Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-07-21
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.a9 Nothing certain is known IN reference
to the triat of JEFF. Davis, thoughts seems
to be the general impression at Washing
ton that he will be tried by a military
commission for completely in the assas.
sination conspiracy.
J. c. Breckenridge, the rebel Secretary
of War who succeeded in making his ss-
cape to Cuba sitter the final collapse of
the rebellion. sailed from HAVANA on
the 7th inst. for England.
Great CONSERVATION has been caused
in Richmond by the commencement of
proceedings against wealthy rehelsnndAr
the confseation act. The famous Trede-
gar Iron Works, several Of the principal
+, Hotels, the Haxall FIGURING Mills, and
other large business establishments, were
taken charge of by q Government agent
on the 11th inst. and the work was to be
eontinued-thus dispelling the illusion
under which those liable to be effected by
It labored, that the c~onfseation act would
ysnot be enforced.
Advices from Denver City, Colorado,
mention the discovery of rich and extern
sive silver mines about fifty miles west of
that place, at the foot of Snowy Ridge
Great excitement has been produced by
the discovery.
A destructive FIRE occurred in New
York on the afternoon of the 18th inst.
Barnum's Museum was consumed, togeth-
er with a considerable number of build
ingso on Broadway, Ann and Fulton
streets. The loss is estimated at 81, 0O0,-
600, upon which there is insurance
amounting to 100000. The valuable
contents of the Museum were entirely
destroyed.
A number of rebel cannon that were
taken across the Rio Grande into Mexico
by some of Kirby Smiths officers, after
hisforces had surrendered, have been Civ
en- up by the Mexican authorities.
The Spanish Government has also Civ
en- up the rebel ram Stonewall, which was
transferred to the Captain General of
Cuba in order to prevent its falling into
our hands at the time the rebellion col
lapsed.
Richard P. Marvin has been appointed
81 Provisional Governor of Florida. All
the States lately in rebellion are now pro
yided with officers of the kind, all of
whom are acting under instructions of the
same kind Gov. Marvin was a Union
refugee from Florida and resided in
New York during the war.
Portions of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey were visited on the 10Th inst. BY a
severe storm. The waters In Delaware
and Raritan rivers rose to a great height,
and immense damage was done to bull
dingss fences, crops, etc.,
,a Mrs. Burr, widow of the noted Aaron
Burr, died at her residence near the city
of New York last Sunday. She was his
second wife, to whom he was married
when 70 years Of age. The lady was the
widow of a wealthy French merchant of.
New York, named Jumel. A separation
took place 500 after the marriage, and
Mrs. Burr did not see her husband during
the last two years of his eventful life.
GoTaBrough, who was thought to be
recovering has had a relapse, and is now
said to be in a vary critical condition.
Mudd, Arnold, Spangler and OLaugh-
lin, conspirators sentenced to imprison-
ment, it is said have been sent to the Drv
Tortugas. on the Florida coast, instead of
the Albany Penitentiary, first designated
as the place Of their CONTINENT.
The trial of Miss Harris, of Chicago
for shooting a Clerk in the Treasury De.
partment, which has been progressing at
Washington, terminated Wednesday, and
resulted in her aequittaL
The Richmond Wing, the only one of
the original papers Of that city which was
permitted to continue its publication
when our forces took possession, was
suppressed on the 18th inst, by order of
Gen. Terry, for u~ttering seditious Ian
guage in speaking of the Presidents Am
nssty Proclamation, having characterized
portions of it as mean, brutal, and cow
ardly.n
Gold in New York, at last quotations,
was s1,43. ]