Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-04-01
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Secretary Chase means to carry out the |
principle announced some time ngo, that
commerce shall follow the flag, and has ac-
cordingly issued instructions to the treasury
agents, collectors and surveyors on the Ohio
and Mississippi, dispensing with applications
to the Secretary for licenses TO trade, and
authorizing the shipments of all goods not
intended for the aid of the rebellion 10 all
places occupied by our troops in the valley
States. Applications for permits can be
made, henceforth, direct TO the collectors or
surveyors of the different ports.
Ten. HalIeck has issued an order that, in
view of the rapid extension of steamboat
navigation into the loyal States, and the
Importance of having the boats engaged in
such navigation controlled by loyal citizens
il is ordered that all licenses 10 pilots and
engineers, navigating the waters of this
Department, shall be revoked on and after
the 18th proximo, but the said pilots and
engineers shall take out licenses from the
supervising inspector, who will only grant
them to persons of approved loyalty or in
case of doubt, will require bonds with
security.
The President has Internationally par
doned two subjects of Great Britain who
were convicted three years ago by the Bis
trict Court of Florida, and sentenced to
Imprisonment in the District of Columbia
penitentiary, for resisting and preventing
the master and pilot of an American vessel
in the free and lawful exercise of their au-
thority and command on board thereof. The
President, in his proclamation to Marshal
Lamon, says, the convicts, it now appears,
were guiltless of criminal intent, and that
Lord Lyons had caused special inquiry to
be made into the merits of their case, and
besouSht him to extend TO them the Execu
tive clemeney.
The Committee on Patents, of the Senate,
have reported bill establishing new De-
partment of Agriculture 1t differs in many
respects from the House bill 1t provides
the office of Commission of Agriculture, and
constitutes four bureaus, viz. A Bureau OF
Science and Practice of Agriculture, of Ma
tural History connected with Agriculture,
Of Agricultural Chemistry, and Of Agricul-
tnral Mechanics, Manufactures, Commerce
and Statistics. The Commissioner Is re-
quired TO preserve agricultural information
obtained by books aud correspondence by
practical and scientific experiments by the
collection of statistics by the test of cult
yation and acclmation Of plants, and bS
their propagation. He must report annual
ly upon lst. The transactions OF the seve
raj bureaus Of the Department ID Al
account Of the condition and progress o
agriculture throughout the country Sd
Easays upon agricultural sabjects. 18th. Al
account of receipts and disbursements q
the Department.
BY the arrival at New York of the steam
er New York, from Southampton, we hav,
later news from Europe The English il
Parliament seem to he troubling themselve
about the arrest of the Purser of the sun
ter, at Tangier. The recent Union successe
in the south have prodnced favorabl
effect in the manufacturing districts. Th
REeeh insurgents HhNe ploclalHltu tne So
Of Victor Emmanuel lthe Italian monarch
King of Greece, with the title Of Utho th
Second.
Gen, Buell. is in command of the Unio
forces in Tennessee, and at the latest ad
vices he was within Is miles of the rebe
army under Beauregard Morgans reb(
cavalry have captured another train on tn
Louisville and Nashville Railroad II COZ
tanned several U. S. officers.
Gen Dix has been made commander Of
new military department, comprising Peur
syiyania, New Jersey, Delaware, tina oaster
shore Of Maryland and Virginia. and Bali
more.
The rebels in Arkansas under Van Dor
and Price are said to he weakened and di
heartened, and TO have retreated beyond III
Boston mountains TO Van Buren, and Fo
Smith. They are badly off for clothing an
shoes, but are receiving supplies by IL
Arkansas river, which is now flooded. Pike
Indians having been panic stricken by OF
artillery in the recent battle, have been sci
back to their homes