Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-05-21

The receipts Of the United States for
the quarter ending March 81, were
Sl3o,I1S,654 90, including $40, 3S9, 534 43
from customs, and $50, 599, 5S7 As from
internal revenue. Expenditures for
the same period, exclusive of the
principal or the public debt. but in
Iod1n interest thereon, amounting to
SoS.zfz, fO9 9S, were S79, 3S4t O34 60, and
including the redemption of the pub
lie debt, S157, 1885 go.
Important intelligence is expected
from Cuba during the coming ten days.
Government detectives report from
various ports along the coast, love
ments of small suspicious looking
crafts, and there is no doubt that ex-
petitions are still fitting out and that
arms and munition S of war are still
being transported from the United
States to the Cubans, and Spaniards,
too.
Cumberland, Md, elected a Repub-
liean Mayor by 81 majority, over the
popular and wealthy Democratic can
dfdate. b city gave 297 majority for
Seymour and Blair. The Republicans
elected one-third of the Council. The
people are weary of an expensive and
inefficient Democratic rule. Westmin-
lister, in the same State, which gave
Seymour lS4 majority, also elected a
Republican Mayor, and a four-fifths
Republican Council last week.
The President has issued a proelama-
ton naming the 9Th of July as the time
for submitting the Constitution passed
by the Richmond Convention in De
, cember, 1867, to the voters Of Virginia,
registered at the date of such submits
sion, for ratification or rejection, and
submits to a separate vote the disqual-
1heation and test-oath Iauses. The
voter Is to vote a ballot designated
For the Constitution or "Againsi
the Constitution" and is allowed tC
cast aseparate vote for or against
either or both of the excepted provis.
ions.
The New York Times, speaking o.
the recent advance of gold, says; 'Un-
deran administration of t-etrenchment,
economy and revenue collection, the
premium on gold ought to fall, and the
public credit in all respects be
strengthened. Such q large, quick anC
unexpected advance as that of the last
month deranges business and values
and works greatly to the detriment o.
4 mercantile interests of the country
we have no doubt that the carrying
out of the ideas of General Grants in
augural, with a sound Treasury policy
ana a proper Treasury administration
would prevent these embarrassing anC
injurious fluctuations, and at the sam,
time sOlidly establish the public
credit.
1t is a fact in the highest degree hon
orable to Governor Hayes that there il
not a paper in Ohio of any party thai
mas a word to say, even in partisan
criticisms, against the ability and tn,
fairness with which he has executed
his trust as the Governor of our State
Journal.
The Spanish Constitutional Cortei
dld a noteworthy thing, though i
makes no great figure on paper, in de
cIarlng in favor of the sovereignty o
the people of Spain as a Fundamental
principle of government. From tn,
uespotism of Phillip II to this recog
nltlon of b people as the source of al
political power is a great stride, which
reveals the sure though slow WORKING
OF ideas, even under the most oppres.
sing constraint.
I~nnocencio Cazanove. anrAmericar
citizen, who was imprisoned by the
cuban authorities, but whose prompt
release was demanded and obtained by
the Secretary of State, arrived at Wash
lngFon yesterday from Havana, and
reports a more liberal course on the
part OF Spanish officials toward Amer
leans.
Chief Justice Chase has decided the
suit against the city of Richmond, Va,
to make her redeem her small notes to
the amount of 500, 600, issued during
the a The decision is that, having
nisstIedte aid the rebellion, thew
can not be redeemed. The Legislature
which authorized their issue was de
Jdcto a Legislature, and had power to
grant such authority, and had the notes
been issued for any legal urpos and
not for the subYersion of the Govern
ment, they would be liable to redenIn-
ton.