Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-12-15
NEWS AND OTHER MATTERS,


signed a pardon exempting + W. CAN'T
of Arkansas, from the penalty Of treason,
which he incurred by accepting and ex
ercising the Office of Brgadier General in
the service Of the insurgents. The pardon
also reinstates Gen. CAN'T in all his rights
Of property except those relating 10 slaves
The personal effects Of Hon. j. A
Campbell, Of Alabama, late Judge Of the
United states Supreme Court, which had
been seized and condemned under the pro-
visions OF the confscation act we're sold at
auction on Thursday, at bis late residence
in Washington. There was large number
Of persons present, aud every thing sold
we'll. the sales amounting to over $4,000.
The estimate for clothing for the army
for the next fiscal yesr is fifty millions Of
dollars. The Engineer Department esti-
mates FIVE millions and third as re-
quired for Notifications for the year ending
June, 1865.
The ayails Of the draft so far as ascer-
tanned up 10 this time. are 10000 men and
sl2,O0O,OOO The figures given III the
Secretary of Wars Report we're based
upon data two or three weeks old.
The Richmond Enquirer demands that
the permission granted 10 our Government
10 send provisions to the Union prisoners
in Rebel dungeons shall be Withdrawn
In Georgia all boys over fifteen years of
age are TO be conscripted.
The rebel Senate has passed bill pro-
hibiting the employment Of substitutes in
in their army.
In the rebel Congress, on the 9Th inst,
Mr.. Foote, of Tennessee, denounced JEFF
Davis, as a marplot, who did more injury
than good to the confederate army by his
visits. He accused their commissary
general, Northrop, Of having starved the
Union prisoners, aud having placed the
confederaey in dishonorable position
before the world
The Richmond Wing says that small
pox and typhoid fever prevails amongst
the prisoners at Danville, Virginia.
The refusal of the rebel authorities to
permit amy more supplies to be sent to
the Union prisoners in their hands was
they allege, caused by imputations cast
on them by the authorities that they had
not distributed all the provisions re-
ceived. They state that the prisoners
can now set out IL table equal to tina
furnished by any hotel in the north. Flo
the present nothing but letters will be al
lowed to reach the prisoners.
On the 18th ult Col. slcmp's Gltl
Virginia regiment was surprised by Unior
cavalry in Lee county, Ya, near Jones
vile. Slemp had his men in m ambush
but was surrounded and taken prisoner
A few days before II portion of the saint
regiment had been captured in anolhe
place,
Our cavalry are actively chasing tn
rebels in southwestern Virginia, TIL
rebel Captain Everett recently made
raid on Mount Sterling, Kentucky. o.
his return through Pound tap he wa
pursued by twelve hundred cavalry, win
at last accounts, were al Gainesville, i
Wise county.
On the 9th and 10th, Gilmore tire,
shells into Charleston, knocking dow
some houses.
General Butler teIcgraphs from Fort
trees Monroe that the rebel authorize
refuse to permit amy more supplies 4
food or clothing to be sent to the prisol
ers in the Libby Jail or nj Belle Isle.
Major General Washbune telegraph
from Pass Cabelo, Motagorda Bay, thu
the control of that bay gives us in realit
the entire control Of central and wester
Texas. On the ID inst. the rebels blew Ii
the magazine Of Fort Espcranza on Mat,
Eorda Bay. 1t had garrison of OF
thousand men, who all escaped but ST
We captured subsequently ten guns, fro
twentyfOur up 10 one hundred and twenl
eight Founders.
The health Of the army in Texas is +
ported to be excellent
The steamer Circassian has put in
Hampton Roads on her way from II
Grande. On the 9th inst she captur,
the blockade runner Minna, with We
valuable cargo
Ms. Golden, NJ r., addressed his co
stitnents Mt Roekdalc in n lengthy spec,
on the oath ult After glance ut Il
proceedings Of the British Parliament
passed in review the lending foreign que
tionsofthe day rcmarkiug, with reIcrcn
to the American war, that he never III
believed" and believed less now thu
oyer"-that he or my ofthosc who hea
him would ever" live to see two natio
within the confines Of the present Unit,
States' lie denounced the war Of /
slaveholding "arstocratn as war wug
against democracy, with the object
erecting nm empire of slavery.