Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-11-17
THE News.


Railroad accidents still continue. On
the 18th train was thrown from the
track at Newark, N. j., through the
carelessness Of switch-tender, by which
four persons were killed and 3 large
number injured. On the 14th a train on
the Chicago and Rock Island road was
thrown off the track and precipitated
down an embankment, and number of
persons injured, six of them seriously.
There has been no further spread of
the cholera at New York, and by the en-
forcement of rigid quarantine regulations
it is hoped it can be kept from obtaining
q foothold in the city.
Several companies of u. S. troops have
been ordered TO the neighborhood of the
boundary line between Maine and New
Brunswick. The object is said to be to
keep a watch on threatened Fenian
movements and also to prevent incursions
of British troops aross the line to hunt
up deserters.
The negro insurrection in the Island of
Jamaica is rather a serious affair, and at
last advices was still progressing. of
100000 inhabitants on the island, but TO-
600 are whites, and at the time Of the
outbreak there were only 600 British
troops on the island
The last advices from Europe note a |
decline in American securities in Eng
gland, occasioned by the prevailing i'm
preston In that country that the eontro- |
versy in reference to the depredations Of
the rebel cruisers may lead to war.
Advices from Mexico represent that
the imperialists have recently achieved
several victories over the liberal forces,
and that the cause of the Hberalists is
rapidly becoming hopeless. These ac-
counts come through imperial sources,
and should therefore be received with
liberal allowance for exaggeration.
The muster cut of troops still contin-
ues. An order just issued disposes of
the following Ohio regiments, now in
Texas: 18th, 18th, 18th, 41st, 49th, Gath,
Goth and list. This list embraces nearly
if not quite all the Ohio troops yet in
the service.
Gen. Grant is about to visit New York,
and arrangements are being made to give
A0s0S4AD8 A0C0pb1O4s
Advioes from North Carolina render it
probable that Worth is elected Governor,
beating Holden, who holds the position
of Provisional Governor under Presiden-
tisl appointment. Worth was an active
and Holden passive rebel during the
war, but both claim to be Union men /
now. The President has instructed 7
Holden to continue to exercise his func- {
tions until otherwise ordered. I
The entire soldiers vote, as reported I
10 the Secretary of State, numbers only Z
3, 129. OF these Cox received 2,428, l
Morgan 687, Long A. scattering TO- The =
vote for the balance of the State ticket n
varies but little from that for Governor. ?
WIN. JOHNSON, only brother of the 4
President Of the United States, died in =
Texas on the 9th inst, from injuries re- 7
ulting from an accidental gun-shot wound I
eceived while hunting. At the time of >,
lis death he held the office of Collector a
It Velasco
Gen. Fitzpatrick, who distinguished him
'elf as cavalry officer during the war, and !
more recently by his gallant service to -
he Union cause on the stump in New !. :
Jersey, has received the appointment of
Minister to Chill,
Hen. JACOB CoLLAMER, a United - -
'tates Senator from Vermont, and form -
rly Post Master General, died at Weed- ~
took, Vt, on the 9th inst The Legis-
ature was in session at the time of his di
sath, but adjourned without eIecting a vo
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