Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-24
News Items.

The removals from office since July last
are stated at 4iG, out of 2I3i appointments.
The nominations sent TO the Senate were
BIZ, only five of which have been acted on.
OF M removals in the Post Office depart
mcnt, l20 Were for political reasons.
The President has signed the bill suspend
ing payment of communication money to
owners of coored soldiers.
The American Iron and Steel Association
is holding its annual meeting in Washing
ton. The members report trade as depress.
ed, and desire higher tariff for their pro-
lection against foreign competition.
The Indiana State Senate has ratified the
Constitutional amendment. The amend-
ment has also passed both Houses of Tie
Maine and West Virginia Legislatures.
1t is reported that Governor Throckmor-
ton will call an extra session of the Texas
Legislature.
letter of Secretary Seward to Minister
Romero, dated Dec. 18th last, is published.
Mr.. Seward disavows General Sedgwicks
conduct in the capture of Matamoras.
Captain Samuel Hazard, of the U. $.
Navy, died at Newport on Tuesday.
The Planters Warehouse, with nearly
5000 bales OF cotton, at Columbus Ga, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th.
John Murphy, of Michigan, has been ap-
pointed Governor Of Idaho by the President
The removal of Agricultural Commissioner
Newton is said TO have been decided upon.
A new and extensive gold field has been
discovered in Australia The wheat crop of
South Australia is stated to be 100, 900 tons
in excess of the home demand.
A bonded warehouse in New York was
yesterday robbed of 200 worth of silks
belonging to A. T, Stewart. Most of the
property has been recovered,
Five thousand citizens of Western North
Carolina have petitioned the House of Rep
rcsentativcs through Speaker Coltax, asking
the formation of u New State in that re-
gion or the reconstruction OF North Carolina
on loyal basis. The petition was referred
TO the Committee on Reconstruction.
Generals Sheridan and Thomas and Secre-
taries Stanton and Browning have beth
summoned to testify before the CONGRESSMAN
al Committee to investigate the mur 1or OF
Union soldiers in South Carolina.
The internal revenue receipts laa week
We're $1,000, $50.
The amount of National currency in cir
culaton at this date, over 81, 600, 900 having
been cancelled, is S29s, as2, $50.
The act oil Congress requiring stamps on
State legal processes has been declared mn.
constitutional by the Supreme Court az Ala.
bama. The same court has also decided thai
the representatives of Alabama are not liable.
to loss on Confederate Investments the
State having been de .faeto government mn.
der the Contederacy.
Twenty-one vessels, having on board sixty
thousand bales of cotton, are detained in the
Mississippi, below New Orleans, by the low.
ness OF the water on the bar,
Most of the manufactures In Lawrence
Mass, will reduce their operative force on
the LIST of February. This will throw several
hundred persons out of employment.
There were large fires at Buffalo and Pori
Jeivis, New York, ON Saturday, involving
heavy loss. The post-ofiice and several
stores at Cambridge, Indiana, were Yesterday
destroyed by fire.
Nine men were murdered by Indians, in
Southern Utah, ON the 9TH instant.
! Peter d. Headley, convicted in San Fran
cisco of stealing 500, 900 from Wells. Farro
u Company, has been sentenced 10 three
years Imprisonment.
There is raise in the river St. Lawrence.
and flocd is feared at Montreal.
y Congress of the South American States
Is to meet at Lima, to.form a league for mu-
tual defence.
An attempt has been made TO assassnate
the President of Peru. The assassin was
arrested.
boy fifteen entered the National Bank
at Port Jcrvis, N. Y, on Saturday, and fired
a pistol at one of the clerks, who was alone
in the bank. The young rascal, whose oh
1ect is supposed to have been plumber, was
arrested.
Two colored men quamelled at the Half
way house, near Harrisburg, ON Friday night,
and one ofthem stabbed the other so that he
died next evening.