Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-27
NEWS or TIE WEEK.

AtIanta. a few evenings since. Joshua
ELL made an exec llent speech.
Mrs. Forrest, the divorced wife of the
tragediaB. has been granted the alimO-
ny Of S1O0, 900, which she efaims to have
been unpaid for a number Of years.
The Boston supporters. Of Gen. Grant
held a meeting in Fanuen Han on the
18th inst.
The Southern railroads owe the Cow
ernment about S5,000s000-
The Kentucky Union state Conven-
tion win be held at Frankfort on the
9th Of February.
The California Legislature elected
Eugene CasserlY United States Senator,
to succeed John COnness.
k1bert smith, a freedman, has been
appointed by Gen. Pope a Justice Of the
Peace in Tuscaloosa County.
The Louisiana Convention has passed
an ordinance imposing tax of one mill
on the dollar to pay its expenses.
The eruption Of Mount yesuvius IS
increasing in power and splendor.
The New Hampshire State Repubu-
can Convention renOnlinated Governor
Hartman, and recommended General
Grant for the next President.
The Democratic Committee, resident
at Washington, has passed re solutions
commencing President johnson and
Gen. Hancock.
A republican daily paper is 10 be
started in Richmond, Va, at the begin
ming Of the year, Of which Col. A. w.
Sheldon, Of Keokuk, Iowa, is to be edi-
tor.
A Washington dispatch says; The
Intelligence OF the sad death of the Hon
@. s. Hamilton, of Ohio, has cast q
gloom over the large circle Of his ac-
qu8intances here. He was highly es-
teened by all who knew him, and rec
ognized as a faithful and thoroughly in
corruptible public servant.
Although Andrew johnson has escap-
ed impeachment, history viii record
that he was the first President against
whom such a movement was initiated.
The President had a veto of the Bill
of Equal Rights for the District of Co
Iumbia ready last Thursday, but at the
making it necessary for Congress to pass
it for the third time.
The Republicans of Louisiana pro-
pose to hold a State Convention at New
Orleans on the 30th day of December.
Since the organization of the Excise
Board in New York City, in April, 1865,
there have been IL, sos licenses granted
licenses 1879 were revoked fer violations
OF the law.
The Eighth District which Mr. Hamil-
ton represented, is composed Of the
counties of Delaware, Marion, Morrow,
Richland and Union. Mr.. Hamilton
was elected iE 1866, by a majority of
,852.
The action of the Virginia Convention
in declining to ask for continuing the
NJ raf
having commanded even the whole coll
Ored vote, is the occasion OF much talk
in Washington.
There is in England wide spread
and increasing feeling favorable to the
amelioration of the condition of the
Irish as the most effective means Of sup
pressing Fenianism.
The New York Tribune says that one
daVl last week q starving girl caused the
arrest Of her employer 1or refusing to
pay her for making wooden pantaloons
at sixteen cents q pair; while ne, being
a "middle man." received sixty cents
for the work and his wife kicked her
out of doors because she demanded
what was her just due,
The Committee on Ways and Means
find that the Government oughtto have
received last year as whisky tax $780,
573, 400, whereas the actual receipts were
only S28, GOO, 900. Estimating the pro-
duct from the capacity Of the stills in
operation, the Government snould re-
ceiYe Sl,200,000, 600.
In North Caroline, at the present time
there is a Strong political force Crganiz-
ing. and Canvasslng5 with the sole pur-
pose to vote down any Constitution the
Convention may adopt, and thus defeat
the reconstruction acts. This opposition
is. s.controlled and led by men who have
been nOtOriOusly antagOnistie to the
Government for years, and no efforts
are spared to effect their object.
It comes out from Mr.. StantOn's rela-
tiyes and friends directly, that the late
Secretary, in explanation of his re-
manning in the Cabinet after he had dis
covered that his continuing there was
against Mr.. JOhDsOn's wish, says that
he would long since have resigned his
position as Secretary of War, but for
the fact that he received a letter signed
bvs most of the Republican Senators and
Represeu tatives in Congress, requesting
him to remain in the Cabinet, as they
ALLEGED. for the good of the country, and
the preservation of the Republican
party.
The President has determined to re-
move Gen. Pope from the command of
the Third District. Gen. Meade, having
.heen specially called to " WashlngtOn,
was IN consultation with the President,
wednesday,, and will probably be APP
pointed to succeed Gen. Pope.
Some time viii probably elapse before
a snpcfal election. can be called to choose
a successor for Hon. @. s. Hamilton
The law requires thirty days notice of
such election, and the Governor has not
vet received official notification Of the
vacancy.
The Baltimore papers state that con-
siderable of an ovation greeted jeff.
Davis on his departure from that city
for Mississippi. A large crowd Of Ia
dies and gentlemen gathered on the
wharf and cheered him as he went on
board the boat. One young lady. a
stranger, threw her arms around ms
neck and kissed him.
The murder of a mulatto family at
Perdido Station, Alabama, was peTpe-
trated by party Of four drunken men,
armed with shot guns, who charged the
family with stealing. The assassins
first butchered the mulattO, Morris, then
his wife, then his mother, aged so, and
lastlv-a sleeping babe They finished
by firing the house, but after their de-
parbure the flames were extinguished
bv q Young girl who had concealed her
self. Four men have been arrested on
suspicion.
The election for and against the Texas
Reconstruction Convention and for del
egates thereto, will be held on the last
y
1O4,0 600 registered voters, of whom So
500 are white and 1850 colored.. It is
believed by those best informed that
10000 whites will vote for a convention.
The powerful organization known as 4
the Union League Of America at its
session in washington on Thursday
last, unanimously
ResoEUed, That the National Council 4
Of the u. Il. A. is utterly opposed to any |
departure from the sacred principles Of
its organization, OF from those Of the /
Republican party; and that we do here /
by respectfully, bnt earnestly and firm j
". urge the National Republican Con- |
Fentfon to place no man in nomination I
for President of the United States in /
1858 who is not in himself an irreversi- /
bic guaranty that he is a true friend of /
the cause Of Union and Liberty, the I
equal rights Of all men before the l0aC, I
and Of U31iUerSaL Manhood Sa.6Tage. j