Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-02-19
NEWS AND ornNn mArrEns


The Governor of New York has signed the
bill allowing soldiers to vote, and hos appointed
the second rueaduy in March for the matter TO
be voted upon by the people.
The Savings Bank at South Scituate, Massa-
chusetts, was robbed early on Sunday morning
of $500 10 bill and n considerable amount OF
bonds and papers. The iron safe was blown
open with guupowder.
Adyicea from Dogota, by the steamer Ariel at
New York, report that tranquility is restored
throughout the whole republic.
General Sherman re0ccuped Jackson, Miss
on the 5,h and met with but little resistance.
Gen. Shermans headquarters are reported TO
have been OF jackson on the fth inst, but he
has since been heard from At Brandon.
The reports of a fight near Clinton, with part
Of Shermans forces, un the 4th, are confirmed
by officers who have arrived ut Cairo ftom that
point The euemy were driven from their posi-
lion.
The iron-clad ram Atlanta, has arrived at
Fortress Monroe
Gen. Butler elegraphs that Colonel Streight,
with seventeen UniOu officers who escaped from
Richmond, have arrived ut Fortress Monroe
The report that one hundred and tea officers es-
capped Ivy digging tnune is confirmed.
Two uf the escaped Union officers from Libby
prison arrived at Fortress Monroe on Sunday,
an report that thirty more hase escaped.
Col Phillips, commanding the expedition to
the Indmn Territory, reports that he has driven
the enemy en'irely ont OF Tint region. Upwards
OF QUE hundred rebels and Indians have been
killed in skirmshes
Gen. Coobaugh, formerly Of Gen. Mcpher-
sons staff, hut now in the Mexican SERVICE has
arrived ut Cairo, with dispatches from the Jau-
reg government to Washington
There was q serious disturbance in Johnston's
army, at Dalton, on the 9TH instant. II seems
that the Second Kentucky Regiment refused en-
masss TO be conscripted for the war in the Rebel
service and they were placed under guard OF the
Thirty-nnh Alabama, Colonel Woodward -
Major Lewis and threc Captains Of the Second
Kentucky fired their ievolgers into the Alabama
Regiment, klilA! aud wouudng torty-two men
Both regiments then pitched into each other 10
general fight
The CINCINNATI Commercial of February SAYS;
I'VE have authentic occaso on for saying that un.
der no circumstances wilt General Grant he n
candidate for the Presidency. or permit his nam,
to come before National Convention for sucl
purpose, if his positive decnauun OF the homo
will prevent it and, so far as his opinions ar
known, hs is in favor Of the nomination and re
election of MIR. Lincoln
despatch from Admiral Lee to the Secretar
Of the Navy announces the destruction of fOu
blockade running steamers by our blockadnl
fleet off Wilmington Three Of .hcse steamers
tbe Nutied, the Dee, and tie Emily, were ney
steamers, but.at London especially for the Sou
ihern trade. Our English neutral friends mr.
finding violating the blockade costly busiasss
The Bermuda papers of the 81 instant yepre
sent the English trade from that pors for vii
mington, N. G., by way of Nassau, n. r., II
brisk. The Royal Gd=eue states that the steam
er City of Petersburg, from bermuda, had bee
captured of Wilmington by the United State
ship Connecticut.
letter from Natshez, Mississippi, dated tn
40 -
confederate army, came in yesterday, and 20
unfairly surrendered himself prisoner of wal
Inc cause, | understand, assigned BY him 10
me act, was that he thought the Confederac
was about played out"
Ncamond papers of the 10Th instant contai
manifesto from JEFF. Davis to the Rebel arm,
9i; nS is c4TaSaglnt N his eulogiums Of the Rebe
tt, eViuieis WIZ ~ M MAnNe te-enhsted-in the face of
wholesale Conscription act that would have forr
cd them back into the aImy-anl contrasts m al
acuon with what he terms "the hating md re-
luctant service OF the mercennres who are mn
chased by the enemy at the price of high,
bounties than have ever hitherto been known
was. lie says that the "brave battle-cry"
the southern legions in the coming Spring can
pagn will ring through the land of the eneu
aud "Wlll SILENCE the vainglorious boastnr
Their corrupt parisans and their pensioned pres
and Will do justice to the calumny by which tht
seek to persuade deluded people that Won N
ready to purchase dlshonorable safety by hecr
d;ng submission These are big words. ii
IKE OF which we used to hear early in the r.
ueihon' When 'he Rebel army was to march
New York aud dictate terms Of peace. part
1t ~ merely buhconbe, but there is undonbto 1
an intention on the part Of The Rebel lenders
make their final desperate struggle in the co,
ing spring, and it behoOves us 10 he nronnt
and fully prepared to meet it,
Captain John y. Porter, OF tho Fourteen
New York Cavalry, arrived at Washinoton
sunday overland from Riehuu' ii, having esca
nine days in Richmond witt int exciting gu.r
cion,
AgreeabIy to the rromi 20 Of the speech wi
which Alexander Of Rus sia opened lie Diet
Finland last year, the reign of constitutlo,
monarehy ia thus empire has been inaugural,
AN lmPer" decree has been pablished for 1
pIsAn'1a'''h vi ihe provincial and diatiict 10
,vs.. ~, " . "' ssla with the exception of /
western anu In .tic provinces ArrbonpeI Aatr
can, and BeEs ,raIia '''''
Tue fenie .hs resent the attacks of the Cathol
bisnops' ehd sny they are mt secret societ
aud nav no oatha aud grips. In tin, Jnit,
States the brotherhood numbers 90. 900 and
Cai.ada and Ireland 100000 What they me,
to do not decided yet; the first thing is 10 uni
, the Irishmen aud mbue them with one sent
ment.
correspondent at Newborn, Norlh Caroln
writes: I'VE have enjoyed IA season Of beauti
spring weather The birds are sngiuging gai
while the young buds aie starting Un every lr
OVerooats and furs are hid aside iOr thin uppa
and spring bOnuets
Five hundred families from the last are ,
pectel to settle at St. Joseph, Mo, in the spril
Parker Pilishury lectured in New Yorl VT
nesday night on"The Mystery OF the War"
grand Sanitary Fair will be held in Phi
delphia in June next
Eight or ten seeesh families were sent fl,
Knoxville one day las, week, to go to Chattan,
ga and into the rebel lines Among them ",
the cergymen Harrison sud Martin. whom +,
son BrOwnlow las denounced TO SEVERELY
The iron.clai gunboat Chickasaw was lannc
ed at Carondeel (Nlo) on Wednesday tnornip
sad accident maIrcd the occasiun A coil
rope attached to the anchor span out 20 rapl
as to carry overheard daughter Of Capt In,
three other ladies', and u son of Ex-Mayor +
ley. All were rescued save one, Ars. Brad,
who was drowned.
1t is reported from Knoxville that Kentuc
soldiers who were furloughed fer thirty days
Lougsueei, en- Goa i'm that they would re-en
are taking advantage of the amnesty procan
lion, and will not return to The reld army
A writer in the Lohion Field 50 IS there is
a toad, frog snake, or reptile of any aind,