The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-02-02
VA Circulation equal to all the
other City dailies combined.
The News.

The health of Petersburg has been I'M
usually good for the month of January,
as c2ly elerer deaths are reported for that
mouth.
The post Office at Raleigh, n. C. has
been removed to the corner of Fayetteville
and Haygett streets.
A coroner's inquest was held over the
body Of a man named Maurice Van Rice,
in Petersburg on Saturday last. He died
in the city Jail, where he had been put for
being picked up in the street drunk. The
jury rendered verdict Of death caused
from intemperance.
A bill to exempt the fremen Of this
city from jury duty passed the Senate Of
this State on Saturday last.
It stated that Gov. Wise has post
poned. for tho present, bis contemplated
letter on Kansas, for the perusal of which
much anxiety has been manifested.
It is rumored, (says the Fredericksburg
Herald,l that the Steamer William Selden
will be withdrawn from the Rappahan-
mock route the coming season and be
placed on James River to run between
Richmond and Norfolk.
During the month of January the coin
age at the Philadelphia mint amounted to
$5o7, 40, including 100000 cents,
$55O,000 in silver, and $141, 14O in gold.
The New York papers notice the death
ofseveral prominent citizens during the
last few days. First, that Of John Doth
out, President of the Bank Of New York ;
then Col. Barton, who was found dead in
his bed on Staten Island and lastly Rob-
ese j Murray, wealthy retired druggist,
and liueal descendant of the celebrated
Liudley Murray, the grammarian.
The Hon, John Tyler is said to be very
Ill at his residence, Sherwood Forrest"
Charles City County, Va. lie has been
suffering for several weeks past with
severe chronic 80 "
The Lecomptor Tuition was sub
mitted to Cong. h. President yes
terday, aocompa4 IL, .pecial message
The House Ccmu..-ee on Naval Affairs,
we are Informed, (says the N. Y. Herald,)
will disapprove of the conduct of Commo-
dore Paulding in arresting General Walk
er in tie territory of Nicaragua, and as
sert that he went beyond his instructions.
BY the steamship Isabel at Charleston,
we have news from Havana to the 25th
Of January. The second division of the
Spanish feet went to sea on the goth ult.
1t consisted Of three war vessels. A
murderer was garroted just as the Isabel
steamed out of port, The health of the
city and harbor was good.
Advices from Montevideo to the 18th
Of November, state that remarkable events
had taken place there. The President
dissolved Congress by force, and banished
without trial twenty persons belonging
to the opposition. The House of Repre-
sentatives was invaded by force of two
hundred men and two pieces of artillery,
and the members were ordered to close
their session. The cause of these distur-
Dances was the treaty of commerce and
limits with Brazil, which government de-
sired should DO approved. The Rosas
party promoted the intrigue by support
ing government. After this, and just
when areyolution was expected, General
Don Manuel Oribe, of lamentabIe cels-
brity as chief of the famous siege of Mon
tevideo, and worthy lieutenant of Rosas,
the Buenos Ayrean tyrant, died. Gov
ernment, being deprived of that support,
has engaged iu conferences with tho liber-
al party.
Dates from Buenos Ayres are to the
Goth Nov. Nothing remarkable had
Aaken place there. Tho Indians had been
beaten in several encounters, and the
southern frontiers were well guarded
Government will strive to carry on the
war with the savages until they shall be
driven from the frontiers. Congress ter
minated their sessions on the LIST of De-
cember, after approving tho agreement
for arranging the foreign debt,
A very hostile feeling prevailed towards
American ship masters. at Valparaiso,
owing, it is said, to the conduct of some