The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-14
THE NEWS.

ADOut ohe-ilall OF the new S50, 0O0,O 900
loan is subscribed for. .tf. ...- ..... ..
Gold opened in New York Oh We'd
nesday at l44s, sold up to l45. u., ,-..
The louisville Cotton Mill, in Hop
kinton, r. l., was burned on Tuesday
afternoon loss $4,000; insured for
$4,000. '.."
Rolla, Missouri, will soon be evacu-
ated as military post, and the entire
southwestern part of the State cleared
of military of every kind. .sj 9i JE,
For the first time since the war COM
menced, passengers reached Washing
New Orleans by railroad. 49,, -,
Orders have been issued for mastering
out the Twenty-third Army Corps, COM
posed exclusively of cOlored troops, and
now doing duty on the Rio Grande, .0'
James A. Dix, principal editor of the
Boston Daily Journal for n number OF
years, died on Wednesday OF cOnsump-
ton, after an illness of several months.
q A large number of important mail
routes in North Carolina Georgia and
Virginia, were ordered on "Wednesday
to be reopened by the Post Office Depart:
ment. WE'VE
Col. Paulding, Special Inspector Of
the Pay. Department, has inspected the
Fortress Monroe Department, and pro-
nounced everything satisfactory relat-
ing thereto. ..... .,-.
IL is reported that the Empress E,,-
genie has written a little pamphlet on
Mexico, which she has circulated among
some of her friends. 1t is called "Mex-
leo from PrOvidential Point of View"
Madame Lamoriciere has received an
autograph letter from the Pope, in which
he feelingly expresses his sympathy
with her under the loss Of her deceased
husband. .. .,... ...,. uf
There il to be an alteration in the
British army uniform. Several changes
will shortly be made in the infantry
dress, more especially in that of the Of
ficers.
| The sentence of Champ Ferguson, the
Tennessee guerilla, tried some time age
by court martial, has been made public
He is to be hanged on the Goth of this
month.
Bernard Storke, who was arrested on
Tuesday, in Brooklyn on a charge OF
employers in New York, jumped from
the ferry boat on his way to Jail, and
succeeded in committing suicide. .t.
The "Hummuns," in Convent Gar
den, London, SO well-knOwn as the re-
sort of literary and political celebrities
of past generations, Is to be destroyed as
a sacrifice to metropolitan improve
ments." .uoH 80. 7.. yp'97 80
A new steamer, called the City Of Pa
ris, will, in the course of a few weeks
be added to the feet Of the Inman Com
pany. Another new vessel has been or
dered from a Clyde shipbuilding firm
and when completed she win be called
the City of Antwerp. yf4 ut $50 .
| The late Concord Bank robbery is still
enveloped in Mystery. A large number
of persons living in Concord. Mass.
who had invested all their property in
Government bonds, and deposited them
in this bank, are rendered utterly PEN
niless by this mysterious burglary. a..
Sir Robert Peel lately appeared as de-
PENDANT in Dublin police court, as the
result of an alteration between him and
q retired banker, as to whether Sir Rob-
ert should be allowed to bring his port
mantua into railway car in which both
parties were riding. wiz" ''..'
The work room of James Watt. the
inventor Of the steam engine, is just as
he left it, in the attic of his house, where
he was driven by scolding wife. The
will of his son required that the room
should be left just as it was when his
father went out of the door for the les
time. The door was recently opened for
the first time in thirty years. i,. u
Rosza Landor, the Dick Turpin of
Hungary, has been sent to the fortress
Theresienstadt, in Bohemia, where he
| has to remain five years and half
Originally he was sentenced to irnprs-
onment for life, but the punishment was
committed atthe request of the Huiiga-
rian chancellor. Rosza is fifty-four
years of age. .-,
In consequence of strike of hop
pickers at Strood, England, large
! number of soldiers were obtained by the
| bop-growers there to pick their crops
quickly, as otherwise the crop would be
rendered valueless. About one hundred
and fifty men of the depot battalions
stationed at Chatham, and nearly one
| hundred Royal Marines, with a number
| of the soldiers wives and children, were
engaged in picking the hops on the
| grounds of these growers.
| A railway train from Tameswar. to
Pesth was attacked lately near Gross
| lasnos by six armed men with their
faces blackened, who, having first
| broken into the house of the keeper Of
| the line and plundered it of forty forms
and other objects, proceeded to remove
| one of the rails of the line, in 'conise-
| uuence of which the train deviated and
| came to a stoppage. phe brigands, is
suing from retreat, We're then prepar-
| ing to pillage the whole convoy, when
| the employees of the line, mastering in
| force, and aided by the passengers in the
carriages, succeeded in putting them t.
fight.
Some of the English newspapers arr
actually becoming bloody-minded owe
| the Fenians. Not content with estab
fishing martial law, making arbitrar,
arrests, suppressing noisy newspapers
and committing all manner of outrage
upon religious and civil liberty, it j
proposed to hang. "Let there be no mis-
taken clemency,n shouts newspape
that for nearly five years has been il
agony over the crimes of American ty
ranny. 1.-THE first thing to do is to Gu
out the malignant ulcer-skillfully bu