True Democrat., 1863-04-22
: The governor of Delaware is th'

lckspittle to tyrant to be found at the North. The legislature passed an act to prevent illegal arrests. The governor has no veto, but he issued proclamation declaring that Lincoln's will was superior to any State law, that the voice of the President of the United States is above that ot any statute, and that the people of Delaware must obey it before the legislature of the State or any other human authority whatsoever" He further says "I will render harmless the operation of any statute that may be enacted or that shall be attempted to be enacted"
 This fellows name is Cannon, great bore but of small cabre He sets himself above law, vet crawls in abect servility at the feet of Lincoln The people of Delaware ought to get rid of or. discharge this Cannon.
 - Gen. Hunter counted largely on working the negroes in South Carolina raising cotton. It was q completa failure, so he put them to raising corn instead. The reason given for the abandon ing the raising of cotton is, the discrepancy be- tween the financial profits of last years cotton crop and the government capital invested in it." In plain English, it cost more than it came to. year ago the North went mad over the prospect oi raising cotton by negro labor and their papers cal culated how many millions they would make rais ing sea island cotton. But the figures show that every pound would cost nearly seven dollars
 - Some months ago in shannon county, Mis- sour, the tederals arrested Joshua Chiffon, State senator from that county, two nephews ot bis, and a young man who happened to be at ChltonS. They were taken in Denton county, imprisoned for three tays, and taken out to be executed.- One of the nephews made his escape. The others ,utoI crc1 nn1fh heir hna1e cnt on poles by the road side, " warning to all rebels and traitors.''
 - At Indianapolis, Hannigan, the Auditor of State and Hanna, member of the legislature, were smiling at each other in bar room, and one said, Here's to Jeff Davis'' and the other said "Amen." They were both arrested
 - part of Pegrams command caught four renegade Tennesseans recruiting in Scott county, Kentucky A fight ensued, in which Maj. Duncan and Capt. Gross were killed, and the other two were wounded.
 - Judge Kinney has been removed from Utah. upon suspicion of being in partnership with Brigham Young.
 - The-federals have stolen thirteen thousand negroes from Arkansas. Of these two or three thousand have gone North, some being on farms in Missouri working for their captors. At least four thousand have died miserable deaths. Three regi ments are being drilled at Memphis, Helena and points in Mo.
 - The Detroit papers contain accounts of the departure of drafted men for the seat of war; with irons on their wrists. Such troops will not be hard to whip
 - Butler stole the fine statute of " ashington l which was at Baton Rouge.
 - tis proposed, in Massachusetts, to pass a law preventing the marriages ot army widows, as many cases have occurred where it has been found that the first husband is yet alive in-the army.
 The letter writers from Richmond are fond of-pubshine the high prices pait for eatabe in that city, They will be surprised to learn that they are far below the prices asked and paid here. Taking all things toeether; clothing, food and necessary articles he Little Rock market com mands the highest prices of any place in the world Part of this is the fault of the soldiers, who give any price that is asked II they would refuse, for a week, to give any but reasonable prices, the | marketmen would come down. - R. B. Vance, brother of the governor Of i N C., has beer. made a brigadier
 - Victor Hug has written tragedy of which old John Brown IS the hero.
 - 4 citizen of Richmond handed the Secre- tary of the Treasury parcel as gift to the Con federacy Upon cxaminS it, one thousand dollars in gold was founl
 - The testimony before the Mcdowell mili- tarv commission thus far, shows that three officers of Gen Curtis staff, all family relations of his, were engaged in buying cotton at Helena. bo, ceivcd an offer to go to England to deliver comic | lectures.
 A singular coincidence of the occur red on Monday the Both day of March There is a town on the Ohio river, at the mouth of the Ka- nawha called Point Pleasant and town of the same name on the Mississippi, ten miles below New Madrid At ten o'clock in the morning of that day, 25O of Jenkins cavalry dashed into one town and at the same hour troop of Alexandcr's cay airy dashed into the otherPolnt Pleasant. Jenkin: burned 10 ,O00 bushels of federal corn, took some stores. killed 20 or 30 of the enemy, and took as many prisoners He lost five killed and wounded and ten who yentured too far were taken prisoners The feds were about to murder them, but were afraid the Confederates wouldretaliate. Alexandel took possession, burned a lot of federal corn anC 
 | took some stores.
 - In Western Virginia the partisans are al work. They have captured two steamboats on the Kanawha and came near getting two others.
 - The tederals got 5000 bales of cotton il the American Bend 2200 bales had arrived al Memphis, on the Empress.
 - Andy Johnson has a commission to raist .,ooor coc carvice in Tennessee
 - Early in April as the federal boats were il the Coldwater the partisans attacked three O them.-the Ad. Hine the Empire City and th Cheesman The captain of the Ad Iline wa killed, an engineer on the Empire City, and nun Der of others.
 IT. The governor of Florida has issued proclamation appealing to the planters not to plan any cotton.
 - Several of the members of the legisatur | of Tennessee returned to their homes within thu l federal lines and arrested. The speaker O. the House of Representatives was sick at Mur treesboro and fell into the hands of the Yankees Bradley Bunch speaker of the Arkansas House o Renresentatives fell into their hands last year, bu mon his arrest, coming to the knowledge of tht officer commanding in that portion of the country