Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-08-01
THE NEWS.

the NEWS.
The rebels made a raid on Gloucester
point, opposite Yorktown, on last Thurs
day night week. They carried off num-
ber of contrabands and impressed num-
ber of citizens.
On Friday, rebel mail carrier, with
1000 letters, was arrested few miles out
of Norfolk. He had obtained a pass to
go to North Carolina.
II is reported that Rev DIR. Brooks of
st. Louis, and Rev Dr. Hoyt, of Louis
vile, were arrested at Columbus, Ohio,
last Friday, they having papers in their
possession duplicating Vallandigham
who will be taken to Cincinnati.
Gen. Blunt, at Leayenworth, notifies
all persons coming from Missouri to es-
cape the military laws, that they must
leave his department or they will be ar
rested. Union troops are near Fsrt Glib
son, but have met no enemy A third
Indiana regiment has been raised.
A body of 200 rebel guerillas have
been completely routed near Patton, Mo.
The Richmond Enquirer says that
twenty-five pieces of artillery, part of
the eighty taken by the English from the
Russians at the battle of Inkermal, and
presented to tine confederacy by British
merchants, by whom if they were sent over
in the Nashville, have arrived at Macon
A number of disloyal men in the yici-
nifty of St. Louis have banded together as
guerillas, and gone towards the southwest
to join other guerilas
Advices from Mexico state that the
health of the French troops was i'm
proving. No rebel flags have passed the
Moro (Havaua) since last advices
Letters of inquiry relating to the pay
of soldiers in hospitals or on furlough
should be addressed to the Paymaster
General; letters relating to back pay
and $l00 bounty Of deceased soldiers, to
the Second AUDITOR letters relating to
the pay of deceased teamsters or other
employees, to the Quartermaster General.
By the Etna we learn that destructive
fires have occurred at London and Glas-
gov, Several liberal journals of Paris
speak of the probability of English in
huence entirely superseding that of France
in Italy if the Emperor persists much
longer in his vacillating policy with re-
gard to Rome. The French crops will
only be of ordinary yield. The prices
have risen. A French fleet is about he.
ing dispatched to the India and China
seas for postal and trading purposes
Additional ships have been added 10 the
squadron for carrying renforcements tc
Mexico. There is an impression in Spain
and Italy that the marriage OF the second
daughter of Victor Emmanuel fore
shadows scheme to overthrow the mon
archy of tine Bourhons in Spain, and con.
stitute the unity of the Iberian peninsula
WIN ShS ANihE VI bAlhEul loT llS tIlleI
The Russian squadron in the Mediterra
mean will visit the principal italian port,
at the end of the summer A bill for al
extraordinary credit to enable Prussia t,
extend her naval force has been intro
duced in the Prussian Cham ber of Depu
ties, 1t is reported that the repairs Q
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at Je
rusalem, have been commenced. Tn,
works are to be executed at the Joint ex-
pense of France, Russia, and Turkey
Prayers were recited at Calcutta in tn,
Mahomedan mosque of Tippo Sultan, fol
the destruction Of the infidels. Tn,
Taepings of China have met with severa
small successes
On Friday the rebels captured ant
burned a schooner near Harrison's Land
ing. They also drove off five hundred
head of cattle belonging to the army o
the Potomac.
The War Department has addressed
letter TO Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania
stating that after the 10th of August en-
listments for nine or twelve months will
not be allowed.