Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-02-16

TIE EEHs.
GEN. CAyBY has issued an order notify
ing persons in his Department who had
property sequestered by acts Of the rebel
Congress, that il viii be restored to them
or their legal representatives.
TIE Spanish Minister at Washington
pronounces unfounded the stories recently
current to the effect that blacks in the
Southern states were being kidnapped.
carried to Cuba and sold into slavery.
DIR. J. w. Hughes, who last summersh0t
and killed a young girl named Parsons, in
Bedford, Ouyah0ga county, was hung in
accordance with his sentence last Friday,
ut Cleveland. He attempted to commit su-
icide Thursday night by taking morphine,
but failed to accomplish his design. An
effort was made to have the sentence COM
mutsd to imprisonment for life, but Gov.
Cox very properly refused to interfere in
behalf Of the culprit.
TIE special session Of the Maryland Leg
islature adjourned on the sth inst, having
declined to take any action toward repeal
ing the registry law, by the operations Of
which the disIoyal portion of her citizens
are disfranchised.
A BILL has passed the lower branch Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature appropriating
s5OO,OOO for the relief Of the sufferers by
the burning Of Chambersburg by the rebel
raiders.
TIE Legislature of Nebraska has framed
a State Constitution to be. e.submitted to a
vote of the people of the Territory on the
ID Of June next. Provision is made for
the election of State officers at the samo
time.
THE bill to. enlarge the powers Of the
Freedmen's Bureau, having passed both
houses of Congress. has been sent to the
President for his signature. Washington
gossfps differ in opinion as to whether or
not he viii approve it.
THE PennsyIvania Legislature has be-
fore it bill disfranchising those who left
the State to avoid the draft, and did not re- |
turn in time to avail themselves of the I
Presidents proffered amnesty.
Tn is said the Senate Post Once Commit
tee has under consideration the propriety 1
Of providing a system OF post Office tele- 4
graphing on the principal mail routes of
the country.
THE Baltimore Trade Journal says that
according to careful estimates there are
not less than one hundred and fifty million !
acres of fertile land in the Southern States /
that have never been brought under eultI-
vation.
SEVERAL Union members of the Ken
lucky Legislature having been Ousted from
their seats by the Democratic majority, and
referred back to the people, elections re-
Gently held to I'LL the vacancies have re- |
suited in the triumph of the Democratic
candidates in all cases-the. returned reb-
els voting 10 a man against the Union can
didates, and defeating them. Mr.. Mckee, |
a member of Congress from that state, /
told the truth in his late speech, when he
said, Kentucky is one of the most disloy-
al States in the Union"
THE parties recently arrested for robbing
the Adams Express COmPany's car on the
New York 81 New Haven Railroad, have
been convicted and sentenced to the Con-
necticut Penitentiary.
A NEW YORK despatch states that on the
morning of the I4th inst, a drunken con-
ductor OF street car stabbed three Of his
passengers.
On the 18th inst, at Knoxville, Tenn,
negro soldier, while on guard at a Govern
ment sale, shot and killed Lieut.. Col. Dy-
er, of the 1st Tennessee cavalry. A mob
seized the negro and hung him. The affair
caused great excitement,
A CONVENTION of the AgricuIturists of
Maryland and several of the neighbOring
States is in session at Baltimore, the object \
being to collect and promulgate informa- /
lion as to the best modes Of growing sOr-
ghum, and bringing the product more gen
orally to the public notice.
4 NAN was suhocated in his bed at a
Chicago hotel few nights since by care
IessIy or ignorantly blowing out the gas
instead of turning it off when he retired.
A WASHINGTON despatch says Mr.. Ban /
croft notified the British and French Min |
listers of his intention to refer in plain
terms to the course of their respective Gov
rrnments in relation to the rebellion, in his /
address on the life and character of Presi- /
dent LINCoLN-and they were therefore not
unwilling listeners to his structures.
A WISCONSIN bill to amend the election
law makes such changes as viii etfectually /
prevent draft slzedaddIers from voting.
THE United States gunboat Narcissus !
was lost recently at the mouth of Tampa |
Bay, with all on board-abopt 80 persons. /
The Oration of Mr.. BANCROFT in the |
RJo+;o,aI NaD;foI on the 10Th inst IN the !