Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-05-25
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General Grant has directed the muster out
of six more colored regiments, while 1900
will be retained in the service. 1t isin-
tended to send number of them out TO the
far West
The President is preparing proclamation
TO explain that his recent peace proclamation
abrogated martial law through the South,
and that this one is necessary to disabuse
the public mind of an impression that mill
tary interference in the coming JEFF. Davis
trial will prevent an expression of jury
The many admirers of JEFF. Davis at the
North, will be pleased to learn that under
careful nursing, he has so far "come to his
self" as to be able to take his Bourbon with
commendable regularity and quite satisfac-
tory effect.
The military commission which tried 7.
c. A, Dexter, late supervising agent of the
United States Treasury Department at Mo-
bile, for fraudulently appropriating SS44
bales of government cotton to his own use,
found him guilty, and awarded the following
sentence: "That he be fined in the sum OF
two hundred and fifty thousand ($250, ,000)
dollars, TO be paid 10 the United States, and
he confined in such penitentiary as the com
manding general may direct for the term of
one year, and until snch fine is fully paid,
and that he be forever disqualified from
holding any office of honor, trust, or profit
under the United States government" By
virtue OF orders from the War Department,
the execution of the sentence is suspended
until the record shall be submitted to tile
revision of the Judge Advocate General U.
S. A.
The New York fire on Tuesday morning
destroyed the Academy of Music, the Uni
vsrsity Medical College, st. James Lutheran
Church in East Fifteenth Street, lime &
Sons pianoforte mandatory, corner of
Fourteenth Street and Third Avenue; Fra
zer's restaurant, corner OF Fourteenth Street
and Third Avenue, and lager beer saloon
and butchers shop in Third Avenue. The
losses and assurances were; Academy of
Music, loss $335,0O0. Insurance, $13O, 900.
Max Maretzek, loss $4,000 No insurance.
j. Grau, loss $4,000 No insurance. Uni
versity Medical College, loss $4,000. In.
surance $4,000 ST. James Church, loss,
$6O,0OO Partly insured. lime & Son, loss
not ascertained. Frazers loss was $4,000,
with no insurance. The total loss will not
exceed 81 600 600, if ii reaches that amount.
The fire is believed to have been the work
of an inceudiary.
Lemuel Cook, the last surviving soldier OF
"a 1uff IL 4
night at Clarendon, Orleans County, New
York, aged 102 years
An Eastport, Me-, dispatch states that two
boat loads of Fenians landed at Indian Is
land on Monday night. Shots were ex-
changed, and the Fenians were frightened
off by the appearance of a British war
steamer.
The President and members oil his Cabinet
were serenaded on Wednesday evening by
the johnson Club, of Washington. The
President, Assistant Secretary of State F.
w, Seward, and Secretary Welles made
brief addresses, merely returning thanks for
the compliment. Secretary Stanton made
lengthy speech, defining fully his position
On the questions of the day, and endorsing
the policy Of the Administration, Secretary
Mcoulloch made brief speech endorsing
the policy Of the President. Postmaster
General Dennson also made a speech ex.
pressing the hope that the differences be-
tween the President and Congress would be
reconciled
General 0. s Ferry has been elected
United States Senator from Connecticut, the
Senate gu Wednesday concurring in the ac-
tion OF the House.