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The Nevada Democrat., 1862-07-19

Ils tn. sESLY DES0cRAT win be delivered to town
sab,cribert at ~ cents per month single copies 10
c,lt>. Mail s6bse i6ers 81 per aunum in advance;
S,r six months, $3.50; three months. 81
k,rss 0y ADVERTISING For ono square Of ten lines
lir,t nsectiIn. -; stcA subsequent assertion. ST.
,Iue hundred words on average make A square.
The Nevada Democrat., 1862-07-19

on Tuesday evening last the steamer
Banner left Sacramento for Martinez. bav-
ing m board 40 horses, which had Just ar
rived across the plains.
The Nevada Democrat., 1862-07-19

THE total vote of Oregon on the question
Of locatinR the State Capital was 1884, Of
which the town Of Salem had the highest
voie-3.2l3, and is accordingly the future
sea. Of government for Oregon. 49,.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
ANOTHER NAVAL FIGHT ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Capture and Destruction of Seven Rebel
Gunboats and Rams.
MEMPHIS IN OUR POSSESSION.
Forts Pillow and Randolph Eva
cuated.

The following despatch has been re-
ceived at the War Department
CoRINrH, June 7.-HOn. Ed Stanton
Secretary of War:-Deserters from the
enemy report that Forts Pillow and Ran
dolph were evacuated on the 3lst ult.,
and that Capt Davis Qate Foote's) no
tilla reached Memphis the next day, and
found the town nearly abandoned, and
many of the buildings destroyed.
[Signedl IL. w. HALLEcK, Major
General.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF COM. DAvIs--TnE
REBEL FLEET DESTROYED.
The following despatch has been re-
ceived at the Navy Department:
u. S. STEAMER BENToN,l
on Memphis, June 6.
To Hon. Gideon Welcs, Secretary of the
Navy:
Sir-I arrived here last evening, at .
o'clock, accompanied by the mortar fleet,
under Capt. Maynadcr, the ordnance
steam storeships, &c, and anchored Il
mile and half above the city.
This morning / discovered the rebel
fleet, which had been reinforced, and now
consisted of eight rams and gunboats,
lying at the levee. The engagement
which commenced at $50. A. NJ, aud
ended at O'Clock, terminated in II run
ming fight
was ably supported by the ram fleet,
under command of Col Ellet, who was
conspicuous for his gallantry, and is scr-
aue1,, lint unt 1onuarouclx. uOun1ad n,lo
result of the action was the capture or
destruction of seven vessels of the rebel
fleet, as follows The General Beaure-
gard was blown up and burned the Gen.
Sterling Price had one wheel carried
away the jeff, Thompson was set on fire
hy shell and burned, and her magazine
was blown up; the Sumpter was badly
cut mp by shot, bnt will he repaired q
little rebel steamer had her boiler explo.
ded by shot, and was otherwise injured,
but she will be repaired. Besides this,
one of the rebel boats was sunk, in the
beginning of the aetion her name is not
known.
A boat supposed to be the Van Dorm,
escaped from the Aotila, by her superior
speed. Two rams are in pursuit of her,
The officers and crews of the rebel boats
endeavored to take 10 the shore.
Many of their wounded and prisoners
are now in our hands The Mayor sur.
rendered the city to me after the engage
ment. Col. Fitch came down at eleven
O'Clock, and has taken military possession
of the town.
(Signed.) G. IL. DAVIS,
Flag Officer.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
Elkton Matters.

We take the following items from the
Cecil Whig'
On Saturday night last party of secesh
attempted to toast jeff. Davis & Co.. in an
Elkton restaurant but were stopped short
in their boosy offering to treason by the
proprietor, who threatened to "billy" them
out of his saloon. This is the proper argu-
ment for traitors, for it seems TO be the only
one they are capable of comprehending.
In our column of marriages and deaths
will he found Il notice of the marriage of
DIR. j. ii. Mccullough, which took place in
Baltimore, on Tuesday last, and n notice of
the death of Mr., w NJ. Mccullough, father
OF the groom On Wednesday evening the
bridal party assembled at the house Of the
groom's father Mr. Williams NJ. McCul.
longh near Pennington, in this county, TO
celebrate the nuptials under the parental
ROOF, and were there met by the appalling
intelligence of the dangerous illness of the
head of the family. About IL o'clock the
same evening Mr.. Mccullough breathed
his last. The deceased was about is Years
OF age, and passed through the gloomy por-
tails OF death, lamented by u large circle of
relations and neighbOrs, among whom he
had spent Il useful and irreprouchable life,
which endeared him to those most compe.
=
A fire occurred some two weeks since in
the upper end of the county, which de-
stroyed the mansion house at the Octoraro
forge. The fire broke out in the night, be-
ing communicated to the upper part Of the
building by a tlue. 1t was discovered early,
but 1t seems that il could not be reached in
llme to save the house, on account of there
being no ladder or means of ascending to
/ I'M 4 4
and saved, but the building was totally con-
sumed. The property belongs to Messrs.
Scott and Addison of Big Elk.
The Rev. VIM. Murphy has resigned the
rectorsbip of st. Johns Church. IIavre-de.
Gace, Md to take effect at the close ol
June.
MIR. Daniel Y. Cooley, in attempting ia
cross the Little North Fast creek, ON Wed.
nesday afternoon last, near Mr.. VIM. War
burton's saw mill, and washed down the
stream for nearly Il mile, losing both of hi.
horses and wagon, and narrowly escaping
with his life
The fruit crop, from present appearance
IN TINS county. has never been more abun.
dant than it promises to be the approaching
season. Cherries may be said to festoon
the boughs, the punches of green fruit hang
in such quantities. Apples and peaches arc
also plentiiuli and the smaller fruits, too
such as currants, gooseberries, blackberries
elc., appear to have been touched by the
wand of CERES or some other deity Of the
fruitful year.
DR. 1'hos j. Dunott of Elkton, who has
been acting as assistant Surgeon in General
Banks division of the army, for some
months past, has been recently appointed
J Surgeon Of the first Maryland Cavalry.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
FAST LYING.

The rebels are unapproachable in two
things-running away and lying They
can run faster, longer, further, and oftener
than almost any other race of people that
we know OF, especially when Union troops
are in sight. This popularity is only
equalled by themselves, in the matter OF
lying. None can lie more earnestly than
they. None on scale of boldness and
extent more grand Their last little item
in this respect is by the rebel Jackson
who lately used his trotters with such
good success before General Fremont at
Winchester. He reports that he captured
1000 men of Gen. Banks division at
Front Royal, when it is well known that
Gen Banks had but $500 troops, all told,
in the engagement, and that his killed,
wounded and missing amounted to about
900 men. How soon the conledcracy'
will be established upon permanent ba'
sis by the fleet heels of its towards and
the glib tongues OF its traitorous liars,
they perhaps can best tell.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
The President and his Traducers.

The Brooklyn Daily Times, thus pithily
notices some low fellows remarks upon
the President =
If there is any one thing in which the
entire Northern people, with inconsider-
able exceptions, are agreed, it is that
President Lincoln has displayed not only
the greatest prudence, Judgment and good
sense in the difficult position in which he
is placed, but that he has vindicated his
claim to credit for the highest order
Of talent, and the most successful states
manship Yet we find in one of the New
York Sunday papers, which was staunch
Breckinridge organ in the last Presiden-
tial election, the following slurring para.
graph, in an article on the President
last message to Congress- "taking the
responsibility for his subordinates' ac-
tions: -:..
ellis good nature exceeds his good sense
or he would not ask the American people
to credit such sublime nonsense. Our res.
pect for Mr.. Lincoln's honesty is sincere
however little has always been our re-
gard for his intellectual ability. We have
faith in his conservative purpose, what.
ever is our want of confidence in hi,
craftsmanship, We have no more wish
therefore, to see him the rcn head of the
war than of the treasury department, and
we should shudder to think that he haC
the complacency to imagine himself eithel
a Marlborough in the field or Necke
in finance.n
We submit that such slurs as these ar,
not only in exccrable taste, bnt are FALSE
i'll point of fact. Not one public man il
ten thousand could have guided the ShiI
of State through the storms of this TEN
pestuons period-ayoiding the Scylla o
of rebel-sympathising conservatism on til,
one hand, and the Charybdis of extrem
radicalism on the other-as Abraham
Lincoln has done And as for his wan
Of mental capacity, it hardly becomes tn
lippant scribbler of Sunday journal t.
sneer at that mans brains who met il
debate time and again and ultimately dc
feated by the power of logic and nativ
eloquence, the Little Giant of the Yves
Stephen A. Douglas
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10

FORTs AND PRoPERTY REoApTuRED.--Du-
ring the year the following forts, &C.. have
been recaptured, in accordance with Presi-
dent Lincoln's inaugural intention to "hold,
occupy, and possess" the property of the
United States:
Fort Macon, Beaufort, n. &.
Fort Pulaski, Savannah Geo.
Fort Clinch, Eastern Florida.
Fort Barrancas, Pensasola, Fla.
Fort McRae, Pensacola, Fla.
Fort jackson, Lower Mississippi.
Fort ST. Philip, Lower Mississippi.
Arsenal, Baton Rouge, Lii.
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.
Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla.
Custom-house, New Orleans, la.
Besides these, smaller works, like Fort
Pike, Lake Pontchartrain, and Others, have
been retaken-and the process is still rapid
ly going on.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
The Railroad Communication between
Charleston and Savannah Cut Off

GENERAL STEVENS EXPEDITION TO POCoTALIUo--
SHARP FIGHTING WITH THE REBELS.
A letter from Hilton Head, G.. dated May
3lst, says:
Railroad communication between Charleston
and Savannah has been cut off On Wednesday
night the 2Sth instant, Gen. Stevens obtained
permission to execute a plan which he long form
ed, and which he has been ready at any moment
since the occupation of Beaufort to undertake.
The Fiftieth Pennsylvania Regiment, Col. Cris,
two companies Of the First Massachusetts caval-
ry. and 4 section of the First Connecticut but
terry, comprising in all force of about eight
hundred men, were accordingly ordered to move
at once, and started for Pocotaligo at midnight.
At daybreak our forces reached the station-a
small village on the line of the Charleston and
Savannah railroad-and were met by nearly one
after few moments sharp lighting the rebels
were driven from their position, carrying of
their wounded, but leaving seven dead bodies
| and two prisoners on our hands Our loss was
two killed and five wounde1-all of the Fiftieth
Pennsylvania One of the killed was Captain
Charles Parker, of Reading, who fell while lead
ing his company into action. lie was fine
officer and splendid specimen of n man. | an
unable to learn in time for the Bienvilles mail,
the names Of the wounded.
After the rebels had retired our forces tore uE
the track for some distance on either side of the
| railroad. Col. Crist remained in undisturbed
possession of the position until two O'Clock or
Friday morning, when, the enemy appearing in
strong force, he deemed it prudent to retire
which he did successfully, arriving at Beaufort
yesterday noon.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

O'NsLs cheap fancy and staple Dry Goods
Store. No. Sl3 Market Street, Wilmington,
Delaware, four doors below Fourth street.
Keeps constantly on hand general assortment
Of everything in the Dry Goods line, as cheap
rs can be found any where else. The finest as
sortment of Embroidery in the State, as low as
any House in New York or Philadelphia
Please give him call No, 3li Market street.
our doors below Fourth street
mar7-ly JOHN O'NElL.
Rks- CHEAP JOINS ls the greatest place in
town.
ssls' Cheap John sella more Boots and Shoes
Than any other store in Delaware.
Rlsn Cheap John has the greatest stock Of
any othor store in Delaware.
ssSs@ Cheap John is the sole agent for the hes
Spool Cotton made III the world, at 4l2 King
Street.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
rPupLIo-No. 1877
AN ACT aboshing certain collection districts
and reducing compensation of officers of Gus
toms in California

AN ACT abolishing certain collection districts
and reducing compensation of officers of Gus
toms in California.
BE Il enacted by The Senate and House Of Repre-
sentddoes Of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That the collection districts
Of Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma,
san joaquin, and San Pedro, heretofore estab-
llshed by law, are hereby abolished, and the
same attached to the collection district Of San
francisco; and there shall be appointed, in the
usual manner, an inspector at each of the
following places Monterey, San Diego Sacra-
mento, Benecia, Stockton, San Pedro and the
salary Of each of this said inspectors shall be
one thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. .. And be il further enacted That from
and after the first day OF July, eighteen hundred
and sixty-two, the annual compensation Of the
collector of the customs for the district OF San
francisco shall be six thousand dollars; of the
naval officer, four thousand five hundred dollars;
OF the surveyor, four thousand dollars of the
principal appraisers. twenty-five hundred dollars
eachi and Of the assistant appraisers two thou
sand dollars each; and the office of an additional
appraiser general to be employed on the Pacific
coast, created by the act Of Congress entitled
An act making appropriations for the civil
aud diplomatic expenses Of the Government for
the year ending the thiriieth of June, eighteen
hundred and fify-four," approved March third,
eighteen hundred and ffty-three, be and the
same is hereby abolished.
Approved June 2, 1862.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
Gen. Butler and the New Orleans Press

Major General Butler does things
promptly and successfully in his dealings
with all classes in New Orleans, the press
included. The editor of the True Delta,
having published some contraband senti-
ments in his money article, Gen. Butler
sent him the following curt and pithy
order.
Headquarters Department of tie Ga!f I
New Orleans, May 10, 1862
70 he Proprietor Of tie New Orleans True Deita !:
SIR; The remarks in your money arti-
Gle of to-day are inadmissible.
Wanton, useless, and criminal nets OF
destruction of property, generally by the
mob, who do not own it, are not acts of
patriotism, but vandal incendiArsm,
which will be punished.
You will not receive further caution.
but punishment, for a like offence
Publish this conspicuously.
BY order of Maj. Gen, BUTLER
GEo. G. STRONG, Assist Adj't, Gen
The editor as promptly responded by
"publishing conspicuously," on the very
same evening, the above order at the
head of the editorial page.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
Address of Gen Mcclellan to his
Troops.

The following address was read to the
army, and received with an outburst of
vociferous cheering from every regiment ;
HEADQUARTERS or THE ARMY OF THE PoroMAc,
CAMP SCAR New BRIDGE, June ., 1862.
Soldiers Of tile Ar7ay Of tie Potomac:
have fulfilled ut least part of my
promise to you. You are now face to
face with the rebels, who are held at bay
in front of the capital
The final and decisive battle is at hand
Unless yon belle you past history, the
result cannot be for IL moment doubtful.
If the troops who labored so faithfully
and fought so gallantly at Yorktown, and
who so bravely won the hard fights al
Williamsburg, West Point, Hanover
Court House, and Fair Oaks now prove
worthy Of their antecedents, the victory
is surely ours.
The events of every day prove your
superiority. Wherever you have met the
enemy you have beaten him. Wherever
you have used the bayonet, he has given
way in panic and disorder,
ask of you now one last crowning
effort The enemy has staked his all on
the issue of the coming battle. Let us
meet him and crush him here in the cen
tire of the rebellion.
Soldiers! will be with you in thi'
battle, and share its dangers with you.-
Our confidence in each other is now
founded upon the past. Let us strike the
blow which is to restore peace and union
to this distracted land,
Upon your valor, discipline, and mutu,
al confidence the result depends
GEO. B. MCCLELLAN,
Major General Commanding
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
SIGNS or THE TIMES.

A recent letter of " Occasional p in the
Philadelphia Press contains the following
remarks in reference to the change of
public sentiment now going on upon the
question of slavery =
One of the incidents Of this revolution
against slavery is the extraordinary trans
formation wrought in the minds of intel
ligent and conscientious Democrats.
have just received letter from gentle
man who bears an honored name as IL
consistent member of the once respected
Democratic party, which l publish as ono
of the thousand evidences of the change
that is taking place in the minds Of men :
The leading article of TIE Press
this morning speaks the language OF truth
and necessity You remember it was my
policy from the outset no more legis-
lation, 10 more talk, no more compromise
or coacihatioa The Government must
show sterner stuff. We must treat those
heayen-daring and hell-deserving oflen-
ders, those highwaymen, those assassns
and pirates, as the worst of foes Mercy
10 them is cruelty 10 tie ciriHsed woifd
achich, IN its broad erpanSe, is more or
less interested IN tie maintenance Ut this
Republic in all its integrity. Our Gov
ernment shculd and must press them 10
tie ,oah, follow them up on their way,
defeat them until they are dispersed, lay
down their arms and return to their allie.
glance, are subjugated, or exterminated.
We must decide at once and steInly-no
indulgence of domestic traitors III our
midst. We must initiate Baltimore every.
where, all over our country, aud drive
traitors and their treason from our streets.
No more talk of the ties of consanguinity,
affinity, or sacred friendship with barbar-
ians and assassins. They dissolve in thin
air before the true patriot, who must bury
the recollections of all ties in the proud
consciousness of duty to God and his
country, from which source he will be
sure to receive his reward For Gods
sake, urge, by all possible means at your
command, the necessity of the most
stringent measures nor hope for peace
or restoration Of the Government by other
means. You are doing much; persevere,
call men and things by their right names,
and let our thoughts turn to subjugation
or, If need be, determination, America
and Christianity demand it,
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
fPunLic-No. IN

AN ACT To allow the State of California an ad
iit.onal representative in the thirty seventh
Congress
Hed sndcted By lie Senate and House If Reprsse9t-
dtres efMe limited States Of America IL Con-
Wev asssmbltd, That as the census has never
been reliably taken in the State of California
until the year eighteen hundred and sixty, and
as il appears that the said State had sufficient
population to entitle her to three representatives
in the thirty-seventh Congress, and as three re-
rresentatives have been duly elected to the
thirty-seyenth Congress, under the supposition
that the said State was entitled to the same, us
appears NY the certificate of the Governor there.
Of, and ms direct taxes have been apportoned
to aud paid by said State under tho ccusus Of
eighteen hundred and sixty, therefore the said
state shall be allowed three representatives il
the thirty seventh Congress- and for that pur.
pose the whole number of representatives i.
hereby increased one, until the beginning OF the
thirty'eighth Congress,
Approved, June ., 1862.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
GOING rnRouen THE FORM

The Rebellionists of this County held
a nomination election for Sheriff and Cor
oner on last Saturday. We have not
learned which of the candidates succeed
ed in getting placed upon the ticket. 1t
is of no sort of consequence, however,
who was successful. The dry form of a
nomination will be about as near as any
of them will get to Office in this county
We are told that it was quite amusing To
see how sheepish some of the secret, sly
secessionsts looked and evidently felt, as
they came out of the Hall after voting.
Those chaps are known little better now
than they were before They have un
masked themselves.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
Emancipation and Colonization

"IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE AD-
NIT THAT SLAVERY DOES NOT EXIST
AS A. VALUABLE SOURCE OF PRospERI-
TY. l ADMIT uNHEsITATlNGLY THAT
IF TOMORROW WE COULD SUBSTITUTE
FOR THE NEGRO POPULATION OF DELLA
WARE, SLAVE AND FREE, THE sAMB
NUMBER OF WHITE MEN, OR HALF the
SAME NUMBER OF WHITE MEN. AND GET
RID OF THE INFERIOR RACE, OUR
WEALTH WOULD BE oUADRUPLED"-
Hon. James A. Bdydrd.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
sImms, RotanIc IIaIr TonIc.
1t.s;SSIsh USES AsslsaE
liGI FOR RENT. a

Brick House Market street between Sh and gth No.
sl5, $3.50 co.
Frame nou,e in Mechanic street below Lombard st.
No. IL SIS %
Brick Ii ouse aud Lot on Lord street. third door from
Railroad, No 9s, $40 co.
Brick House Lord street second door from Railroad
S75 90
Frame House corner Church Taylor Streets ass co.
do do ON Taylor street adjoining the above 800 w y.
Rive Brick Houses Of llth street near piue Nos 6Ol
oO3, GOO, tOl and 6Oa, each 500 %.
Rive Brick Houses 18th street loar Lombard, Nos.
6Oi 505 hUi dUg aud oh each 500 OO
Two Frame Houses ON Riddles Lane first from Stone
Tavern, each $40 Co.
Frame House adjoining the alley 50 from tavern, $50 90
Four Frame Houses adjoining the above, each $3B co.
Brick Hsusa on Lombard street between MeCRulley
and l9th streets, X6U OO.
Brick HOUSE s. W. corner Of Front and Thorn streets,
$l25 20.
Brick House on Tatna street above Second street. No.
20s, $75 90.
Small Brick on Orange street betwoen Third and Fourth
streets, $50 90.
Ice iIouso yard on 1lth street between Market and
Two Frame Houses 18th and Elizabeth Streets each
s32 90.
Brick House church street between Eighth and
Ninth streets, SBi CO.
Brick House, No. lals King street between 18Th and
l1th streets 800 %.
Brick House. Taylor between Locust aud Buttonwood,
Sl4O 90.
Hrick House Oh Market street bewssn 18Th and l4th
streets SlD0 90.
Brink stable 18th street between Market and Orange
streets, S69 %.
Brick house 5th street between Pine and Spruce
street. $50 10,
Brick House, roomB well finished, with 10 acres Of
land, and brick stable, Wilmington, $3.50 90.
House and premises ut the s, h. corner of Market
ana Water Streets now in the tenureof James H. Cox and
WIN 7. Carr, p0sRessiOn the 18th Of March next.
Apply to WILLIAM MoCAULLEY,
ieb2b COG Market st., Wilmington, Del.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10
THE rAx BILL.

The tax bill passed the United States
Senate on Friday. A number of altera-
tions were made in the original bill, among
which was the introduction of clause
taxing Cotton. The tax on watches,
plate, and other exclusively private arti-
cles which required a kind of pimping,
Paul Pry, poke-nose, busy-body method
OF discovering them was stricken from the
bill. 1t is thought the House will adopt
the amendments and pass the bill.
Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-10

FEsTlyAL-The Young Mems Christian
Association Of this city, intend holding Il
strawberry and floral festival, as a means of
raising funds to liquidate the debt upop the
Monroe Chapel building, corner of Eighth
and Monroe streets.
FOURTH DELAWARE REGMENT.-Dr A. II.
Grimshaw has been authorized by the Sec
retary of War to raise fourth Delaware
Regiment Of Volunteers. We understand
that the Camp will be located near Hare's
Corner, in this County. Young men now
is your chance TO enlist.