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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
THE NEWS

We are now through with war news, so
far at least as regards battles. The sur
render of Kirby Smith and all the forces
under his command, the official announce
m~entofwhichi is given elsewhere, disposes Of
armed opposition to the authority of the
Government, and enceforthmilitary intel
ligence will not embrace accounts of
bloody conflicts in the field.
JEFF. Davis has been indicted for treason
by the U. S. Court for the District OF
Columbia, and it is said he will be ar
raigned for trial as soon as the assassina-
ton cases are got through with. j. c.
Breckenridge, rebel Secretary of War,
was indicted at the same time.
Arrangements for ~disbanding the larger
portion of our forces in the field continue
to progress, and persons employed in the
different branches of the military service
are being discharged in large numbers.
The assassination trials are still pro-
crossing, but the evidence is nearly
through with, and the result will proba-
bly, soon be known. There seems to be
no room for doubling the conviction of
most if not all the prisoners on trial.
Notwithstanding the cessation of hos
tilities west of the Mississippi. a consid-
cradle force is being sent to Texas, to be
under command Of Gen. Sheridan, who
is assigned to duty in that Department.
Testimony given before the military
commission at Washington, by a man
named Hyams, who was employed by DR..
Blackburn to aid in distributing in the
northern cities the clothing infected with
smallpox and yellow fever, collected by
the former, fully duplicates Thompson,
Clay, and the other rebel emissaries OPP
Grating in Canada, in that diabolical plot.
The means for carrying it on were fur
nished by Thompson, the financial agent
Of the rebel government.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

The evidence elected in the assassina-
ton trials at Washington clearly estab-
fishes the fact that the long catalogue of
barbarous crimes which marked the pro-
gress of the rebellion, were but parts of a
general system of operations concocted by
the leaders at Richmond andtheir emissa-
ries in Canada, and that the plan of opera
tions embraced the assassination of the
President, Vice President, members of
the Cabinet and the commander of the
armies. Among the evidence duplicating
JEFF. Davis is a letter addressed to him
last November by a man from Alabama
named j. w. Aston, in which he says
Il now offer you my services, and if you
will favor me in my designs I will proceed
as soon as my health will permit to rid my
country of some of her deadliest enemies
by striking at the very hearts blood of
those who seek to enchain her in slavery"
also asking a personal interview Sin order
to perfect arrangements before starting. :"
This letter, captured among the rebel
archives, was endorsed on the back as
respectfully referred by the President to
the Hon. Secretary of War"
How Davis received the intelligence of
the Presidents assassination is shown in
the evidence taken on Wednesday in the
Military Court in session at Washington.
The spirit that animated him is manifest
in the comments he made on the occur
renee.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-Lewis E. Bates
was this morning examined for the pros
e%cution, and testified substantially as fol-
lows: Have resided in Charlotte, N. c..
for the last four years. JEFF. Davis stop
ped at his house on the 18th of April.
and made an address from the steps.-
Davis received and read the crowd a tele-
gram from Gen. Breckenridge, dated
Greensboro, April 10Th, as follows =
President Lincoln was assassinated in a
theatre on the night of the 18th inst.
Secretary Stewards house was entered on
the same night, and he was repeatedly
stabbed, and is probably MORALLY wound
ed" The witness said that after reading
this dispatch to the crowd, Davis said IF
it were to be done, 1t were better it was
well done.
The day after Breckenridge and Davis
conversed in the house of witness on the
subject of the assassination. Breckin-
ridge remarked to Davis that he regretted
it very much, it was unfortunate for the
people Of the South; and the tone of the
regret seemed to be the cause of sympa-
thy for the South, and not because of the
criminality of the act. Davis replied.
well, General, [ don't know, if it were to
be lone at all, it were better that it were
we'll done; and if the same were done to
Andy johnson and Secretary Stanton the
JOB would be complete.
j. G. Courtney, a telegraph operator,
testified that the telegram in question
passed over the wires.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
COUNTY, e~oWYENTIoN.

All true men of Delaware County, who
sustainthe national government at Wash
ington, and rejoice in its triumph over
treason and rebellion, are requested to
meet in convention, at the Court Room in
the town of Delaware, on SATURDAY,
the 10th day of June next, for the pur-
pose of electing fire delegates to represent
the county of Delaware in the Union
State Convention, which is to meet in
Columbus on Wednesday, june 21st.
By order of Union Central Committee.
L. BARNES, Chairman.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

Numbers of the prominent and leading
rebels have been arrested, and others are
being daily captured and committed to
prison, all of whom will probably soon be
brought to trial. The more prominent of
those already secured are, JEFF. Davis,
President of the rebel Confederacy A.
H. Stephens, Vice President James A.
Seldom, ex-Secretary of War James HI.
Regain, Postmaster General Stephen FL.
Mallory, Secretary of the Navy Gov.
Brown, of Georgia; Gov. Vance, ofNorth
Carolina ex-Gov. Letcher, of Virginia
r. M. T. Hunter and G. c. Clay, members
of the rebel Senate. 1t is also reported
that Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gov. Watts, of
Alabama, and Robert Toombs, ex-Secre-
tary of State, have been added tothe num-
Der of captives. It is feared Breckenridge,
Benjamin and Trenholm have succeeded
in getting into Texas, and if so they will
probably escape to Mexico.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
a RELIr nE snurHERn RARRARIsM.

. Among the Richmond trophies in pos
session of the Fifth Corps of the Army
of the Potomac, is the famous Russian
bloodhound Hero, formerly owned by one
Of the keepers of Castle Thunder, at
Richmond, and kept there as one of the
preventives against prisoners escaping
He belongs to the tribe of heavy dogs .
seven feet long from the tip of his nose
to the end of his tail, is three feet eight
inches tall, measuring from the fore Shout
ders down, and weighs one hundred and
seventy eight pounds. On two. occasions,
before he was three years old, he whip
ped two bears on Belle Island. A royal
Bengal could not give a iercer growl.-
At first he had an intense dislike-the
result of his traitorous teachings no
doubt-to one of our blue soldiers uni
forms; but he is rapidly overcoming this
dislike, and daily gives Indication Of
growing tolerance of Union soldiers and
Union sentiment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

THE AMNESTY PRoCLAMATIoN.-The
amnesty proclamation from the President,
which has been looked for with much in
terest, has finally made its appearance, and
may be found in another column. 1t is
generous and liberal in its terms to the
masses of those lately in rebellion. The
persons excepted embrace the higher
grade of offenders, the leaders especially,
and from the extent and long continuance
of the rebellion are necessarily nu-
merous but in regard to this class provi-
sion is also made for the exercise of mer-
cy on a satisfactory showing being made
to the President. It is not to be presumed
that any of those coming within the terms
of the proclamation will long deprive
themselves of the rights of citizenship by
refusing to take the oath, though that por-
ton of it which requires acquiescence in
the emancipation proclamation will be a
bitter dose to the late arrogant lords of
the plantation. They will have to come
to it, however, and the sooner they do it
the better it will be for them.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

THE RESULTS OF REBELLIoN.-The
Chattanooga Gazette, of Thursday. says.
from every direction in Georgia accounts
reach it Of starving women and children
For miles there is not a horse or mule to
be seen, and no seed for the people to
plant. General Wilson has ordered that
all the produce gathered for the rebel
Government, in the shape of taxes OF
tithes, should be distributed to the peo-
pie, and that all the extra animals and
wagons should be loaned out to them, his
quartermasters taking a receipt for them.
But all this, good as far as it goes, is not
sufficient. Some means should be adopt
ed to feed these women and children now,
or they will positively die of starvation.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ST PETERS SUNDAY SCHOOL
Strawberry Festival !
The children OF st. Peters Sunday School viii hold
their
ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL,
in the Lecture Room of the Church, on
Tuesday Evening, June 9Th.
June >, 1S65-1t
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
LETTE S

d emaining unclaimed in the Post Office at Del
Ii aware, State of Ohio,o on the LIST day Of June, 1855.
R9-To obtain any of these letters, the appliean
must call for s'adueTtised Isueys,'' give the date OF thu
list, and pay TWO CENTS for advertising.
If not called for within one month, they will b,
sent to the Dead letter Office.
N. B-A REQUEST for the RETURN Of a letter TO tn,
writer, If unclaimed within 80 days or less, written oI
printed with the writer's name, post Office and Stat
aoress the left-hand end of the envelope, on the face
side, will be complied with at the usual prepaid rate
of postage, payable when the letter is delivered 10 the
wrIter.-Seo IS. Law OF 1893.
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02


The English hold over $500, 900, 900 in
rebel bonds and other evidences of debt,
worth no more at present, or ever likely
to be, than so much waste paper. They
will not be likely to receive much sympa-
thy from loyal Americans, who very
properly regard their heavy losses as a
merited punishment for the heartiness
with which they espOused the rebel cause
and the bitterness and unfairness they
manifested throughout the contest toward
the North. No wonder the London
Standard, chief organ of these tory bond
holders, bitterly walls over the collapse
of the rebellion, and hurls arathemas at
the British Government for failure to
openly take sides with the rebels. 1t ex-
presses itself as follows:
The part which England has played in
this awful drama, adds a tentold bitter
ness to the grief with which we regard its
deplorable catastrophe. Every generous
heart must be wrung in witnessing the
death agony of a gallant nation; but we.
its nearest kinsmen, whose supineness
permitted, whose policy furthered and
fastened its destruction, have to bear not
only the pduS VI 6OEIOW, Dub the worse
t~ortures Of self-reproaeh. England, (may
heaven forgive herr, has cast away the
noblest opportunity and been accessory
to the greatest crime that modern history
records. A single dispatch, a single stroke
of the pen, requiring no more han the
commonest foresight and the most ordi-
nary courage, would have enabled her to
deserve the gratitude of generations yet
unborn.
More than once it has been in her pow
err, without a blow, to establish in the
New World that international balance of
power without which neither peace nor
liberty is possible. She might have given
independence to the South; have stayed
the carnage Of war; have made Canada
safe forever; have secured a firm, loyal
and powerful ally; have secured against
disturbance and interruption the hopeful
and generous experiment by which France
is endeavoring to restore order and peace
to Mexico, and to save the of.
that magnificent country for commerce
and for civilization.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

AN APT EDUCATIONAL friend versed
in the Scripture suggests that the atten-
ton of the nations guest, Mr.. Jefferson
Davis, be called to a passage in Jeremiah,
which has u~nmistakable reference to him,
but Which may hitherto have escaped his
attention. 1t occurs in chapter xiii, verse
80, and is as follows:
And ifthou say in thine heart, Where
fore come these things upon me ? For the
greatness Of thine iniqujty are thg shirts
discoptred, and thy heels made bare.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

The Ohio soldiers about to be mustered
out of the service are soon expected to
arrive, arrangements having already been
made for their transportation West from
Washington. The points at which they
are to be paid off and mustered out are
Camps Cleveland, Chase, Dennison, and
Tod Barracks. A guard composed Of the
Veteran Reserves is to be stationed at each
of the points named to preserve order.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

The Newcastle (Englandl Chronicle, OF
May I'd, contains a letter from a CORE
s~pondent who states that a 'well-known
ship-broker was told by an American in
Newcastle, five days before the news
reached here, that the murders were
pending. He gave the names of five Off
oial persons marked out for slaughter,
the first upon the list being the lamented
President Lincoln"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

PRESIDENT LINCoLN's RELATIVES
The statement which is obtaining currency
through many newspapers, to the effect
that the late President had no blood rela-
tives save his two sons, is incorrect. Jo-
siah Lincoln, his brother, left Harding
county, Kentucky, at an early date, and
settled in Harrison county, Indiana. He
died many years ago, leaving. two sons,
Thomas and Jacob, and several daughters.
Thomas is also dead, but left a large fami-
ly. Jacob is still living on the old place
in Harrison county, and h~asseveral child
rem living, although two of his sons have
been killed during the war. Josiah Lin
coin, sons and grandsons, were all farmers,
in plain if not poor circumstances, but
hardy, honest and industrious.-&. Louis
Req.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

The President has issued an order iden-
tical with that in relation to Virginia,
under which North Carolina is to be
brought back into the Union. There be-
ing no loyal Governor in North Carolina,
VIM. ". Holden is appointed to that post,
to serve till an election is held for State
officers. Mr.. Holden is Editor of the
Raleigh Standard andwas the conservative
or reconstruction candidate in opposition
to the rebel Vance at the last Gubernato-
rial election. Though compelledto acqui-
esee when the State was taken out of the
Union and to recognize the existing state
of affairs, his paper was always bitterly
hostile to JEFF. Davis and the rebel State
administer alton, and he became an ardent
supporter of the Union and the policy of
the National Administration as soon as
our army took possession of the city and
expelled the rebel tyrants who had for
four years lorded it over him and all
others entertaining similar views.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
OFFICIAL WAR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF KIRBY
SMITH,
WAR DEPARTMENT.,

W IIN d n : "
WASHINGTON, D. G., May p. J
Major General Die:
A despatch from General Candy, dated
New Orleans, May 10Th, states that ar
rangements for the surrender Of the Con.
federate forces in the Trans-M Mississippi
Department have been concluded. They
include the men and material of the army
and navy.
(Signed,) Il. NJ. STANIOMA'
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

RECEPTION OF THE BRAVEs.-We un-
derstand that there is a project on foot to
give the Ohio soldiers, who may arrive at
this point for final discharge, a reception
worthy their noble deeds. The move
ment is yet in its incipiency, but we ear
nestly hope that u patriotic and gener-
u citizens will take hold vigorously, and
give the "boys" such a Welcome as will
convince them that their gallant services
and willing sacrifices have been appreeia-
ted-TO. S. journal,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
Balance in Treasury Jan. ., 8e5.,... slOs,a5H
Legal Notice.

Richard W. Reynolds. ct al, Court Of Com
vs.. mon Pleas,
The Incorporated Village of Delaware Delaware co o
RTOTICE is hereby given to the owners and proprie-
IN tors Of lots and lands in "~Griswold's Addition" to
said village, that said Richard W. Reynolds, and 9TH
ers, have filed in the Clerks Office OF said Court a pc
tItiOn praying the Court to yaeate the whole OF the
alley south Of InIot No. IFS, as designated on the plot
of said Addition, CHE new number Of said lot being
40l) extending from the east line Of Washington street
to the west line Of the alley on the east line Of raid
lot No. lis. Said petition will be for hearing on the
first day Of tho July term OF said Court, 1865, or at
any subsequent day thereof to which said cause may
be assigned or continued. J. NIPPLE,
June 2-w5 ST 90 Atty for Petitioners.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
school Mxaminer,s Wotice.

H school Ezaminers of Delaware county Wit meet
at TEMPLAR HALL, in the town Of Delaware, ON the
september, October, November and and ou
the THIRD Saturdays in February and August. EXami-
nations will commence at 10 O'Clock a. m. Candidates
MUST present satisfactory testimonials Of good NOR
character. The law requires. as a condition " cram
indtion, that each male applicant for a certificate shalt
pay to the Board OF Examiner a fee Of so cents. Hnd
each female applicant u fee OF So cents.
April s. '64s-u H.. u CARPER. strrS
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

Notes OF all the denominations named will he
promptly furnished upon receipt of subscriptions.
The Notes Of this Third Series are precisely similar in
form and privilege to tho Seven-Thirties already soil,
except that the Government reserves to Itself the op-
ton Of paying interest in gold coin at 6 per cont, in
stead of 7 3-1Oths in currency. Subscribers viii de.
duct the interest in currency up to July 18th, at the
time when they subscribe.
The delivery OF the notes OF this third series Of the
sevcn-Thirties viii commence on the LIST Of June, ANA
viii he made promptly and continuously after that
date
The slight change made in the conditions OF this
THiRD SERIES affects only the matter Of interest
The payment in gold, if made, will be equivalent to
the currency interest OF the higher rate.
The return to spe,ie payments, in the event Of which
only viii the option to pay interest in gold be av4ued
OF, would so reduce and cqualizo prices, that purehas-
es made with six per cent. in gold would be fully
equal to those made with seven and three tenths per
cent. in currency. This is
III ONLY LOAN IN MARKET
Now offered by the Government, and its superior ad.
vantages make it the
Great Popular Loan Of the People.
Less than $3.50, 600, 900 Of the Loan auth orized by
the last Congress are now on the market. This
amount, At the rate Al which il is being absorbed,
viii alIbesubserIbed for within sixty days, when tie
notes will undoubtedly command a premium, as has
uniformly been the case on closing the subscriptions
to other Loans.
In order that citizens Of every Town and section Of
the country may De afforded facilities for taking the
loan, the National Banks, State Banks, and Private
Bankers, throughout the country, have generally
agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Subscribers
will select their own agents. in whom thCv have ,,u,
Gdence, and who only are responsible Tor the notes
for which they receive orders.
JAY COOKE,
SUBSCRIPTION AGENT, Philadelphia
May 10, 1865.
SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED by the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DELAWARE,
DELAWARE COUNTY NATIONAL BANK.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02

consisting Of BONNETS and HATS of the latest and
most fashionable styles, all Of which were selected
W. tn great care, and will be sold low for cash. The
ladies of Delaware are respectfully invited to call and
examine my goods. Bleaching and pressing done on
short notice-for Bounots so cts, Hats 45 cts. Rooms
Sd door above Henry Litlell's, south side VIM street,
Delaware, Ohio. june 2-n1Om2
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
Stone Cutting. &c.

nTHE undersigned has purchased a Stone Qnarry near
/ %Sunbury, and being a practical Stone Cutter, is
prepared TO furnish all articles in the way Of Door
and window Caps, Stone Steps, Pillars, Posts, &e., at
shortest notice. Orders from abroad respectfully So
iicited. Address him at Sunbury, Delaware Co, o.
May 10, 1s65-nsm8t WM. BROWN.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
HYAMs, THE EMISSARY OF BLAGKBURR. ON THE
STAMn

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Most of to-
days session of the Commission for the
trial of the assassins was taken up by
testimony for the defendant, DIR. Mudd.
Probably the most fendish act In the
whole catalogue of diabolicaI crimes
proved against the rebels was disclosed
this afternoon, In the testimony of the
witness Hyams, who gave an account of
his employment by DIR. Blackburn in
Toronto to convey to this city several
packages of clothing infected with yellow
fever and smallpox, to be sold indiscrim-
i~nately. The work was faithfully per-
formed by the witness Hyams so far as
he engaged to execute the develish job.
No credit would be attached to the evil
dence of this Hyams, were there not
some other circumstances and creditable
witnesses to c%orroborate enough of his
testimony to make it probable that the
whole of it is true. He ratified off his
story without h~esitaney, and there was
that in his manner which impressed the
hearers that he was telling the truth. not
w~ithstanding, he in this, discovered HIM
self to be one of the most heartless, cold
bIooded and wholesale would-be assassins
of them all. Hyams is a genteelly dress
ed man of small stature, and dark COM
plexion. During his recital of the trans
action, the audience ave, in suppressed
murmurs and EXPLANATIONS, unmistakable
demonstrations of what their verdict
would be were the witness himself on
trial before them. The verdict seemed to
be unanimous to hang the wretch.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-06-02
z-sO! 9 7-sog
The FIRST National Bank.

waving again received the agency from Iay Cooke
a for the Sale Of the new series ofthis popular loan
will continue to furnish the Bonds witheHt any inter
Tuption-
The new series will be the same as the Old issue tx
cepting in date, being dated the fifteenth OF June, and
having three years from that time 10 run, with the
same privilege Of converting into the Five-Twenty
Bonds at maturity.
Purchasers will receive the difference in Interest, be
tween the date Of purchase and the date Of the Bonds
A few OF the old issue Of the Bonds still remain OF.
hand for sale.
March 81. '65-tr. W. F. MOORE Cas.