Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-06-28
HBWs on THE WEEK.

Up to Thursday 81, ,4s8 votes were reg
istered in Louisiana.
Tbe RApubifcans Of Iowa have NOM
mated Samuel Merrill for Governor
The submarine telegraph cable con-
Ilecting Florida with Cuba has been laid.
The Democrats of California have
nominated 81. ii. Haightfor Governor.
Registration ia Richmond thus far
shows Il 016 black to S96 white voters
IA MONTGOMERY, Ala, 1t shows 1,1S3
blacks to 457 whites.
Frank Hiscock has been nominated
to I'll tho place in the New York Con-
Btitutional Convention vacated BY the
murder of his brother by General q. w.
Cole on account Of supposed criminal
intimacy between HiscOclz and Coles
wife
Hon. Isaac Newton, Of the National
Agricultural Bureau, is dead.
Edward Mcpherson, Clerk Of the Z.
S. Pouse of Representative, has be-
come a partner in the Gettysburg Star
and Sentinel
In order to keep a rose fresh during a
late ball at Paris, the Prince Of Wales
carried phial Of water under his vest,
in which the stem of the rose was in
serted
Endigrants continue to arrive at New
York daily by the thousand.
The appropriation to pay expenses Of
more than exhausted, and an addition
al appropriation viii be asked of Con-
greas ehe approaching session.
Santa Anna has been captured by the
Liberals in Mexico and, it is ramOred,
will be shot. He was taken from an
United States vessel.
The distractions have been mostly
removed from the Savannah -harbor.
It is now alledged that HendershOtt,
known as '4the drummer boy of the
RappahannOck," f" is a humbug, and that
no such person ever achieved what is
said Of him.
Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, has
taken possession of the Southwest Pa
cifie Railroad Of that State, General FIRE.
mont and the other parties who pur-
chased it having failed to pay the first
annual instalment due June Is.
The East India Telegraph Company
New York is now sending out materials
or its submarine line Between Hcng
Konfe and Shanghai, and contract has
already been made in England for the
manufacture Of the Gable. 1t viii con-
meet with, all the intermediate open ports
on the China coast, Before many years
there viii probably be an oceanic tele-
graph between Hong Kong and San
Francisco, by way of Japan and the
Sandwich Islands; and then nearly all
the cities of the civilized world viii have
instantaneous communication with one
another.
4 dispatch from Galveston, Texas,
Tae unearthing of an immense viI-
lainy has begun here, During the war
the Rebel Legislature ordered a sweep
ing and complete eonfiseatiOn Of all
property, real and personal, held by
loyal men. The act was enforced with
remOrseIess vigOr; property valued at
more than sixty millions was seized and
sold Judge Devine, just paDdOned By
President johnson, deCr65d more thau
three thousand sales. The Rebel Re
cords are imperfect and blind, and dc
not show the names Of the purchasers,
Immense SUMS were abstracted by the
Receivers. The confiscati0ns of Crom-
well in ireland do not equal this in eX-
tent and cruelty. Gen. Griffin is urged
to probe this huge speculation to the
bottom.
Rents and prices of real estate are
falling in New York.
On July 4, 1865, the United States
Government, with large cOnc0urse OF
people from the adjoining counties,
erected a beautiful dag-pole, one hum
dred and eighty feet high, in commem-
OratiOn of General William Nelson, at
Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky. Gen
eral Nelson was buried there, and this
was the first camp organized south OF
Mason and DiXOh's line. The pole was
cut down, on the night of the 18th inst
by rebels, when honest men We're asleep,
and entirely demolished.
The President has appointed Marcus
Otterberg of Wisconsin, now United
States C0Usnl IN the City Of Mexico, tC
be Minister resident there, in place
Of L. d. Campbell, resigned.
A pardon has been issued for General
LOngstrest upon application signed by
General Grant and many prominent
Congressman.
The people of Central City, Colorado
rr7I I9rn 70nH tn hn 81,
Indian scalps "With the ears on, at the
rate of SO a piece. From all appear.
ances Gen. Sherman will have to tigh
with tWo-edged sword, and it NAV b,
questioned whether the white or the rec
savages are the more lawless and bru
tai.
The Columbus Journal says that the
Cincinnati Commercials correspondent
'Maclz, is Of about as much Importance
in the Union party as tadpole is in the
Atlantic ocean. Agreed. But then he
is a big toad in the Commercial puddle
-Kenj1 T0rchligh
The Ohio State Teachers Association
meets at Springfield on the Ist, I'd and
Sd Of July.
The United States District Court Of the
Southern District Of New York decided,
few days since, that wherever spirits
are seized for violation of the law, the
owner must be prepared to prove that
the law has been complied with and the
tax paid, if he would save his whisky
from forfeiture. This is a decision Ot
far-reachfng importance
At the Surratt trial Tuesday Col
Conger testified that Booths diary was
cut when he saw it on the day of Booths
death.
Mr.. Lord, who was robbed some
months ago, in New York, of an i'm
mense amount Of Government bonds
received from an unknown source or
MTnraIarr a ,Aos, n
Of the bonds. This leaves only S90,0
worth missing.
An old Democrat participated in q
Union ratification meeting at Zanes.
vile on the 25th and made a speech en-
dOrsing the Union platform. and nom
inees
Colonel Giddfngs, of the Sixteenth
United States Infantry, died suddenly
at Macon, Georgia, Tuesday He Was
son of the late Joshua r. Giddings
of Ohio.
Since Mazimilian is Gagged there are
but three Mezdeans who assume to be the
1ead OF the nation uarez, Ortega and
Santa Anna. This is not the full SUD.
ply. There viii be a half dozen 9th.
ers in few months.
JEFF. Davis has accepted an invitation
from the proprietor of the White Sui
phur Springs, in Catawba, North Caro-
lima, to visit that place on his return
from Canada, and he viii be there with
his family in July or August.
The United States own large traci
of mineral land in North Alabama, on
which any one can obtain a home fol
nothing under the homestead law.
A large number of witnesses have tes-
titled to Surratt's presence in Washing
ton on the evening Of the assassination.
At iberia cut, near Gallon, on Satur-
day morning, an express train on the
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati
Railroad struck wagon in which were
Wilson Sipes, 3 farmer, his wife and
three children. The man and woman
were killed. The children received on
Iy slight injuries.
The Cincinnati Commercial vouches
for the following: Samuel Gregory, OF
Delaware County, in this State, recent
E.r..l.