Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-03-29

The ex.rebel General Lougstreet has ex-
pressed his opinions on the Reconstruction
nlau in the New Orleans Times. lie says
there is no humiliation attached to an aeesp'-
ance of the terms proposed by Congress
and he has no reason TO doubt that such an
acceptance in good faith will secure the re-
admission of the Southern States.
The State Legislature of MARYLAND au'
iourned Saturday, sine die. The Bill ADMIT
Ting negroes to testify on the same footing as
whites. in Courts of the State, failed TO pass;
also. the bill authorizing the election OF new
municipal officers for the city oil Baltimore
The Clay statue will be inaugurated in the
Court House at Louisville on the 18th OF
April. n. c. Winthrop, OF Massachusetts
will deliver an address. Willard Fillmore
and A. II. Stephens are expected to be pre-
sent at the event.
meeting in Augusta, Georgia, salur-
dav night. TO nominate a candidate Tor
Mayor, resolution was adopted allowing
colored citizens to register and vote,
The President has been urged by promi-
nent Republicans and others TO release Jeh'
Davis upon his own recognisance, because
there is no prospect of Chief Justice Chase
holding court in Virginia so long as that
State is under control of military authority,
he deeming it beneath the dignity oil Judge
of the Supreme Court to preside in district
under such control There is good reason
for saying that within the next ten days
Davis will be released upon his own recognls'
ance, TO answer when called upon
AT the recent election at Biddeiord, Me-, Q
man was carried to the polls on q stretcher
and he died the next day.
The movement for inaugurating kepuo
lican campaign in the south, says Wash
ington dispatch, is gaming strength Their
is talk of holding meeting of leading mem
bers of Congress for consultation IN regar'
to the matter. Gentlemen who have giyel
attention thereto are confident that viii
proper effort North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Alabama, Louisiana and MISSISSIPPI
can be carried into the interest OF kepuDl
canism, and that majority of the congrsi
sional districts in other rebel States can ais
be secured for the same side. Moneyed me
from INT nUihu nhfS OcpASoSS@
to contribute money to pay the necessar
expenses of such campaign, and sewers
gentlemen of ability and experience
speakers are ready to enter the field II Il
movement is properly organized and sn
tanned.
The cattle plague has entirely disappear'
from Great Britain, no case having been
ported for the week ending March 2.
The hotels at White Sulphur Springs, "
q Gavorlte watering place before the war, q
TO be re.opened the coming season,
During the recent foods the people
Cairo INDUCED in several masquerades,
though but one foot and half OF levee Sto
between their city and destruction.
The Illinois Legislature, previous to
iournment, passed law making it high N
demeanor for any manager of lunatic a
lum to receive patient not declared insa
by a jury.
The contractors and builders in Chico
have resolved to circumvent the eight-h'
arrangement by hiring their men by
hour, paying the same price for ten hor
labor as they formerly paid for day g wo
Spain is evidently worried by the strictu
made upon the despotic conduct of her rule
for the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Mad
has addressed circular to the Spanish
representatives. abroad complaining Of
''ealumnous attacks of foreign journals ~
Spanish Institutions The Minister 8
that Spain is TOO noble TO reply to such
tacks, and will not give Importance to Il
authors by prosecuting them before the CO.
Of law.
General Sheridan issued an order on "
nesday removing from Office Andrew
Heron, Attorney General of Louisiana; j
r. Monroe, Mayor of New Orleans,
Edward Abel, Judge of the First Dis
Court of New Orleans, filling the vacan
by the appointment of B. L. Lynch, Al
ney General; Edward Heath, Mayor,
w. w. Howe, Judge.