Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-08-16
nnNm,,AL NEWS.

81, nnu 10 grant pfe-emptlou ilbhts " tho ri
reedmen aud Union soldiers. The bill pro- "a
sides that after the suvey is made the land i,o
shall be offered for sale to the freedmen and "a
Union soldiers at the rate of one Ii,
dollar and twenty cents per acre, pay ~
able in twenty years, at an interest OF six ii,
per cent. per annum. The last section pro-
vides that disloyal persons shall be allowed ,r
to retain property to the amount OF i've thou- d
sand dollars, provided the limits oil sueh o
property do not exceed one of the legal sub "a
divisions of one hundred and sixty acres. Ii
Rev. IL. wendt, who for two years past Il
has been superintendent OF an orphan asylum A
at Philadelphia, was arrested in Rochester
on Monday, Tor an Infamous assault upon 1
seven little girls who were under his charge. (
He is regularly ordained Lutheran clergy q
man. He coufesses that he has done wrong.
He has been taken back 10 Philadelphia.
From Washington we have no further re-
ports Of disturbances OF the peace OF the
country by Mr.. johnson. He proposes in
few days, it is said, 10 start on health ex'
curgou IN Government vessel. Grant has
made no removals among the suhordinales
OF the War Department Secretary Stanton
has left the Capitol for trip TO the North.
Judge Holt is absent from Washington, and
an order announcing his removal is hourly
looked for.
Mexican news states that on Juarez's ar
rival al his Capitol he made All address, con
graduating the people on the return OF peace
and the great victory 'won by the good sons
of Mexio, battling alone without resources
or the assistance of any one' General Es-
oubedo's doctor has heavy claim for en-
balming Maximllan's body, and IT is said
10 be held Tor payment Lopez, the hetrayer
OF Maximilian, is said to have been assassin
ated at Puebla.
The next Legislature of Kentucky will
stand about as follows;-Senale, Democrats,
%; Republicans, 0; Third party, d. House,
Democrats, s5; Republicans, II; Third
party,4.
Registration returns from forty seven coun-
lies in Georgia give 10000 voters, and ma
ionty for the blacks of 6,67s. Ii is believed
when the returns all come in, that the white
voters OF the State will have a majority OF
$4,000
There was tremendous Fenan barbecue
held near Troy, New York, ON Monday, a.
which, it is stated, twelve thousand personi
were present.
A dispatch from San Francisco states tina
Captain Swami and the crew of the schoone
Sarah have been arrested on the charge o
purposely wreckng that vessel, with the in
tent to defraud the Revenue Department AM
the insurance companies. She sailed with
cargo of alcohol, which had been found il
cave IN brakes bay, since the reporte
wreck.
A gold vein has been discovered in Fail
fax county, Va, near Burk's Station, on th
Orange and Alexandria railroad.
a dispatch from Memphis, Tenn, state
thatthe cholera has nearly disappeared froi
that city.
Nicaragua is about comforting a gold medi
upon Juarez as a testimonial of esteem an
gratitude for lis services in behalf oirepubl
canism in America. A minister plcnipotei
iiary to the Mexican Government had alt
been appointed
A meeting OF Radical Republicans in Ne
York has nominated General Sheridan f
President and Governor Fenton for VII
President.
A dispatch from New Orleans states til
the brig VIM. Anderson, which brought
load of coolies from Havana, has been libel
and the captain and the man in charge
the coolies arrested for violating the law pl
hibing the introduction of coolies into t
country.
II is rumored that Judge Advocate &c
era Holt, one of the truest patriots al
abest lawyers in the country, is to be
moved from the position he occupiesin I
War Department He will probably be
next victim of Mr. Johnson vindctivene
The Union Paper Collar Company oil N
York have applied for an injunction in
United States Circuit Court at st. Lo
against eleven different parties to restr
the sale of paper collars Of various patei
There were 113 deaths in the city of
timore last week.
Gen, Sickles has approved the sentence
the court martial in the case of Daily
Ratclitle, who recently assaulted two NoI
ern men in a bar room in Columbus,
The sentence is six months Imprisonment
Fort Macon.
Gen. Schofeld has issued IN order remi
lug his officers that they are to he Cover
in the discharge oftheir duties by the |,
OF Virginia, as lar the same are not in c
ilct with the laws Of the United States,
that they are not to supereede the civil
thorites except in cases Of necessity.
1t now appears probable that Secrei
McCuloch will not authorize the issun
the fifteen cent currency notes until after
meeting Of Congress-
The bodies of the Federal dead at Ii
ardtown, Maryland, are 10 he disinte
this week and removed to Arlington Heig
Hon. John s. Pendleton, of Culpep
Virginia, has heen arrested, to answer
indictment for registering contrary 10
Reconstruction acts.
Boston paper observes that Gen. 81
dan has become almost as obnoxious tt
Democratic press and to Democratic lea
as he was 10 Lees army.
A butcher named George Metz has
sentenced by Justice Kelley, in New y
to serve thirty days imprisonment an
pay H fine of fly dollars for cruelty
OK. The complaint was brought by
American Society foF the Preventio
Cruelty to Animals, and il was proven
Metz had broken the legs Of an OK W
club, knocked ont his eyes, and other
tnrtured il