Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1863-06-05
NEWS AND ormEl, mArrEns

In the Old School Presbyterian General
Assembly, sitting Mt Peoria, Illinois, on
. the 9th ultimo, a resolution was sub
mitted by the Rev Dir. Neyin to raise the
national flag upon the church in which
the Assembly was sitting. A motion was
made to lay this resolution on the table
The yeas and nays were called, when the
vote stood 80 to 1879. The whole subject
was subsequently referred to a committee
of seven.
According 10 an official report made to
Rear Admiral Davis, the line of coast
guarded by cur blockading fleet is three
thousand five hundred and forly-nne miles
long, without counting the indentations of
the harbors and ports And in this coast
there are one hundred and eighty-nine
openings, either rivers, bays, hNrbors, in
lets, sounds, or passes.
The Union gunboat Cincinnati has been
sunk by the rebel batteries of Vicksburg,
and twenty of her crew killed and wound
ed. The rebels have been forced 20
parole some of their prisoners, on account
ofthe low state Of their supplies
General Burnside has prohibited the
circulation of the New York World in his
department, and, has suppressed the
Chicago Times,
Moulton, the secesh governor of Lousi-
ana, has been arrested at Vermillionyllc,
and brought to New Orleans.
General Payne, in Kentucky, has com.
menced to change the system of slave
labor in his district into compensated
labor, by hiring the slaves to their former
masters at fixed sum per month, under
written contracts. The plan seems to
work well, and the slave owners are de.
lighted with it.
AT Louisville, on Tuesday evening last
large brick building on Sixth street
used by the government for storing corr
and oats, fell down, burying some twenty
persons beneath the ruins 1t is reported
that five were killed
The number of civilians within the lint
of the army of the Potomac is almost in
credible, including those registered ~
following civil pursuits, such as newsmen
suffers, ragmen, &c, and having permit.
10 follow their respective eallings. Tn,
total will probably reach 5000. Thi,
number will, however, be reduced to 1000
by the operations Of the recent genera
order, which is daily being carried out b,
the interchangeable Provost Marshal Gene
raj.
The steamers Persia and Edinburgh
from Liverpool on the 2lst and Odd ult
have arrived at New York, The news i
OF considerable importance. The Englsl
papers set down Hooker's campaign as {
miserable failure. \ large English o,
has been goared by the pirate Semmes, q
it turns out that the cargoes of the ship
Nora, Chas. Hill and Louisa Hatch. de,
troyed by him, were British property
Loud calls are being made on the govern
ment for protection against similar out
RACES, The government is bound to VIII
honoraby if it can, dshonorably if
must, Tor one of the --latest movements is
letter from Persigny to the Project. of tn
Seine, denouncing NJ Theirs as bein
connected with the ayowed enemies of tb
Emperor There is nothing of import
ance from Poland II is said that Russ
has called on Prussia for assistance i
putting down the revolution. An inte,
esting item Of the foreign news in the r,
fusal of Lord Brougham to preside at til
anniversary of the British Emancipatio
Society," on the ground that 'the neutrt
lily England had assumed in this struggl
would be compromised by his acceptanc
of the chair" Old age is no doubt be
ginning to tell on the veteran statesman
General Frank Blair's division la
started for the Big Black bridge, but thei
ultimate destination is unknown. Onth
2lst hostilities were suspended for tn
purpose of allowing the women and chill
dren to leave the city of Vicksburg.