Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-12-08

The constitutional amendment abolish
ing slavery has been passed by the. Legis-
latures of North Carolina and Alabama,
making, with South Carolina, three Of the
lately rebellious States that have ratified.
In neither of the Legislatures was there
any serious opposition offered to the
measure.
On the morning of the 1st inst. terri
bleand shocking collision occurred on the
New Jersey Central Railroad, by which
seven persons were killed and seventeen
wounded. These occurrences have be-
come SO common Of late as to make rail-
road travelling exceedingly hazardous
Mrs. Phinney, arraigned at Cleveland
on the charge of having murdered her
husband by administering strychnine, has
been discharged. The evidence addueed
did not make out case against her, but
left very little room to doubt that the
deceased committed suicide. She was
his fifth wife. and had quite recently mar
ried him under peculiar circumstances,
which facts caused suspicion to attach to
her
s The extent of the operations of the
u. 8. Sanitary Commission may be judged
from the fact that during the four years
of the war their receipts amounted To-
$4.813. $50. and their disbursements to
$4,53O,775. The unexpended balance is
to be devoted to aiding in the establishment
of Soldiers Homes. Large as was the
fund raised and expended on behalf of
our soldiers in the field by this organiza-
tion, it constitutes but a portion of the
patriotic contributions of our people for
that purpose. An equal sum was prob
ably expended through the instrumental
ity of Aid Societies, to say nothing of
private charities to soldiers and their
families, which would amount to very
large sum.
One of Butterfeld's coaches on the
overland route to California was at
tackled on the 3Oth ult. by band of hos
tile Indians, and the driver and six pas
sengers were murdered, and the coach
robbed One of the passengers killed
three Indians before they succeeded in
d0spatehing him.
An official statement of the condition
of the public debt shows the gratifying
fact that since the 31st of August there
has been decrease of $23, 100000.
Gen. Jas. Watson Webb. formerly ed
itor of the New York Courier & Enquirer,
aud since 1861 Minister to Brazil, has
resigned his Office, and is about to return
to New York.
Gov Bramlette, of Kentucky, in his
recent message to the Legislature of that
State, strongly urges the adoption of the
constitutional amendment abolishing sla-
very. which at the last session was de-
fsated by considerable majority.
The mailbag which left New York 5
Sunday night for Cleveland was stolen at
the depot in the last named city Tuesday !
night. A similar loss of a mailbag from
Cincinnati occurred at the Dayton depot
last week. These losses indicate mex
cusable negligence on the part of those !
having charge of the stolen bags. I
On the 1st inst, while number of
workmen were engaged in excavating a
cellar on High street, Columbus, the !
earth gave way, burying them beneath l
large mass. One man was killed and two
severely injured, one of them it is sup S
posed fatally.
The cholera has made its appearance on 9
one of the British West India islands, :
causing great alarm among the inhabi-
tants of all the neighboring islands G
Four thousand bales of Government
cotton were burnt at Columbus, Miss, on
the 25th ult., the torch having been ap- a
piled by an incendiary. These burnings a
of Government cotton byincendiariss have 4
been quite frequent in the South since
the close of the war, and the loss occa- !,
stoned by them immense. t,