Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-20


The Treasury building at Washing
ton will cost nearly i've Millions and
viii be the finest executive edilee IN
the world.
General Ord has issued an order ap-
pointing the 9TH of january for the as
senabIinE Of the Mississippi and the
Arkansas constitutional Conventions.
They will be held at the respective State
capitals,
The net profits Of the Paris Exhibi-
ton anlOunt to over three millions Of
francs.
The New york world estimates that
there are fifty thousand persons out OF
employment IN that city
General Grant has issued an order
mastering out one hundred and twenty
four officers Of the Veteran Reserve
Corps.
The Memphis AYaIanche's story Of
armed negroes marching into Column
bus, Mississippi, and demanding bread,
turns ont to be hoax
The Dakota Legislature met at Yank-
ton on last Monday. The Legislature
has q Republican majority for the first
tirae in the history Of that Territory.
Mrs, Aaron Rowe, living near Mount
Vernon Ohio, day or two since gave
birth TO five children-three boys and
two girls. They were all doing well at
last accounts.
Chicago expects to pack from seven
hundred and fifty thousand to eight
hundred thousand hogs this season.
One-third of the number were received
during the last two weeks.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
the bill forbidding common carriers to
make any distinction on account Of
race color or previous condition, of
their patrons.
Delegates from the State Union Lea
cues met in Washington and resolved
against the nomination of any man for
President not pledged to equal rights
and manhood suffrage.
The Congressional delegation from
Tennessee, except Senator Patterson,
have signed petition to the Legisla-
ture. praying for the repeal Of that sec
tiOn OF the Franchise Law which pro-
Iibits negroes from sitting on juries and
holding offices.
The Cincinnati Gazette's Atlanta cor
resDondBnt who has every facility Tor
obtaining accurate information, pro-
nounees the reports Of negro outbreaks
at Perote, Ala, and EIbertOn, Ca,
transmitted North by the Associated
Press. base falsehoods. In the troubles
that occurred the rebel whites were the
aggressors, and this is conceded by re-
liable men of all parties.
Texas is now the only State in which
no reconstruction election has been held.
TIE registration, however, is completed
and shows 56,666 whites and AZ ,430
blacks. In 1860 the State cast $4,000
votes
A side wall 70 Clerkenwen Prison,
London, was blown up Saturday even
ing by. .puupowder. Tt is supposed the
perpetrators of the act were Fenians,
and their object was to liberate the Fe-
nian Col. Burke. 1t is reported that
twenty persons were killed, Three ar
rests have been made.
Thirty-five millions of dollars have
been paid under the extra bounty law,
and about forty-five millions are yet on
the Treasury hooks for payment.
Secretary McCulloch is opposed to the
House bills prohibiting further contrac-
ton of the currency.
A letter from Santa Fe, New Mexico,
saws the Legislature of that Territory
assembled on the I'd inst, and organ
ized Nv eiecting to an the offices Of both
Houses, friends of Col. Chaves, Repub-
liean candidate for Congress. The Leg
islature stands, on q joint ballot, thirty
Republicans and nine Democrats.
It has been definitely ascertained that
the European conference plan, proposed
by the Emperor Napoleon, on the Ro-
man question, has failed.
Senator Wilson'S bill, introduced on
Monday, viii, if passed, make a great
overtuTning in the State Department.
It cuts down annual expenses over
100000, and the reorganization Of the
Consular service makes a further re-
duction of S1O0, 900, besides taking away
the secret service fund in the time Of
peace.
General Butler, in the course of some
remarks, said he would introduce a bill
putting all the Offices of the South into
the hands of loyal people only. He
then expressed the belief that instead of
there being four there were seven mil-
lions of coioEed people in the South.