Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-08-04
General News.

arY war in that hepupHc 10 eVhi eN"e
on. and that Rebels profess themselves
willing to be buried under the ashes OF
their towns rather than to be longer gov
sned by President Geffrard. salnave,
the revolutionary leader, has issued a
6ery proclamation, winding up with the
motto of the French revolutionists, Liberte
FFaternite &c. He claims to have been
completely successful in all the battles he
has fought, and to have thrice defeated
the army of Gearard recently.
Some young scamps in Louisville, Ken
tucky, known as the Forty Thieves, has
been broken up by'the police, nine OF
their number having been sent to the
House of Refuge within the last week.
The prisoners in the Ballston jail, the
other evening, seized the turnkey, stripped
him naked, distributed his clothes among
themselves, and locked him up in cell.
Then they left-eight in number. Two
were subsequently caught.
The criminal statistics of New York
show fearful increase of all kinds of
crime In that city. The number of trials
from the first of January to the end OF
June this year is S96; 22s cases resulted
in conviction.
The building on the Fifth Avenue, New
York, which is being constructed for the
residence of A. T. Stewart, is of white
marble, and will cost $l,2OO,OOO when
completed
Four men employed in the Hubbard
Coal Mine, near Cleveland, were caught
by freshet and came near being drowned
But by taking refuge in the highest part
of the mine they kept dry, but were in
imminent danger of starvation. After
four days of this sort of Imprisonment in
the bowels of the earth, the waters allay-
ed, and the famished victims were rescued
by their friends.
A number of Federal appointees in the
Southern States have been unable to exc.
cute their bonds and take the required
oath that they have never voluntarily
borne arms, or given aid and counsel ol
encouragement to persons engaged in
armed hostility against the United States,
and that they have not yielded volun-
tary support to the Rebel Government.
A party of thirty Indians attacked an
emigrant train forty miles west of Jules.
burg, Col, on Saturday, killed two men
and captured one wagon. On the same
day large party of Indians surprised a
camp of twenty six soldiers few milet
north of Valley Station, captured theil
stock and drove the men to the station.
A Western paper has a dispatch from
Memphis reporting the seizure of tn
Commercial Bank in that city and tn
discovery of defaIcatior in the Custor
House. 1t is supposed that the none
which should have been in the Custol
House had been used by the bank,
Two prisoners confined in the iail
st. Albans, Vt, lately escaped by film
away the gratings to the windows. 1t
said that Hezekiah Payne, the alleg,
raider, held on the charge of robber
refused to avail himself of the opport
nifty to escape.
A riot occurred in Cummingsville,
on Sunday in which three men were 81
and large amount of property destroy,
The damage to furniture, &C., in (
Executive Mansion at Washington, fir,
Saturdays storm, is estimated at $500
The statement of the public debt
the 3lst nit. was issued on. w ednesdi
and shows the amount outstanding to
$9,755253,275 SO. The total inter
amounts to $l89, ,262,56s %. The to
amount in the Treasury is Sll6,7s9. c
So.
Cortinas has issued an order for
punishment of all who engage in gueri
warfare in Mexico, and has also issued
proclamation declaring all communicati
and commerce between Matamoras a
other ports closed. Macmillan is SO
expected to visit Matamoras.
General Grant is at Brunswick. t
seat of Bowdoin College, Maine. ]
received the degree of L. L. D. at
commencement. He is travelling throu
Maine.
Mudd, Arnold, O'Laughlin and Spa
gler, the assassination conspirators,
rived at the Tortugas on the 25tb ult
The blockading feet from Galvest,
Texas, has been ordered to Philadelnb
Governor Brough, of Ohio, is imnr,
ing in health.
Crowds are beginning to gather
Hearts Content, N. F., to witness
landing of the Atlantic cable.
Judah P, Benjamin and Kirby SIN
have arrived in Havana.
Baron Gefroft, the Russian Minist
arrived at Cape May on Tuesday evenil
A man named Fuller, from India
has been arrested in Washington for
presenting himself as an agent of the /
publican Executive Committee and q
lecting about $44, 900 from yarions ofi