The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-16

Murder is not on the decline in Eng
and The number of convictions Tor
murder was but 15S in the ten years
ls22-3l it advanced to liz in the ten
wears 1924 to l79 in the ten years
's42.hl and to lS2 in the ten years 1907.
Il it rose to % in 1862, % III 1858, ana
81 in 1854, the last three years averaging
30 each, or double the average Oh forty
years ago.
Longfellow Is the first American or
English poet who has been read by the
Chinese in their own tongue. Weiearn
that Mr.. Longfellow's Psalm OF Life
has been translated by a Mr.. Wade, OF
the British Embassy at Pekin, ana, IN
accordance with the custom, lie has a
the TRANSLATION inscribed on the door,
posts Of his house.
The best fish story Of the season is re-
lated by the New London Star OF a man
who. while bathing, was seized by a
huge shark and dragged twenty-five
feet under the water. thinking UnaV
| depth sufficient, he plunged MS thunp
| into the monsters eye, was quickly re-
leased, and regained the surface ana hiS
boat.
The emigrants on the foreign steamer
Villa-Franca were so barbarously treated
Iby the officers on their passage TO New
York that they made complaint TO tne
United States District Attorney on ar
rival. and caused the arrest OF the onen-
- Their treatment, as represented,
was bru., ~
49,. inn proposes, through the
| columns of the Chrey question of title
| Journal, to submit IT,. 4 nossessiop
| to the Church properts taken the
| of at the South by authority .. y
| Methodist Church North, to the decision
| of Chief Justice Chase, and abide the
result, whatever it may be.
A large number of forged soldiers
discharges have recently been presented
and paid by different paymasters To-
Gated in the large cities of the Northern
States, and it is supposed an organized
gang of forgers of this class, wearing the
United States uniform, are responsible
for these impositions.
A lady informs the Maine Farmer that
she saved her cherries from the birds Dy
making some cats out of old rags. Be
sure,n she saws, I" to make the eyes u
of large yellow beads or bright brass
| buttons. and the birds will not come
| near when one of these cats is perched
in the tree"
By the Census of 1860, su gar refining
In the Western States is represented by
five establishments with an invested
capital of 81, It's, 800, paying for raw ma
terial 50, 5l9, 800, for labor Sl32,O6o, m
nloying 374 male hands, and producing.
annually products to the amount Oh
So, O 8 $3.50.
Secretary Chase had a recent inter,
, r;ew with the President, when a rec
interehanpe of views was had feia.iNe
~ reconstruction policy. Inc Sniei
Tnstire was quite condemnatory ., .ne
cooi;cv of the President. Inc paaulns
was not characterized py any
cordially. IA
MARYLAND is fast renping the benent
May rnnination. Tie Princess Anne
81 ei'Id saws that several sales OF land
I've lately taken place IN summerses
n oonnty, and at prices 1ron 10 70 ioo peI
h COZ ont Greater than the same land would
I've Commanded last year,
AR Weiland wasn't acquaint Wilde
: nan whom he found his wife knock
ing down and dragging out OF his tena-
ment house in 81. Louis-thereiore ne
didn't interfere. Mrs. Weiland conse-
! %o,antlv had all the fun, and it cost her
only a dollar
e Baltimore capitalists have, within the
z mast, few weeks, invested largely IN Vlf
: ppinia lands, a circumstance which !
looked upon as an evidence that nereal
e ter tbe States of Maryland and Virgini,
viii be more closely united than eve
n before.
70 The number of Major and Brigauie
Generals still in the So
~. vice, unemployed, is something 0I isrr
vi number mustered cut rscsntiS'