Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-11-23
GENERAL NEWS.
CusTIs w. WRIGHT,
Secretary OF State.

The editor of the Macon, Ga, Citizen, who
has been travelling in the North, says he is
eatisded the South will have to accept the
bitter pill of the Constitutional amendment,
and may as well let things take their course.
The Tennessee House of Representatives
has passed bill giving 800 TO the heirs OF
deceased soldiers, black as well as white.
Last Spring, the House refused to vote
negroes anything.
1t is said Governor Wells, of Louisiana,
intends to present test by demanding OF
tire military authorities the arrest of persons
known to have been engaged in the New
Orleans massacre. The civil officials have
declined to prosecute, and unless the military
interfere, the wretches will go unpublished.
There are few glimpses of sanity at the
South in relation to the political situation.
Judge Caldwell, prominent citizen o.
Texas, in recent speech at Anderson dc
clared in favor ofthe Constitutional amend
ment and negro suffrage. Hon w. II. Tres
colt, OF South Carolina, now in Washington,
expresses the opinion that South Carolina
would prefer impartial suffarge to the amend
ment Others Southern men ofprominence
at Washington eyince greatly altered tone
in speaking upon this subject
The rumor that Senator Doolttle is about
to remove from Wisconsin, isreuewed He
is said to be convinced that he has nothing
in future to hope for from that State. Per
haps the climate of Mississippi might prove
congenial to the unfortunate organizer.
Mrs. Mcclure, the woman who was re-
Gently buried alive near Quincy, Illinois,
and afterward rescued, says that she remem.
bers all that transpired during her trance
state. Romance has developed nothing
more horrible than her experience during
this dreadful living entombment
Prof. Loomis of Yale, thinks the tele
graphic announcement of great meteorit
shower visible from Greenwich, England, is
hoax. In his opinion, no such phenomenon
could have occurred without the attendance
OF striking indications on this side the ocean
A mystery which quie surpasses tht
sphinx is astonishing the New Workers. i
is living human head, resting upon a very
small cushion and floating in mid air unde
strong light. II laughs, talks and recog
nizes persons in the hail. but there is NJ
obvious body, and it floats at least four fee
from the floor, ceilings and wall 1t is TIL
greatest puzzle yet.
A waterproof shirt is one of the lates
inventions.
The colored lswyer elected to the Legi'
la,drc ftom Charlestown is said to be til
abiest lnan et bis race in New Englant
The catholic Bishop Of Savannah has jul
issued letter saggestng the education {
colorod youths ior the clerical work at III
South.
A married lady OF Detroit sold her ra
bag ON Tuesday for one dollar, and afte
wards remembered that she had deposite
the sum of $3.50 in it for safe keeping.
Acting Ensign A. j. Kane, who was SCI
to Washington for trial on charges of hay
ing accepted bribe from President Geflrar
in Hayti, was dismissed from the service o
Saturday.
Andrew Brockmann, one of the victim
of the Indian massacre of New Ulm Moul
tain, in 1868, has arrived in St. Louis. Il
experienced the torture of seeing his cabi
burned and his wife and four children mu
dered before his eyes, and was then horrib
mutilated; his tongue cut out, hamstring $
vered, his fingers cut, his hands maime
his scalp torn reeking from his head, whic
had previously been perforated with thr
bullets; but despite these wounds the unio
tunate man survived, and was carried
Salt T.oIa Hit,, ,vharc ha has ramoina1
the hospital for three years.