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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-20
Annirs In Utah.
LETTER FROM A MoRxoS-AFFAIRs AMONG ruK


From the Philadelphia Bulletin, May IS
private letter from OF the Saints among the Nor
mans OF Utah has been placed al disposal by hs
laiivc In this city, 10 whom addressed n makes
is spoken Of in the report whou dae) that appears In
the California papers. We mako the following extracts
from the letter.
PRrrpxyrs Orrrcv,
GRKkr SArr TAKs CRY, Feb. rs, 1857. (
This mail goes out per the hands OF Mormon boys, who
will doubtless carry through without fail In fact the
word fail Is not known 10 them they do whatever they
put their hands 10 In righteousness They will also be the
bearers OF the return malls In future which will
regularity such have bee1 used before
and net only regularity but safety in tho transmission
OF our mail matter.
There are some twenty elders going on missions W
Europe this spring. They will leave here about
ference time and are going 70 travel by handcars
the Plains There also few yoaug going W the
Sandwich Islands These all that we know OF Al pre-.
sent who are going abroad
The President brigham Young Is preparing 10 20 90
his annual trip among the settlements He goes north Of
the city this for hundred OF miles accom-.
panied by upwards OF hundred OF his chosen boys
amongst whom have the honor " DO numbered We
expect TO start about the 18th OF April and will be absent
about eight weeks. The trip will be pleasant and In
teresung one, have doubt, Of which will duly post
youon the time thereof
expect by the mail 10 have 10 inform you OF an
addition am about 10 make 70 my family a. anticipate
taking wife about that ume All parties agreed and
Polly In pa ticular.
TITS recommended that all gather in the future by the
hand carts for will be much improved this season and 10
the event OF your doing do not burden yourself with too
much baggage. Have taken by freight teams, and only
take with you one change OF clothing would recommend
The hand cart system before any other system Of gathering
Israel.
We are all in the enjoyment OF good health and re.
ocng In the blessings Of peace and the comforts every
day life.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-20
United states District Court.
Before Hon. Judge Ingerson.

H'IUTt ffOH' JuuFt fIBVITVl
NAY 1o.Tne United States U.s. John Sdcey-Th prisoner
was charged with cruel and unusual punishment on VII.
liam Gordon one Of the sailors board the ship Chris
tana The Court assigned Mr. Dankman 70 act as coun.
sci for We accused. Verdict not guilty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-20

Posr OFrICE DiscoNrIsUEs--Thc Post Once q
West Gboa, schohare county, y y has been akoon-
tinued.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11
The PENNSYLVANIA Bank.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 9.-The stock,
holders of the Pennsylvania Bank held a
meeting to-day, when Col. Patterson, the
president, and the board Of directors re-
signed their posts. Resolutions were
passed appointing committee to inves-
tigate the frauds and select new directors.
Col. Patterson said that no report could
be made under present circumstances, but
it was possible that by careful nursing
the debts Of thesbank could be paid, and
perhaps the bank resuscitated.-Many
Of the speakers denounced President ALI
bone in most severe terms. John NJ.
Dutton defended his character, and de-
clared that he would return, and no one
would dare then repeat the SANDER
Great confusion followed, and a storm Of
Kisses and groans interrupted the speaker
A resolution to accept the act legalizing
the suspension was adopted when the
meeting adjourned
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L EST NEWS
the workfng-men Dispersed by
the Police-Military Talked OF,

New YORK, Nov. 9.-At the working
mems meeting at the City Hall to-day.
fears of an outbreak were entertained.
Threats were made that the hall would
be attacked if relief was not Immediately
afforded. The leaders were 80 int1amma-
tory in their speeches that the mayor
deemed it necessary to send police force
to the spot, when the crowd dispersed.
The gates leading to the City Hall were
then all locked except two, which were
strongly guarded by policemen, who made
every person tell his business before ad-
mitted. A large crowd of laboring men
gathered outside. The object of the
crowd appeared to be to intimidate the
common council to afford the poor relief.
Marshal Rynders and Assistant Treasurer
Cisco telegraphed to Washington for per-
mission to employ the troops at Cover
nor's Island in case the crowd attacked
the subtreasury.
Dates from Rio de Janeiro to the 25th
September, have been received, and show
that coffee and flour were unchanged.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

The art is not to dispense medicine
but to dispense with it.
Why are persons going to sea like a
man about to make shelf?
They get aboard.
Why is a rope partly broken like
ship ashore
Because it is stranded.
The man who run up column Of
figures tumbled down and was badly
hurt. Our idea is that he made figure
Of himself.
A sheaf from the shock of an earth
quake must be rare curiosity
Expenditure of intellectual wealth makes
us rich, and we acquire ideas by impart-
ing them.
Human destiny is a nut, of which life
is the shell and reputation the kernel.
Home comprises all the space that q
woman should desire to shine in.
The faculty of genius is the power Of
lighting its own fire.
Nothing elevates us SO much as the
presence of a spirit, similar, yet superior
to our own.
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Hotel Arrivals,
NATIONAL HOTEL, NORFOLK,
VIM. WALTERS, PROPRIETOR.


SW Eaton, j B Griffin, Mrs Griffin,
child and servant, Miss G D Williams,
Miss Ann w Williams, Mrs Thomas Will
liams, W w Anthony, DR. Cricklow, T E
Hardy, Col S Sharp, E D Lewis, DR.
W Lewis, j W Downy and lady, Geo A
Higgs, R Gattling, jr., N Curd, North
Carolina W Basham, H Warren, John
Skinner, Joshua Skinner, Edenton; A A
Semmee, U. S. n; B M Rhoads, j P Cum
minis, Baltimore; G H Stuker, New York;
A W D Traylor, Chesterfield, WD Ed
son, Frudenwald, Philadelphia; Mrs
Stuberield, DR. Fray and servant, John
Pate, w X Perrin, w F Robins, 7 R
Armstead, Gloucester; e B Montague,
King and Queen; S Southall, R. Hall; g
Hamilton, Camden, G. H.; E f Whit
head, Suffolk; j W Simpson, Surry; Geo
A Moore, Geo Fl Crump, DR.. Jones,
Chuckatuck; ] WCulchins, Isle of Wight;
j X Canoll, N, p; R d Jordan, Hamp-
ton; II H Kelly Nansemond; T William
son, Jas Eley and two sons, T Phillips,
Virginia; w T Warwick, A A Pilison, w
Kelley, Brunswick; Mr. Williams, Mr. ia
nette, Samuel R Brown, Deep Creek;
Miss X E Whitehead, Suffolk.
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A Slave Case at BOstOn-Heavy
Robbery,

Boston, Nov. "a slave woman be-
longing to Louis Sweet, of Nashville, Tenn,
was brought from Lawrence to-day on
habeas corpus. The case was heard by
Chief Justice Shaw, who, after examina-
ton, decided that the woman could 20
wherever she pleased Her owner was
in court, and the slave decided to return
with him. The examination caused con-
siderable excitement, but no undue vio-
lence was attempted.
The store Of Rogers & Nash, in Wash
ington street, was entered last evening
and robbed of $4,000 worth of jewelry,
ribbons and velvets
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

WOMEN FOR THE WEsT.-The Cincin-
natl Times, in noticing the movement at
the North to obtain funds to send unem-
ployed women to the West, discourages it
in this wise
We do not know to what portion of the
West the above article refers, but if it be
anywhere in this vicinity the women in
question had better be kept where they
now are. There are hundreds of women
here entirely out Of employment, and
they are likely to continue so until BUSH
ness affairs wear different aspect from
the present In good times we can take
care of all the women that may come
along, but Just now they had better stay
at home,
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

REMARKABLE CASE OF DRowNING.--On
Friday night, it being very dark, a man
named Archibald Brown, walked off one
of the wharves at St. John, N. B., when
the tide was out. He CROPPED his was along
i'll the mud but instead of taking course
that would extricate him from his unplea-
SAINT situation, he wandered up among the
piles beneath the wharf, where, of course,
he became more bewildered than ever
The rising tide made him aware of his
danger, and by shouts and noise he was
enabled to attract the notice of persons
passing in the vicinity, but too late for
succor AS the tide rose he climbed to
the top Of the spiles, and through small
aperture in the wharf, sufficient to admit
one Of his arms, he was enabled to inform
them of his situation. His position and
feelings can be imagined when the water
was every moment rising around him,
and he could not be extricated. He shook
hands with his friends, passed through
the hole all the money and valuables he
had about his person, and just as the wa
ter was closing over him, after giving
some directions concerning his family, he
bid his friends good bye, and the gurg-
ling water beneath announced that all
was over. His body was recovered when
the tide receeded
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11
UNION HOTEL, NORFOLK,
Il. A. BEAToN, PROPRIETOR.

w B Lewis, James Miller, G W Elliott,
j S Harrell, j Smith, F Roberts, James
Randall, j T Stephenson, P Fl Stephen
son, R T Wheeler, H W Waddy, James
Atkinson, T W Gregory, w D Station
w d Pender, B N Branch, N G.; w D
Smith, j Wilson, G Smith, Jas Holland,
John FL Myers, Bait; P Dixon, w House,
G House, Buffalo; G W White, w Il
Pointer, Gloucester; L Rage, Syracuse;
A Williams, j B Rochelle Southampton;
DR. NJ T Savage and servant, w H Kitch-
UNI, Halifax.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

FATAL ACCIDENTAL young man
named Martin Shaffer, Of Somerset, Mich,
on Saturday last, in loading his rifle, got
the ball stuck fast in the middle of the
barrel, when he unbreeched it, took out
the powder, and laid the barrel on a bed
of Goals to melt the ball. After the bar
rel had become heated, he stopped down
to look into it,when the contents exploded
the heated ball entering his eye killing
him instantly.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11
Gen. w alker.

New YORK, Nov. 9.-The Evening
Post states that General Walker sails this
week from New Orleans, with 1900
troops for Nicaragua in fine steamer,
with plenty Of provisions and ammunition.
Col. Duncan, Of the q. S. army, COM
mands his artillery.
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Wa The Largest Circulation in
the City. @
The News.

The workingmen's demonstration, in
New York city, on Monday, from which
so much was apprehended, although ex-
cited by inaammatory harangues from the
leaders, was dispersed by the police with
out bloodshed. Marshal Rynders tele-
graphed to Washington for permission to
employ certain troops in case the crowd
attacked the Sub Treasury.
The President and directors of the
Pennsylvania Bank, at Philadelphia, have
resigned; and resolution accepting the
act legalizing suspension has been adop-
ted by the stockholders.
There was slave case in Boston on
Monday, the decision upon which was
that the slave IA woman) could go where
ever she pleased. She preferred to re-
turn with her master.
1t is said that Gen. Walker sails this
week from New Orleans for Nicaragua,
with l5OO troops, and plenty OF provlS-
ions and ammunition.
An important Geographic item is, that
the Vermonters are to have their Thanks
giving day, Dec. Sd.
The Hanoverian Consul at the port of
Boston, died last Saturday.
The New York markets are Flour
,buoyant; wheat, beef and lard steady;
corn firm; Pork quiet; whiskey un-
changed.
In Charleston, S. G., on Monday, there
were sales of $500 bales of cotton at 12a
cents for good midling In Augusta. Ga,
the cotton market was buoyant, and
price, had an advancing tendency.
Virgiania skies seem to be approaching
We note sales; yesterday, at first brokers
board in New York city, at s5ac being
an advance of 123c, on Monday.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

CoNvIoTED.-In the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, Va, last week, Michael
Rush was convicted of violating the per-
son of a girl, IL years Of age, and was
sentenced to seventeen years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

EMIGRATION AT New YoRK.-During
the month of Octobe" the total number
of passengers arriving at New York, as
shown by the records at Castle Garden,
was II, $50, being an increase over the
number landed there during the same
month of 1856 of 1926, and a decrease
of 1851 from the month of September last
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11
Attention Union Firemen!

VOU are hereby notified to meet at Head
l. Quarters tomorrow morning, at IL o.
clock, to form in Procession. Belts and
Spinners can be obtained at the Room. By
order of the Captain,
nol0 W. N. STOKES, Secretary.
IA s. E. JON ES, No. 2 Campbells
q Wharf, is selling nice No. Lard at Re-
tail at Is. per ID; best crushed sugar at the
low price of IA cents, best pulverised sugar
sugar at the low price of IA cents: choice
brown sugar at the low price of 10 cents. A
sugar at ID cents, G sugar, 81 lbs. for ST 90.
Come and see me.
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New York Markets.

New YORK, November .--Flour-The
market is buoyant, with sales of 5000
barrels. Common to good State $4,SOa
4.S5; Ohio SIS. 10a5.50; Southern SIS. 1Oa
$40.
Wheat-The market is steady; sales of
Milwaukee club at 103a106 cents.
Corn-The market is firm; sales at rs,
cents for mixed--1 cent advance.
Pork-The market is quiet; sales of
Mess at 1913 and Prime $16.
Beef and Lard are steady.
Whiskey-is unchanged-sales of Ohio
at 224 cents.
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Deaths.

Died this morning at 8 A. M, Mira. NANCY
E. STONE, consort Of W. C. STONE, after q
long protracted illness of Consumption,
which she bore with Christian fortitude.
Her friends and acquaintance are request
ed to attend her funeral from Cumberland st.
Methodist Church, tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock.
(Richmond Dispatch please copy.)
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

MURDER IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA -
On the night Of the 25th Sept, John
Vedder was returning to his residence, in
Nevada, California, when he was shot
dead at the door his house, by man
named Henry Plu1nmer, the City Mar
shall, who was alleged to have for some
time carried on an illicit intercourse with
Mrs. Vedder. Plumner, fearing the pop
ular indignation, waived preliminary
examination, and was at once committed
to Jail.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

MURDER ON SH1PBoARD.-Capt Clarke
Of the schr Pilots Bride, which arrived
at New York Saturday, reports that on
18th ult., while in the harbor of Porto
Cabello, Joseph Sive, seaman Of the
schooner, stabbed Theodore Miller, mate
Of the vessel, from the effects of which he
died. Miller was native of Elizabeth
CITY, n. c..
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

MORE IRON FOR THE EAST Tenn. &
VA. RAILRoAD.-Dr. Cunningham, the
President of this road, passed home from
New York last week, and we learn iron
enough to lay the track to Greenville has
been landed at City Point, and will be
Immediately laid down, SO that the stag
ing will certainly be reduced to 10 miles
before Christmas. Bristol News.
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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH.
"WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10.

ARRIVED.
Steamer Louisiana, Russell, FIN Baltimore.
ho ens has n Seen Ssen' esale but pe s
damage.
Schr Lynnhaven, Jones, from Schr.
Frank, with part of her load, assisted in tow
ing her off.
Sch1~ E. s. Rivan, Davis, from N. G with
shingles to Odom & Clements.
Schr. Monterey, Prier, N. c; shingles,
bound to Baltimore.
Schr. Passaic, Owens, from Port Walthall,
coal, to Camp Bonsal & Co.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

When devout Mussulman found him.
self in the midst of terrible tempest at
sea he recollected that he had violated
Mohammedan law by indulging in swine's
flesh on particular occasion. Having
made due confession and prayed for a
cessation of the storm in vain, he pettish-
ly exclaimed. 6 What great fuss about
a little bit of pork p
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

Hes" The tragedies of life are full of
farce. This truth amongst those teachers
of mankind, the play wrights was first ex-
plcitly recognized by SHAKESPEARE, who
knocked the dramatic unities into pi, and
represented upon the stage people from
the actual world-living men and women,
including idiots and madmen. OF the
poets, BURNS and WORDSWORTH have
avowed and wrought upon this patent
fact; aud CHARLES LAMB and DEQUINCy
have givenit expression, among the essay
lists. There is much of the clumsy and
grotisque in what, of events, situations
and circumstances, is most serious and
terrible. The clown keeps his grimace in
the hard agonies of DEATH The gibber-
ings OF the fool, the maudlin frenzies Of
the ,irunkard, the extravdgant enthusiasm
of the maniac, with all their horror and
ghastliness, are, in one way of looking at
them, profoundly ludicrous. Upon the
principle, quite thoroughly approved as
just, that humor is perception of the DIFF
ference between what ought to be and what
is, the abjectcst misery is droll. If laugh
ter is, as quaint old English penman
has defined it: "a sudden glory, arising
from the contemplation of an imagined
superiority in ourselves to others, or to
ourselves in certain previous circunl-
stanccs,' then there is hardly anything in
life. however luncrcal and sombre, that is
not ludicrous, aud we can well understand
how. while HERAcLEITUsc could not go ten
steps from his door without weeping at
the i,iies of men. DEMoCRITUs, on the
other hand, could not go the same dis
tancc without bursting out laughing at
them A vein of the comical runs
through the whole of life, aud is, indeed
insenurable from Whatsoever is human
Its presence may De traceu III "oesI
crimes. and all terrors, no matter how
grim they be. The world is full OF sar-
donic grins. Smiles go side by side with
tears, and ncrriment is as truly shadow
to misery rs was ever the intruding para
site to the invited guest. Doubtless
hi,,,u,lf n
summon him up through the floor, could
he found a fellow of exceedingly ridiculous
aspect, so that we might make quite a
mirthtul night Of it in qulzzlng his alb
surdities.
Yes, dignity, in any thing like genuine
sense of the word, is out of the question
It is itself one of the most laughable mat
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

Snow KNEE DEEP.---A gentleman just
from Superior, up North, says that two
weeks ago he waded in snow that was
knee deep, between Stevens Point and
Superior Chicago Journal, November 8.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11

ANOTHER AMERICAN SEA CAPTAIN IN
PRIsov Captain James A Leet, Of the
Amer IN bark A. G. Washburn, belong
ing t. Dristol, R. l., has been thrown into
prison at Port-au-Prince for driving off q
local tco 0per of foreign seamen with his
crew Captain Leet was very harshly
dealt i, yh, and official appeals to the
minister in his behalf met with no consi-
deration The Emperor refused to see the
acting consul of the United States on the
subject which has produced great excite
ment.
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SUNDRIES.
WIN. d. ROBERTS & co.,

N7 M. ID. KOBEKTS q CO., ROa-
w noke Square have just received full
supply of the following articles, to which we
invite the attention of the public.
Cooking stoves of all the most approved
patterns, air-tight Wood Stoves, Coal Stoves,
open and close of all styles, Block Tin Coffee
Pots and Urns, with strainers, Chatting
dishes, Japaned cake boxes, Tea Canisters,
Spittoons, Lanters, Lamps of all kinds, and
for all purposes, Coal Scuttles, Cistern Force
and Deep Well Pumps.
Also rs boxes J. G. l4x20 Roofing Tin.
p,oo rs r, do ! I, G: l Skaat bright do,
sheet Lead, sheet Iron, &C., ETHEREAL Oil, by
the bbl or gallon, Tin Ware of every descrip-
ton at Wholesale and retail. noll.
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Thanksgiving in Vermont.

MONTPELIER, Nov. 1.-THE Governor
Of this State has issued his proclamation,
setting apart Thursday, the third of
December next, as day for thanksgiv-
ing,
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tiers under the sun. TIE silly mortal who
affects ii IS straightway hkeued. even by
the shallowest Of his neighbors, to an owl;
and shrewd, dry-witted chap sitting in
the corner can make game of your best
acted parade and pomp. Everything, be it
neverso grand and gloomy has its travestie
The most solemn rites, the most imposing
expositions, the most august mysteries
even the sacred rituals OF religion-get par
odled every day, by irreverent people who
are perpetnally foragng for fun and who
are in no wise particular what fields they
enter
To some folks, all men and women who
are in q bad way, whose sins or ienor-
ances are visited upon them in some sort
of suffering, are so many Helots. These
tacetious individuals OCCASIONALLY justify
themselves by the dogma that misery is
always a retribution for wickedness of
some kind. In their smallness of chris
tian charity, they believe devoutly that
every folly is a sin; and if their sharpness
ofken can find anything grotesque or weak
in the conduct of a revolt against tyranny,
an attempted revolution in false and
cruel social order, or demonstration of
unhappy men who are starving for bread
which was earned in the sweat of their
own brows, or in that of others of
their class, they forthwith turn the
whole movement into all manner of
ridicule and are profuse in the utter
ance-so far as it is not altogether ineffable
of their contempt and sarcasm. Such
has been the tone of portion of the press
OF this country, in view Of the vulgar, and
certainly decidedly plebeian character of
the late demonstrations of tens Of thou
sands of worthless and breadless working
men in the city of New York. The false
syntax, tlimsy rhetoric and inconsequent
reasoning of the uncultured spokesman
Of these poor artizans and laborers, fur
nish our fastidious editors with matter for
unbounded sneers. They visit with I'M
sparing scorn what BowLEs the Black
smith, or Stokes the Tailor, or JONES the
Drayman said. They twig all their thou
sand awk Weaknesses, the uncomeliness of
their speech and accent, the meanness of
their garb, the clumsy gait Of their pro-
Gessions and the absurd extravaganza Of
their menaces
Now, gentlemen, there is no special
need of indulging in your witticisms at
the expense Of these poor fellows who are
uncouthly bawling through the streets
for work and bread. You can crack your
jokes elsewhere, more to the credit of your
humanity and good sense. The mutter-
ed threats you now laugh at as futile, may
swell ere many days to the cries of des-
perate and determined men whose fam
ishing and goading want may fill the
streets of your huge, corrupt, money
changing metropolis with blood
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Richmond Markets.

Flour-There is but little doing in
flour. We note sales to-day Of superfine
at So, and extra $63.
Wheat is unchanged and we still quote
prime red and white at $130 a $40.
Corn is quoted at 75c per bushel.