Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

syVanla WllCh hssehtpieu NJ haIiianuiBi On
Monday, nominated Heister Clymcr, for
Governor
Treaties have beep formed between the
United States and the Creek Nation and the
Shawnee Nation, OF Kansas. Treaties with
other tribes are being prepared. ~
Late Central and South American advices
haye been received. Ecuador has Joined
Chill and Peru against Spain. The Ameri-
can steamer Uncle Sam was seized at Pana
ma on suspicion of loading stores for the
Spaniards There has been but little change
in affairs in Chill. The blockade of Caldera
has been raised In Bolivia the civil war is
ended In Peru the situation remains the
same Granada and Massage, in Nicaragua,
experienced 81 earthquakes in "a hours. The
volcano of Turribalbo, in Costa Rica was in
very active state.
A. C, Stevens, Union, was elected Mayor
of Portland Maine, on the 9th, by nm in-
creased majority of 81 from last year
The Commissioner of Freedmen has issued
circular designed to obtain the State laws
in each State on the subject of marriage, and
apply those laws to the coored people.
The cattle plague in England is without a
remedy. Death alone cures it,
The sum of $500, 200 is asked OF Congress
lor the improvement Of harbors The Mis-
sissippi drinks in quarter of a million and
the Delaware Breakwater fifty thousand dol
lars.
Two Of the men engaged in the robbery
of the United States.express messenger, in
81. Louis have been arrested, and $19,214
of the stolen money was recovered.
The steamer Lockwood exploded her boil
crs twenty miles from Memphis and was
burned. Twenty-Five lives are reported lost.
The cholera has disappeared from Guada-
loupe, and has not 0roken out on any of the
adjacent islands.
Bishop Alexander Campbell known as
the founder of the Disciple denomination of
Christians, died at Bethany, w ", on Sun
day.
General Scott was somewhat injured by II
fall from his berth on the trip from Key
West, New Orleans He had recovered suf-
iiciently to attend church on the Goth ult
DIR. David Jayne, a well known and public
7FiAlN'N tli1th VI L HlluutlpHiht hlth hil
Monday afternoon after brief illness
Secretary Stanton has ordered the liberia
ton of all enlisted men imprisoned in this
Department for descrtion
The Trihune's special says, in order to
put percmptory stop TO the reasonable ut
terances of the Virginia press, still persisted
in, the commanding officer of the Depart
ment of Virginia has issued an order requir-
ing all the publishers of newspapers in the
State TO send a copy of every issue 10 his
Headquarters by mail on the day of publ.
cation.
Report has il that the buds on nearly all
the peach trees in New Jersey and Mary
land were badly injured by the cold
weather of last January, and that the
peach crop of those districts this year will be
failure.
During March there were 6,60S arrivals oi
emigrants at Castle Garden, New York.
In the recent town elections in the State
of New York, the Union Party have made
large gains over last year
Major Atherton II. Stevens, OF Mass, the
officer who planted the first American flag
upon NhN AANbtl Aulllttl, nus utth ultNtltu q
Lieutenant Colonel for his gallantry in Flori
da and elsewhere during the war.
A Washington correspondent of the Tr
bune, under date of March a, says:-As al
index of the disloyalty SO highly stimulated
and encouraged here of late, the portrait o
President Lincoln was hissed at the tableaul
exhibition at Odd Fellows Hall, given in al,
nT = Ia "a
that of Gen Mcclellan, was cheered
The Tribune Washington correspondent
says:-It is reported that the President ha
been issuing orders recently for the restora
tion of the property of noted rebels,
One hundred slaves, just landed in Cuba
sold for $4,000 in gold
The Mayor of Manzanilo, Cuba, has beei
assassinated
The losses by fire last year in New Yorl
amounted to s., 100000
Saloon keepers at Shelbyville, Indiana, ar
compelled to pay city license of $500 70
the privilege Of selling liquors.
A needle that was broken off in the righ
hand of man in Chicago, six years ago
was cut out in his left hand a few days since
The wife of the Turkish Ambassador ha
Mortified the faithful by appearing at bal
IN Paris with her face uncovered.
The Postmaster at Logansport, Indiana
has been removed, and Mrs Colonel Brown
widow Of an officer who fell at the secon
battle of Bull Run, appointed in his stead.
supposed corpse, while being shaved, i
Norwalk, Connecticut, revived got up an
dressed itself and ordered the postponemen
of the funeral
young negro, while looking down int
one OF the receivers OF the Catocun iro
works to witness the operation of meltn
iron ore, was suiIocated by an emission
gas, and fell headlong into the lake of fir
and was consumed
on sunday last, young man OF Taylors
vile, Indiana, was found dead in his bee
having been shot through the heart In tn
morning he had gone to his room, got int
bed and covered himself up When foun
lie was covered up TO his eyes, with hi
hands folded across his breast, aud the pistc
lying ON the he'd by his side. Cause, troubl
with h's "Worser halGn
During lie violent hurricane of the I'LL
ON the French co,,..,t, two hundred cnormou
blocks OF stone placed lii front of the breal
water at Cherbourg to protect It from tn
"e'lon OF the sea were lifted by the Nyay,
anu thrown over the wall into the harboi
for'y cannon planted on the pierwere throw