Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-02-12
NEWS AND nrnNn mArrEns

NEWS AND 0rHER MATTERs.
An accident occurred on the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, lew days ago. During
the night tree was blown down across the track,
and freight train coming in, having no Wsrn-
ing Of the danger ahead, run into the tree. One
of the cars, on which n gentleman from East
Tennessee, with his wife and five children, had
taken passage. was knocked to pieces. The gen
tleman, his wife aud three Of the chillren were
killed. The two surviving children are without
protectors.
BY the arrival Of the Columbia we have dates
from Havana to Feb. >, aud from Mexico to Jan,
II. The news from Mexico is not important -
The report that Agunscalientes aud lacHteoas
had been occupied by French troops proved to De
premature. Il is said that at council OF span
ish generals held at Havana il was resolved to
memorabilia The Spanish Government to give up
Santo Domingo.
The steamship Columbia. from New-0rlenns,
Jan. 80, arrived on Saturday afternoon. The
approaching election of State officers is the all
engrossing theme in Louisiana, and the political
barometer is Mt toyer heat. The dominating
Convention was to meet on the I'd inst. 1t was
thought that the Hon. Michael Hahn has the
best show for the nomination for Governor,
although District-Attorney NAPLES was promi-
nently mentioned. T. j. Earhart was spoken Of
loI hAuTubysdtHtEhlt uuu AhuucIA nOulHohfi9
for Treasurer There were evident preparations
for military movement, but where the intended
blow should be struck was not made knoEn.
The Treasury Departmenthaye decided to pay,
hereafter, 50 per cent on Quartermasters checks,
instead of IS per cent in certificates Of indebted
ness, and the balance in Fiyeper-cent Treasury
notes.
The Senate of Maryland passed bill which
gives bounty of $500 to new volunteers and OF
1926 to veterans re-enisting. Owners of slaves
enlisting, on filing valid deed of manumission,
receive SlO0 A like sum is also given to the
recruit in instalments. The bill has yet to be
acted upon in the House of Delegates.
The results Of the last draft were stated in
Congress the other day to have been: Exempted
for disability, $4,000; for other causes, 1000;
paid Communication. Al 900 procured substitutes
$4,000, served, II, 900
Thirteen hundred and ninety mi,os es v~ilrond
were added to the completed roadu in the United
States during 1863
nae non. nIarcus Morton died at his residence
In Taunton on Saturday morning, at 81 o'clock
after few days illness. lie was born in Free
town, Dec. 49, 1884, graduated at Brown Uni
versiiy in 1901, mud was chosen clerk of the
Massachusetts, Senate in 1911 lie held seat
in Congress from that State from 1917 to 1921.
In 1923 he served in the Executive Council in
1924 was elected Lieut. Governor, and subse-
queney appointed upon the Supreme Bench,
where he continued for many years. lie was
twice elected Governor. His public career has
been long, useful and honorable.
Many marriages have taken place in West
Virginia under the license Of military author
lies; these are now illegal
The office of the Constitution and Union news
paper, 10 Fairfield, Iowa, edited by David She
ward, was visited by Company Z, of the ID Iowa
Volunteers on Monday, and the type and paper
thrown out the windows, md the subscription
books destroyed
Colonel s. NJ. Bowman, Of the colorel officers
examining board, has inspected the three negro
regiments that General Birney has recruited in
Lower Maryland Tth, 9th, and 10Th United
States Colored. lie represents that every one oil
these troops was Il slave-that not one can read
or write-but that ali are learning their soldierly
duties with remarkable Quiokness. Such good
care has been taken Of them by General Birney,
that out of the 5000 only l5O have got sick 10
the late trying weather.
The New York Times says that we, Of all na-
tions keep, feed, and clothe tens OF thousands Of
prisoners Of war in idieHess, European natlon
do not do 30. They generally put their prison
ers, when their numbers become large, upon th
public work.. Napoleon constructed the caua
st. Quentin with his Prussian prisoners of war
and Napoleon Ill, sent the Austrian prisoner
taken in his Italian campaign to Algeria ant
hired them out to colonists, And upon this III,
Times asks; "Why should not we do the like
wise with the 10000 rebel prisoners now festInI
and fattening 10 idleness? 1t argues that witt
such force OF labor as this, the Illinois al,
Michigan ship canal, nnd the Niagara ship cana
could be instantly dug, linking all the Northerl
States together in q very short time
Captain J. NJ. Streetmun, 5Gth Georgia Regi
ment" is out ia a card, urging his fellow soldier
to desert. His reason for this is, that ,.the re
bellion must honlly fall; better that il should i
80 soon and before the last poor fellow in th
ranks is sacrificed 10 crafty the obstinacy an,
pride Of the rebel leaders, who intend n the las
extremity to save themselves by flying to
foreign country. which you cannot do, for th
want of the means of living there"
The Metropolitan Club Of Washington, CAV
an entertainment on Saturday evening. ANON
the after-linner speeches was "a brilliant one b
heyerdy johnson, who declared slavery to b
nell born, and that the Constitution should be 81
amended as to prohibit it forever
Au acntely'stnsible lady Of New York observes
mat OF the births taking place in that city, thos
Mhieh occur ~ families whose attachment TO thu
Union is decided and Jealous, arc nostlv bovs
while in families in which there il n deoiie,
sympathy for the secession cause, thew are oirIa
IL has often been said, that IN countries wasted
by long wars, which carry off the male popula-
ton, the male births largely predominaie
General Foster teegraphs frem Knoxville
under date of the 1th, that an expedition sen
hBhlubt AnOulhs anu MS bauu OF Indians an
whites at QuallatOwn has returned completed
successful.
By the arrival of the George Cromwel, Mt Ne,
York, we have New Orleans dates to the . ins
Gen. Banks has written a letter to the Free Stat
General Committee, defining the qualifications 4
voters. The Free State Nominating Conyeutio
met on the lst and divided one branch nominal
ing Hon. MichaIl Hahn, aud the other Hon.
+. Flanders, for Governor. All is reported quit
in Texas.
Green, charged with the Maiden bank robber
aud murder, was arraigned on Monday, an
pleaded not guilty 10 the charges, but pleade
guilty to having fired the block Of buildings ad
joining the Post-oiice, in November last.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 9th inst. saw
that the rebel army has fallen back sixteen mile
from Newberni they having found the forti6co.
tiOns so strong that they could net be taken with
out too great loss
An expedition sent from Newport, N. C., Il
White river, on Wednesday last, captured ~ re-
bel cavalry and 30 horses, and q quantity Of corn
about five miles from Young's cross roads
A Dispatch from ReWbeTn, dated Feb. 9th
states that deserteTs say that General Picket
has 10000 troops, and he informed his comman
that he intended to take the city by night as
6Rult.
The hoors OF six-story warehouse in NeV
York gave way on Saturday evening, hriugin,
doWn the rear wall and husying Michael Ouinlai
in the ruins. The cause Of the fall was over.
loading Of the 9OOrs.