Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-03-26

leave it of, and has only within a few
weeks abolished slavery in her colo
nies.
Hon. VIM. 81. Richardson, of CAM
bridge, Massachusetts, has been aP-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.
General Butler applied to Secretary
Boutwell,, last week, to appoint col
Ored man to the Office of an assessor in
New Orleans.
The Urbana Citizesa and Gazette COM
pleted this week its thirty first volume,
under the management of its senior ed
itor, Mr.. Joshua Saxton.
Il is rumored that Petroleum Y.
Nasby, u. r. Lockel of the Toledo
Blade, is to be removed from the Cross
Roads Post Office, and made Postmas-1
/ ter at Toledo.
| President Pierce's Cabinet was the
only one in the history of the United
States that remained unbroken from
the beginning to the end of the admin
istration, -yr
The Committee on the new Peniten-
tiary of Ohio having been unable to
agree upon a location, present tho
| claims of each contesting locality to tho
/ Legislature, and leave that body to
decide upon their respective merits.
General Sherman has gone to work
! furfousIy. He has destroyed the De-
partment of Washington, consolidated
regiments, ordered officers out of town,
and is carrying on generally with
4 high hand and an outstretcbed arm.
Should the Navy bill, which has juet
| passed the Senate, become law, it will
save to the Government, it is asserted,
a million dollars from the present ex-
I TNaFlGA r1f rUnninor that nnnaTfn1e emf
the service.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island
was Tuesday elected President, pro
l fee to which Ben. Wade was elected
four years ago, and which became of so
much Importance, owing to the death
of Lincoln and the impeachment of
johnson.
/ Ex-President Johnson has, at length,
fairly taken the downward narrow
guage track which leads to the Office OF
a Tennessee city alderman. He left
Washington not too rapidly. Plenty of
steam aboardl Go ahead!
senator Sumner still urges, wisely,
debt Lincoln should be allowed a PEN
sion. Nine-tenths of the loyal people
/ of this nation, it an opportunity were
presented, would vote aye on th at ques-
ton.
The Springfield (Ohiol Republic says
of the Hon. Samuel SheHabarger This
gentleman has returned to this city in
improved health. He was not an ap-
lplicant for any foreign mission,
pective appointment" His intention
is to resume the practice of his prof''s-
sion in this city.
/ r1oSt,,, os+er C,sDare1 CraaSVvall 10 a
man of rare executive ability and ex
tcellent business qualifications. We be-
lieve he will perform his arduous duties
with great acceptance, and also
stand high as a wise, safe, and firm
cabinet officer. He is sound Radical
Republican, and will favor everything
that is just and right.
| President Grants inaugural address
has been translated into the Russian
language, and forwarded to a publisher
in st. Petersburg, for publication in
the leading papers of that city and Mos
COW.
/ Mr.. BoUtweII's appointment as Secre-
tary of the Treasury has given univer-
sal joy in Washington. His name
means business, and his integrity
means trouble among the thieves, and
lwhisky-rings. All honest people will
say to him, Forward, march!
The New York Tribune says: Anon :
the officers left without commands by
the consolidation of regiments, are
Doubleday, Sickles, De Trobriand,
1 Wager SWayne, and Butterfield. Gen.
sherman suggested Yesterday that the
pay of officers waiting orders might
properly be reduced.
4 The most noteworthy appointment
yet made by President Grant is that of
Colonel Parker, who is an actual chief
of the Oneida tribe, as Indian Commits
N~ag= - - Al Il
Indians is the greatest innovation vet
made in the administration of our gov
erument.
The Cuban patriots have at last taken
a step that will go far to insure their
success, The insurgent representatives
in the Central Department have decreed
the absolute abolition of slavery, leav-
ing the freedmen the privilege of fight
ing or not as they may choose, and
promising indemnifcation to all patri-
OTIS for the loss of their slaves.
/ President Grant has made a verv i'm
portant announcement in respect to ap-
lpointments to office. In reply to del
egation of Republicans from Delaware,
he said. on Saturday, F'tbat in every
case he would require The appointments
to be recommended by The heads of de-
Fpartments but that he should also in
every case personally exhnIine ;he pa
/ perS OF GhOse recommended, as far as
may be, their record, and the charact er
of the men who vouched for them"
Mr.. John r. French, whom the Sen
/ ate has chosen for Sergeant-at-Arms is
an old editor and a tried Republican
He went South during the war, partici-
pated in the reorganization OF. North
| tatives of that State in the XIth Con
gress, where, however, his feeble
health kept him from taking an active
part.
In Pennsylvania the question of
women holding office is about to be
/ given a practical solution, without
touching at all upon the ground taken
/ by those. opposed to or Indifferent
about woman suffrage. Miss Maria L.
sanford, young lady who has been
| teaching a public school in Chester Co,
is urged for County Superintendent of
tCommon Schools. There is nothing in
the laws of that State preventing n
woman from holding the Office, and
she is strongly supported for the posi-
ton.
Mr.. Boutwell, WIS a member of the
peace Congress''-the celebrated con-
ference between Northern and South /
ern men that preceded the war, and
was noted for saying in that Congress, !
| in reply to suggestions that there |
should be peaceable separation of the
antagonistic sections, that there was no !
such thing possible, and that if sepa- !
ration were attempted, the men of the |
South must march to the Lakes or the !
men Of the North to the Gulf
One of the last acts of President John
son and his Secretsry of the Interior
was to order the issue of two million |
four hundred thousand dollars in Gov
ernmenG bonds To the Central Pacific |
Railroad Of California, on advance
work. The transaction was Of so flag !
rant a character that one the first acts /
of President Grant was to stop the exc
cution ofthe order; so that one million /
hve hundred Thousand dollars were is |
! suec, and the new Secretary of the In
Terror has sent a letter to the Railroad |
committee ofthe Senate, asking legis-