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The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-09
PRICE LIST FOR CHRISTMAS
IT

AT ULLMAN'S
N order to give all chance to wear new
i pair of SHOES or BOOTS, during the hoii.
days, we have reduced the prices of goods as
follows
Mems fine Calf Boots SO 90
Do do do do double sole and Uppers 3 SO
Do do do Caters 90
Do do do do double sole and Uppers 25
Do do do Oxford Ties so
Do do Shoes 90
Do do Bellows Leather Boots 3 90
Ladies lasting Caters with heels 90
Do Morocco Bootees do do IS
Do do do sewed Is
Misses and Children Shoes in great variety,
Boys Shoes and Boots very chap,
Servants Shoes with heels good article 81 90.
This is certainly no puff, to convince your.
self call at
S. ULLMAN & co, Cheap Shoe Store,
10 Main Street, opposite the
de l6 Day Book Office.
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SPLENDID
SPLENDID
Sugar Cured Rounds of Beef,
Sugar Cured Rounds of Beef,
Christmas Eve AT Deming's
CHRISTMAS Eve At Deming's
Splendid
Splendid
Baltimore Corned, Plates of Beef
Baltimore Corned, Plates of Beef,
Christmas Eve At Deming's
Christmas Eve AT Deming' IS
No. 60, Church street.
No. Gu, Church street.
de -
I'll & A,copy)
MAGNOLIA CIGARS
A LOT of the above celebrated brand Just to
"A hand which we are retailing for
the small sum of cents each. We guarantee
them to be the Original Magnolia and no imi-
tation, Eagle Cigar Store, No. so Main st.
de- H. V. MOORE e. co.
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e s Il A Bills SHED I76O.

Els Il A Bills HE'D 1850.
PETER LORILLARD,
Snuffand Tobacco Manufa cturer.
IL y is CHAMBERS ST.,
Formerly az Chatham Street, New York;
Would cali the especial attention of Grocers
and Druggists to his removal, and also the ar
ticles OF his manufacture, viz !:
BROWN SNUFF.
Macaboy, Demigros,
Fine Rappee, Pure Virginia,
Coarse Rappee, Nachitoches,
American Gentleman, Copenhagen.
YELLOW SNUFF.
Scotch, Fresh Scotch,
High Toast Scotch, Irish High Toast,
Fresh Honey Dew Scotch or Lnndyfoot
TOBACCO.
FINE CUT CHEWING.
p. A. l., or plain,
Cavendish, or sweet,
Sweet Scented Oronoco,
Tin Foil Cavendish.
SMOKING.
No. !, st. Jago,
No: 2, Spanish,
Nos Il , miX'd, Canister,
Kite1oot, Pure Turkish.
Circular OF Prices will be sent on applica-
ton.
, N.B-Note the new article of Fresh Scotch
S On which will be found superior article
IVA "'pPAns purposes. de 23-3m
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FANCY AND OTHER S:Uf,Y,S ST7.,,
ABLE EDEs n rcEEsnSI ''N. !

.aNA VkFKEN UUOBN Mill,
ABLE FOR PRESENTS
LIME Bohemian Cut Glass Bottle
4 Do China and Metal Puff Boyes
Genuine Farina Colognes,
Cut Glass Toilet Bottles,
Twangihani Sachels,
Genuine French and English Perfumes.
Otto q, Of Rose in Cut Glass Bottles,
Mo1re Antique Purses, '''
Ivory Buck do DO
Fine Havana Segars in small boxes.
G Elc smoking Tobacco in bales,
English Soaps in boxes,
handsome Kerosene Oil Lamps and sbadas
ppl aov I'm Hyacinths in Colored vases,
Pearl Starch in neat l2 Id cases.
isiactory rates. s''"' a' very saF
de % MA .c
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-,, rs ". NJ. q. U. 7. II. s.
Va IL are retailing good Butter 20. o5 and IN
49, eehtS, sugar 10 cents, new Haas iart.
M YEA q 20 per bnshel, No. Lard Ia cts. Plat
cts fat etp S0fse o Is cts Patent Cut Sugar
ihnckwheat, No, Mackerei Spot dsls5 ' new ns,,,
t[arge atonly cts per Id. at the cheapest Xxx
grocery III the city. Goods sent TO every na",
Oh inc e. city free of cost No. 8, S. Church at.
uo - j REDMONp
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Wake d co,
WHOLESALE DIR UGGISTS.
nEFER the following Stock to the trade.
~ 5000 gallons Sperm, Whale and Linseed Oils,
1000 lbs. White and Yellow Car Greases,
1000 do Span Brown,
1000 do Marder,
200 do Pulv. Cinchona,
50 do do Cantharides,
100 do Chl0roform,
$50 do English and American Calomel, with
full assortment of all other articles found in
wholesale JooDlng Drug Houses. no
A REAL GOOD UNDER SHIRT
FOR rs CENTS. ~
"A LSO very large assortment all prices in
n Guiding a nice article of all wool Shirts.
MILLAR'S Cash Bargain Store,
de II ii Market Square.
I0N FIGURED sEAVER CLoAKs-opened
BEE HIVE.
Just the thing for cold weather, which are sci.
ling at very low prices.
Cloaks of all kinds and styles, and from the
lowest to the finest qualities.
Shawis-a magnificent stock of all the diff
ferent kinds, in Bay State, Stella and Broche
Large Shawls of all kinds.
Observation-Disclosures.
case la Blankets, superior qualities.
| | DO DO lG 4 Do DO Do DO do do
bales Servants Blankets, superior Qualities,
at low prices.
Call and see the bargains at the Bee Hive,.i
81 Main street,
de - Norfolk. Va.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ROBNRTs d co, have in store and are
Slows,
of all kinds and for all purposes, from the best
Foundries in the country.
All STOVES sold and put up by us are guar
anteed to give satisfaction.
Purchasers will find tito their advantage by
giving us call before purchasing no 80
Black velvet Trimming.
RLACK Velvet Trimming. very cheap at No.
de7 TT owENs.
SCHOOL HOODS.
A SPLENDID assortment OF Fancy Knit
"A Hoods for Children and Ladies of the most
beautiful styles and extremely Cheap, varying
in prices from .2Oc. to 81 90 can be found at the
American Flag Sign on Church street
de L c WILLIAMS.
FRENCH MUSTARD ,-,r.-
N packages off dozen each, warranted fresh
and genuine.
lde7 KING & TOY.
HANDSOME CHRISTMAS PREsENTs
AIDES and Gentlemen DESTROYS OF buying
IA both cheap, handsome and durable, Fancy
or Dry Goods. either for their own use, OF ior
me purpose it OF making presents to others will
ma II greatly TO their advantage to buy their
goods from me as they will be proven in the
ultimo: now have on hand Just from the
North for Christians fine assortment of ME-
RlNOS, SILKS, all wool MOUSLIN DELAIN
POLL De CHEVE CLOAKS, SHAWLS, EN-
BROlDERIES, HOSERIES and TRIMMINGS.
Also good assortment of q A PETS and
RUGS. JACOB UMSTADTER,
del9 10 Church street.
sPICED ROUNDS, SPICED ROUNDS.
SHALL open tomorrow morning the Goth,
| Bbl. Spiced Rounds, something very
suitable Tor Christmas dinner, the above with
well selected Stock of choice family Gro
ceries can he had at No. "a, Corner of Cove and
Church streets call is solicited
de 20 w X DRURY.
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A N INEXPERIENCED U Ii y &c AND
n Female Physician, presents to the atten-
ton of mothers her
SOOTHING SYRUP
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SPICED ROUNDS, SPICED ROUNDS.
7 SHALL open tomorrow morning the goth,
Bbl. Spiced Rounds, something very
suitable Tor a Christmas dinner, the above with
well selected Stock of choice family Gro
oeries can he had at No. a., Corner of Cove and
Church streets call is solicited
de % DRURY.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

PRorEssoR.-The most sadly prosecuted
word in our language Is Professor. 1t
once indicated cluss of learned mon, who
filed the highest seats in the universities,
and implied world of erudition and
many accom- plishments. Professors, for
the most part, were gentlemen Ofgreat ro-
fnement of manners, accustomed tn the
best society and welcomed as men Of most
agreeable manners and capacity for afford
ing solid and rational entertainment. II
is difficult to distinguish, in this graceless
time, between the legion Of petsonages
whose manner are published with the pre-
fix, until the character of tho business IA
known. We were informed, day or two
since, that professor would enter
the Cages of certain wild amin ais in trav-
cling menagerie, and were really Mt loss
TO know whether the astounding an
nouncement was credible. 1t might poss-
ibie be that some learned theologian, de-
siroHs of practically illustrating Daniel
in tho Lions Dem" had ventured on this
singular and ttartling method. Or, per
haps, some other learned professor. devo-
ted to the advancement of learning. had
chosen this occasion TO study the habits of
wild animals for the benefit Of his college,
but our doubts were ssipatod by reading
that no was the successor of Van Amburgh,
the caravan man.
A man may be n professor by simply
protesting an art or trade. In this sense
every physician, attorney, clergyman, me-
chanic. or black leg, is professor, and the
men sgerie man was therefore. literally cor
rect when he ambitiously Appropriated the
title. The word has not, until u very re-
cent time. been applied to any other than
one who teaches in a seminary of learning.
aud Professor Agassiz would not wish to
be classed with Professor -, who
bangs a tame lion and cuffs a sickly tiger
about in "A wooden cage.
Every dancing master Is now-a- days
Professor PLAN mister Is altogether put
aside, Rarey, the horse tanner. Gains the
title which il so well and honorable borne
by Agassiz, the naturalist. Hitchcock, the
geolgist, by Silliman aud Robinson.
The great BataraliSis, whose intimate
acquaintance with nature enables him to
reconstruct a fsh from its broken and
fragu entary bones, the learned gentle
man who, from his study, sends out edi-
tons of the classics, or writes most pro-
found disquisitions on mental and moral,
is professor with the sable personages who
removes spots from old broadcloth, or the
less respectable quack who advertises his
nostrums and his cures. The title is no
longer redolent of tho atmosphere of col
lege, and laden with recolections Of the
laboratory and the library; it has fallen
on evil times.
1t is now a convenient caption for dab
blers in all sorts Of arts, the aim of which
is ID get living ont of the public with the
least possible labor, and requiring the ex-
ereise of no capital, except impotence.
Alas for the once honored word the
time has come for it, like furniture worn
out, to be TUNED out for the use of the
=" lower classes"
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

THE STEBEsCoPE.-One of the most
interesting effects of the sterescope
is that which has been produced by
Mr.. De la Rue, who has coItrived
the means of giving apparent ro-
iundty to the surface of tie moon,
as viewed through powerful teles.
cope. The disc of the full moon,
however magniiied, presents, as is
well known, the appearance of a
Hat surface, with the lights and
shadows marked seemingly on a
plane. Owing to the great distance
of that lumlpary, whether it be
looked at with one eye or with the
other, therefore it seems moved be.
You'd the operation OF the ordinary
course of sterescopic effects
Nevertheless photographs OF the
moon have been taken which, when
placed in the stereoscope. combine
to form solid-lookiDg globe, on
which all the lights and shadows
are distinctly and beautifully delin-
Gated. This effect is produced 10y
taking the photographs at different
periods of the year, when there is
u slight variation in the direction
of the moons face to the earth, and
by combining these separate pho
tographs into image in the stereos-
cope, the form of the moon appears
as convex as the surface of an arti-
fetal globe. There is also another
arrangement, by which the appear
ance Of solidity is communicated to
a single image formed on a screen
of ground glass. The screen has a
black back, and is placed in the TO-
Gus of n lens in an ordinary camera
obscura, wherein the image may
be seen Ivy looking down upon it..
The particles Of the rOughened
glass reflect to each eye different
parts of the image focused on the
screen, and 10y this means a similar
effect is produced as when two dis
similar pictures are looked at
through stereoscopic instru-
ment. a
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

SPEED.-It may not be generally
known that the highest speed ever
attained by horsehcsh was four
miles in eleven and a half minutes
or at the rate of thirty-three miles
an hour. The highest speed of the
locomotive, well authenticated, was
on one of the English lines. at the
rate of seventy-eight miles an hour.
And it is said that a Holyhead
boat has run twenty.six statutes
miles an hour, which equals the
best time ever made on the North
River.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

SpoTs ON THE SUN.-At the meet.
ing of the American Scientific Asso-
citation in Newport on the Sd, Prof.
Hackley, of New York, read paper
on "Solar Spots"
His leading object was to show that
sudden atmospheric changes, accom-
panied by sickness, which had never
been accounted for, were caused by
the election of some kind of matter
from the sun. He gave variety of
calculations and observations which
he had made on the object. He had
found that whenever these spots on
the sun appeared most plentifully,
there were always sudden changes in
the weather, accompanied by sore
throats and other sickness. He
thought also that the aurora borealis
was caused by the matter propelled
from the sun, and made i; appear
that the openings through the lumin-
Gus envelopes of the sun We're pro-
duced by this elected matter.
A long discussion followed, in
which several gentlemen took part,
among them Prof. Mitchell, Of Nan
tucket, who said:
Although he neither endorsed nor
opposed the theory of Professor Hack.
ley, he would state a fact that perhaps
was not known to any one in the room
but himself The summer Of the
year 1916 was the coolest that wac
ever experienced, and at that time
the spots on the sun were so numerous
that they were remarked by the peo-
pie in the streets. The atmosphere
was always particularly hazy or smoky,
so that one could look up to the sun
with the naked eye. A controversy
arose at the time in the papers as to
the effects of the phenomenon. There
was ice every month of that year.
He stated this as one of the most Gu.
rious facts in connection with the
theory Of solar spots.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

WARM-Tbe FIG leaf" prophecies
Of lie have been well-nigh entirely
disorganized BY the liquefying inilu-
ence of the weather. Gentlemen of
strict and exemplary propriety of de-
pertinent, who heretofore would have
deeply resented suggestion to sit
down to their tables without coat or
crav"t, have been fain to discard these
membranes entirely. Indeed, the
original costume of primitive Paradise
has been more generally and closely
Appropriated, perhaps, than ever be-
fore in this degenerate age Of broad
cloth and crinolne, but no scantiness
Of investiture is scant enough to afford
appreciable relief--Mobiie Tribune.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

CoMMoTION IN THE GREEK CHURCH.
There is at present trep endous re-
ligious ferment in Bulgaria and Rou
melia, aud it is by no means unlikely
that there will be a grand schism in
the Greek Church. In the neighbor-
hood of Sores, no fewer than 10000
orthodox Greeks have thrown off the
supremacy of the Patriarch at Con.
stantinople and joined the United
Greeks, who recognize the Pope as
their spiritual chief.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14
Frem the Northern N. Y. Journal, July 3oth'
Awful Catnstrophe-Five Persons over
the Falls - Four Women aud boy
Drowned.

One of the most awful calamities which
ever befel our community was experienced
on Saturday last. A boat containing five
persons-four women and one boy-was
drawn over Niagara Falls, and its helpless
occupants TO q death us speedy as it was
inevitable.
After little family gathering of females
at the house of J. J. b. Primeau, which
stands at the foot Of Prospect Hill, and
near the bank of the river. they all pre-
pared to cross over to tho Water-town side
in boat. Those who entered the boat
an unwieldy fat bottom-wero Mrs J. J
b. Primeau, with her little boy four years
age Mrs. }. j. NJ. Primeau, and her
mother, Mrs Beausoleil, and Miss Louizs
Bibaud. The current setting towards the
dam and falls is quite perceptible where
the boat left the shore, but yet not 10
strong rs not to be readily breasted with a
pair of Oars.
The precise reason why the boat in the
present instance war given to the mercy
Of the current, is merely surmised, bnt 80
1t was. As the boat approached the dam,
the woman made u rush 10 the stern of
the boat, which pressed it 80 low down
IN the water that, as it was passing over,
it was caught on the brow of the dam, and
held fast there. One Of the unfortunates
sprang from the boat thus lightened it
veered round, the current struck it squar-
ly on the side, upsetting it entirely as it
passed over the dam, and the poor woman
was thrown into the rushing rapids. 1t
is not but breath from the dam to the
falls for second one of the woman was
seen to grasp q rock and the little boy
was observed still clinging to the boat
but these were the last struggles of life
One after the other they plunged over the
abyss, and into the boiling whirlpool be-
low, from which escape is as impossible as
from the grave itself. Mrs. Joseph j. NJ.
Primeaux was bride but three short
weeks before. Her age was scarcely seven
teen years.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

A GREAT BoRE.-The debts of the
artesian well at Columbus is 25T5
feet. By means Of a registering
thermometer, it has been ascertain
ed that the temperature at that
debt is SO deg. Fahreneit. Taking
other similar experiments for a
basis, this would show the increase
of temperature to be at the rate of
l deg. for every seventy feet des-
cending The artesian well at
Louisville shows an increase of
deg. for every sixty.seven feet. The
increase observed in sinking the
Grenelle well at Paris was deg
for fifty-eight feet. In the ar.esiaL
well at Mondorf, on the frontier of
France and Luxembourg, the water
at debth of 1900 feet at temper.
ature of 90 deg. Fahrenheit, show.
ing an increase of l deg. for fifty
four feet.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

p0r From out of the five Generals
Of the United States army are South
erners and two Of them from Virginia.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and his
assistant, the Quartermaster-G General,
the Acting Commissary-G aud
the Surgeon-Geueral, are virginians.
The COMMANDMENT chief Of the army,
the commander in Texas, in New
Mexico, and in Utah, are all Virgin
ians.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14

A BEAUTIFUL ExrRAoT.--The following
extract is from letter which was written
upon the death Of child
It went in the morning-a bright and
radiant morning many went yesterday,
more to-day, and there are dews to be shed
for the departures of tomorrow. And
can it be wondered that pleasant summer
mornings should beguile them into goingi
Is il n marvel that they do not wait for
the burden and the noon, but follow
the lark and her song over the ruin OF the
rainbowi That those words so beautiful,
they should make 30 true, land cOmeth
in the morningp
Going in the morning "a glorious
morning when the sky is all beauty, and
the world is all bliss ere the dews have
gone to Heaven. or the stars have gone TO
God when the birds are singing, and tho
cool winds are blowing, and the flowers
are out that will be shut at noon and tho
clouds that are never rent in rain, aud tho
shadows inlaid with crimson lie away to
tho west.
We lave some times seen little coffin,
like n casket for jewels, all alone by itself
in huge bcarse, melancholy with plumes
aud gloomy as frown- and we have
thought, not so, should we accompany
those n little way, who go in the morning
We have wondered why they did net take
the little coffin into the carriage with them
and lay it gently upon their laps, the
sleeper there lulled to slumber without n
dosom or cradle. We have wondered
what there was fer tears in such going
in the early morning rom home to home
like fair, white doves with downy wings
emerging from neither night aud fluttenng
for entrance at tho windows of Heaven.
! Never yet has there been a hand wanting
TO take the wanderer in, and shut out the
| darkness and the storm.
Upon those little faces, IL never seemed
to US, that death could place his great seal
there is no thought Of the charnel- house
in those young listeners to that invitation.
| whose acceptance we are bound not to for
bid there should be morning songs and
not signs 4; fresh flowers and not badges
| of mourning; no tears nor clouds, but
bright dews and bright dawniDgs to-
gether.
Fold up the white robe lay eside the
| forgotten toy smooth the little impressed
| pillow, and gently smile as you think OF
the garment, of the harp Of gold, and OF
the fair brow with its diadem of light
smile rs you think that no years can mako
that memory old. An eternal, guileless
child, waiting about the threshold of Par
adise for the coming Of a friend from
| home.
Here the glad lips would culver with
anguish +; the bright curls grow grizzled
and gray; the young heart weary and old
but there, chapgeless "a the stars, and
young, rs the last, new morning.
The poet tells OF green bough rent by
the tempest from the tree, and swept rude
ly along the breast Of an angry river, and
mother bird with cries of grief huttering
| beside it, for her nest and nestliDgs wero
there. oh better to be waited away from
earth, than thus that they should DRIFT
around the world in storm.
When children turn imm ortal, we should
write
"GoNE IN THE morning,
And there is no night there"
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14
Gov. WISE FOR BREcKrNRIpor

Gov. WISE FOR BREcKrNRrpoE-
At a Democratic mass meeting in
Norfolk, Va, on the night of the 3lst
ult., o. j. Wise, Esq, editor of the
Richmond Enquiries, being called on,
stated that his father, ex-Gov. Henry
A. Wise, would have been present
but for his illness. He then defined
his fathers position, stating that in
this crisis he would 90 what he con-
sldered the duty of every National,
Democrat, support Breckenridge and
Lane.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14
THE NICARAGUA EXPEDITION.
Walker and 800 Men OF Yucsten.

The Mexican schooner Brilliante, Capt.
Espinola, arrived at this port yesterday
from Sisal. with advices from Merida. the
capital of Yucatan. to the goth ult. The
news is Of the most important character.
Gen. William Walker, of whose depart
ure from the island Of Ruatan, on the 2lst
of June, we have before had accounts ar
rived off the Yucatnu coast. On roufe to
Nicaragua, on the LIST ult. He had with
him five vessels aud FIVE hundred men,
all we'll equipped, full Of spirits, nd am
ply supplied with arms, ammunition and
provisions. From Ruatan. of which is
land the five vessels made their rencez-
vous, the voyage was most prosperous
one, and the whole feet past down the
coast in splendid style.
The expedition first came TO anchor ut
the island of Cozumel, or the coast Of Yu
catan, where it remained, communicating
with the mainland and completing the
preparations for tho expedition, till the
goth ult. IL then set sail for Nicaragua
direct, where It is believed, long ere this,
to have effected a landing. While on the
coast Of Yucatap the expedition received
large reinforcements Of men, and was am
ply supplied with provisions,
From Yuoatan there is no news Of par
ticular importance. The peninsula was,
for the moment, in the enjoyment of COM
parstive peace, but the commercial classes
were still suffering from the effects of the
long and disastrous war of races
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14
IA- Two Legislators were I

pA- Two Legislators were re.
Gently conversing upon the SUBJ
ject of voting, when one of them
inquired 4:
well, now, but what is a man
to do when he don't know anything
about matter !"
WELL" replied the other, 81
have got two rules about that !;
when anything comes up, keep my
eyes open, and vote as somebody
else does whom / believe to be
honest, or else vote against it. l
believe, as a general thing. the sa-
fest way is to vote against every.
thing"
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-14
~ A dramatic colony would be

~ A dramatic colony would be
rather unique in its way, but should
one ever be contemplated, Europe can
furnish the material. Statistical tables
give us at present in Europe s,l4O
actors 2l,609 actresses, 1873 mana.
gers Of theatres, while the number of
persons attached ih one way or anoth-
er to dramatic est. blishments amounts
to $4,000.