Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-09
POLITICAL.

Governor Claf1in is talked of as
Boutwell's successor in Congress.
Congressman Dawes, of Massachu-
sets, has declined a seat on the Su-
preme Bench of the State.
SAKE says in his new lecture: flaws,
like sausages, cease to inspire re-
spect in proportion as we know how
| they are made"
Out of eighteen hundred bills passed
by the Illinois Legislature but three
ernor.
Breckenridge says that in politics he
is an extinct volcano. The intelligence
that we shall have no more eruptions
from this crater viii be uncommonly
agreeable to the general public.-C0-
Ettal6ats Journal e
The Chicago Times objectsto General
Sheridan making his headquarters at
Chicago because "the Democrats of
that city "despise" him. For which do
they hate him Worst-W inchester or
Five Forks?
The editor of the Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal says 1--WE do not
vOuch for the following item, which
has been sent us; A surgeon in dis
tant place is said to have removed a
tumOr weighing sixty-three pounds,
and thinks of presenting it to Presi-
dent Grant," ?"
General Forrest of Fort Pillow fame,
says he was one of the parties who inn
ported from Africa the NEGROES in the
Wanderer, some ten years ago. He is
still in favor of solving the labor prob
! lem at the South by further innporta-
tiOns frOm Africa.
The Albany Evening Journal saws !:
The intimate and friendly relations
long existing between Secretary Fish
and Mr.. Seward are well understood.
The venerable statesman who has con-
Quoted our foreign affairs during eight
years past had no warmer admirer or
more ardent defender than the GENTLE
man by whom he is succeeded in Office.
The Richmond Journal says: "AIiss
Bette Van Lew, our new postmarm, is
in receipt daily of letters fr0ma all parts
of the Union, eOngratulating her upon
the appointment she has received. She
is also bothered almost as much as Gen
eral Grant with applications for places
in the postofffce, and asks us to state
that there are no vacancies
Secretary Boutwell, has caused flut-
ter among his female employees by re-
quiring them to give their names, res
idence, and by whose influence they
were appointed, and whether they have
a father, mother, sister or brother also
employed in the department, the Sec
retary having determined that no two
of one family shall be kept in Office.
Mr.. Hamilton Fish lives in Robin
sons house opposite West Point, where
Arnold heard of Andres capture, and
leaving Washington at the dinner
table, Kissed Mrs. Arnold and his child,
and ran down to the river to embark
on board the British gunboat VUlture.
He is man of riches, and a magnif-
cent host, and will make Stewards era
of good feeding like the remembrance
rnf a F0enr
Letter.
Carlos Manuel Cespedes, the COM
mandeF of the Cuban rebels, is a native
of Cuba, and about fOrty-five years old.
He studied law in Europe, graduated
with high honors, returned to his ma
tive island and settled at Manzanillo,
where he has long been regarded as the
leading lawyer of that section. He in
herited a large fortune, which he has
greatly increased by his own 1abcrs.
A few months ago he liberated his
slaves, and at the head Of hundred
patriots like himself, inaDgurated the
rebellion in Cuba.
Many do not believe that the expec-
tations of Mr.. Boutwell, are over, SAN
guine, but that they VIII be realized.
1t is reported that he has such assur-
ances from financiers, both in Europe
and this country, that he is actually
looking forward to having our bonds
anu q LBW IUdA OLlg at ANb--DGE
cent. interest, before next January. A
result like this would be such signal
| triumph as has distinguished no adj
ministration in this country. So
The confirmation of Miss Elizabeth
Van Lew, as Postmistress of Richmond,
| is fitting reward of her self-sacrific-
ing devotion to the wants of Union
prisoners during the war, She fed the
| Inmates of the Libby, sent them books
and other means of relieving the
tedium of their confinement, nursed at
her own house sick prisoners, and aid
ed others to escape. She lost by rebel
cOnfscation her real estate and slaves,
/ and kept Secretary Stanton advised of
| the movements of the rebel leaders.
Her health gradually failed under the
| excitements and anxieties Of her situa-
| ton, and, as might be expected she in
CURED the hatred of the rebels.
| We have thought the best use that
| could be made of the surplus gold in
the Treasury would be to buy up our
| bonds with it, and the worst use, to
keep it locked up for the moral effect.
! We are glad to observe that the Senate
1 has made sufficient advances in the ell
ementary principles of business to be
able to agree with us, at least as to the
latter proposition. We still think no
| other use of our surplus so good as the
purchase (at the ruling rates) for the
/ cancellation of as much OF our out
standing indebtedness as it viii buy.
| But anticipating interest with it, and
gaining the discount, is certainly far
better than boarding It,; and for so
much we are thankful,-IT Tribune.
The New York World remarks ''In
the Redistribution of congressman af-
| ter the census, next year, the East viii
lose and the West win gain a great
number of Representatives After
1870, the West, if united, will control
the legislation of the country, and con-
troll the National Conventions for NOM
mating Presidential candidates. The
West is equitably entitled to this su-
perior weight now but it cannot re-
ceiye the benefit of it's wonderful
growth since 1860 until after the ten
years are fully up, when, by a sudden
stride or leap 1T viii make a great adj
vance in political influence" 1"
The following letter from father to
son we find published in the Macon
Il MACON, GA, March 10, 1869.
'tR. B. HALL: SIR-I understand that
you are to be in Macon, at half past
one o'clock, tomorrow. Isee from the
papers that you voted for the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution. With
the feet of the Radical Congress upon
| your neck, you have, with obedience
and humility, voted for law that will
degrade you and yours forever,
q You have disgraeed both your
grandfathers' names, whose bones now
lie in their graves-have disgraced
, yourself, and brought shame upon your
: father and mother.
I hope you will not presume to visit
my house again as long as live.
III have two infant bOys-thirteen
months old-they may act as repre-
! hensibly as you have but rather thar
I see them do so would follow them tC
their graves. M. M. HALL"
8 OUR YOUNG CRIMINALS.