The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-31
THE NEWS.


ton correspondent says that sit is not
true that the negro troops are to be dis
banded. telegraphed you week since
that they would be largely employed in
the garrison of the Southern States so
long as such garrison should be necess-
ary, and | repeat the remark, despite all
runlors to the contrary. A glance at the
orders of the Government to General
Sheridan will settle this point, for in
those orders it was expressly stated that
any of the unnecessary aOhite troops
were to be mustered out The blacks
will no doubt be disbanded i'm time, but
it will be when, as President Johnson
telegraphed Governor Sharkey, the
Southern States shall make sufficient
progress to show that they have entirely
returned to their allegiance"
There appears to be no end to the
number of railroad casualties. Yester-
day collision occurred on the Long Is
land Railroad, near Jamaica Plains, N.
Y, between two trains running in OPP
posite directions, by which four or five
persons were killed and number in
iured. The collision resulted from one
of the engineers not obeying the regula-
tons of the company, and running on
the time belonging to the other trains.
An example should be speedily made OF
some of the railroad murderers who
thus trifle with the lives entrusted to
their care.
1t recently became known to one of
the military commanders in the western
part of Virginia that there was at a
point in that State, near the Tennessee
border, a large number of cattle formerly
the property of the Rebel Government,
and small detachment was sent to take
possession of them. On the arrival of
this force it was attacked and driven off
by the bushwhackers of the vicinity,
and was unable to accomplish its object.
A larger humber of troops has since
been sent to the scene of the disturbance
and a summary disposal of the BUSH
whackers will no doubt be made.
An officer in authority, who visited
jeff Davis on Friday last, says that he
reported himself in good health, except
a Slight touch oferysipelas. In speaking
of Wirz he denied all knowledge of that
| individual and said he had never seen
or heard of him before his arrest. He
did not believe that the late Gen. Winder
had any knowledge of the inhuman
practices of WiH.
! The statistics of the Quartermaster' S
| Department show that the average con-
sumption of each soldier is about two
and quarter pounds of dry food daily,
about three-fourths vegetable and one
| fourth animal making an annual con-
sumption of about eight hundredpounds.
OF fluids, including every variety of
beverage, he swallows about fifteen hun
dred pounds.
| Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Methodist
E. Church, South, has created some
trouble by superseding loyal clergy
man at Parkersburg with one of known
Secession proclivities, against the remon.
strances of the congregation, who have
informed the new incumbent that his
services are not acceptable.
The Frankfort (Ka.) Comm onvealth
says that in one hundred and eight
counties, Neale, the Union candidate
for State Treasurer, has two hundred
and eighteen majority. Two counties
are yet to be heard from, but it thinks
Neale is elected.
Several discharged soldiers and sailors
of the United States have murdered the
trew of small schooner, on the coast of
Honduras and turned her into pirate.
They have captured severalvessels. An
English man-ofwar is pursuing them
Champ Ferguson is sinking rapidly.
He is now so weak that he cannot walk
from the court to the prison, and has to
be conveyed in hack. He still keeps
up his indomitable spirit and iron nerve.
and cherishes hopes of getting clear.
Major General Torbett, of volunteers,
has been brevetted brigadier general in
the regular army, and ordered to duty
at Norfolk to take command of that de-
partment. General Ayers succeeds him
in command at Winchester, Va.
A Richmond correspondent repeats a
rumor current there, that two of the
| strongest cells in the penitentiaryin that
| city, recently ordered to be fitted up, are
| designed for the reception of jeff, Davis
and John Mitchell.
The New York Worlds Washington
correspondent says that Lee, Longstreet,
| Ewell, Beauregard, Hill, Wheeler, Ma
hone, Bucker, Gardner, and other Off
GERS of the late rebel army are about to
go to Europe.
Mrs. Sarah HokirE, a dress-maker in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, was found Wednes-
day morning, hanging by the neck in
her garnet quite dead. She was 38 years
of age, and has been partially insane.
The Baltimore american informs us
that fifty hands are employed in repair
ing the steamer George Leary, and
therefore we may soon expect to see her
at our wharf again.
An $500 clerk in the Treasury De-
partment, discharged for drinking,
threw himself from fifth story win
dow, and was instantly killed.
Tt isreported that Price and several
other rebels have been made general Of
ficers in Maximilian's army.
JIG. Breckenridge and J. M. Mason
are announced to arrive in Canada in a
few days.
There is now no hope for the recove-
ry of Governor Brough, of Ohio.
The EIGHTH WONDER of the fashionable world is Sozo-