Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-04-01
NEWS ANp oTnER mATTnRs.

Judge Pearson, Of North Carolina, in q recent
hd5eds corpus case tried before him, decided that
the act passed by the Rebel Congress for the
conscripting Of persons who have furnished sub
siitutes for the war was unconstitutional. Two
blockade runners escaped from Wilmington on
the 18Th inst, laden with cotton.
Chattanooga dispatches state that the Rebels
are concentrating a large force at Dalton, both
Polk aud LOngsireet having sent reinforcements
there.
Huntsville, Alabama, is at present the lead
quarters Of the department Of the Tennessee,
Major General Sherman commanding. The
Fifteenth Army Corps, Alajor General John A.
Logan, has its headquarters there, and guards
the railroad to Stevenson, sixty miles east, on
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
General Philip Sheridan, for a long time in
command Of division of infantry in the Army
Of the Cumberland, has been appointed TO The
command Of the cavalry corps of the Army OF the
POionac to succeed General Pleasanon.
General ROsecrans has suppressed the circu-
latlon in his department OF that Indignantly
reasonable sheet, the metropolitan Record, Of
New York.
terrible calamity has occurred at Sheffield.
England, resulting IN the death of two hundred
aud fifty persons, by reason Of the iuundaiiOn Of
the country caused by the bursting Of the reser-
vOir of tue Sheffield Water Works.
The French General Bazaine has ordered Santa
Anna TO leave Mexico, where he recently arrived
The steamer North Star yesterday arrived at
New York from an unsuccessful search for the
Italian frigate Re Gulantuomo. No vesiige OF
the wreck could be discovered.
Lieutenant General Grant, accompanied by
General Meade. reviewed the First Army Corps,
now part of the Fifth Corps, on Tuesday morn
rug. A shower prevented review Of the Second
Corps, which was to have taken place 10 the
afternoon.
No more passes to visit the Army CT the Poto-
mac are to he issued All civilians and camp
followers within the lines are being sent 10
Washington.
Ii is announced from Halifax that PROPOSE
tion to unite Nova Scotia, New brunswick and
Prince Edwards Island under one government
and one Legislature passed the House Of Assem-
bly, on Monday evening.
We have one days later news from Europe by
the steamship City OF Manchester, at New York
gu Thursday. By the Sheffield disaster 25s per.
sons are reported to have been killed. Thus faI
l1S bodies have been recovered. The pump al
Spittlewell lrOnstone Pts, near Chesterfield
England, broke on the 10th. and fourteen mer
were drowned. The Prussiaus occupied th,
island OF Femein on the 18th. and the whole
Danish force, consisting of 100 men. was laker
prisoners The Prnssians completed the erection
and armament OF their batteries at Gammehaok
on thu Wemmigbund, on the 18th. The Danel
Immediately opened hre from the intrenohment
At Duppel, aud the Prussian batteries replied il
the course of the following day. Berlir
dispatch states that Denmark ia disposed TO &C
cept the arnlstice and conference propositions OF
their essential points, but that she is only dis
posed to accept part Of the condition attached u
The armishce. The King of Sweden has aske
the Slorihing fer au authorization TO employ u
Iee0let army aud Layy in aid Of Denmark,
found necessary. TIE conflicts between the "a
pal aud French troops in Rome continue, d
populacs siding with the former.
Tbs President has signed the bill to carry in
elect the convention with Ecuador for the mt
tual adjustment Of claims.
The State Department has been officially advi
ed that the port Of Neustadt, u Holstein, is no,
bloekadei by the Danish government.
The Navy Department has received intelligene
OF the capture by the u s. steamer Beaurngart
on Mosquito Inlet, Florida, of the schOou,
Linda, with coffee, and the aloop Hannah bot
from Nassau
Late rebel papers state that General Bnrnsid
with large force, has landed at WashinQto
N. o.; that the Union forces in Eat,t Tenness
have retreated to Strawberry pleins; that Ii
supreme Court of Georgia has affirmed the col
stitutionality Of the antisubstitute law th
cavalry, Infantry and artillery have been ss
to meet the Union forces at Pilatka, Florid
and that all is quiet in the neghborhood
Jacksonville
Chicago dispatch s.ates that four hundr
men have been Gent 20 attack the reoels who a
eneamped ten miles northeast OF Charlesto
III 10 the fight on Monday, four soldiers Al
one Union citizen was killed, and Colonel Mi
ehell' i've prlvates and two Union citizens We
wounded Two rebels were killed and sever
wounded.
The steamship Africa, with three DAYS lat,
news from Europe, arrived at Halifax on we(
nesiay. The beligerehts in Denmark show il
creased activity. The Germans are Vigorous
prosecuting the seige of Duppel. A late Be
lin dispatch states that the Prussians WI
ready 10 open FIRE across tho Wenimberg.
The Danish iron-clad Z1lf Krake had been
pulsed.