Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-13
NEWS nIArTERs.

NEWS MATTERS.
A despatch from Washington says the
Danish Government has made formal
through its Minister, to take
all the negroes who have escaped from |
their masters, andr emove them to st. |
Croix free of charge. 1t then proposes
to put them under an apprenticeship of
three years, permitting them 10 receive
regular wages At the expiration of
their apprenticeship, it is proposed to
free them Internationally.
Gen. Halleck telegraphed to the War
Department on Monday that the enemy
had fallen back fifty miles from Corinth
to Tupelo, with loss of $4,000 men.-
Beauregard's army at Corinth was 100000
but has been reduced by various losses to
about $4,000. Beauregard himself has
retreated to 0kalona.
At ST. Louis, james Il. Yeatman, Pre-
sident of the Western Sanitary Commits
sion, has received dispatch from Gen.
Halleck, stating that hundreds of women
and children in the vicinity of his opera
tions are in starving condition, their
husbands and brethers having all been
pressed into the rebel service, and robbed
of everything, and appealing to the citi-
zens of St. Louis for relief for the suffer.
ers Mr.. Yeatman laid Gen. Ilalleck',
dispatch before the Union Chamber oI
Commerce, and $4,000 worth of provisions
were Immediately subscribed, and q com
mittee appointed to receive and collect
3 food or money to buy it with. Similar
proceedings were had at the old Chamber
of Commerce, and liberal subscriptions
of provisions and money made. Tho
citizens generally are also furnishing larg'
supplies, and from present appearance
the hospital steamer Empress, which wa.
10 leave on Thursday, for Pittsburg Land
ing, would be heavily laden with food ioi
A the suffering southerners Contribution
from other points, addressed to brig. Gen
| Collnm, chief of staff at Corinth will b,
properly distributed. Money is not re
: quired, as there are no provisions in thu
country TO purchase
On the 4th of March, 1861, when Presi
dent Lincoln was inaugurated, the Gov
y ernmeut vessels available for service wer,
only four in number, carrying % guns
q Our navy now consists of 264 vessels o
, all sizes, carrying 2,O57 guns, with an ng
D. gregatc tunnage of 3ls,0l6 tuns. Th
+ number of seamen now employed is %, 600
A camp of instruction for $4,000 men
F cavalry, artillery and infantry, in due pro
:, portions, is Immediately TO be establishe,
: near Annapolis, Md, under the comman,
/, of Major General Wool, in addition t
- his duties as Department Commander. -
- Brigader General Il. II. Graham is as
~ signed TO the command as Chief of Caya
i ry; Breyet Brigadier General Haryc
i Brown as Chief of Artillery.
e. In accordance with call made b
e General Halleck, Governor Gamble ba
lie issued proclamation asking for recruit
lie to fill up regiments of Missouri volunteer
F. now in the service of the United State
Ut 1t stated that the Confederate debt
I'll $4l0,OOO,0OO. This is little more tina
ls the Federal debt, but it must be reeollec
IL ed that nearly all the materials of wa
" ammunitions provisions, &c, with til
% exception of what they have stolen, ha,
- cost the Confederates far more than Il
d ordinary prices. Warfare with the r.
" bells is peculiarly expensive business
n' However, a debt never troubled Jet
Davis His rule is to repudiate wht
of you possibly can