Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-01-19
cENERAL NEWS.

the speedy trial oil JeH Davis
The American Home League, organized in
favor of protection, has presented remon-
STRANGE to both Houses of Congress, against
the petition of the Free Trade League.
A private letter from Paris, received in
Washington, states that the Emperor of the
French, in his opening speech to the Legis-
latiye bodies, will express the most friendly |
and pacific sentiments towards the United |
States, and, unless the relations of the two |
countries become hostile, will promise to
eyacuate Mexico.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that no foreign hides shall be imported with
out special permit from the Department.
This is intended to prevent the introduction
of the cattle plague.
The Liverpool and New Orleans Steam
ship Company, arc building new vessels to
make the trip in eighteen days
The total number of men who enlisted
and received bounty during the war was
1,73O, ,341, and the aggregate paid was $SOl,-
500, 500.
Two clergymen in Philadelphia have
preached sermons in favor of running street
cars on Sunday. A strong argument could
be urged in favor of the arrangement Street
cars are the poor mans carriage, and no one
thinks of preventing the rich from riding to
church if driven by their own coachmen.
The Springfield Republican says;-Goy.
Fenton, of New York, has taken a manly
and most commendabe stand with regard TO
young Ketchum's case, Notwithstanding the
immense pressure brought to bear upon him.
He announces that he shall not interfere at
present, nor give the least ground for expec-
tation of interference at any future time.
The applications for pensions have dwin-
died down from about five hundred to
hundred and twenty day. The number
acted on favorably is about one in FIVE
The bark Fredonia which arrived at Bos-
ton on Saturday from Fayal, reports having
fallen in with the British ship Gratitude,
bound to New York, in distressed condi-
tion; that he decided to lay by and take off
her crew and passengers over three hundred.
in all. The weather was so rough that three
days were occupied in making the transfer,
which was accomplished, however, without
the loss Of a single life. To make room for
so many persons Captain McStother was
driven to the necessity of throwing over
board q considerable portion of his cargo,
and the allowance of food was so short that
for the last ten days there was much suffer
ing on board.
The Florida Legislature has elected Mr..
Call and Provisional Governor VIM. Marvin,
U. S. Senators, over two Rebel Generals.
Gov. Marvin was elected for the short term
on the ninth balloting. Both the Senators
elect arrived at Savannah, on January 9th,
en- route to Washington.
The Western papers are complaining that
it costs three bushels of corn to send one to
market, a distance of one hundred miles;
one hundred bushels to get pair of boots;
one thousand bushels to get a suit of clothes,
and two tons Of corn for ton of coal
The Montana Post has received informa-
tion which it considers reliable that the late
treaty with the Blackfoot Indians, made at
Fort Benton, was broken the second day
after the annuities were distributed. The
horses Of the whites in that vicinity had
been driven off also band of horses that
were ON ranch between Madison Rock Hill
and Lyons Hill had been driven off, and
the ranchero murdered A war party-that
is, numbering and plundering party-wai
reported to be in the Prickly Pear Valley
near the canon.
The Fenians are in high state of excite
ment in consequence of the publication o
the letters of Stephens. The Senatorial
party pronounce the letters forgerics whil
the other party insist on their genuineness
The Collector Of Internal Revenue at Lou
isyiltc, Kentucky, seized on Saturday anothe
lot Of one hundred and twenty eight thou
sand cigars from New York, with alege,
counterfeit Government stamps on the boxes
Captain Coleman, late of the Rebel army
has left New Orleans for Havana havin
been banished by a military commission.
Frank Hong, pretending to belong to til
firm of Hong, Hardee & Co, of Macon, Ga.
lately purchased $4,000 worth OF goods fror
firm in Nashville Tenn, giving checks o
tile First National Bank of Cincinnati, an
received funds in change, in addition to til
goods purchased by him. kilograms wer
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found there and no funds could be found
Cincinnati Hong has been arrested.
Semmes, the captain of the Alabama,
held in close confinement at Washington, j
charge of Col. Jacob Zeien, commander
Of tile Marine Corps.
The loss by the movement of the ice at S
Louis is estimated at $s00,00O
The ice boats on the Hudson, at pougl
keepsie had a race on Monday. The iastc
time made was eight miles in ten minutes.
Grants warehouse, in Richmond, contai
ing large quantities of cotton, tobacco, al
other articles, was burned on Tuesday. Lo
100000
The steamer Continental, with the fcma
cmigrants for Washington territory, sail
from New York ON Tuesday.
The owner Of building at Wytheyil
Md, in which a colored school was held lat
ly, notified the teacher that it would have
be closed, as the laws of Maryland did Il
permit the education of negroes The ca
was referred to Gen. Howard, and he Il
the teacher to continue the school
Queen Nictoria's new son-in-law, Prir
Christian barely escaped with his life fir,
the Dover mail steamer, which was run il
on the night Of the 18th ult. by Bost
clipper bound TO Cardiff Several lives w
lost on that occasion, among the numbe
Russian Count-name unknown.
Several arrests were made at Charlest
s. G., on the 9th inst, growing out of
attcmpt on the part of the governmentto