Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-03

! Two hundred and sixty-four deserters from
| LEES army came into our lines on Friday,
and arrived at Washington Monday.
Com. Lewis has decided that where the ac-
| acknowledgement of a sum of money or a debt
| due is contained in letter it is valid legal
receipt for the money, and if the amount ex-
| ceeds $50 it requires stamp of two cents.
A. O. P. Nicholson; of Tennessee, who was
Gov. Andrew Johnson's colleague in the o.
| S. Senate prior to the rebellion, has got tired
of the war and returned TO his home at Col
u mbia. He regards the revolt as hopeless
and will give it no further support. So states
the Louisville Journal.
The Springfield Republican says: Parties
East operating for q rise have been boarding
butter till they have tons of it on hand, and
which as the season is fast advancing, must
soon be thrown on the market. The conse-
quence can't be otherwise than a great fall in
price.
The Piqua, O., Journal says that one hun
dred and eighty new converts have been added
to the Green street Methodist church. in that
city, under the ministerial labors of Rev.
Granville Moody. On Sunday week, nearly
five hundred persons partook of the sacra-
ment at that Church.
There are two Generals by the name of Pc
gram "a the rebel army. Brigadier William
Johnston Pegram has but lately been appoint
ed to the rank. General John Pegram, who
is probably the General Pegram reported
killed in the battle on Hatcher's Run on the
9th inst, was formerly an officer in the United
States Army.
THE Old and New School Presbyterian
Churches of Conneavtvile recently united uu-
der the name of Presbyterian" both drop
ing former prefxes-with Rev. Mr.. Lourie as
pastor. A commendable step, we think.
The cotton fever is prevailing in Southern
Illinois. The Carbondale New Era knows of
one tract Of 100 acres having been rented FOR
ST 900, and another of ninety three acres for
the same sum, for cotton culture, the owner OF
the latter reserving his buildings.
The New York News (rebeD groans thu
over the fall Of Charleston: "Ths metropolis |
of South Carolina has fallen. The nest of
secession has been delivered to the Federal
power-but the birds have not been Gagged
They are on the wing, bold and defiant IS ever,
and soaring high above the demoraIizing in |
huences of disaster"
Many of the prisoners at Elmira, New |
York, were marked to be exchanged by order. |
Those who wished, Of certain States, to be ex-
changed, were ordered to sign the paper, but
Of Il 500 fifteen hundred, some two or three
hundred refused entirely either to put down
their names Tor rather mark for two thirds
cannot write) or be exchanged at all.
The President has commuted the sentence
Of S. B. Davis, lately convicted by Militia
ry Commission at Cincinnati of being a spy,
and sentenced to be bung, to Imprisonment in
Ft. Delaware during the War.
GREAT guns cost something. a ten-incb
Parrott gun costs 81 800; an eleven-inch Rod
man gun costs $4,000; fifteen inch Krupps
gun costs $29, 500; twelre-inch Blakely gun
,ssts $35, 600. The two latter are made of
iteel.
Now, AND Then When, four years ago,
Fort Sumter was compelled to succumb to the
South Carolina insurgents. Gov. Pickens-he
Who once boasted that he twas born insensible
o fear"-delivered q congratulatory address
o the Charlestonians, in which he said
"We have humbled the flag of the United
States, and as long aa have the honor TO
reside as your Chief Magistrate, SO help me, !
iod there is no power on earth that shali
over from that fortress those flags, unlees ,
hey be lowered and traiIed in a sea Of blood
On Friday evening some burglars entered
be house OF j. p. Smith, Superintendent of v
be Chicago Ice Company, took a safe weigh
lg 700 pounds from the hail, put it in a D
'ngon, and carrying it out on the prairie, blew 0
open and robbed it of its contents, amount #
lg to $4,000. This bold act was perPetrated c
lille the family were absent at party il
The rebel General Terry, who is now STA
oned in Texas, is the same who was Chief Il
ustice Of California, and resigned that Office dl
! 1859 to fight duel with Broderick, United lu
tates Senator from that State, whom be kill dt
]. He left California in 1862, and went TO re
exas via Mexico. 81