Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-26

/ city. and that their Aggregate member
| ship amounts 10 upwards OF thre-. hun
dred- 1t is stated that The movement il
still progressing rapidly amo.g~t Ia =
class Of our population, and that iI px-
tends from Screamersville 10 Rockets
and from Union to Oregon hills. Meet
lngs are held nightly, and much entbu-
siasm is said to prevail amongst the
mem bers Of the party"
The University OF Wisconsin has
been reOrganized and has established
a Female Department embracing
three years course in language, Iitera-
ture and science
A new asteroid was discovered at the
Hamilton College observatory on the
morning of July :.
Congress has passed a joint resolution
declaring sympathy with the suffering
people Of Crete.
Mr.. Wilson introduced in the Senate
a joint resolution to amend the Consti-
tuition by prohibiting the United States
or any state, from denying equal civil
and political rights to anvT citizen on ac-
count Of color. Il was laid upon the ta-
bic and ordered printed. It is not the
intention to call it up for action until
the next session.
The bill TO allow coiOred psrsons to
hold Office in the District of Columbia
was passed by a vote Of . to 5, without
debate 10 was found that the CoIored
Suffrage Law of last session only gave
the right to vote, aud the city charter
denied the right to hold Office. A. J.
poclzeted the bill and it is therefore not
yet law.
The Senate passed the reconstruction
bill over the Presidents veto by a ma
iOrity Of 80 TO 8, and the House by 100
10 y.
- r,t
Criminal Court has decided that the
street railroad companies of that city
have no right TO exclude persons from
their cars on account Of race or color.
Gen. J. G. Lee teIegraphed acceptance
of his nomination AS Lieutenant Gov
ern0T-
The New York Tribune saws Our
latest steamer dispatches leave, unfortu-
nately, but Little doubt that the Cretans
have suffered very heavy losses, and
that the Turks were devastating the
conquered districts with fiendish cruel
ty. Cable dispatches from Athens in
form US that the Crstaus are now pre-
pairing five tire-ships, by which they
hope to destroy the Turkish fleet which
is supporting the army of Omar Pasha.
The President, on Saturday, seat to
the Senate the nomination Of Horace
Greeley as Minister TO Austria. 1t was
was not taken up, and would have been
confirmed had not single objection,
made by Mr.. Upton. of Nebraska, ear
ried It over, underline rule, until the
next day Of tue session, which, ia this
instance, is next November. Mr.. Tip
ton said be wOuld consent to confirm no
man who would 20 bail for Jefferson
Davis.
Gen. Carlin's unicis1 report on the
Franklin, Tenn, riot asserts that the
murderous attack upon the Colored
League was precOHcerfed, and that the
city authorities voluntarily delivered
the city to mob violence,
A tunnel under the Atlantic is to be
The next grand project. The Home
Journal says that such a gigantic prop
ositiOn is even now or foot, and that
plenty OF capitalists are ready To en-
gage in it as soon as the plans are ar
ran led. 1t Is said that the most emf
nenC engineers, both in America and
Europe, have been consulted, and that
they have drawn up q report which is
perfectly feasible, and only requires
time and money to carry it out The
capital required, it is estimated, is five
hundred millions English pounds.
a San Francisco dispatch says the
Engineers of the Central Pacific Rail-
road have reported iH favor Of locating
she line by the u'rih Instead Of the
south Of Salt Lake. It is eighty-nine
miles shorter, VIII t''-t one-third less,
and passes through % far better country.
The summit tunnel is nearly through, 7
and will probably he open by August
The Boston Traveller states that la
dy iu Reading, Mass. while cOnver-
sing with some callers, suddenly turn /
ed pale and, sinking into a chair, ex-
claimed, Did you bear that gun it ;tf- |
fected Tne strangely :" and svepf incon-
SOlubly. Her visitors had heard no re- |
ourt, and il afterwari appeard that no /
gun had been fired at that time on the |
place. News came, however, that her /
brother, residing a hundred miles away, |
was at that very hour fatally shot bv
the accidental discharge of his fOwIing-
piece while hunting in = grove near
his house.
The health of the Hon. John Bell is /
gradually FILLING. His mind is still
clear, btit the exLa tIstatiOu of his phys
Icai system is ext RENE. He resides
near the Cumberland Iron Works in /
tennessee, which were formerly a i
source of immense revenue to him.
But the war wrecked his fortune.
health, and social and political reputa-
ton, and the old man is passing away Il
from generation with which it is his /
that he has no sympRthies.