The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-21
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= The Washington correspondent of tn,
New York Tribune states that the Pres
ldent seems to be getting slightly dis
gusted with the perpetual and persis
!, tent attacks of Southern advisers and
i pardOn.seekers, and has plainly in ii.
mated that hereafter he will exercise
greater discrimination in extending
t Executive clemency to ex-rebel appli
, cants. A Richmond gentleman called
, on the President few days since, and
. notwithstanding the fact that large
crowd was waiting, insisted on "defining
his position and suggested a certain
policy which, in his opinion, ought to
be carried out by the Government. The
President listened attentively for few
moments, but at last becoming ANNOYED
} cast his card OIL the floor and informed
him that their interview was at an end.
The fellow took his hat and his leave at
the same time.
The desire to Improve" ourlanguage,
by giving feminine examinations to
many words when applied to women,
has coined forms which, although some
Of them tolerated, all lovers of purity of
style abhor. Thus we have, besides
authoress " and poetess,u which
seem to have fairly domesticated them
selves, such words as "directress, - "doc-
tress. " and, in some few newspapers,
sculptress'; but the worst of all is found
IN the London Spectator, which certain
~ ought to know better, but which i'm a
recent number speaks of Miss Swanwick
as the elegant 'tanslatress' of Hschy-
lus."
A Washington correspondent saws
mat owing to the unprecedented and eX-
tortlonate demands of hotel keepers and
mousse owners at the capital, quite a
number OF congressman have engaged
apartments for the next session in Balti-
more, where the price ofliving and room
rent are not one eighth part of Washing
ton rates. A party of members now here
and unable to get quarters for ANYTHING
IKE their congressional pay, have deter
mined to test by resolution the question
OF adJourning the coming session to
Philadelphia, Immediately after its
organization.
On the night Of the 18th, a fire broke
out in Fredericksburg, Va, whereby
the building known as the Shakespeare |
House, and two others adjoining, were
destroyed. The value of the buildings
burned is estimated at $4,000, with lit
Tie OF no insurance. During the pro-
gress OF the fire the premises of Hart &
rays, commission merchants, were en-
tered by burglars, and their safe was
robbed.
.Ihe Richmond Wig alluding te the
story OF General Lees application for
few pieces of artillery, &c., states that
las General Lee has no connection with
the military school at Lexington, and
mas nothing now to do with ARTILLERY,
we take 1t for granted the statement is
untrue" We thought the story poor
invention, but copied it as we do ten
thousand other paragraphs which we
find afioat. w
Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, of Boston.
was married on the 18th instant. nj
Massachusetts, to Mrs. Adele
u: Thayer, widow of the late John %.
Ihayer, and daughter of the late Hon
frank Granger, of New York. This is
Mr.. Winthrop's third marriage. Mrs !
mayer has one child, and fortune ex
'eeding million of dollars
The Savannah Herald of the 18th v
Instant states that Samuel Whaley. a g
reedman, in the latter part of last month o
attempted to shoot Rev. George Fl.
saton, Superintendent of Freedmen. on q
IT, Helena Island, and was instantly
hot by several freedmen Hope McIn- Il
osh, an abettor of Whaley was lodged &c 9,
n the Savannah. Jail. a,
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle ri
avs it regards "the continued main
enance OF the Democratic organization
lne North as positive injury to the
outh," and that President Johnson.
he rupture ofthe Republican party, and 3
ne formation of new parties, are the ag
My hope of the South.
The Louisville Journal says that "the
Ion. John Bell of Tennessee, is about
write letter to the President of the
nlted States. which will doubtless at
act much attention. Mr.. Bells posi- T
on and motives have been misunder- Il
ood, and consequently misrepre- !
nted." Doubtless. Of
1t is reported that the steamship Twi- the
!ht, which left New York for Will 9 ,%a
ington, N. c., on the 10Th, with thirty if d
re passengers and valuable cargo. n
rs wrecked near the mouth of Cane -
'ar river, and will be a total loss The i
and crew were saved II
Twelve hundred of the ladies of Nor the
K andnportsmouth, headed by Mrs. try "a
+. ii. wilson, Mrs. James Murdaurh of
re-, Mary A. Barron, Mrs. David J. eral
:. III, nave SiSneu ana forwarded n fde
tltlon to President johnson to pardon II
|ferson Davis. Arti
~, - spec
The President was more than usually Eelc
noyed on Wednesday by importunate S S3",
He remarked that Med
had tried to overwhelm the South W
IN pardons and kindness, but he be- 0e Ts
!, from recent events, to think them fore
apable of approaching magnanimity. subs
he late rebel Attorney General Geo "a, Al
Wis, who arrived at New York, under term
rd on the previous day from Key r l,,le
ST. on board the government supply '''''
inner Memphis, wason Friday, i'm ac-
lance with orders from Was hington.
to Fort Lafayette.
he Richmond Times states that "if All
hagoras was alive he would derive lar is,1 I
most lively satisfaction, no doubt. -
n the appearance among irrational d.
nails of many of the diseases hereto j
peculiar to man." -. pE ynr
Virginia correspondent of the -
'hington National Intelligencer says: *
srs. Custis, Chandler, Ridgeway. Ina
Dour, Davis and Hodge, elected to lands
gress from that State, will take the and c.