Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-20

TIE NEWS.
THE latest official returns of the cattle
plague in England shows it to be rapidly
declining. The number Of cattle attacked
during the week ending 18th February was
1900; and the three following weeks show
ed decline as follows: 10000, 800, $500.
THE Municipal election held in Chicago
on the 18th inst, resulted in the election Of
ten Republican Councilmen and six Dem
Ocrats.
THE President has sent to the Senate the
name of Hon. HENRY STAcBERRX to hll
the Tacancy in the q. s. Supreme Court Oc-
casioned by the death of Judge Catron.-
Mr.. S. is a member Of the Cincinnati Bar,
but resides on the opposite side Of the river
in Kentucky.
TEIE President has appointed John Ais
ton, prominent Chicago merchant and
radical Republican, to the vacant ColIec-
torsllip Of the Port of Chicago.
AN order has been issued from the War
Department to reduce the eoIored troops
now doing garrison duty in the Southern
States to nineteen regiments.
GIN. MEAD has gone to Eastport, Maine,
for the purpose, as is supposed, Of looking
to Fenian movements in that region.
IT is reported on apparently reliable au-
thority that the rinderpest, or German cat
tie plague, is prevailing on the Isthmus of
Panama.
A FAIR on large scale has been in Ope-
ration for some ten days past in Baltimore,
and still continues, for the relief of the in
digellt in the Southern States. Avery large
sum VIII be realized, the donations being
numerous and liberal Ross Winans, one
of the city milHonaires, contributed s25,-
600 iii cash,
A STRIKE among the street car drivers of
New York city has for some time past
caused an almost entire cessation of travel
on the numerous street railroad lines Of
that city. At last advices the difficulty
still continued on most of the lines.
THE supposed accomplice of Ganther, in |
the murder of the Deering family, has |
been arrested at London, Canada West, and |
committed to jail to await Identification
He gives his name as Charles 1TcCutcheon. /
HENRY A. SaEXTHE, President of the Cen
traI National Bank of New York, Repub-
Hcan, has been appointed by the President 1
to the vacant Collectorship of the Port of
New York,
DURING a negro celebration in Norfolk,
Va, on the 10Th inst, a difficulty occurred
between the blacks and whites, during
which one white man was killed and step
mother and brother mOrtally wounded.
The troops were called out to restore order.
THE Physicians in charge of the emil
grant ship which lately arrived at Halifax
with what was said to be cholera on board,
announce that the disease is clearly and
unmistakably the Asiatic Cholera. The
vessel is detained at quarantine, and other
precautionary measures are being taken to
prevent the disease from spreading.
THE last arrival from Europe represents
the state of affairs between Austria and
Prussia as unchanged. Both parties con-
tinue3 their warlike preparations.
G. @. CLAY, who has been confined at Z
Fortress Monroe for nearly year on the
charge of completely in the assassination
of President LINCOLN, was released We'd {
nesday on parole. The petition for his re-
lease was signed by Gen. Grant, Thad. Ste
vens, Senator Wilson and other distin-
guished personages. H
AN enigrant vessel arrived at New York
on the 18th inst, having on board ], ,O43 pas
sengers. During the voyage there were 80
deaths on board, said to be from the same
diseaae that prevailed on board the vessel
lately arrived at Halifax, which is de- !
clared by the physicians in charge of the I
last named vessel to be cholera. u
A fire occurred at TitusvilIe, Pa, on the I
18th, causing destruction of property esti- :
mated at $780, 900. The fire is supposed to !
have been the work of incendiaries, and
Two persons have been arrested charged -
with the offence. +
The Fenian excitement On our north
eastern frontier, and throughout the Brit @
sh American Provinces, still continues, il
but nothing new has transpired during the t
week. A company of q. S. Regulars has c
been sent to Eastport, Maine,
A CASE of cholera occurred on the 18th at =
Portland, Maine. The person attacked is s
to be a passenger who escaped 81
rom the cholera infected vessel at Halifax. ii
THE steamer City of Norwich, of the New a!
York and New London line, colIided on n
4ong Island Sound early Wednesday u
morning, with schooner, and soon after Z
sok fire and burnt to the waters edge. II y
lleven Of the passengers lost their lives by
he disaster. n