Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-08-18
THE NEWS

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7oP. B. GoLE Esq-o of Union County, has
been nominated for Senatorby the Union
men IF the district directly west of us.
The work Of reducing the army still
continues. Since. the LIST inst. there has
been mustered out of the service sixty
regiments and ~battaAions, numbering.
about 10000 men. A large number Of
officers, who have neglected the invita-
4 ton to resign, are also soon to be muster
ed out.
The health Of the President has been
entirely restored, and he is now meeting
with the Cabinet and receiving visitors
as usual,
Advices from Richmond announce that
Gen. r. i. Lee, late commander-in-chief
Of the rebel armies, has been elected
President of Jefferson College, and it is
supposed will accept the position.
The Constitutional Convention for the
State Of Mississippi, being the first un-
der the reconstruction policy adopted for
the rebel States, met at Jacksonla last Mon
d day.
The colored population of the United
States do not lack for papers edited and
published by men of their W class and
devoted to their interests exclusively
Papers Of this kind are now published as
follows: one in New York, one in Phila-
delphia. one in Cincinnati, one in Padu-
cab, KY, one in Nashville, one in Balti-
more, two in New Orleans, two in San
Francisco.
Hon, II. P. THEAKER. formerly a Con-
gressmen from the Belmont district in
this State, and for several years past
Chief Clerk of the Patent Office, has
been appointed Commissioner of Patents
in place of Mr. Holloway, resigned.
BFNJ. r. MARTIN, of Columbus, has
been appointed Collector of U. S. Reve-
nue. for the 7th district, to fill the vacan-
cy1 occasioned by the death of A. P.
Stone.
The trial of Capt. HENRY WERrz,
keeper of the rebel prison at Anderson
vile, Georgia, for cruelty to Union pris-
oners committed to his charge, commen
ced Wednesday, at Washington, before a
Military Commission. A large number
Of witnesses are to be examined, and the
trial will be a protracted one. The de-
fence will consist of an effort to fix the
responsibility for the barbarities practiced
in that horrible prison upon those higher
in authority than Wertz-
The statement going the rounds of the
papers that there are counterfeit Five
9 Dollar Bills of the National Banks in cir
culation, is authoritatively denied. There
has as yet been no attempt discovered to
counterfeit the bills of these banks.
H On Wednesday of last week DIR. j. FL.
Hughes shot and instantly killed, in the
village of Bedford, near Cleveland, a
young woman named Parsons. He had
married Miss. P, having another wife
living at the time-Was tried for bigamy,
convicted and sent to the Penitentiary-
was pardoned out, and returning to Cleve-
land, tried to induce the lady to go off
with him, and on her refusal to assent to
the proposition shot her,
s The State Sovereignty Democracy held
their State Convention at Columbus yes
terday. At the time of going to press we
had heard nothing of their doings.
The returns from Kentucky are still in
complete. 1t is thought, however, that
the Democracy have carried the State by
small majority. The non-slaveholding
portions ofthe State went strongly Union,
the portions where slavery prevails equal
~ as strong the other way.
In both Tennessee and Kentucky the
Union men claim to have elected a major
ity of the Congressional delegation.
The steamer Meteor, which collided
with the Pewabie Wednesday evening,
9th inst, a few days after took fire and
was burned to the waters edge. The
passengers all escaped.
Athree-story brick house, No. 54 Race
street, Cincinnati, fell on Sunday morn
ing, burying eleven persons in the ruins.
Only one life was lost.