Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-10

A PROFITABLE WELL.-The Oil City pa
Register says: The well struck on Suga
| Greek, short time ago, is now yielding fifty
barrels OF lubricatiDg oil daily, worth $40 PEI
barrel at the well. A thousand dollars day
/ proceeds of Que well will pay handsomely
This is the most valuable quality of oil ye
discovered in such large quantity. More
wells are being put down in that locality, and w
may expect to hear of more Of the same sor
/ from that quarter soon.
/ The work of raising the eleven new regi
ments in Indiana has progressed SO favorably
that the Secretary of Wac has authorized
Governor Morton 10 recruit five more. The
work OF enlistment will begin Immediately.
Bomba is in a state of excitement over The
great success o East India cotton cultivation
Men who sh ort time ago were possessed oil
only moderate means have suddenly become
millonaries, and the manner in which it is
said fortunes are being piled up there rivals
the wonders Of our own oil regions.
4 shocking accident occurred near Bristol
station, on the Camden & Amboy Railroad
on Monday night. A collision took place
between the Washington and ''owl" train
killing five persoss on the latter ira in and
wounding twenty -fve-three fatally.
j, B. Cook, Assistant Provost Marshal Of
the Sixteenth District, was murdered at Cam.
bridge, Guernsey county, 90 Sunday night -hF
two persons dressed 10 soldiers uniform. 4
reward Of Five Hundred Dollars is offered By
the Governor, for the apprehension of the
murderers.
The Tribune's Washington special says it is
reported from Hancock's headquarters at
Winchester, that Sheridan has defeated Early
and scattered his army. 1t is reported that
The capture of Early is not confirmed.
The Governor of Arkansas has issued
Proclamation convening the Legislature of
that State on the lst Monday in April next,
for the purpose of taking action on the pro-
posed amendment of the Federal Constitution
abolishing slavery.
TIE oldest INuAB:TAxT7 has been found
at last. lie exists in the person of Joseph
Circle, resident of Wisconsin, and is one
hundred and thirty-nne years old, as the re
cord of bis baptism in the Catholic Church al
Detroit, where he was born, it is said, shove.
oueFaiau cdptuC6u 1T OIhrleSto0 more guns
than were brought into action on both sides
in the great battle Of Waterloo. Wellington,
after lighting far into the shades of night, took
227 pieces Of cannon from Napoleon. Sher-
man, without battle, took $50 at Charles.
ton.
Robert Small, the slave pilot of Charleston
who ran the steamer Pilot out of Charleston
Dor, and delivered it over TO the blockadipg
squadron, aud has since been of so much ser.
vice 10 our naval operations on the Carolina |
coast, is said TO be now worth $34, 900, all Of |
which he has inve sted in Government securi-
ties.
The Richmond Sentinel coDfesses that ne |
gro soldiers are mo despicable foe even to our
(reheD veterans" Two years ago they hardly |
confessed so much in favor of white Northern |
soldiers.
At husking froiic down Feast last fall
wo hundred bushels Of corn were busked, for
y-eight girls were kissed, one couple married
md seven more engaged" 10 the same even
ug Brisk business, that.