Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-08-11
THE NEWS.

The health Of the President has i'm
proved, though he is still quite feeble
Arrangements are making to furnish him
temporary quarters on Georgetown
Heights, the miasma from the Potomac
renderingthe White House unhealthyd dur
ing the months of August and September.
Complete returns from the English
elections show a Liberal majority of Y,
being a gain of % members.
Orders have been issued to muster out
the greater part Of Sheridan's army, now
in Texas. Five million dollars have been
sent out to pay off the troops.
Dispatches from Montreal announce
an attempt to seize and carry off the rebel
loafer George M anders-The affair
is supposed to have been a sham, got up
by Sanders to create sympathy.
Gen. Cox, the Union candidate for
Governor in this State, will deliver his
first speech, and thus formally open the
campaign, at Warren, Trumbun Co., on
the 10Th inst.
A considerable number of rebel Gen
erals, with the late rebel Governors of
Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee, have
taken refuge in Mexico. The officers,
with the soldiers who followed them, it is
said will enter the army of Macmillan.
The receipts into the National Treasury,
from internal revenue, now average over
one million per day.
The people of Mahoning county, fol-
lowing the example set by those of sew
eral other counties, ~haveresoIved to erect
in the public square Of Youngstown a
monument to the memory of the soldiers
from thatcounty whof fell in therecentwar.
The sworn statement Of Robert Brown,
who was present, establishes the fact that
the meeting recently held in New York,
ostensibly for the purpose of securing a
trial in the civil courts for JEFF. Davis,
was a reasonable conclave, in which the
most malignant hostility to the govern
ment was developed by the discussions
and conversation that took place.
The British steamer Glasgow, which
left New York on the Both ult. having on
board 25O persons, including passengers
and crew, was burnt at sea on the 31st.-
By the fortunate arrival of another vessel
soon after the FIRE broke out a fearful loss
Of life was prevented.
Gov. BRoUGH still survives, and his
condition has somewhat improved, but he
is not regarded as out Of danger.
The Columbus correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says an examination by
an agent from the Treasury Department
shows a defaIcation on the part of the
late A. P. Stone, Collector of u. S. rev
nue., Of $4,000. His sureties are said to-
be good for the amount
At date of last advices from the feet
engaged In laying the Atlantic telegraph,
seven hundred miles of the cable had been
paid>out and the work was progressing
satisfactorily. The advance vessel has
been due several days atthe point selected
for the westernterminus of the line, and
her non-arrival has caused apprehension
that something unfa9Orable has occurred.
Late advices from England announce
the arrival at Southampton, from the
West Indies, of John G. Breckenridge.
late rebel Secretary of War.
Macmillan is having a serious time IN
his efforts to establish an Empire in
Mexico. Late advices from that country
represent the opposition offered on the
part of the adherents of Jaurez as for
midable and daily becoming more so.