The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-13
THE NEWS.

OuC auVlCes IrOIQ Fdudula dTe W tue
first of July. The only news from the
Isthmus is that another attempt has
been made to promote revolution,
which is seldom more dignified than a
riot in that region. The Queen of the
Sandwich Islands has passed through
Panama on her way to Europe. She is
in mourning for her late husband
There is no news from Central America.
From Chill we learn that the Spanish
question has been amicably settled.
An outrage, similar in its character
and tragic incidents to that connected
with the violent deaths of the Joyce
children at RoXbury, near Boston, was
committed on Friday last at East Alba
ny. On that day Ann and Bridget
Burns went into the woods near their
home to pick berries. While there they
were seized by four men who several
times committed wanton outrages upon
them. Bridget, only fifteen years of
age, cannot live, probably. Soon after
the deed was perpetrated, Lewis Major,
formerly an engineer on the Hudson
River Railroad, forty years of age, and
his son were arrested and recognized by
the unhappy girls as two of their assail-
ants. Their examination by a magis-
trate commenced on Monday afternoon,
and before the conclusion of the pro-
ceedings, brother of the girls shot the
senior Major twice, striking the arm and
the leg. The mother also, struck him
on the head with Ratchet. The moth
er and son were arrested, and Major was
taken to his residence, where he was
threatened with lynch law by the crowd,
which was only deferred by the police.
The younger Major Is notorious boun-
ty-jumper. Young Burns tried to stab
him, but the police prevented him.
The trial of Miss Mary Harris in Wash
ington for shooting Burroughs, the Trea-
sury clerk, will soon terminate. The
defense is insanity, and the evidence is
conflicting. The policeman who arrest
ed her swore that she charged on Bur-
roughs her ruin by seduction, and Sec
rotary Mccullough testified that she
said to him she was q virtuous woman.
The court room has been crowded daily.
She is ably defended, and has public
sympathy strongly in her favor. The
belief is general that she will be acquit-
ted. -
News from Savannah, Georgia, to Ju-
~ sixth, has been received. The fourth
of July was celebrated with much spirit.
The wife of Jefferson Davis Is guest at
the Pulaski House. She is attended by
her sister and receives no company
The Provisional Governor, James john
son, has left for Milledgeville and the
interior, and designs addressing the
people I'M the principal cities. The new
shipyard at Augusta has just turned out
q steamer which will ply between Sa-
vannah and Georgia.
Professor S. NJ. Mccullough and Cen
eral Thomas A. Harris, prominent
among the rebel service, have been
lodged in the Old Capitol Prison, at
Washington, having been brought to
that city from the coast of Florida.
A telegram from New Orleans states
that the Mexican General Cortinas, in
an interview with the Union General
Brown. had informed him of his inten-
tion of withdrawing his opposition to
the Emperor Macmillan.
&c. MAYNARD, who was sent to Fort
T LAFAYETTE some time since, on charge
off cruelty to some Union prisoners in
Richmond, has been released, the inves-
Il gation showing that he treated thecap
tives with kindness. t..
Inc military dutuUTltltS az w dSuluS-
ton. after due consideration, have con-
Guided to deliver the bodies of the four
convicts to their friends for
burial. The disinterment will take
place Immediately. st}t1 h4,a
The national currency issued for the
week ending July eighth, was two mil
lion one hundred and sixty-five thou
sand dollars. The grand total is up
wards of one hundred and forty-nine
millions.
The Martinsburg (Va.,) Union states
that many farmers Of Berkeley and the
adjoining counties have been much en-
in their farming operations for
want of sufficient stock.
Mr.. Dennis Boone, residing near Lib
erty, Frederick county, Maryland, has
lost four children by diptheria within
three weeks. Two others are very Ill |
with the same disease. ra -
It is rumored that the rooms 10 the |
Did Penitentiary Prison, at Washington,
are being fitted up preparatory to the |
reception of Jefferson Davis, who is to
be put on trial.
Colonel Burton Harrison, lately pri.
rate secretary to Jefferson Davis, ia now
in the Old Penitentiary,