith.
NEW ORLEANS, April /, (via Cairo, April
6.)- General Steele's command, from Pensa-
cola, met with much opposition, but no regular
battle was fought until it reached mitchelfs
Fork, on the morning of the Goth ultimo, where
the enemy, numbering about eight hundred,
made stand, and after a severe fight were
Tepulsed and scattered in the woods, many
being captured.
The correspondent of the New Orleans
Times, writing from headquarters of the 18th
army corps, near Blakeley, on the 2oth ultimo,
says party Of guerrillas made dash upon a
wagon train stuck in the mud near Fish river,
and captured ten mules and eight drivers; but
all the wagons and stores were brought In
yesterday.
There has been much skirmishing, but no
regular battle has taken place as yet. The
vorably. Torpedoes thickly stud the ap.
proaches to the fort. Our skirmishers are
within two hundred yards and our artillery
within three hundred of the fort. We have it
encompassed Oh three sides. Their only chance
Of escape is by water, but If gunboat can get
up they~cannot escape that way.
General Granger and staff narrowly es-
capped being blown up by torpedo placed in
the road.
Col. Bertram's brigade captured rebel tel.
egraph Office and dispatches showing that the
rebels are fully posted in relation to all our
captured two railroad supply trains at Pol
lard.
At last accounts our losses do not exceed
fifty killed and 200 or 800 wounded.
Rebel steamers ply regularly between Mo.
bile and the Spanish Fort, conveying rein
forcements and guns.
Two OF our men have been injured by tor
pedOee near Mobile.
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The New Jersey Legislature

TRENTON, April 6-Ex- Governor Seymour,
of New York, visited our city to-day, and, &C.
companied by Governor Parker. was intro.
duced to both Houses Of the Legislature.
The Hunterdon farmers railroad bill was
defeated for want Of three votes. Objections
were made that 1t would be used as q through
route between New York and Philadelphia
There was general illumination in our city
yesterday in honor Of the recent victories Of
the Union arms. SIS
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From the Mississippi.

CAIRO, April 6.-The steamer Olive Branch,
from New Orleans, had 746 bales and % bags
Of cotton for st. Louis.
John Mckinney, rebel sympathizer, con-
fined at Memphis under the military order of
General Roberts, for the non-payment OF debt
of $1,000, due Northern parties, was turned
over to the civil authorities recently by Gene
raj Washburne upon haebas corp&s, and was
released yesterdayby the United States District
Court upon the payment Of costs. It ts said
he will commence suit against Roberts for
false imprisonment --
hospital steamer has arrived from Vicks-
burg, for st Louis, with 40 exchanged pris.
oners from Andersonville and Cahawba. 500
remain at Vicksburg, awaiting transportation
North,
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JOHN @. WILSON, a
(Late 0ffrrl of BOteler & Wilson w

Late firm Of BoteIer & Wilson )W
Having leased tn pscious ware Ii =
= rooms ON the southeast corner Of
9Th and D streets. where he intends at an
times to keep large and handsome assortment
CABINET FURNITURE,
which he pledges himself to 'ell as cheap a. any
Hrat- class housefurnishins establishment south
Hs Cordially and respectfully invites his old eus.
TONER'S and friends to inspect his stock. Thank
ful for past favors. he now solicits their patron
's' - A'' ~" ' JOHN Q WILSON.
spI colin Southeast corner 9th and sts.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

If PEOPLE WHO SUFFER from the dull stupidity
that meets us everywhere in spring. and too often
in al seasons Of the yesr spey hoy G1i1s It eouta
purge the bile from their systems, We should have
better neiehbors we'll as clearer heads to deal
With ap7-lW
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FROM LOUISIANA.
Scarcity of Forage and Provision-Rebel
Cavalry Compelled to Leave for Texas
Nave m ents of II ebel Tr0opS in Texas

CAIRO, April Late accounts from Yves.
tern Louisiana report great scarcity OF bread
stuffs about Alexandria There is much suf.
fering, and scarcity of forage has compelled
the rebel cavalry to depart for Texas, and the
infantry has also been Withdrawn from Alex.
andria and encamped at Natchitoches.
The Confederate troops have been removed
from Brownsville to Galveston, where they
await the attack Of the Federals.