The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1858-01-28
The News.

The News.
The recent difficulty between Messrs.
Ridgway and Wise, at Richmond, Va,
has been summarily brought to stand
still by both parties being bound over in
the sum of $4,000 to keep the peace.
The Senate of Virginia has appropriate
ed $4,000 to purchase Barbee's statue of
"Young America" Mr.. Barbee is a ma
tive Of Virginia.
Among the Americans in Paris, about
new years day, were R. R. Bunting, of
Maryland Hon. John M. Bolts, of Vir-
ginia, and DR.. w. Lindsey, of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The Belmont iron works, at Wheeling,
Va, resumed operations on Monday. The
Phoenix paper mill, in that city, resumed
on the same day, after suspension of
several months.
The plethora of the New York money
market is daily increasing, and parties
who now hesitate about taking hold of
second class securities will be very likely,
as the abundance of money increases, to
enter the market as purchasers of securi-
ties not considered first rate, but which
may be for the moment more or less pro-
ductive. We see no possibility of even
an ordinary stringency in money matters
for many months. Those who have coed
securities, or in fact stock securities of
any kind, can raise money on them at
low rates of interest.
The Treasury notes are issued as fast as
they can be signed, and readily TAKEN
The Department has no difficulty in meet
ing promptly all demands upon it.
The House Committee on Military At
fairs are preparing bill which will be
shortly reported, comforting the benefits of
the Revolutionary Pension laws upon the
officers and soldiers, and the widows and
children of those who served in the war
of 1912 and subsequent Indian wars.
The Fort Smelling investigating COM
mittee met on Wednesday and commence
ed the examination of witnesses. They
have subp@naed already upwards of
twenty witnesses.
The investigating committee on the
$50 transaction met also on that day,
when the examination of Stone and Wal
colt was to have taken place. The gen.
eral impression in Washington is that
nothing will come of this latter investiga-
ton. tile parties implicated having care
fully and thoroughly covered their tracks.
1t is understood that revelations will
soon be made which will establish the
connection of another Examiner of the
Patent Office with the free negro institu-
ton of that district. This is the third in
that Department.
The ball given by Lord Napier on Mon
day night in honor of the marriage of the
Princess Royal was a grand affair. There
were about four hundred guests. 1t was
probably the most select and recherche en-
tertainment that has been given in Wash
ington for long time past. An additi-
Il LoI l,,,1 g.
Sixteen hundred cards from residents and
visitors living in Washington for the
time, and seventy -eight from strangers,
had been left at or sent to the British le-
cation, to obtain the honor of an invita-
tion-such was the anxiety to be invited.
By the arrival of the Tennessee at New
Orleans fifteen days later advices from
Mexico have been received. Great con-
fusion existed in the capital, which had
been placed under martial law, and the
brigade of Zuloaga, which pronounced at
Tacubaya, had divided, part of them pro-
nouncing against that movement and
part proclaiming Santa Anna. The
movement of the States against the des-
truction Of the constitution was spread
ing, and Vidaurri, at Monterey, and Gar
"a, at Tampico, had united with it. A
rumor was in New York on Tuesday af-
ternoon that a despatch had been receiv-
ed from New Orleans stating that Vera
Cruz had been bombarded by the Spanish
fleet, but it is without foundation. Later
advices have also been received from Yu-
catan, which show that matters were go
inn from had to Wnrse YerN randly aud