Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-12-29


tion. of Minister to the Republic of Mex
leo, Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, OF this
State. has been offered and accepted the
Mace. He has received his instructions,
and leaves in few days for the headquar-
ters of the Jaurez Government.
Six men we're suffocated in Chicago on
the night Of the 24th inst. They were
sleeping in small room in boarding
house. in which was a gas pipe without
burners. During the night the gas forced
the plug out Of the end Of the pipe, fill
ing the room with the escaping gas and
sufFocating the six boarders, who were all
robust laboring men.
VIM. T. Coggeshall, late editor of the
Ohio State Journal, has been selected by
Gov. Cox for the position of Private
Secretary.
Washington correspondents note a
prevalent rumor to the effect that Secre-
tary Harlan, of the Interior Department,
is about to resign, and will be succeeded
by Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin. Mr..
Harlan is said to be candidate before
the Iowa Legislature for U. S. Senator.
Quite aserious riot occurred on Christ
mas day in Alexandria, Va, occasioned
by a man firing into a procession of ne
f groes, who were having public celebra-
ton. and killing one of their number
1t is reported that four white men and
six negroes were killed, during the dis
turbances, which continued till late at
night.
An order has been issued to mus
ter out thirty additional regiments of
troops, most of them colored.
Gen. Butler, feeling aggrieved by the
structures on his military operations con-
tained in the recently published official
report of Lieut.. Gen Grant, is said to be
engaged in preparing a reply.
DIR. j. w. Hughes, whose trial at
Cleveland for the murder of Miss Tam
zen Parsons has attracted great attention
in that part of the State, has been con-
victed of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to be hung. The crime was
committed last August, was cold blood
ed and premeditated murder, and the
perpetrator will doubtless suffer the pen
atty incurred.
Bishop Rosecrans, while going from
the Cathedral in Cincinnati to his home a
short distance in the country, about 9
o'clock Christmas eve, was attacked by
two highwaymen and shot through the
feshy part of one of his legs. He sue
ceeded in making his escape without be-
ing robbed.
The funeral of Hon. Thomas Corwin
took place at his home, at Lebanon, last
Tuesday, Gov. Anderson with other dis
tinguished men, and very large coneourse
of his old neighbors and friends followed
the remains to their last resting place
He was buried with masonic honors.
A New York speculator named Mar
shall, early last fall employed large num-
Der of agents and undertook to control
the apple market by buying up at high
figure nearly the entire crop of Western
New York. The movement has resulted
in his failure, involving the ruin of
many of his agents, one of whom lost
$4,000 by the speculation. The banks
also suffered seriously.
Two men. Corbett and Flemming, were
hung at Chicago on the 18th inst. for the
murder of man named Michael Maloney,
who they called out of his bed and shot
about 10 o'clock at night. He was an en-
tire stranger to the assassins, who were
hired to commit the crime for the sum of
5000. A third member of the gang, nam
ed Kennedy, is yet to be tried.
With view Of preventing the repeti-
ton this winter of the irregularity in the
transmission of the mails over the rail-
roads which prevailed last winter, the
Post Master General has issued circular
to the managers of roads transporting the
mails informing them that such irregu-
larities will not be tolerated, and requiring
trains carrying the mails to be so restric-
ted as to number of cars that they will be
able to make their schedule time-the
weight and length of trains being the ex-
cuse offered for former Irregularities
Latest advices from Mexico represent
the cause of the Liberals as daily gaining
ground, and corresponding loss to the
Imperialists.
The charge preferred against Semmes,
late commander of the rebel steamer
Alabama, is violation of the usages of
sivilized warfare in having raised the white
flag as a token Of surrender during the
fight With the Kersage, taking advantage
of the consequent cessation in firing to es-
cape, and afterwards taking up arms
against the Government without having
been exchanged.
The rebel General Mercer is under ar
rest at Savannah on the! charge of having
ordered seven Union soldiers shot as de-
serters who had joined the rebel army to
avoid starvation in their prisons and
attempted to make their escape. He
pleads the parole granted by Sherman on
Johnston's surrender in bar of liability
A recent official statement of the debt
of Ohio shows the total to be $12,912,-
Ola 40, being a reduction during the last
six months of $148,568. The reduction
since Nov. 10, 1861 is nearly two millions
of dollars This is a highly creditable
showingfor period of unusual outlay con-
sequent upon the war.
The Chillicothe Gazette cites as a graft
flying evidence of the progress of recon-
struction the receipt, in payment of a bill
for advertising, of a check on the Lynch