Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-11-10

| ings since, in which he said 81 made a
visit TO the large printing establishment
| of Charles Wilson In Chicago, and l as
sure you never felt SO truly the manner
in which Americans had gene into the
war before In walking through the Of
| fee, Mr.. Wilson pointed out some thirty
or forty compositors, who had been four
years away to the war. One had been a
| Captain, another a Major, others Lieu
/ tenants, sergeants and priVates. Yet there
| they were setting type as quietly as tho
the war had never been. L saw after
wards farmers sons, in uniform, peacea-
bly, feeding threshing machine. They
went into the struggle to save the Union,
and having done it, now go back to the
ways of peace and industry without a
thought Europe is astonished at it
But the South coming forward so freely
and adopting themselves back again into
the Union, is one of the strangestsaspects
of the whole contest.
LYNCH LAw-Two MEN HUNe.-The
Vincennes Sun states that on Thursday
night of last week, number Of citizens
of Crawford, bordering on Dubois coun-
ty, Ind, arrested couple of men, sus-
pected of having a few nights previously
attempted to break into several houses In
that vicinity. They failed to give a sat
isfactory account of themselves to the
mob-did not deny their guilt or affirm
their innocence refused to give their
names. The citizens then procured a
rope and hung them to a tree to compel
them to diyulge, which they persistently
refused to do, and after hanging and let
ting them down several times, without
eiciting any information, they were found
to be dead.
THE British Aid Society have raised
foI-fxT = dd cfo A n
Freedmen, and DR.. Massey who address,
ed large audience at Louisville, KY, on
the 18th ult., came to ascertain what fur
ther aid our freedmen required from Eng
land.
The wines and liquors of the estate of
the late Thomas G. Arm0ry, one of the
solid men of Boston, were sold at auction
the other day. The bidding was spirited,
and the sale was successful, the prices
brought being very high. Port wine sold
at from s. 90 to $19 90 per bottle. Scotch
whisky brought So 90 per gallon; guam
tity of brandy sold at $26 to $50 per bot
tie. Seventy-six bottles of wine, which
had been in the family over 30 years,
cheapest wine sold The whole sale
amounted to from 500 900 to $25 600.
An editor and his wife were walking
out in the bright moonlight one evening
Like all editors wives she was of an ex-
ceeding poetic nature, and said to her
mate, Notice that moon; how bright,
and calm, and beautiful Couldn't think
of noticing it, returned the editor, for
anything less than the usual rates-a dol
lar and fifty cents forstwelve lines
Some of the Eastern States paid very
heavy bounties to volunteers during the
lafo Nau HopoT,a hire f11rpiS o6 nm
der two calls in 1863 and four calls in
1864, II, 1882 men. To them were paid in
the aggregate, exclusive of Government
bounty. the sum of 9,636 ,312-an aver
age of $557,59 to each man.
The New York Times says that on the
Sunday after the first battle of Bull Run,
in 1861, the American agent of the house
in London through which eur Govern
ment transacts its business, called upon
the proper Secretary at Washington and
requested the amount due his principals
or account The balance was about $4O,-
600. The Secretary informed him that
the Government would not probably
break up before business hours the next
day, and he must request him to call
again. As a matter of course, these bank
ers are still very anxious to be retained |
as agents of our Government in London. |
ONO PoMoLoGIoAL ScoIETY.-The
annual meeting of this body |
will be held in Cincinnati, at the rooms |
of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, |
commencing on Monday, December 4th,
at 10 o'clock A. M. This meeting will be |
of the deepest interest to all who are en-
gagged in the delightful pursuit of fruit
growing, whether as amatures or as the
business of their lives.
ENGLISH TAxEs.-In England a reve-
Que of $42,000,000 is obtained from
stamps alone. The entire income tax of
that nation exceeds this but little, being
receives from Probates of Wills, 81 ,000,-
BOO; Armerial bearings, $500, 900. The
number of articles charged with duties
Ire forty-eight, and the bulk of the reve-
1ue is raised from fifteen.
An important arrest of counterfeiter
las been effected in New York. About
vas found in his possession.
AT Wheeling, West Virginia, a few
lays ago, F. A. Gasmier recovered So, 900
damages from Henry W. Drakeley It
appears that the plaintiff, who is a boy
en- years of age, fell into an opening on
public road made by the defendant, who
? sA4C PAOP1AObSA VI SAO W h14AuSbOu 1IOu
Works, at Ritchietown, broke his left leg
nd disabled the other for life.
During the last month Postmaster Gen !
raj Dennison put in operation ninety
i've of the most important mail routes in
he Southern and Southwestern States
his makes an aggregate of two hundred ,
nd thirty routes in the same section of
ountry. During the month there were
wo hundred and seventy-six post offices
I
Hon. James II. Goldman, Auditor of 9
tate, and Hon. VIM. Henry Smith, Sec
etary of State, the Fund Commissioners,
re now offering for sale the stocks owned s
y the State in certain turnpike compa- 4
les. By the terms of the law: the sales
re to be made on the lines of the differ :
ut roads.
Governor Smyth, of Rhode Island, has
'ansmitted to Mrs. Lincoln So, 900 in z
10 treasury notes, that being the
mount of the testimonial fund raised by
ollar subscriptions among the citizens Of
le State, for the benefit of the late
residents family. n
A dispatch from Toronto announces ri
lie arrest of five rich farmers, who are O
i'd to have been engaged for no less than
rty years in counterfeiting American al a.
lver near Sterling. The detective Off =
rs have spent some two weeks In ferre- u
ng out the criminals, and have discov- d