The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-19
The 9ortalk gst.
Tuesday, DECEMBER 10, 1865.
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

The associated press telegraph mar
sends this stuff to the northern paper.
1.-THE Legislature of Virginia has fixet
the 2lst of December for the electionso
State officers, and it is thought here
from private intelligence received from
Richmond, that it is the design of thai
body to reinstate the old officers, who
held places under Governor Smith
Governor Pierpont would regard this as
personal, and it is believed would retire
from office in that event, which would
force upon the Government the appoint
ment of a Provisional Governor" The
idea of Peirpoint retiring is good. He
standing on point of dignity! What
will he do If he retires? Keep canter-
bury hall? The paragraph was sent out
to ffighten timid people.
Mr.. Chichester Fortescue, the new
British Secretary for Ireland has quite
a notable wife. He is her fourth hus-
band. The lady is the daughter of Bra
ham, the singer. She married at an
early age younger brother of the late
Earl Waldegrave, and upon his death
she welded the Earl himself. Suisse
quently she became the wife of Mr..
George Vernon Harcourt, son of the
Archbishop of York, who for many
years represented Oxfordshire in Parlia-
ment and upon his decease she mar
ried Mr.. Fortescue. She is an active
politician and woman of marked
ability.
Artemas says, "as for the Wards, they
air known all the world over, and every
big city in the blessed Union has all its
little divisions called after them. In
New York and Boosting there is the fllst
Ward, and the second Ward, and so on
to the one hundredth Ward, and in Paris
and London, and everywhere, we are
hOnored with the same remembrances.
/ guest that's sum honor. And even
down South, its more than probable,
they've some Wards in their small vii
lagos and we are so popular that even
the wOrkin apartments in the peniten-
tiaries air named in the same way"
There is q mOvementon foot to induce
Congress to indicate, by resolution or
otherwise, that it is the duty of the Adj
to have Jefferson Davis
tried by Military Commission. Gen.
Butler is working the matter, and is
sustained in his position by the Secretary
i'll
dent to adopt their views.
Gen. Grant is reported to have stated
that the discontinued Southerners who
5taid at home during the war, and the
women, he found to be our greatest enc.
mics, and that the leaders i'm the late re-
Dellion are the most jealous reconstruc-
ZIONIST.
Congress proposes to retrench the eX-
penses of public printing which last year
to about 1000, 600. This
prompted the House to only order 90, 200
copies of Genefal Grants report instead
IF a quarter of a million, as Mr.. WASH
)urne desired.
The Honorable Schuyler Colfax, on
he conclusion of his lecture on Friday
evening at the grand saloon at Odd Eel
owls Hall, in Baltimore, was afterward
IGNORED with a complimentary supper
~ his friends of Baltimore.
The wife of DIR. Davis; of Des Moines,
a., has twice conspired with thieves to
murder and rob her husband. They
made bad Job of it, the other night,
nut their victim will live with broken
kull.
1t would be low estimate to place the
,aneful results of sleeping cars ut thirty
thousand typhOids and one thousand
leaths per annum in consequence of
heir foul atmosphere.
A California company propose to build
railroad from San Francisco to the
Mississippi River, by way of San Diego
md connections eastward; capital $780,
NJ, 900.
Benjamin G.. Harris, of Maryland,
by the last Congress an un-
worthy member, has arrived in Wash
ngton, and says he is ready to take the
,ath