Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-13
THE EER&

ON the 6th inst. the President transmit
ted 70 Congress communication from the
Secretary Of the Treasury and Post Master
General recommending a modification Of
the test oath, the officers named having
been seriously embarrassed in the admin
istration Of the affairs Of their respective
Departments in the Southern States in
consequence Of the difieuIty in finding
competent persons to fill Offices who could
take the oath in It's present form.
THE ofaciaI declaration that the war has
ceased will bring with it the reduction Of
the military force TO the peace standard,
and accordingly orders have been issued
for the immediate muster out of large num-
bers OF troops. 1t is estimated that by the
middle of the present month the number
remaining in the service will not exceed
1880.
AG1LLLaAN, BowIes and Horsey, the three
Indiana conspirators who were sentenced
to death by a military commission, but
whose sentence was commuted to impris-
onment for life in the Ohio Penitentiary,
were released from confinement few days
ago. The discharge took place because of
the decision Of the y. s. Supreme Court
that the Court which convicted them had
no Jurisdiction.
A STEAMER from Belfast arrived at Hal
flax on the eth inst. having on board 100
cases of cholera, forty persons having died
Of the disease during the voyage. No lit
tie alarm has been caused in the eastern
cities by the intelligence Of this early i'm
portation of the pestilenee to our shores.
TIE present population of indianapolis,
the capital of Indiana, is 10000, as indi-
Gated by a census just taken.
As far as aseertained over thirty persons
were killed by the terrible storm which
passed over portions Of Illinois and Indi-
ana on the 2Oth ult.
DURING the four years of the war a mill
lion and a half soldiers were gratuitOusly
entertained at the Soldiers Home in Wash
ington. As this does not include those who
passed directly through without stopping.
the immense aggregate of arrivals Of sol
diers at the National Capital during that
period may be imagined.
O'hTAHONEY has issued a bulletin in
forming the brotherhood that Head-Cen-
ter, John stephens, is expected to arrive
by the first steamer from Havre-that he
comes to reconcile the difficulties that dis
tract the friends of the cause in this coun-
try-and that his stay viii be brief, inn
portant duties requiring his presence else
where at an early day,
IMPORTS of foreign goods this spring
have been unusually heavy. The import
duties collected last week amounted to
S7,I76, ,Oss; and since the 1st of last July
they have aggregated nearly three hum
dred millions.
A. Fl. STEPHENS, Vice-President of the
late rebel Confederacy, has for some time
been sojourning in Washington, and few
DAYS since testified before the Reconstruc-
ton Committee.
On the 7th inst. five large steamers were
consumed by fire at st. Louis, with their
contents, involving a loss of $780, ,0OO
THERE is considerable excitement in the
East in reference to Fenian movements
The members of the order are concentra-
ting in large numbers at Belfast, Maine,
with the supposed purpose of an attack on
some point on the adjacent British coast.
English war vessels are watching their
movements, and it is said the President is
about to issue a proclamation warning
against infractions Of the neutrality law.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was brought to
light in the suburbs of Philadelphia
Wednesday morning. An entire family
of seven persons were murdered and their
dead bodies found on the premises. The
perpetrator Of the crime is supposed to be
a German labOrer who had been employed
by the family.