Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-01-25

city it would be as populous as New York.
An Irishman in the employ of gentle
man at Bridgeport, Conn, went upon the
roof of the house in state of somnambu-
lism, the other night, and had taken down
the chimney nearly to the level of the roof
before no was discovered
In HARLEM peculiar ornament of white
lace and card board, hung just outside the
street door, signifies the birth of child;
and for the period of six weeks after birth,
while such badge is visible, no tax collector
or creditor of any kind is allowed to demand |
payment.
Information from North Carolina reveals
the existence In that State of secret organi-
cation in Union county. 1t is intimated
that it is revolutionary in character. Each
member Is sworn to secrecy before he is in
troduced and made acquainted with the
secrets. The organization will be estab-
lished in every county, and may possibly
result in serious trouble among the people.
Additional intelligence has reached here O.
outrages of an aggravated nature, and even
murders, in Wayne county, N. @. Freed
men are mostly the victims, but so terrified
have they become that the names of the
''Regulatorsn will not be disclosed. 1t is
stated that the civil authorities confess they
are afraid to pursue such villains with the
remedies provided by law. Their fears grow
out of apprehenslons that if part of the out
laws should be arrested, others of the gang
would burn down their houses or otherwise
injure the magistrates and officers
The Posts Washington special says Gen.
Sickles' testimony before the Congressional
Committee in relation TO affairs In South
Carolina IS very strong He declared that
many counties of that State require constant
military control to secure to the Freedmen
any of their rights.
The wardrobe oil lady who had been
invited to attend upon the Empress at Com
peigne, consisted of three morning robes,
six deini-toilettes, five evening dresses, one
blue velvet train robe, one shooting costume
and accessories wherewith to change the five
evening dresses into ball robes or dinner
toillettes, and that, too, in ten different
ways.
The two volumes of New Hampshire Co.
lonial Records, which were recently stolen
from the office of Rev. DR.. Bouton, of Con-
cord, were found on Sunday morning week,
carefully wrapped up in package, on the
State House steps. Some of his manuscripts,
which were also stolen, have not yet been
recovered
A case of devilish cruelty was revealed at
Chicago day or two ago. A stepmother
named Owens has been detected in long
? series of abuses toward her step daughter, a
r girl of but seven years OF age. She had
been burned, scalded, whipped. starved and
> beaten, and during the recent cold weather
she was confined in an clubhouse until hel
3 little limbs were frozen. The woman wai
held for trial in bonds of $3,00G
. The Jail of Pike county, Miss, was set OF
/ fire on Sunday night week, by horse THE
' named Pike, who was confined in IT. TIL,
1 Jail and Pike were consumed.
Mrs. Minnie Wilson, of Akron, Ohio, wa
O instantly killed by an accident on the II
/. llnois Central Railroad last week, while Of
Il bridal tour.
Michael Ryan, of Troy, N. Y, was choke
}. TO death on Tuesday week, while eating
Il sausage.
a Chill and Peru have emphatically rejecte
o the proposition of mediation made by tn
v Government of France and England, an
: the war will be vigorously continued. TIL
10 proposition of President Mosquera for real
v sembling the South America Congress
=, which in 1858 met in Lima, meets with gel
l. eral favor. 1t is thought that united d.
: monstration against the triple alliance I
,s Brazil, the Argentine Republic, and Uruguay
may be expected.
IN Garribaldi, always watching the signs
"A political progress IN every part of the worlt
n is the first in Europe to appreciate the in
in portance of the election of colored membe
ia TO the Massachusetts Legislature. On tn
be question all Europe is known to agree wi
IN him, for even the most conservative elemen
an in European society, the courts, do not I
nv fuse to the colored President of Liberia Il
lsr same rights which they concede to h
his white Presidents of European and Americi
ut Republics
rn. A test case, in which the whole of I
a
NJ before the Supreme Court at Lansing.
no colored man afflrms that having applied q
.nd public school to be taught, he has been
ous fused. Therefore, through his attorney,
nh. petitions for mandamus against his d
hin trict School Board to compel the admissi
II Of colored people into the public scohols
IN appears that the School Board has order
20 the institution of school for colored peop
or- but this school is in no respect as good
.o.a the white one, and hence, the persistence
!, the petitioner for equal rights Ex-0'
~ Austin Blair is enlisted in his behalf, a
whatever may be the issue of the case,
ian, hearing will show progress of some kind.
the The Emperor of France, to make so
any atonement for the inglorious expedition
a lOrr Mexico for the evacuation of Rome, and
mot the unpopularity of the projected army b
one has concluded to "crown the edifice of
ines Napoleonic state" which is passed VI
T Nisn the national will. With that view he
The given to the Chambers the right of quest
ded ing the Government and reduced the sta
And duties. We doubt whether these ref
lisry measures will gain to the Emperor
,sss friends among the Liberal party of Frai
,ces- Mr.. F. W. Coomiles, who resides l
II be Wabash, Indiana, while putting up his no
. SO, few days ago, handed his wife pack
tbsv containing 81, ZOO to take in the house.
CO. the time she was gathering chips, and hi
bmit basket and armfill. The money was laiC
Il.