Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-05-06
Gen. Candy has assumed sommand of thu
First Military District.

Gen. Candy has assumed command OF the
First Military District.
The President has appointed Henry T.
Blow, of Missouri, as Minister to Brazil.
The "Southern Opinion" journals at Rich
mond, Va, has ceased publication.
On Friday, 430 French Canadians left
Montreal for Boston and New York.
j. ]. Atkinson, Treasurer of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, died suddenly in Balti-
more, on Saturday night.
There are complaints from Alabama Of the
''drowning" of the cotton and corn by heavy
rams In that State.
A severe snow storm, lasting two hours,
occurred along the line Of the Catawissa
Railroad, on Saturday.
The bodies of three abandoned infants
were found in different localities Of Balti-
more on Saturday. e.s- ..s...
1t is given as a reason for the resumption
OF army recruiting, that the regular force Is
under the contemplated standard.
VIM. N. Boreman, colored, of New York,
has been appointed a first class clerk in the
Treasury Department.
The Grand Jury of Waldo county, Me-,
has found thirty-six indictments, mainly for
violation Of the liquor law.
A hardware store In Evansville, Indiana,
was robbed on Thursday night Of $4,000
worth of revolvers and cutlery.
The safe of J. G. Schumacher, at Wyom-
ing, Pa, was robbed on Friday night of
$7300.
Mail advlces from Europe state that the
entire length Of the French Atlantic Cable
was finished on the 10th of April.
The Governor of Tennessee has issued a
proclamation declaring part of the regis
tration of Giles county, In that State, to be
illegal.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that money used by brokers in
their business, however obtained, must pay
tax as capital.
Two boys, sons of different parents COM
mitted suicide on their respective fathers
premises, at Vermont, Illinois, one day last
week.
The General Assemblies of the Old and
New School Presbyterian Church will meet
at New York on May goth, to settle the
question of reunion.
A recent scouting expedition of the troops
| in Arizona destroyed several Indian ranches
and quantities of stores. Indian depreda-
tions are frequent on the Pacific slope.
| Ocutldl d. ". w CDUGly INT pSCiCtuiJ Vi
the New State House Commission of Illinois,
has preferred serious charges of corruption
against the Commissioners.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
| that lands entered under the Homestead
laws are forfeited by their abandonment by
the settler for more than six months at q
time.
1t is believed that in accordance with sug.
gestions by General Candy, the vote on the
Constitution in Virginia will not take place
until July, while the election for State Off
will be held this month
The Navy Department has assigned Lieut.
Commander John N. Quackcnbush to com
mand the League Island Naval Station, and
appointed Commander George E. Belknar
Navigation Officer at the Boston Navy Yard
The British Minister to China contradicts
Mr.. Burlingsmes assertion that the Chinese
desire progress, and the same despatch rep.
resents that Catholic missionary and sever
al hundred converts to Christianity have re
Gently been murdered by the Chinese.
A California paper announces that it has
positive assurance that Presinent Grant viii
certainly visit that State during the coming
summer, and it promises that his appearance
there will be the occasion for the greatest en-
thusiasm ever witnessed on the Pacific slope
/ The San Antonio Herald says the people
of Texas are ready for the election. On the
part of the Democracy, it adds, no canvass
will be made, but the members of the party
will not fail to exercise the right to pick ou
the best men that are eligible, without regart
to politics.
Secretary Boutwell, has issued his state
ment of the public debt for April, showing
a total of 81. 635, ,032, ,SSS. The cash In thu
Treasury is SIG, 235, ,497, of which $92, ,03l
S32 is coin. The statement shows decrcas,
in the debt, less cash in the Treasury, of SO,
39o,070 during the month.
In the j. S. Court at Covington, KY, oil
Thursday, verdict Of $1,000 was rendered
against James Grdgc, for fraudulent tobac
co returns. In the same Court, yesterday
judgment was rendered in whisky case fo
5000, 900 against A. w. Darling, of Carroll
ton.
1t has been decided by the Attorney Gene
raj that Customs Collectors are entitle
! since July, 1S66,to retain $4,000 per year ou
goods in private bonded warehouses. Ii
disallows the claim of Naval Officers an
: Surveyors to this compensation, excep
when acting as Collectors.
The sum total of human misery was expel
. fenced on Saturday in New York, by thous
, , ands of unhappy families who were compel
ed to change their domicils, in Difference I
,, custom. The rain fell in torrents nearly al
: day. if to aggravate the other tribulations
Furniture that escaped destruction by tn
rough hands Of the baggage splashers, wa
spoiled by the wet.
, The President has called upon the follow
e ing gentlemen to act as members of an III
f paid Commission to aid in carrying out b
Indian policy: George H. Stuart and Wn
Welsh, of Philadelphia VIM. E. Dodge, I
d New York M. s. Toby of Boston job
$ Brunot. of Pittsburg Robert Campbell, I
s st. Louis; ]. F. Farwell, of Chicago. The {
a three more gentlemen will shortly be al
pointed to complete the Commission. Tw
gentlemen of the Commission are 10 me-
: the Indian Commissioner IN New York, no
8 there making the spring purchases.
t Mr.. Vallandigham heartily regrets ii
I course of the democratic party last fall, an
n comedies that the nomination of MIR. Scy
q mour was mistake. But he straugel
shifts the responsibility of that nominatic
S from his own shoulders, where it belongs,
: anywhere and upbraids others for haviu
brought it about He is, however, no
d strongly in favor of working in the new ell
g ments of the democratic party, and sugges,
General Thomas Ewing, jr., as candida
s for Governor. But the general calls hin
II self citizen of Kansas and could not III
S in Ohio without bringing his carpet bag.
6 Ex-senator Doolittlc has opened a la
~ ! nCt in Ehioann