The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-23
THE NEWS.

1 The Cunard mail steamer Australia
sian, which left Liverpool OH the morn
ing OF the 9Th and Queenstown on the
evening of the 10th, arrived at New
York on Wednesday, the Goth instant,
bringing two days later news from
Europe. Mr.. Cyrus w. Field was
among the passengers by this steamer.
We have the intelligence, by this ar
rival, of the death of Mrs. Moore, the
widow of Thomas Moore, the poet, who
died at Superior Cottage on the 4tlh
instant, at the age of siXty-eight years.
There was II report from Spain to the
effect that q daughter of the Queen was
soon to be married to the Duke of Aosta,
son of the King of Italy. The young
prince had arrived in Madrid, and dined
at the palace. Another report from the
same source made the Prince Amadeus
heart Of the young princess. The Off
ciaI Vienna Gazette states that the I'M
perial clemency will be extended to
those implicated in the recent Polish
insurrection. 1t is stated at Vienna
that the Austrio-Prussian Convention
lately concluded at Gastein, had received
the approval of Earl Russell. A de-
plorabIe fire had occurred in STEAMBOAT
which destroyed nearly three thousand
buildings and rendered over twenty-five
thousand persons homeless. The Medi-
cal Commission at Constantinople had
repOrted the cholera as having almost
entirely disappeared from that city. A
dispatch from Paris, of the 9th instant,
asserts that the French Government
had addressed a note to Prussia in ref
erence to the murder of OFT by Count
Eulenburg, declaring that France ex-
tends protection to all her subjects. The
Fenian movement in Ireland continued
to be a fertile topic of discussion in Eng
land. Consols closed-80}@00formoney.
Americon five-twenties 69!, the same as
by last adTices.
The Wirz trial was continued on
Wednesday by the introduction of IA
letter from DIR. Thornburg, Assistant
Surgeon at An%lersonville, to DR.. r.. A.
Stevenson, the Surgeon-in-Chief, in re-
Iation to the sanitary condition of the
prison. The doctor was examined some
what at length both by the Judge Advo-
cate and by Mr.. Baker. On the cross
examination he stated that Captain
Wirz showed a disposition to have the
surgeons do all in their power for the
prisoners under his charge. He said
the discipline was much 0 strict
when Winder was there than when he
was absent. The Judge Advocate intro
duced the journal record of the prison,
which becomes a part of the evidence in
the case. Some additional testimony
was given in, but without presenting
any new features in the case.
An important meeting of the College
of Surgeons was held on "Wednesday
evening at the New York University,
and important papers read on the
cholera and yellow fever, IL OF the
medical gentlemen declaring the me-
~tropolis could not, by any possibility,
escape the former seourge, when would
he upon us in three weeks. How he ar
rived at such exactitude of time, the
learned M, ID. did not state.
Young jeremiah Townsend, who
robbed the Townsend Savings Bank at
New Haven, of one hundred Thousand
dollars, pleaded guilty to a charge of
embezzlement before the Superior Court
sitting at New Haven, Oh wednesday
the 10Th instant, and was sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment in The Con
State Prison.
Secretary Mccullough has given strict
orders that no more visitors snail be ad-
mitted to the Bank Note Printing De-
partment in Washington, IL having
been discovered that the privilege was
abused by parties in the interest OF coun-
terfeiters, who thus learned to initiate
intricate machinery in use. i