Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-02
THE NEWS.


ice of Minister to Ecuador, there are said
to be Eve candidates for the place, all from
Ohio, and two OF them members of the
Legislature from Hamilton county.
on the 2zd Of February Hon. }. a. Cres-
well, one of the Maryland Z. S. Senators,
delivered eulogy in the Representatives
Hall at Washington. before "a large and dis
tiuguished audience, on Henry Winter
Davis. deed. The distinguished gentle
man made "a noble record during his brief
public life, upon which there is but a sin
gle blemish-his hasty, ill-advised and un-
merited attack upon Mr.. Lincoln near the
close of the first term of the martyr Presi-
dent.
THE banking firm Of wainwright & Co.,
Philadelphia, has taken the agency for the
sale of the bonds of the "Irish Republic. ."
Those wishing to invest Will be pleased to
learn they are Obtainable at par.
GOV. Parsons, OF Alabama, and Gov
Orr, of South Carolina, have both vetoed
bills passed by the Legislatures of their re
speetive States, which Disseminated un-
justly against the blacks by placing re-
strictions upon them TO which the whites
were not subjected.
THE manner in which petroleum makes
things 90 is illustrated by the fact that Pit
hole City, Pa. consisted less than a year
ago OF two houses, but now supports a
newspaper having a circulation of three
thousand copies, contains twelve hotels,
and receives fifty thousand letters month
ly.
Hon. A. II. stephens delivered an ad-
dress on the state of the country on the
22d of February, before the members of
the Georgia Legislature. He cOunseIed a
cheerful acquiescence in the results of the
late contest, and that the freedmen be gen
erOusly and kindly treated and all the
rights accorded them which pertain to their
changed condition
GEN. Grant is determined to deal in
summary manner with papers in the late
ly rebellioHs States that persist in efforts to
engender and keep up ill-feeling and strife
between the two sections by peIsisting in
seditious and reasonable utterances. He
calls upon department commanders to
send him copies of papers that thus con-
tinue to offend, with a view to their sup
preston.
THE President has approved the act pass
ed by Congress to deprive vessels that du-
ring the rebellion sailed under a foreign
flag of the right Of again hoishng the
American flag and claiming the rights and
immunities its confers.
THE Pennsylvania Central Railroad Co.
has succeeded in obtaining an injunction
which prevents the contamination of the
contract between the Catawissa and the At
lantic & Great Western companies for the
perpetual lease of the Catawissa road to
the last named company, and thus breaks
up an important link in their projected in
dependent line from New York westward.
THE trial of Major Ghee, keeper of the
Salisbury military prison, on the charge
of barbarous treatment of our prisoners
confined there during the rebellion, COM
menced at Raleigh, n. c., on the 2Ist ult.
THE Cincinnati detectives have succeed
ed in ferreting ont and arresting four OF the
desperadoes of that city who have been
making incursions into the country, COM
mitting burglaries and blowing open and
robbing safes. The implements of their
profession were found in their possession.
GEN. Grant seems TO be a favorite of for
tune He holds one of the most lucrative
offices under the Government for life, was
presented not long since with a furnished
house in Philadelphia, worth $4,000, and
on the 2dth ult. was presented by q num-
Der of New York capitalists with purse
Of 500, 600 in cash.
On the night of the I'D u}A, H. A. Ed
wards shot and killed O. S. Murray. on
Oue of the public streets of Cincinnati-I
Both of them were PrOlF5nent citizens, and
5he affair grew out Of s private feud be-
ween them, resulting from business diff
.uIties.
Four large steamers were burnt at St.
Iouis on the night of the 10Th uIt., the loss.
cargees, being estimated at half
million dollars.
On the 18th ult., three young ladies, in /
eturning home from a singing school, near
7hain Lake, Minnesota, were caught in a /
now storm on the prairie aud frozen to
eR6h- They were in a sleigh with young
l2as who after being out one day and two
lights, and nearly perishing from cold and
exposure, finally reached home, bringing
he dead bodies with him.
A TERRIBLE fire occurred in PHILADELPHIA
n the 26th ult., involving a loss of prop
rty to the value of $3.50, 600. Some twen-
y-five fremeu were injured by falling
-alls, several of them fatally
AN explosion took place in q Rlrnace, at
Pa, on the evening" OF the 26th
It., by which i've men wers- XII led and (
roperty to the value of S5G,6s0, destroyed.