The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-17
THE NEWS.

AuVlceslroul MtAlco ny way Oh new
Orleans, are to the eighth instant. Gen
erals Lopez and Oliver had returned
from the pursuit Of General Negrette's
troops, which generally had disbanded
and gone home. Cortinas had recently
two steamers, and fixed his
headquarters on the Texas side of the
Rio Grande. A protest of the Imperial
Government had caused the American
authorities to order him to keep within
his house. The commander of the
French fleet and General Steele have
had an interview respecting the steam
boat captures. No result, hawever, has
been announced. The report is that the
empire is peaceful, and that the Empe-
ror is aiming to improve the country by
education and other means. Guerrillas
still show themselves about Matamoras.
Many of the late Confederate service are
arriving in Mexico.
A correspondent of the Richmond
Republic, who has just returned from
tour i'm Southern Virginia, writes:
Except just around Burkesville there
are no visible traces of war; the crops
are good; there has not been such an oat
crop for many years, and the corn prom
ises well the people are quiet and in
dustrious. The returned soldiers are
going manfully to work, facing existing
difficulties like good and brave men,
The servants are, as a general thing,
we'll behaved and at work.
On the 10th instant bonded ware
house at Jamestown, Illinois, seven
miles from Springfield, containing twen-
ty-five hundred barrels ofwhiskey, was
struck by tightening and its contents
destroyed. The whiskey flowed down
hill into the Sangamon, and was cover
ed all the way, and for more than mile,
in a sheet Of flame. The Great West
ern Railroad bridge narrowly escaped
being set on fire by the burning fluid
The loss is estimated at three hundred
thousand dollars.
One of the New York Herald cores
pondents, who has lately been through
Northern Alabama, states that the re-
giOn is almost one continuous field of
cotton. The planters have given their
attentionsto the business again this year
almost as much as in anti-rebellion
times, and the growing crops look very
fine. The negroes are working for their
former masters for wages, and the new
labor system appears to progress very
well.
The lumber trade Of Georgia was, be-
fore the war, one of its important inte-
rests. The expectations to Havana, Eu-
rope and the North, were very large and
source of great profit. This great
branch of commerce is probably soon to
be revived. Many contracts have been
made, arrangements are on foot for con-
structing or repairing mills, and yellow
pine and the other forest treasures of
the State will soon again become availa-
BILE. ai.. sa ..
Generals E. Kirky Smith, Magruder
and Price, accompanied by Governor
Allen and Ex-Governor Moor, of Louis
iana are reported to have left San An
tonic for Mexico, escorted by three hum
dred well armed men, provisioned for |
six months. Generals Hindman, Bee |
and Governor Marsh had left several |
days. General Smith was destitute, and
had to borrow money to get out of the |
State.
AT the races at Poughkeepsie between
q steam-wagon, pedestrian, and
horse, the wagon won in each race.
The wagon made the mile in two min |
utes twenty seconds, the man ran it in
five minutes twenty seconds, and the
horses time was two minutes thirty-se-
ven and half seconds. .,
Mr.. H. Simon STERN, a New York
lawyer employed by the friends Of jeff
Davis to obtain speedy trial for the
prisoner, has been informed by the Gov
eminent, in reply to an application he
made to be permitted to see Davis, that
no access will be allowed to him by
counsel until he arrives in Washington.
A discovery has been recently made in
Peterborough County, c. w., which
is of the greatest Importance to that
Province. In several places extensive
depositsOf rich ironores havebeen found
-specular clack Oxydes and hematites.
These ores will yield from sixty to sew
enty per centum of iron in the furnaces,
and are free from injurious impurities.
i, Stephen Hiss, worthy citizen, was
accidentally shot dead in Baltimore, on
Tuesday, by a policeman who shot
mad dog. The ball passed through the
dog and then through Hiss, three hun.
dred feet off, killing both.
An English actor, named Carl Weller.
recently performing at the Varieties
Theatre in New York city, was arrested
the other morning as a vagrant, and
sent up to Blackwell's Island for two
months. JEltNf ya
At recent trial for murder at Gala
tin, Tennessee, the only witness of the
crime was a colOred woman, who under
the laws of the State her testimony was
ruled out.
Messrs. G. y ]. Blackburn, proprietors
OF mill at Gomersal, England, have
absconded to America with 100000 of
their creditors money.
A new agricultural weekly has an.
peared at Raleigh, North Carolina, and
a new daily is soon to appear in New
bern. r