Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-03-22
Nrws ArD oTIInR MATTERs.


Paris correspondence announces the important
fact that Minister Dayton has served written
notification upon the French Emperor tlat il the
Rebel cruiser RappAhannOck, now at Calais is
allowed to go to sea, the French Govsrnment RW
Be held responsible for all the damage she may do
10 American commerce Ii is also announced that
the French government has issued more stringent
regulations concerning the cruisers of the bel
ligerents. Among other things specified in these
regulations, are two to the effect that no vessel
of either of the belligereuis can remain in port
more than twenty-tour hours unless by stress
Of weather, or for necessary repairs, and that nc
vessel can return to u French port after leaving
it, in less time than three months.
A despatch from Charlestown, West Virginia,
10 Cincinnati, dated the 10Th instant, reports
that Rebel force fifteen hundred strong was
within fifteen miles Of Guyanjote threatening
Bnrbourviilc. A strong fOr1e has been sent ou;
10 intercept them.
General G.nore's Chief-ofStaf arrived in
Washington on Thursday and was EXAMINED by
the Committee on the Conduct OF the War. He
states that the lower part Of the city of Charles
ton was nearly destroy ed, aud that only the
upper part is now occupied by troops.
On Wednesday morning as two members of the
Michigan Cavalry were passing in the vicinity
Of Anuandale, they were captured by party OF
four guerillas. Subsequently, while two Of the
guerillas were some distance off, counting the
greenbacks taken from the cavalrymen, one Of
them drew a revolver aud shot the two who were
guarding them, nnd both made their escape
The cavalrymen returned TO Alexandria in the
afternoon, minus their money.
General Pope publishes some inioi nation and
suggestions for enigrants designing TO CROSS the
Plius this spring A force Of cavalry, under
General Suly, will march against the Sioux In-
daus az soon as there is gtass enough on the
praries for the horses 10 subsist on. Until this
expedition moves it will be unsafe for steamers
TO navigate the Missouri above Fort Pierre. II
is recommended thnt emigrants by water COM
munieate with General Suly in Upper Missouri,
and not to attempt 10 pass 10 advance of his
forces rnlil notified by him that it is safe.
Chattanooga paper estimates the Rebel
strength IN front Of that situation at from tWen-
ty-seyen thousand to thirty thousand men.
Partial returns Of the Arkansas election give
more Votes than the Whoe number required BY
the President TO replace her in the Unior 1h'
lew State constitution, which declares the Stat,
free, was almost unanimously ratified.
The steamship City OF Baltimore, with dal
later news from Europe, arrived at New York OF
Saturday. The Austraus had arrived befor
Duppel, and it was expected that an attac
would SHORTLY be made The diotIiets of Sehles
wig not occupied by the AustrO- Prussian troop
have elected members to the Rgsrand In Co
penhagen all the candidates favorable to an en-
eTgetic prosecution OF the war we're elected =
Three Prussan war ships had received orders 1
leave Brest and proceed north Immediately. TIL
Archduke and Archduchess Maximilian urrive
IN Paris on the oh, and were received Al tn
Tnileries by the Emperor and Empress. Tn
Duke 10 TO remain hut four or five days. III
arrangements for his departure from Tries
would be completed gu the 18th inst. Wnrsa
dispatch states that an Imperial manifesto, ~
nouneng the emancipation Of the peasants
Poland, was proclaimed in the public square
Warsaw on the 9Th
Newbern advices Of the 18th have been r
ceived. There had been q slight skirmsh b
tween the enemy and the g. New York Cavulr
but no serious collision. Two Of our prisone
were frozen to death on the trip from RchmoI
to Americus, Georgia Thirty-One escaped fro
the cars between BouchVille and Augusta. Fr
schools are about bling organized 10 Newber
Washington, Beaufort and other places, for Il
education Of poor white children. Nine-tent
of the people of Henderson county have pet
toned Gov. Vance to call State convention.
General Grant left Louisville on Saturd
night for Washington.
The rebels crossed the Rappahaunock
fredericksburg on Wednesday night, and aga
on Friday morning at Morton's Ford, but we
iepulsed in both instances. There are other
dicatlOus of rebel demonstrations.
The new gunboat Yantic WAS launched at
Philadelphia Navy-yard on Saturday morning
Intelligence by steamer from Havana 81
that large renforcements of Spanish troops ba
reached st, Domingo. Further adhesions to
spanish rule are reported. On the 9th inst,
spanish soldiers surprised native camp at ii
Moyn, captured some, and put the rest to fg
From Chattanooga we learn that the rebe
though in large force in our front, make no
monstrations. Twenty five Federal prison
escaped from the Columbia Is. C.) prison,
Wednesday. A dispatch from Meridian =
that General Sherman has gone down the
sissiPpi with his troops, evidently for the
River