The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-08

According to the official Vienna C1o-
zetfe OF the 18th ult., the Emperor .of
Austria has promoted his Minister resi-
dent1 Washington, Count Wydenbruck
70 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
kpenipotentiary to the United States of
America. Count Wydenbruck, though
short time here, has given on several
occasions evidence ofhis diplomatic abil-
ity and good feeling towards this coun-
try; and, by his promotion, the Austrian
| government shows the Importance in
which 1t holds its relations with the U.
| States. =
The question has been mooted-and IL
is not without interest, as involving the
power of Congress over the provisions of
| the Observation-Disclosures the town of
Alexandria, which Is now debating a
constitution to the ''Old Dominion" her
self, rightfully belongs to Virginia at all.
| No man ever better understood the scope
of congressional powers than John
Quincy Adams, and he pointedly denied
the authority OF Congress to cede away
the Federal district in whole or in part.
Ii Congress could not constitutionally
ALLEVIATE national territory-a power be-
lieved to reside in a national convention
alone-then Alexandria is not in Virgin
ia, and the Constitution enacted there
must be a nullity.
The average returns show that citi-
zen of the world, on the first day of his
appearance in public, weighs about six
pounds and half; a boy baby little
more, girl baby little less. Some very
modest babies hardly turn the scale with
twopounds and half, while the other
pretentious YOUNGSTERS boast of ten and
eleven pounds.
Delegates to the number of seventy,
| from fourteen Indian tribes who have
been in hostility to the United States
during the late rebellion, are now on
their way to Washington, with the OBJ
ject of making treaties of perpetual peace
and of being reinstated in the rights and
benefits which they forfeited by taking
up arms in behalfof the Insurgents.
There is the best authority for contra
dieting the report that Chas. j. Faulk-
ner, of Virginia, has been pardoned by
the President, who has not as yet acted
in the case. Therefore all that has been
published in this matter is premature.
-" Scipio was twenty-nine when he
gained the battle of Zana; Charles the
Twelfth nineteen when he gained the
battle of Navra; Condo twenty-five
when he gained the battle of Rocroi. AT
thirty-six, Scipio the younger was the
conqueror of Carthage; at thirty-six
Cortez was the conqueror of Mexico; at
thirty Charlemagne was master of
France and Germany; at thirty-two
Give had established the British power
in India. Hannibal, the greatest Of mil
itary commanders, was only thirty,
when at Came, he dealt an almost ami
hilating blow at the Republic of Rome,
\ and Napoleon was only twety-seven
when on the plains of Italy, he out-gen-
eraled and defeated, one after another,
the veteran Marshals of Austria"
On Tuesday evening train, consisting
of an engine and the Presidents car, re-
turning from the Fourth of July cele-
bration at Gettysburg, Pa, on the Nor
thern Central Railroad, when near Bal
timore, was, by O misplaced switch,
brought into collision with the rear of
freight train. The train contained sew
eral of the foreign ministers and other
gentlemen. Mr.. Asia Burnaga, the
Chilean Minister, and Colonel Halpine,
the poet of the Gettysburg demonstra-
ton, were severely injured about the
head, and severalother received bruises
of a less serious character. b
General Casey's Board to examine Of
ficers for colored troops was dissolved on
Saturday by orders from the War De-
partment. Second lieutenants for col
ored troops are still needed, but of late
which candidates were required to pass
Casey's examination, have not been nu-
merous. aa1 as4.
Statements having been frequently
made by civilians, upon the fact that
Gen. Howard, of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, has appointed none but military
officers as Assistant Commissioners of
Freedmen, in the rebellious States, and
to other positions in his gift, it should
be stated that no other course could
have been adopted under the circum-
stances, as Congress never made any ap-
preparation for paying. the expenses OF
the Bureau, or salaries to any Of its off,
GERS, Consequently military officers
were detached on this service and draw
their pay as army officers.
During the late conspi racy trial, the
counsel for Mrs. Surratt wrote to the
Secretary of War through Judge-Advo-
cate Gen. Holt, requesting the privilege OF
making John III. Surratt witness for
the prosecution, and pledging them
selves to bring Surratt here from Canada
in good season, asking In return that
Surratt should be made witness in
favor of his mother, and also that an in
formal pledge should be given that Sur
raft would be pardoned. The Secretary
of War refused to entertain the propo-
sition, on the ground that Surratt was
so deeply implicated in the conspiracy,
according to the theory of the govern
ment, that he could not, under any cir
cumstances, receive pardon.
Elections will take place in Kentucky
on the first Monday of August, and in
Vermont on the first Tuesday in Sep
TENDER. In the former State, members
of Congress and State Treasurer are to
be chosen; in the latter, Governor,
Lieutenant-G Governor, and State Treasu-
rer The Main election for Governor
and members of the Legislature occurs
on the second Monday in September.
The government is rapidly returning
to their homes in the South the rebel
prisoners of war, and all of them, ex-
cepting those who prefer remaining at
the North, will soon be back in their
native States. The steamersSalvor and
Idaho, together carrying nine hun
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