The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-02-08
Va Circulation equal to all the
other City dailies combined.
The News.

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representatives. in Congress to cause tie
views expressed to be carried into effect.
BY way Of Chieago We have a report
of the rising Of the negroes near Fayettc-
vile, Arkansas, said to have been melted
by white men. 1t is represented that
the blacks attacked the settlements, kill
ing between twenty and thirty persons.
and pillaging and burning dwellings, &c.
and that the revolt was finally subdued
by the citizens, after Staying seven and
making prisoners of eighteen of the ne
groes. The story is undoubtedly all i'm
posture.
The steamer Col. Crossmau, on Thurs
day evening, while on the passage from
New Orleans to St. Louis, and when a
mile above New Madrid, burst her boiler
and subsequently took fire and burnt to
the waters edge. She had two hundred
passengers on board, and from twenty
five to fifty Of them are reported LOST
The captain, mate and five ladies are
known to have been saved No other
particulars Of the disaster have reached
us.
News from Rio Janeiro to tie 9th Of
December, has been received. The f.
nancial crisis was beginning to seriously
affect business there, and panic had
broken out similar to that in Eupore.-
The Bank of Brazil was discounting to
the extent of its ability, and there were
loud calls daily on the government for
assistance, from which it would appear
that suspension Of the bank charter was
contemplated. Business of all kinds was
at tie standstill, especially in coffee, for
which the principal export buyers were
demanding reduction Of four to five
hundred refs, but holders were firm
Freights were dull, and there were one
hundred and forty-six vessels in port, in
Guiding forty American-most Of the YES
sells were idle. The Western Continent,
from New York for California, had arri-
we'd at Rio, leaking. The markets, both
at Rio Janciro and Bahia, were much de-
pressed
The great Calico Ball came off on
Thursday night last in "a blaze of glory"
at the Academy of Music in New York.
The occasion was looked forward to with
much interest, not only on account of its
novelty, but the praiseworthy object
which its managers had in view.
According to announcement the ball
was to commence at nine o'clock, but the
began to arrive at half past six,
and at least an hour before the appointed |
lime nearly every scat in the house was
The public were informed
that it was to be calico ball, and that
The ladies who attended in dresses made
Of that material would he expected to
present them, either during or after the
pail, for distribution among the different |
charitable societies to whose benefit the !
proceeds are to be devoted. That others,
however, might not be excluded from
participating in the pleasures of the even
ng, it was announced in the programme
hat all the ladies in attendance would
,e allowed on the floor after eleven o.
lock.
The committee to solicit donations of
,lothin9 &C., throughout the city were
given the gratuitous use Of one Of the
American Express Company's large four
morse express wagons, and in this they
made their calls of charity As a proof
# the way in which their demands
we're answered, we may state that it was
llled twice with calico, blankets, canton
1annely SHOES, Aud oauei oitiClcs VI cloth-
ng, One dry goods dealer gave sixteen
hundred and forty yards, another twelve
hundred, another five hundred, and none
less than two hundred. Then there
were two bales of good substantial ma
erial for underclothes, and stockings
nough to set up an extensive hosiery
Establishment. The whole amount of
alico received in this way, in addition
o what was sent to the Academy of
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