Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-05-23
GENERAL NEWS.

las lengthy article on the evacuation OF {
Norfolk and Yorktown, and the conduct
If the war generally. 1t says, "hy aban-
loning detached posts which are within
reach of the enemy's feet, and which 1t Is
impossible to defend, we are
enabled to concentrate powerful forces
upon essential points, and to battle the
enemy in every attack of vital impor-
tance.
The letter to Flag Officer Farragut,
from Commander De Clonet, of the French
vessel-or-war Milan, published in the New
Orleans newspapers, demanding a notice
of sixty days before bombarding the city,
is pronounced in the best informed cir
eles in Washington, forgery.
Gen. VIM. II. Keim, of Pennsylvania,
died in Harrisburg, on Sunday afternoon,
of typhoid fever.
The Navy Department has dispatches
stating that the gunboat Ottawa, on the
9th, captured the schooner Gen. @ &.
Pinckney, loaded with cotton. She WAS
attempting to run the blockade for Mas
sau. The prize arrived at New York on
Sunday
The gunboat Jacob Bell, lying at the
navy yard wharf, Washington was dis.
covered to be on fire early on Tuesday
morning. The flames were soon suppress
+ sed. She was loaded with ordnance
stores, and some of the boxes of shells
were considerably charred, hence the YES
sci barely escaped being blown up. The
origin of the fire has not been ascertaned.
Hon John Hickman, has positively de.
: cined being candidate for the meXl
t Congress,
Col. Corcoran has been released, ant
, is expected home in short time.
Gen. Rosecrans passed through Cincin
J. natl last Saturday, en- route for pittsbur4
Landing, where he is to take command o
= the late General Smiths division.
Lieut. Higgins, of the Irish Brigade
: one of the guard on duty at Camp Dou
+ glas, Chicago, has been placed under ar
rest, charged with having accepted bribe
k 10 conniye at the escape of certain rehe
e prisoners confined there
t. John M. Bolts, who has been imprisoI
e ed in Richmond for some months, ha
= been released OH condition of rcmovin
' to the interior and holding no commun
cation with any one except his own famil,
,f A mass convention of the friends of tn
m Administration, and those favorable
t the emancipation of the slaves held
10 Missouri, under the plan submitted t
h Congress by the President, has been cal
ie ed TO meet at Jefferson City on the Ct
~ of June, TO nominate candidates for Il
T. State offices
id L. p. Christy, of the Christy Minstrel
died in New York city, oil Wednesda
'tS John Drew, the comedian, died
=, Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoo
" of congestion of the brain
lid A despatch from Fortress MonrC
ar dated Wednesday last states that the {
is ienaL in which Brigadier General Saxt,
n sailed for Port Royal, was wrecked
ess Friday night, May 10th, on Boddys
nu, land, 30 miles north of Cape Hatteras.
II" The passengers and crew were saved.
TO, tea portion of the cargo was lost The
.oo mainder will be saved Oh the beach
A destructive tornado occurred
ont Wheeling, Virginia, on Wednesday
md, ternoon, at 2 O'Clock. The Luther
and Church, occupied as a school, was unrool
ION. lole and demolished, killing three and wouI
NV ing six children. 1t also blew down
nr steeple and partially nproofed st. job
lad Episcopal Church. The same torna
onr demolished the upper works of the ste;
nah. cr Mariner, bound down, with troops
rmy The captain, mate and pilot We're sol
lilies what injured, but no lives were lost.
le~ huh of the boat and the cargo were sd,
r.to The President has signed the Ho
The stead Bill. 1t is therefore now law