Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-05-03
NEWS or THE WEEK,
aaribaIdi is writing a novel.


pointed in his quest for health.
Andy begins to swing Nay T. he and
Jen. ought TO swing together.
,, w Forney3 Secretary OF the 2. s. Sem
ate has signed the temperance pledge.
John RusBin has had to forego literary la.
bors on account Of bad health
Rev. G P. F. Bancroft, Of Andover. Mass
Is President elect Of the college founded on
Lookout Mountain
Coy. Cox refused to commute Case, the
murderer.
Gen. sheridan has given the New Orleans
rebel Chief Of Police dishOnorable dis
charge,
There is said to be a "white'' majority in
Washington Of go.
Mcclellan, it is said, win soon change base
back to this country.
Track laying on the Union Pacific rain
road has been recommended and will be
prosecuted at the rate Of two miles a day.
Married, up town, the other day, at Mrs
Wllilams,' Mr.. William Williams, OF VIE
naTnspoEtt to his cousin Miss Lizzie Wiz
Iiams. For partieulars, see small Bills
lSteubenville Herald.l
Gen. Ord Is restoring order to Arkansas.
be removed the rebel State Officers and
supplied their places with Union soldiers.
Cholera is said to have appeared In some
of the large cities.
Nearly G,0O0 dogs have been slaughtered in
Chicago during the season
The white citizens of Halifax recently
gave the colored ones complina entary din
ner.
Rousseau, the new Brigadier, being order
ed to Washington Territory, got sick.
Frank Cowan, son of the ex-senator has
been appointed Special Secretary TO Presi-
dent Johnson.
Senator Reverdy Johnson's daughter was
recently married IN W ashlngton- The Pres
ident and most Of the Cabinet were present.
There have been located in Wisconsin
10000 acres Of land with Agricultural Col
lege scrip.
Treasury Department makes no indemni-
ty for negligent losses ofcoupon bonds, pay
able to bearer.
Revertiy johnson, in the suit of Virginia
versus West Virginia for the recovery OF
Berkeley and Jefferson counties, is attorney
for the latter.
The President has ordered the return of
statue of Washington taken during the
wa g, n the State capitol at Baton Rouge,
IL Mcfarland, the woman whose teaI-
u. t,.ehardson at New YORK, has sued the
Boston Transcript for libel.
General SchoheId has commenced the
work Of registering voters in Virginia. The
work can be completed in three months
John n. Suratt has been promised a speedy
trial, and his case will probably come up
about May p.
Pittsburg has contributed 5000 to the
Southern famine fund.
There was a large Republican meeting at
Raleigh. n. e, April d Two or three thous-
and eOlored people were Present E,iIt3 and Iid
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown. addressed
wishing them to reconstruct under the mill
tary bill.
Flour is being shipped to New York in
large quantities from San Francisco.
It is said Russian America is to be paid for
in irOu-cladS.
They have been trying to blow up the ice
bridge over tb e st. Lawrence at QUEBEC, but
without success. The country above is flood
ed on account of the blockade.
The eolored men Of Ohio viii hold a con-
ventlon at Columbus, July, 2, to consult
about the pending suffrage amendment
The U. S. SUPP eTne Court has decided in
the Massachusetts liquor cases that the pay
ment Of o. s. revenue tax is no protection
to sellers of articles prohibited by State laws
Granville John Penn, great-grandsOn Of
William Penn, died recently in London. On
ly a bachelor brother survives him, so that
the great Quaker name of Penn viii soon
be genealogically extinct.
England and Russia are delighted with
the sale of Russian America. We are the
only people likely to be sorry.
Gen. Griffin, commanding in Texas, for
bids all further elections in that State by
civil authority, and directs the Governor OF
itary headq uarteTs.
Miss Rennon, a granddaughter of Wash
thgton's adopted daughter. was recently
married at Georgetown d. c. Her father,
who was in the navy, was killed by the ex-
plOstOn of q cannon on board the Princeton
The public will be delighted to know that
Gfoneche, King of Bakana CEew Calabar
Central Africa), and George Pepell, King OF
BOnny Delta Of the Niger, Central Africa)
-
ne of VOltaire.
In Fourth Of July speeches the American
eagle will now soar from the St; Johns TO
the Kvitchpalz and from the Gulf of NIexi-
co to the KuSk OEzvm
James Gordon Bennett thinks before he is
much older he will deliver the New York
Herald in all the eastern and western cities
few minutes after publication by Pneu'
matte express.
John Hanks, Mr.. Lincoln's partner il
ratl-splitting is going to take the origina
cabin which they built and lived in to the
Paris Exhibition.
Dr. Blackburn, the infamous wretch who
tried to introduce yellow fever into tn,
Northern States during the war by mean
of infected clothing, has asked permission
to return to this country,
Senator Wilson recently addressed a larg,
audience at Fortress Monroe. While there hi
had an interview with Jeff. Davis
The shock of an earthquake was recently
felt throughout the Northwest. Quite an
alarm, for a few moments prevailed in sew
eral localities.
The Union Pacific railroad is now compile
ted 1S5 miles west of Leavenworth.
Work will soon be com nenced at San Die
60 Cal, on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad
It Is designed to connect with the Southwest
will be completed sooner than any other
line to the Pacific coast.
That part of British America known as
the Red River Country, has a population O-
10000, which is making an effort to secure
independence.
Gen. Ord has appointed registering Ofdcer
for Arkansas
The Republicans of Kentucky are making
gallant fight and, hope to elect their can
Rebel DemOcrsfic CIonseTvafive Conner
head, and the Republican.
Sandford Conover, alias Charles A Dun
ago in the criminal court at Washington o
perjury in his testin ony befOra the Hous Q Ju
dietary Committee, relative to the assassin
alton OF President Lincoln and duplicating
JEFF Davis in the crime, has been sentenced
to 10 years in the Albany Penitentiary
Captain Estes, the Commandant at Mem
phis, prohibited the rebels of that city from
dead.
There are 1000 young men in France in.
capacitated by disease or defornity from
performing military service.
The secesh women of Louisville and 9th.
er Southern cities, decorated the graves OF
the Confederate dead. April IS.
Gen. Siczles, on Saturday last. halted a
nremen's parade at Charleston. S. c., and re-
quired them to obtain an American flag and
carry 1t at the head of the column, before
continuing their demonstration. He also
required the firemen to detail a guard Of
respectfully salute il, which they did.
Gen. Butler, and other Republican speak
ers are expected soon to follow Senator VIII
son in a political tour of the Southern States.
California court has awarded a judes-
Inent for damages to one Mccall in a suit
brought against Gen. Mcdowell for arrest
and Imprisonment, June Is, 1865, under a
general order of General McDOwell1s for ex-
ultattOn over the assassination of Mr. Lin.
coin. This is being followed by suits insti.
tuted all over the State for damag for i'm.
prisonment on account of treasonabIe utter.
ances.
The injunction cases were argued before
the q. s. Supreme Court on Friday last.
There is now a prospect that Napoleon vii
COmp promise his difficulties with Prussia
and that war will be avoided. There is tx
be q general conference Of European pow
ers to settle the Luxemburg difficulties al
London May L.
Andy proposes to end his circle at Green,
Vile, Tenn, where he begun it. He expect,
to carry East Tennessee for the COnserva-
tives, and is now contributing, officially tC
the support Of eight Conservative papers il
that region.
A large. meeting Of whites and blacks wa.
held at Charleston, s. c.. Monday last
and was addressed by Gov. Orr, who assun
ed to advise the negroes how they shoulC
vote. He limited at new National COnser
vative Grandmother Crittenden Bell and
Everett party. Both blacks and whites Wer.
appointed on the committee to draft resoIu
tiOns.
Louisiaha and the Mississippi Valley were
purchased from France in 1903 for sI5.OOO,000
Florida from Spain, in 1919. for Sc, 600 900: Cal
tfornta, New Mexico and Utah from Mexico
in 1913, for SI5,000,00O; Arizona from Mexico