Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-10-27
TIE NEWS.

The rate at which the national expen-
ditures are being reduced in consequence
of the close of the war, may be inferred
from the fact that the naval expenses for
the present fiscal year will be eighty-Hine
millions less than they were last year.
dGeauga county in this State is claimed
to be the greatest cheese emporium in the
world. A single factory consumes the
milk of over ene thousand COWS and turns
out a ton of cheese per day. The annual
sales of cheese in the whole county are
estimated at one million dollars.
The great FIRE in Belfast, Maine, was the
result of incendiarism. The incendiary,
man named Geo. w. Jones, from China.
Me-, has been arrested and confessed his
. guilt
The Mexican Minister representing the
Jaurez Government has through the
agency of a prominent New York Bank
ing house advertised for loan of thirty
millions to aid in expelling the French
inyaders. The representative of MAXI
millian in that city has issued a notice
warning the public against investing in.
said loan
A collision occurred on the I'D inst on.
the New York and New Haven Railroad,
by which one person was killed and some
twenty more or less injured.
Alex. H. Stephens, Vice President, and
j. ii. Regan, Post Master General Of the
late rebel Government, having been pa
rolled by the President, have returned. to
Retrospective States, to the limits of
which they are confined by the terms of
the parole. They both had an interview
with the President before going South
The Canadians are becoming as serious
ly exercised in regard to the movements
Of the Fenians asare their relations across
the water The cause Of their uneasi-
ness Il the alleged discovery that the op-
erations IN Ireland are intended as a
blind to- draw the disposable British
troops to7that country, when the Fenians
in the UnTted States will make descent
upon and capture Canada, declare it an
independent State, and place it under the
protection of our Government
The Sandusky Register Of Saturday
21st inst. says the steamer Island Queen
brought over from Kelley's Island the
day before ten tons of Grapes; that the
quantity shipped from the city that day is
estimated at not, less than twenty tons;
and yet the packing for export had but
just commenced. Grape growing is be-
coming a leading interest in that section.
The North Carolina Constitutional
Conveptiontwhich has just adjourned, de-
olsred the secession ordinance null and
void, and incorporatedT in the new Con-
stitution provision declaring slavery
forever abolished, repudiating the rebel
war.debt of the State and prohibiting any |
future Legislature recognizing it. The
Convention was about to dodge the ques-
tion of the State debt, but despatch
from the President urging its repudiation
had the desired effect,
The Union victory in PENNSYLVANIA |
proves as the official returns come in to
be more decided than was at first sup
posed. Instead of 10000 the Union ma
jority in the State will be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
Gov, Sharkey aud j L. Alcorn have |
been elected U, S. Senators by the Leg
islature of Mississippi-th former for
the short term and the latter for Fl the long t
The election of Gov. Sharkey by tri-
umphant majority refutes the oft repeated
declaration of newspaper correspondents
that his advocacy of the rights of freed
men to testify in TIE Courts of the State
had utterly ruined his chances efpolitical
preferment
Secretary Seward made bis first public
speech since his recovery from the at
tempt upon his life, at his old home at
Auburn, N. Y. a few days since He
fully endorsed President johnson and
ably defended his reconstruction policy.
Jas. L. Orr has been elected Governor
of South Carolina. He is probably as un.
exceptionable as any public man who IC
could have been found in the State. I;
The Episcopal General Convention
closed its session in Philadelphia on the
24th. It failed to give any ex preston of
gratitude for the restoration of peace and
the abolition of slavery. IN this respect
forming marked exception to all other t
religious bodies that have met in the loyal
States since the termination of the war.
1t is said the loyal Bishops, prominent
among whom stands Bishop McIlvain of /
this State, have resolved to unite in an ex-
preston on their own responsibility.
As the clergy of the South were the
most active instigators of rebellion, so
they continue the most rebellious and de-