Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-02-05
NEWS BREVITIES.

Cheering news comes from the Virginia
Army Refugees and deserters are focking
to the old flag for protection against rebel
tyranny. The Amnesty Proclamation is wor-
king wonders in demoraliziug the rebel armies
and in causing the desertion of their troops.
A universal feeling of terror and despond-
ency prevails in the South and it is with
difficulty that the Government is able to stem
the current Of popular feeling setting against
it.
The rumors in regard to a mutinons out
break in the rebel army near Stevensburgh,
Va, last Saturday, are confirmed. Deserters
say that an entire regiment attempted to desert
and that serious ARRAY occurred.
The President has directed General Steele,
now commanding in Arkansas, to issue a call
for an election Of Governor Of that State on
the 28th of March next, in view of instituting
measures for the reorganization of the State
Government On loyal basis, in conformity
with the terms indicated by the Amnesty Pro
clamation
THE rebel army under Gen. Zoe. Johnston
has disappeared from Dalton. 1t is thought
the enemy has moved towards Mobile and
Joined Cheatam in the interior of the State
1t is the impression that the rebels are con-
templating a concentration of forces at some
point for offensive operations.
The last news from Japan indicates that
| the native princes are determined to resist the
effort of the allied European powers to force
them to open their country to foreign infu-
ence and trade. The leading anti-foreign
princes are Satsuma, Morvori, and Arva. It
will possibly cost vast outlay OF blood and
treasure to overpower these sulky japanese
and European convulsion may render the at
tempt impraeticable.
The lates: information from Tennessee
brings the gratifying intelligence that the
rebels six hundred strong, under Colonel
Han rison, who attacked our troops at Athens
on the 26th, were beaten, and that the larger
body of the enemy under Johnston was badly
whipped at Foren ce. The campaign does
not open auspiciously for the rebels in Ten
nessee.
In the State of Indiana there has never
been draft and the prospects are there new
er will be. Her quota is full under the last
call, and recruiting is going on for a surplus.
There are five thousand recruits now at In
dianapolis for the old regiments in the field.
Henry Winter Davis, recently made most
able speech in Congress, on the confiscatiou
question. He took the ground that the con-
fiscatiou should not merely be for the life es-
tate but in fee simple, and made clear legal
and constitutional argument which lawyers
unite in pronouncing the conclusion of the
whole subject.
The Boston Traveller says, the news by the
last steamer confirms the statement that there
are not emigrant ships enough, to bring the
hundreds over who are waiting to come to
this couatry. 1t is said that the boarding
houses in Liverpool, are full of people waiting
for passage to come to the United States.
Among a squad OF deserters who recently
came into our lines in Meads's army, were
several of those who had been assigned to the
duty Of watching their own pickets. That's a
bad sign for secesh.
Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 26-The Legis-
ature has appointed committee TO draft q
memorial to Abraham Lincoln, endorsing the
policy Of the Administration, aud recommend
ing his denomination to the Presidency.
General Can't, Of Arkansas, put the case
very plainly before the people of Little Rock,
when be said, in a recent speech: We went
out of the Union to protect the negro. We
come back to protect the white man."