The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-15
THE NEWS.

. Sv tf1e aTrlNdi Va ehS -. u,Lo
news from Europe two days laler; i CIV
intelligence respecting the Atlahtic M ma
BILE Is, in every way, SATISFACTORY. ahe
shore end of the wires was TO pe SUI,
merged on the tenth instant. All Tue
tests applied to the cable were satlslac-
tory. Another great Central African
lake has been discovered. 1t Is one OF
the sources of the Nile. There Is more
bullion in the Bank of France than has
been known for twenty years. me
ministerial crisis still reigns in Austria.
The troubles between Italy ana his
Holiness. the Pope, are not settled
The cholera is raging in Egypt. More
than thousand deaths had ensued at
Alexandria. The pestilence at Mecca
had destroyed twenty thousand lives
There has been no material change i'll
financial and commercial affairs since
the thirtieth of June.
From Havana, we have news to the,
9Th instant. Colonel Charles J. Helm,
the Confederate Commissioner there,
has closed his business and gone to Eu-
rope. General Breckenridge departed in
the same vessel. The Fourth of July
was appropriately noticed by the Amer
lean vessels in port, and by two Italian
vessels, a Dutch man-of-war, and the
Spanish war vessel. Captain Maffit has
sailed in the Owl for Montreal, or else
where.
From San Domingo we learn that it
Is in consequence of an unexpected IN
vasion by the Haytiens that the families
are leaving the country, and so great is
the apprehension of more suffering that
the Dominicans cannot successfully
check the tide of depopulation that Is
sweeping from the Island.
Col. J. w. Thompson, late Superin-
tendent of Indian affairs in the North
west, has arrived in Washington from
tour through the Indian country in
| Colorado and Nevada Territories. He
| reports that the California Indians are
peaceable, but on the Eastern slope of
| the Sierra Nevada Mountains they have
destroyed most of the telegraph wire,
and robberies by them ofthemail coaches
and murders of whites are frequent.
They had driven off the miners and set
tiers from the gold country in the vicini-
ty of Fort Yuma.
Twenty-Five hundred and forty-seven
emigrants passed Fort Laramie in the
last sixteen days of June. They had
abouVeighteen thousand head ofacattle
and We're bound west. During six
weeks prior to this, five thousand teams
and foor thousand head of cattle passed
to the west. The emigrants, with sim
gle exception, have passed through hos
tile tribes of Indians, protected by tn e
officers and soldiers Of Gen. Corners
command.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was
held at Sacramento, California, June
9th, in front of the Court House, for the
expression of the feeling of the citizens
| in behalf of the people of Mexico in
their present struggle for a republican
form OF Government. General G.. w.
Wright was appointed President of the
meeting.
The evidence on Tuesday in the Har-
ris-Burroughs murder case in Washing
ton, consisted ola number of letters from
Burroughs to the lady, all ofwhich were
apparently full of the tenderest feeling
OF love. These letters, witness testi-
ned, caused temporary alteration of
mind.
James Murphy, Esq, an eminent cit.
zen OF New Orleans, of the old and
Well-known banking firm of Newman
Murphy, died at the Sisters Hospital
81. Louis, on Saturday. He was mem
per OF the Howard Association of New
Orleans. - -'e"
The youngest. and only surviving
daughter, of President Harrison Mrs
Colonel W. II. Taylor, died in Cincin-
hati on the 9Th instant. She was LADY,
OF remarkable amiability and MANY ac.
The Editorial Convention which MOS
advertised aU to be held at Indianapolis o~
thursday, was slimly attended. there
peing no quorum present. No business
was transacted.
On the fourth of July all the dining-
room servants at the Louisville Hotel.
without ceremony, Joined the Freed,
mems procession, leaving the landlord
ana clerks to wait on their guests,
The municipal authorities of Wasb-
ingIoh keep up the war against the dogs.
LILLE ~. vne past week the average number
hundred. ~ "oa'iy TWO
Secretary Harlan has signed contract
WIN the Architectural Iron Comnanu
VI new York, for one hundred and for.
ty-slx thousand dollars, for the exten-
sion OF the Congressional library.
., Inc Indianapolis Journal saws that
several cases of cholera morbus. 5earinr
q s;;aong resemblance to the genuine
Aslatic cholera, have developed them
serves in that city within the past week