Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-01-12
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The Assessor of Internal Revenue in Au-
gusta, Georgia, writes Secretary McCulloch
that he cannot find in twenty-three counties
of Georgia competent men who can take the
oath of office for Assistant Assessors, and he
therefore has appointed others, trusting to
Congress TO provide for their payment. He
says that unless some relief is afforded these
officers he shall be unable to assess the taxes
in his district, and suggests that so far as the
Internal Revenue and Postofice officers are
concerned that the oath be modified.
Gen. Howard, in answer to a resolution of
inquiry by the House of Representatives,
says the amount of property now in his pos
session, and the amount actually allotted to
freedmen as homesteads is very small pro-
portion of the amount originally in the
hands of that Bureau. The property orig
inally turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau
was for the most part known as abandoned,
and it was intended not only to allot this to
the freedmen, but also to use it as means OF
revenue, for which latter purpose it was be-
coming useful, when on the 10th OF August
instructions were received that abandoned
property should be restored to former owners
when pardoned. Under these instructions
the Bureau has parted with the greater por.
tion of this property, and its revenue has
been so curtailed that it is not now self-sus-
tanning.
clerk in the employ of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad at Chicago was arrested on the
'4th instant for robbing one of the company's
safes of eighteen hundred dollars in Govern.
ment bonds. On being taken to the Central
station he confessed TO the officers, with
tears, that he had taken the bonds, and tnat
bad company and dissipation had been the
cause of his ruin. He was in possession of a
key to the outside doors of the safe, but not
to the inner one; and one day, seeing some
jewelry placed in the inner safe, he thought
it must be very valuable and determined to
secure it, BY some means he succeeded in
procuring key to the inner door, and there
found the eighteen hundred dollars in Seven
Thirty bonds, which he took instead of the
jewelry, as being more easily converted into
money.
A letter from the Chief Clerk of the United
States Government Farms, St. Mary's coun-
ty, Nd, states that the 'freedmen there
have raised during the year six thousand
bushels of corn, with wheat, oats and that
in addition to six barns of tobacco and the
usual amount of truck. Ont of the corn
and oats raised, we have fed our teams and
cattle, consisting of eighty-two horses and
eighteen oxen. There has been large
amount of hay secured in addition to the
corn fodder, and the farms present marked
contrast, showing the difference between
compensated labor and slavery"
Hon. George Bancroft has been selected TO
deliver the eulogy on President Lincoln in
February next.
Five stores at Jackson, Michigan, were
burned on Sunday morning Loss $50, 1000.
An informal meeting of the members OF
the House Of Representatives was held on
Monday afternoon, and a committee was ap-
pointed 10 prepare appropriate resolutions
on the death of Hon. Henry Winter Davis.
The New Jersey Legislature organized on
Tuesday. James NJ Scovel was elected
President of the Senate and John Hill was
chosen Speaker of the House. The Gov.
ernor's message was presented and was read.
The receipts of the State were S595. 312. .72.
and the expenditures $3.50, s5O57. The dis.
bursements on account OF the war have ac.
cumulated debt of $2,sls,l1 The mes
sage approves OF President johnson Is recon.
struction policy.
Governor Marshall, of Minnesota, sent his
message to the Legislature on Monday. The
land entries during the year were 1870, ,232
acres. The population of the State is esti.
mated at 275000. Universal freedom and
the equality Of white and black men before
the law are advocated.
The Kansas Legislature met on Tuesday.
Governor Crawford in his message recon-.
mends the removal OF the various Indian
tribes TO the Indian territory, and the estab-
lishment of bureau of immigration, and
urges the Importance of sustaining the Fed.
eTal Administration in every good and laud-
able effort to preserve the nations dignity
and maintain its honor.
Orders have been received at Savannah to
proceed with the trial of the rebel General
Mercer, charged with the murder of Union
soldiers,
The fruit house of Caldwell, Brothers &
Smalley, at Covington, Ky, was partially
destroyed on Monday, by the explosion Of
gas, Loss $4,000.
Professor James L. Mapes, the distinguish.
ed agriculturist, died on Wednesday, al
Newark. N ].
The robbers Of the Adams Express safes
on the New York and New Haven Railroad
have been captured, and nearly three. fourth,
of the stolen money recovered.
Advertisements for proposals for the
erection of number Of important levees OF
the Mississippi, by the middle of March ne xt
have been issued by General Humphreys, U
S. Engineers.
A Republican Congressional caucus wa,
held at Washington on thc 10th, on the sub
ject of negro suffrage in the District. Tn,
majority opposed the pending bill, but favor
ed equal rights to oil who could read and
write.
Hon. John A. J. Cresswell, of MARYLAND
will deliver a culogy on Henry Winter Davis
before the House of Representatives.
Saw and planning mills are being erected in
the vicinity of Savannah.