Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Mexican correspondence states that the
French war steamer Emperor was wrecked
while going to Guadalajara 1t is likewise
stated that Methuela was assaulted on tLe
morning of the LIST inst. by 200 Tuarists un-
der Escobedo. The Liberals were permitted
to retire, losing 30 officers and l7men The
guerrillas Of Perez were defeated by Col
rreyens at solado Oh tie 22d ult., losing es
Killed and nine wounded, The Impcrials
took IA prisoners aud some arms.
A brutal fight occurred at New. Orleans
on Sunday May ID, between Tom King and
Bill Farrell. Eighty-thrce rounds were
fought in one hour and eight minutes, and
then the hackers of the person last-named
ACKNOWLEDGED their man whipped.
Twenty-six Ohio soldiers OF the Regular
Army have been committed to the Peniten-
tiary for desertion aud iusubordination.-
Their terms of confinement vary from cley-
en- months to fifteen years.
There is said to be no truth in the report
that the House Judiciary committee are pre-.
pairing bill for the trial of JEFF. Davis by
military commission.
Carl Schurz is out with three column
letter to the committee on reconstruction, in
which he takes ground in favor of allowing
the negroes to vote.
Mason, who was captured with Slidell on
board the Trent, is stopping at St Lawrence
Hall in Montreal He is getting to be bro.
ken down misanthropic old man-and de
| serves to be.
LoAengers, poisoned with strychnine and
morphine, were slipped into the pocket of
Miss Name, of Cape Elizabeth, Me. lat festi-
val on the 3D. inst, by some person unknown.
She tasted them and is very sick, but likely
TO recover,
AT Rome, Oneida county on Wednesday
night, Andrew Spellicy was called out of bed
by Richard Jones, wcll.digger, with whom
he had quarrel during the day, and stabbed
IN the arm-the knile severing an artery
The crime was not Iknown until the next
day, when Spellicy was found outside the
house, dead. Jones is under arrest.
man by the name of Schalts was arrest.
ed on Monday night last, at Chicago, on a
charge of having murdered two of his infant
children as soon as they were born. He was
taken into custody on the testimony of his
wife and mother.
In New Albany, Indiana, the other day. n
divorce was granted among many others, in
the case of Mccartney VS.. Mccartney, but
neither Of the parties knew anything of the
pendency of the suit; neither of them was
present when the decree was redered and
only learned through his friends that their
marital bonds were sundered. They are
ana have been, living together most happi-
ly' entirely satisfied with each other and
are strongly disposed to demur 10 the sppu.
lar and summary process by which their
happy relations We're dissolved. How the
case got into court is entirely unknown
Bishop Lay, Of Arkansas, has been elect.
ed the successor of Bishop Polk, who was
killed during the war
Sufficient evidence Inns been colleoted bv
the investigation ordered by general Stone.
man, TO show that the riot at AIemplis
which resulted in the murder Of So many moor
negroes, was the result OF prearrapged con.
spiracy.
Mr. Durant, one Of the richest and most
successful lawyers in Boston (formerly a
partner of Rufus Choate,) has on the occa-
sion of severe domestic atfiction, the loss of
his only son, and under the influence of the
revival movements in that city, left the bar
for the pulpit, and delivered sermon re.
Gently in DIR. Nehemiah Adams church,
The bridges of the Georgia State Railroad
between Dalton and Chattanooga have been
washed away by heavy rains, and travel is
interfered with.
AT Rochester, N. Y, and vicinity, great
damage was done by storm on Sunday af
ternoon,