The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-30
THE NEWS.

Thanksgiving has been appointed in
Maine for November %, and in New
Hampshire for November 80. seH
The internal revenue receipts for
Thursday werenine hundred and seven
teen thousand dollars. Ne steE 4I}I I.s sU
The Philadelphia Soldiers and Sailors
Fair is proving a mostgratifying success
and the receipts are large. t......
Ex-Gov. Bonham, of South Carolina,
was pardoned by the Presidenton Thurs
day. 88 M 4e ias " 4in iH
General Spinner, United States Trea-
surer, has declined the appointment of
Auditor OF the Custom House, in this
city. .......'-.54, -.
The bonds of the "Trish Republic"
which have been issued by the Fenians,
are said to be highly creditable speci-
mems of engraving. 5Wbios .as.&f O. +
1t is reported in Washington that the
Secretary of the Navy has directed all
our available steam war vessels to be i'm
mediately gor ready for sea. i'" A wa
Winter has commenced early in
Maine. Snow to the depth of fifteen
inches has fallen in AroostoOk county.
Go away Maine. ,,,s, s.,., E5es n "A.
Doi fAuSuotlu uC 1Iul O1uC, Vie Oluc2L
son of the first Emperor of Mexico, has
been offered rank and emOluments by
Macmillan, but has declined them.
The resistance of the air to cannon
ball of pounds weight. with q velocity
of 1000 feet per second, is more than six
ty times the weigh of the ball.
Doctor Joseph E. Worcester, author of
Worcester's Dictionary, died at his res
idence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on
Friday, aged eighty-One years. M doa
City of Mexico advices to the 18th of
September state that Ex-Governor Allen
had started newspaper called the Mer-
lean Times, devoted to sustaining Maxi
milan. 5-l1 4. Ia fo3l h6s .UEo0
James Gray, a counterfeiter, under ar
rest in Boston, suddenly bolted while
the officers were engaged in taking
down his description, and made his es-
cape. t.2 ~ ot1- 1917
Reports from the Upper Mississippi
country, both in regard to trade and
business generally, and the increase of
emigration to that region, are very fa-
vorable.. e- si"3' '''-' '.-1 7't'h
'Advices from Western Texas repre-
sent that the Confederates who went to
Mexico when the traps- Mississippi army
surrendered, are running back to their
old homes in the State.
The trial of Jefferson Davis for. the
crime of treason, before the United
States Supreme Court, either i'm WASH
ington, Richmond, or Norfolk, willtake
place at an early day. ff.= ~ -.
Emerson Etheridge has been acquitted
of the charges preferred against him
before the military commission at Co.
lumbus, Kentucky, and is now at his
home in Dresden, Tennessee. i. =.
The Mississippi. Legislature has re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee bill
to suspend, for limited term, the col
lection of debts, and securing the credi
tors the interest thereon, during theil
suspension. r.t ea,..i ',.7a,. 49, !,
The number of workmen in the Bos-
ton Navy Yard at the last pay day, last
week, was 3,S2S. The amount paid them
was $247 $40 81. The total expenditures
of the whole yard for September were
SS0S, 1853 II. fsr.,, s-laIF 1i1..r pa,
The National Fieedmen's Relief As
ISOLATION of the District of Columbia,
have issued an earnest appeal to the peo-
pie of the North to come forward to the
relief of the suffering negro" in and
around the National CapitaL naii4f=h
Mr.. Duncan, the State Loan Agent
| for Georgia, succeeded in hls recent Vis,e
to New York city in negotiating q loan
of one hundred thousand dollars atsev
per cent, on the faith of its Provisional
State Government s,f5O lr5g aa,,i Jl
| General Fullerton, Commissioner of
| Freedmen in Louisiana, gives notice
that negro orphans of proper age, in or
der To acquire Industrious habits, will be
bound out as apprentices to goodrespon-
sible parties. tsr,t.t Hus- u
| Reau Hickman remarked one morn
inc last week, rising like Fenian lin a
chean boarding house) from his ashes,
\ that he had held short interview with
A. H. Stephens and 'found no change
in him. ~ Washington Republic.