Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-02-16
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NEWS AND OTHER MATTERS.
Mrs, Ann Wood, wife Of Lieut. Wood, Third
South Carolina regiment ,coored), committed
suicide On Thursday last by jumping from the |
sixth story Of the building 1886 Crosby street TO
the pavement below. In her descent she passed
directly through wooden awning underneath
the lower windows. Mental oppression ~ gwen
as the cause for the act.
One Of the leading doctors ut Paris, and real |
count, also has been making large fortune by |
getting the lives Of his patients insured, and theD
poisoning tbem-a very Frenchy way of doing |
business But be has been found out, and his |
business rs dnll.
Prof Agassiz, while at Piiisburg on lectur-
inc tour, received an autograph letter, dated |
January 4, 1864, from Louis Napoleon, Emperor
of France, inviting his return TO the country |
which gave him birth, aud with whose language |
and institutions he so well acquainted anu
identified The Professor, however, will decline
the offer, as be prefers 10 live in the United
States
A project las originated at West Point to erect
there ''Bnte Monument" upon which shall
he inscribed the nam;s of all officers of the regu
lar army who shall have been killed or died OF
wounds received in the field during the present
war. The expense Of the monument is to be
betrayed by sliding sea Of taxation upon the
officers Of the regular army-S2T for II major
general, down to 81 for o lieutenant. Col Bow
man IL pftslutnlt huA AINl NhuiSh 10 tieH9utNi
of the association,
The Maryland Senate has appointed a special
Committee relative to the purchase Of the Ante
tam battle ground, md the erection Of inonu-
ment to the memory ul those who fell there.
The elrcton Of United States Senator by the
kansas Legislature appears TO have caused great
indignation am ng the people of that State
Meetings of citizens are being held upon the
subject, aud the Union League Of Leavenwortb
have denounced the action as an infamous fraud
upon the people.
The loyal citizens of Memphis held a meeting
on the 10th inst, to consider the propriety OF
calling convention of the people OF West Ten
nessee, with view Of joint action in the restora-
tion OF the civil government
Geo. Ford of Lawrence, Kansas, whose house
has many flowers about it, writes that when
Quantrell was ravaging Lawrence, he assented
TO an appeal TO spare that house because sit
too pretty 10 burn Mr. Ford now says he
shall cultivate flowers as long as he remembers
the rebellion
letter writer from the Army Of the Potomac
says that many Of the veteran corps return ia
the army before tile expiration Of their furluughs
One Of this class gave as reason for not re-
naming the full time, that he was "hOme sick
and so returned to his home in the army. Every
such veteran is worth dozen raw recruits
whose chief weakness is that they get home sick
after another fashion
a lubu Uu hOuuuy puFCudHeu ulilluu uNtE-
coat from one of the second haud clothing stores
in Detroit, sewed inside the lining of which was
10 the neighbOrhood Of $3.50 in United Stntes
money. lie paid $40 for tho coat, Hnd made
nice little speculation by the purchase.
A French naval officer is said to have invented
kind of varnish which on being applied TO al
iron plate, afterwards covered with coppe
sheathing and immersed into the sea for iht
space of five months, has been found to protcc
the iron most efeclually, by preventing the gal
Vanic action between the two metals, to which
aetion, in conjunction with that of oxidation, thi
gradual deterioration of iron ships bottoms il
mainly attributable.
Gen. E. p. Scammon, captured by guerillas
few days ago on the Kanawha river, West Vir.
gna, was regular army officer, belonged T.
the engineer corps, served in Florida and hlexi
co, and was on Gen. Scott's staff in the war will
the latter country. Subsequently, he resigue,
his position in the army and accepted the prcsi-
dency OF the Catholic Institute Of Cincinnati il
wh ch pursuit he was employee at the bteakn
out Of our civil war, lie then became Colout
Of the 23d Ohio regiment, and fought bravely j
many battles, especially ut Bull krn and Antit
tam, and received brgadiership as the rewar
of his distinguished services.
DR.. Beke, veteran Nile explorer, recent
delivered n lecture In London in which he dche
that Messrs. Spoke and Grant had discovere
the true source Of the Nile. lie admitted thl
the river, as they traced it, issued out of LAX
Nyanza, but claimed that it also ran through i
having It's real source in the mountains OF ii
Moon, to the eastward Of the lake, where, con
trary to the general supposition, they lie in
northerly and southerly direction. ln cOnclu
sion, DR.. Beke announced that so dissatsfg
was he with the results of the last two exped
tions, apd SO certain was he of the truth OF b
own theory that he intended TO undertake a
expedition in person which should set the quet
ton at rest forever, and public subscrptiu
would be opened for the purpose.
John Crockett, n New York recruiting Office
hassbeen seut to Fort Lafayette, for defraudn
u recruit out Of two hundred anI forty dollars
his bounty.
Gen. J. Fl Rains, said to he the handsome
man in the South, has permanently retired fro
the Kohel service, and 10 now engaged in ayr
cultural pursuits n Texas.
Sioux lHdan just captured, confesses
having killed eighteen women and children.
The crowd 10 hear Beccher was so great
Springfield, that they overthrow door keeper
and ticket Office, aud swept iu froe.
II is reported in the South African Nail tht
DR.. Livingstone, the great explorer, whose fam
belongs to the whole world, has been murdere
by the native MakololoF, on Lake Nyassn
There is o temperance revival among the Off
GERS in Gen. Gimore's Department. and man
Whiskey bottles have been broken
The steamer Fulton, arrived at New Yor
brings advces from Port Royal to the 9TH nj
Charleston bar to the 10th. Al expedition HI
gone to Florida, Its object being to capture 10
lahasse, the capital OF the State General Gil
more had left Port Royal for Florida. IT
British war steamer Petrol had been refus
permission to communicate with the Britt
Consul at Charleston, by Admiral Dahgren.
The Savannah Republican gives gloomy a.
count Of Rebel affairs, and states that only O
months subsistence is in possession Of the r
bel Commssary, Admiral Dahlgren had al
gone to Florida.
The Rebel guerrin,s on the line of the Bait
more and Ohio railroad are proving tbemselV
accomplished highwaymen, and practice pocke
picking on nn extensive scale On Thnrsdq
night the express train going west was stoppt
beyond Harper's Ferry by throwing the ehrir
of the track The Rebels then took possess n
Of the cars and robbed every passenger on boar
who had anything worth taking Money AT
watches were principally looked after, but ev,
smaller articles, such as pocket knives al
tooth picks were not overlooked.
Advices from Vicksburg to the 9th represe
everything goirg on favorably.
Gen. Magruder, of the Rebel army in Texa
is announced as having arrived at Southampto
England, in the West India mail steamer Airat
The Alabama, according to the latest account
was continuing her depredatiOns in tue Easte
waters.