Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-01-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Tribune's dispatch says the Secretary
OF the Treasury is continually in the recent
OF communications from purchasers of Cana.
dian cattle, asking for permission to import
them to this country; but he invariably re.
plies such permission would be in direct
violation of law.
An eX-General, who served under General
Sherman, has made proposition to the Gov
ernment to take off its hands the entire mat.
ter OF land transportation of the army in
Iexas' To furnish his own mules, &c, and
do the whole thing for less number of dol.
lars in greenbaeks than it has heretofore
cost the Government in gold dollars
The Herald's special says Provost Mar.
shai recently stationed iu Texas, corrobo.
rates the recent accounts of the desire of the
Inhabitants that soldiers now being nustered
out OF service take their residence among
them. He represents the condition of the
State as quiet and orderly as before tho war.
and says that general good feeling exists
between the soldiers and inhabitanle,
The Times special says during the rebel
lion our Government has paid $3.50. 900 prxe
money. The business in this branch OF the
Third Auditors Office has been kept up 80
promptly that now prizes are paid within q
week after the presentation of the petition
therefor. In the months of November and
December last, twenty-six prize cases were
disposed of
1t is rumored in New York that Charles
Il. Carr, broker, drew $17, 900 from the bank
and eloped with woman.
The barn of the Troy and Cohoes Horse
Railroad Company, at Troy, N. Y, was
burned on the 10th inst. Loss SIS, 900, and
partly insured
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
United States Agricultural Society was held
at Washington on the 10th. The old board
was reelected and measures were taken for
large meeting next year, when a national
exhibition is proposed
A military commission is now trying sew
enteen persons for being engaged in the
Christmas riot in Alexandria, Va.
Thomas S. Pickett was murdered, and two
Of his daughters were wounded by ueproes
80 N-'@ ~SN+4t AeNA WiilliuklOut N. y.
Gov Swami, of Maryland, has sent his
message to the Legislature The increase
of the permanent debt of the State charrea-
BILE TO the war amounts to only $5O1 900. and
the claims on the general Government
amount to $5,oO0,oOO The Justice and
constitutionality of the State registry law il
sustained, and negro suffrage opposed.
Resolutions demanding speedy trial of
JEFF, Davis and the other principal traitors.
have been introduced into the Maine Leeis.
lature.
The Secretary of War, in reply to reso-
luton of the House of Representatives, re-
ports that commissioners to consider claims
for payment for emancipated slaves were
appointed in Maryland and Delaware. The
appointments in other States were not made
by order of the President. In Maryland
S,s6s claims were fled and 1855 awards were
made, amounting to $3.50, $50, of which but
$4,000 have been paid. In Delaware ia
claims were filed, and 43 awards were made.
amounting to s11, 1888, none of which have
been paid.
Anthony Shoder, formerly clerk in the
Treasury Department, was committed. in
Washington, on the charge of having alb
stracted 100000 in fve-twenty bonds, while
clerk in the Department
The freedmen's schools in Louisiana have
been suspended by order of Major General
Baird, in command of the Department on
account of the giving out of the funds set
aside for this purpose. General Baird SAYS
in his order that by the first of March the
system of contracts prescribed for agricul-
tural laborers will begin to yield revenue.
and it is expected that the schools in the
country districts may then be re.esablishsd.
In the cities and towns the mode of main.
tanning schools has not yet been SO fully
decided upon; but tile vacation will be of
the very shortest possible duration.
A patent has been taken out for propeling
boats with oars in such a manner that the
rover faces in the direction in which he is
going. 1t is claimed that the rowing is
easier, that the capacity of the boatis greater,
that it is more easily steersd, that it is stead.
ier in a sea way, and that the oars may be
suffered 10 float alongside without danger of
losing them, OF can be readily shipped aboard
at any moment TO avoid collisions
It is said that all the books and documents
ct. in Canada by Jacob Thompson have
been captured and are in possession of the
| Government
II all the worlds stage, who's the
driverl The pIopounder OF this query is
only eNcusable because the quotation is
hackneyed.