Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-12-15
THE NEWS.

1n9 NQlu1uUuS OOuIHA1 says bAC OAoAA
Jury Of Franklin county, at its recent
session, found. five separate bills of In
dictment against DR.. G.. Volney Dorsey,
connected with his operations az State
Treasurer. His trial on these indict-
ments will not take place till next term.
The price of hogs in the Western mar
kets has materially declined within the
T last ten days. On the 18th. heavy dress
ed hogs sold in Cincinnati at from $10,75
to $1O,80 y cwt.; and the Kenton Repub-
.lican says they have sold as low as $500
p cwt. in that place.
During the week ending I'd inst. there
were forty-two convicts received at the
Ohio Penitentiary, of which number
twenty were from Hamilton county and
fifteen from Lucas
A fire occurred at McGregor, Iowa, on
the 8th inst, by which twenty eight
buildings in the business center of the
town were destroyed, the loss exceeding
100000
The Columbus Journal says Col Royal
Taylor, State Commissioner of Soldiers
Claims, collected from the general gov
ernment for soldiers, up to the 8th of
December, 1884, 4,741. This large sum
was collected without expense. to the
soldiers.
The report of the Paymaster General
shows that since the commencement of
the war the Paymaster Department has
paid out the enormous sum of one thous-
and and twenty million dollars, at a cost
to the Government of three-quarters of
one per cent.
The smallpox is still raging to a con-
siderable extent at Chattanooga and
Nashville, Tenn, Macon, Ca, and other
Southern cities. The freedmen and their
families are severe sufferers.
Evidence lately brought to light clearly
establishes the authenticity of the recent
ly published list of English subscribers
to the rebel cotton bonds, and which was
pronounced at the time to be bogus by
the English press. The list embraces
Members of Parliament, editors, mer-
chants, and prominet capitalists of every
class.
A young man named James Thomp-
SON, residing near Brookville, Miss, on
the morning of the Sd inst shot and
killed his step-mother. brother, and two
sisters, and made several unsuccessful
efforts to shoot his father Difficulty in
regard to some property was the cause
that impelled to the commission of the
murders.
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, who left his |
home recently for the purpose of visiting
Europe on health seeking mission. was
not able to proceed further than New
York, at which place he still remains in
a precarious condition, serious fears being
entertained that he will not recover.
The Virginia Legislature, in session at
Richmond, is taking action looking to the
blotting out of the State of West Vir-
ginia, and the return of its territory to
the old commonwealth task they will
doubtless find no easy matter to accom-
plish. p
The Ohio Congressional delegation
paid their respects to the President in a
body on the 9th inst The evening of
same day Postmaster General Dennison
gave an entertainment to the same gen.
tlemen, together with numerous other
az Gl6
National Capital.
Mississippi does not seem disposed to
follow the example of Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama.
in ratifying the constitutional amend
ment abolishing slavery. The measure
was referred to joint committee, which l
reported adversely, and the report has
been adopted by both branches of the t
Legislature. c
The rebels who took refuge in Mexico
when the Confederacy collapsed, have an
'rgan called the Mexican Times. edited
2y Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana :
A late number publishes list of the t
'ebel settlers in the colony established in b
he vicinity of Cordova. Among the e
lumber is William Marshall Anderson. v
# Ross county, Ohio, brother of Gov. s
}has Anderson and Gen. Robert Ander p
on, of Fort Sumter fame. He was a 1
of the Columbus Crisis, T
strongly with the rebels, t
N which account he left the State. l;