Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-06-13
General News,

there for many years. The country in the
neighborhood of Brashear City (on Ber-
wick Bay is inundated to the depth Of l5
feet, and the loss of stock Of every descrip-
ton, and other property, is incalculable.
The Government requires copies Of all |
the oaths taken under the amnesty procla- |
nations to be fled in Washington. Near
ly ten thousand were received during Mr..
Lincoln's administration, and the number
is rapidly increasing under President John
son.
No reply has yet been received to the
formal demand of our Government for the
surrender of the rebel ram stonewall, as
the Cuban authorities must, of course, re-
fer the question to the Spanish Govern
ment at Madrid. and await instructions.
The Mississippi delegation, headed by
Judge sharkey, and the Georgia delega-
tion, headed by ex-congressman Hill, held
consultations with the President, on Fri
day, relative to the reconstruction of their
respective States.
The State debt of New Hampshire Is
49,97s,000. She has furnished 33,427
men in the war for the Union, Of whom
5,slS have fallen and II, ,O39 been perma-
nently disabled.
The shackles were removed from Jeffer-
son Davis last week. His suit Of rebel
gray has been exchanged for one of black,
and he is now permitted more freedom.
1t is now said that the indictment of
JEFF. Davis was drawn up without the ad-
vice of or any consultation with the Presi-
dent or any of the leading officials.
The Freedmen's schools in Richmond
were closed on Friday, on account of the
maltreatment and intimidation of the black
children by the white.
The President has ordered a suspension
throughout the South of the sales of rebel
real estate for non-paymont of direct taxes.
Volunteer soldiers wishing to enlist in
the regular army will not be sent to the
- rendezvous, but be at once mustered out
and paid.
at the burning of drug store in Chi.
cago, on Tuesday, three iremen were killed
and four severly injured by falling wall
There is great excitement at Detroit, in
consequence Of an order closing all the Ii
quor saloons.
The evidence already taken in the as
sassinstion trial is said to cover 400
pages of cap paper.
The negroes in Washington are said t,
be terribly maltreated by the rebel sympa
thizers there.
Cortinas is near Matamoras, and Mejit
not far of.
The writ of habeas corpus will be restored
soon.
The President of Salvador has declare,
his republic in a state of siege. He de
clares the rebellion unimportant, and ha
sent an army to quell the trouble. TIL
murder of Mr.. Lincoln, caused profoun,
sensation in Salvador.
A letter confirms the surrender of Sa
bine Pass, Texas, on the 26th, and predict
the fall of Galveston.
Kirby Smith has gone to Mexico, an
will live there.
General Grant arrived ut Chicago O
Saturday, and was enthusiastically received
The steamer Admiral Dupont, from Ne
York for Fortress Monroe, was sunk on tb
night Of the 9Th, in a collision with tn
British ship Stadaoona, from Philadelphi
for St. John, N. B. Two lives were los
The ordinance building at Chattanooga
Tenn, exploded on Friday, and set fire /
the government warehouses. Losses 81 so
200. Fifteen or twenty persons wer
killed or wounded.
The city of Tacsmbano, in the State ,
Michoaca, Mexico, was attacked by tn
Liberals, on the 1lth of April, and VIZ
taken by storm, with all the garrison.
few days previous the French forces
Purindiro, Cuitseo, and Zinopeario wei
defeated by the same army.
The whsle State of Georgia is represent
ed to be in a starving condition.
General Howell Cobb has been release,
and has returned to Athens, Ga.
General L. H. Rousseau has been nom
mated for U. s. Senator from Kentucky.
A Washington dispatch says proof hs
been discovered that the calamitous e,
plosion of the ordnance boat at City Poir
last summer, by which some seventy Q
eighty lives were lost and large amour
of property destroyed, was the work ,
rebel agents, and was paid for in with r,
bel gold furnished from the rebel Stat
Department.
A Lexington dispatch to the Cincii
cinnati Gazette says that the friends
John @. Brsckinridge in that place hay
received information of his safe arrivi
IN Cuba How he got there they refus
70 say.
Mrs; Lydia Huntley Sigourney died &
Hartford, Connecticut, on Sunday, tb
18th, aged 76.
The great ovation to the soldiers i
Philadelphia, on Saturday was a GRAN
affair, but the beauty thereof was mat,
e. rally affected by the rain storm wbic
prevailed.