The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-25

| IeSslOn. unfortunately, they hung MIN
little too much, and he is not expected
to live.
! Dispatches received at the State De-
partment from the United States Consul
at Liverpool, England, under date Of
october. 6, bring intelligence OF the
moderate appearances of the cholera at
southampton, and at places adjacent to
that town. The weather throughout
| England continues of the most unsea-
Sensible kind, and the disease known as
the udder pest had broken out among
the cattle in the neighborhood OF Wave
tree, three miles from Liverpool, and
had carried off quite number Of cattle.
! The Freedmenls Bureau has received
official information that in the Nash
vile (Tennessee) district the issuing Of
ratiOns to freedmen has been Stopped,
and all o. the hospitals discontinued,
which will have the effect of making
the colored people there rely upon their
own energies for support. Official re-
turns received ut the bureau places the
number of freedmen i'm hospital i'm the
State of South Carolina at eight hum
dred and forty-tiye.
| An attempt has been made TO enforce
| the Maine law in Montpelier, Vermont.
! Thereupon prominent member of the
Legislature, who is an early riser, and
| consequently keen observer, remarked
that II all the liquor had been seized, the
water used by some of the members im-
parted u peculiar fragrance to their
| breath.
The reports heretofore that the nifty
| million loan has all been taken up, il
| incorrect The indications at the Itea-
| sury n few days since were that by
| Monday it will all be subscribed for.
! The funding policy will then cease for
| the present. Such amounts as may be
in excess of that amount and on the
way to tho department, will be ouly
credited. ~ 81 .. 80. -. .,.a.g
A late San Francisco despatch states
that the damage in that city by the re-
cent earthquake was not quite so exten-
sivc as at the time reported, though the
place experienced q pretty severe shak-
ing. A few persons we're killed but
it is thought that one hundred thousand
dollars will cover the losses from shat
tered and Frustrated dwellings. if
The General and Mrs. Grant inspect
ed, last Saturday, a large brick building
situated at the corner of Nineteenth and
streets, Washington, ID. c., witf~the
view Of renting it as q winter residence.
The house is now occupied as the Freed
mems Bureau, which will most proba-
bly, be removed nearer to the War De-
partment.
Tho newspapers in the Pennsylvania
oil regions that reach US, teen with ac-
, counts of robberies, and in rome in
stances murders committed in the streets
even of the largest cities and villages Of
which that newly settled countN can
boast. Large rewards are offered sith-
: out effect for the arrestof the robbers
and murderers. - u .Ttaya3 seT
On the 10th inst, large school Of
blackiish came into prOvincetown bay.
The fishermen started for the Chase in
their boats, and drove forty-tWo on to
Truro beach, where they were sold as
they lay, TO parties in ProvincetoWn for
$4,000. That wasg good fishing. 10
y BY accounts of the 9Th inst. from Fort
Sully it would appear that the projected
council for the purpose of etfecting n
treaty with the Indians of the North
west, has proved a failure, the govern
ment commissioners arriving at the APP
pointed place about too weeks TOO late.
| The Confederate General Dick Taylor
and Major General Franklin are at Will
ard's hotel in Washington. The latter
contemplates resigning his position in
the army and accepting the presidency
of Colts manutactory at Hartford, Con-
necticut.
The Lynchburg Republicans ststes
| that General Grant has written q letter
| to General +. Kirby Smith, granting
! him permission. to return home on pa
role, to be placed on the SANS footing AZ
| other Confederate officers of hia rank.
Mr.. Morris +. Reagan, brother of tho
Honorable j. III. Reagan, and who was
Confederate states mail agent in Texas,
died at Austin q few days since from i'm
jures received on falling from second
story window. ~. r5tINs@T 80
The Prince and Princess Ioufs of
Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Lonisa
and PRINCESS beatrice, OF Engla went
to gillies' (Scotch) ball, at Abergeldie,
given by the Prince of Wales, on the
29th ult. r go '.' az -t.'- - 1'.:':.s.l
The Prince of Wales, Prince Louis Of
Hesse and Prince John OF Glucksburg,
| (uncle to the Princess of Wales, who
arrived at .Abergeldie recently, ara in
Flengelder forest, Scotland, deer stalk
! ing. "''''..'' e- '-#''
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| General Grant, accompanied by all
his staff at present in Washington, Oh
Saturday made formal calls oil the
President at the White House, AMI Cab
met officers at the different depart
ment3. .s;.. t,..,r ... -
Members Of Congress are already be-
ginning to arrive, Mt Washington. in
: view OF the approaching session. FAB
ulous prices are asked for board emu
rent, and marketing is said to be more
eotsly than ever. - 3. Is#s-a-.H II
! A Washington dispatch announces
thai the President will soon issue a pro-
clamation appointing Nationsl day of
PRAYER aud Thanksgiving for the pesca
that now prevails throughout the land.
| Jim Lane, of Kansas, made speech
before the Soldiers League in Washing
ton, on Friday night, in which ne all
vocated coDfscation and hanging, as be-
coming the Presidents policy.
The estimates Of the Secretary of the
| Navy last year were one hundred and
| thirty-iline millions of dollars. They
have been cut down for tho coming fi.-
cal year to thirty millions. 9.l IsaFf
Among the ex-rebels who called on
| the President on Saturday We're 4. NJ.
L. Hunter, of Virginia, and Pierre Soule,
! of I,nniaiana both TrntfaJ