Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-09-13
LOCAL AFFA1Rs.
HHApeuARfERs DTsTRIor or DELAwAnn,
Wilmington, Sept, 10Th. 1864.

HzADQUARFERa DIsTRIcr or DELAwAnn, \ Il
Wilmington, Sept. 10Th, 1864.
GENERAL oRDRRs,
No. 4.
No commissioned officer or enlisted man
belonging to this command, shall absent himself
from his regiment or detachment without proper
leave in writing, sigued by the commanding
otloer OF sush regiment Or detachment
Application for leave OF absence or furloughs
must be forwarded each day before ten o'clock,
A. NJ, to these headquarters through inter-
mediate commanders, and will be returned in
the same manner.
1t Is enjoined upon all officers to acquire n
proper knowledge of their respective duties, to
instruct their men, to show by faithfulness and
the Republic. The careless, the indifferent, the
incorporate, and good for nothing, will as soon
as discovered be turned out OF the service.
By command OF
Col. s. NJ. BOWMAN,
HRERY H. FowkH,
LIST Lieut.. and A. A. A. G..
DIED.-Nlr. John D. Gray, member of Capt.
Milligan's Emergency Cavalry, died at bis resi-
dcnce near Claymont, on the I'd inst, from
typhoid fever, contracted while in the service.
He was an estimable man, and his demise will
be deeply regretted by all who knew him.
ROBBRRY.-some Villains entered the counting
house OF Ephraim T. Walton, in New Castle
Hundred, at the southerly end Of the Chrisiiana
bridge, ou Thursday night last. They broke
and damaged his safe and carried oil an over
coat. This is the second time his counting
house has been entered within short time past.
IMPORTANT DrcIsfoN.-The Commissioners ap-
| pointed by the act Of the General Assembly Of
the State of Delaware, passed at Dover, August
18th, 1864, entitled "An act to relieve tue people
Of this State from the draft" will require in ad-
dition to the certificate OF the Board Of Eurol-
ment, from the party furnishing the Substitute,
and claiming tho State aid therefor an affidavit
stating that the sum Of $500 has been paid for
such Substitute, or If II less sum has heen paid,
the amount 80 paid to be truly set forth.
Sept 9-2w
" you WANT just the incest Album picture
you ever raw in your life, call at Gawthrop
Co.'s 40 Market street. In Two minutes timt
you eau have it with you.
WANTRD-Wanted immediately 1000 young
ladies between the ages Of sweet sixteen aud
sixty, also large number Of misses and child
ren to wear the celebrated Patent Spiral HOOP
skirt Call between the hours of A. NJ. aud
7 P. NJ, every day this year, Sundays excepted,
at S0l Market street, Institute Building
wM. II. HYDE,
sept. t.l3-2t Manufacturer Of Hoop sailts.
CASE OF SHIPwREcR AND DROwNING. "A sad
case Of drowning occurred at the Delaware
Breakwater on the 9th instant. The schooner
Lion, bound TO New York from Norfolk, wal
caught ia the terrible storm of the 4th instant
and made for the BreAkwater, where she or
rived in disabled condition. She being un-
manageable, was thrown against the rocks, ant
three persons were drowned, namely, Captain
Thomas Ross, his brother, Rodgers Ross, anC
the cook, whose name is unknown. The unfor
tunate persons held on to the wreck for iifteei
hours, when they gave 10 from sheer exhaustion
The sea was so high that no life boat could live
and il was impossible to render them any assis-
tance from the shore.
HOop SKIRTS have not advanced yet in pro
portion to other goods, but will be higher yer,
soon. Buy now and gave by so doing.
WM. H. HYDE, Agent