The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-11-20
THE DAY BOOK.
MONDAY MORNING, NOV. 20, 1865.


The Governor of Indiana, In his message to
the State Legislature, recommends prompt
provision for the public debt; the establishment
of home for Indiana seamen and soldiers; a
bureau of emigration; separate schools for col
ored children, and the repeating of the statue
excluding negro testimony. He says that al
though the State sovereignty is extirpated, and
the question involved settled by arms, it must
also be adjudicated and determined by the
highest judicial tribunal in the trial of Davis |
for treason and other atroclous crimes. He |
approves Of the Presidents reconstruction |
policy.
Among the recent acquisitions TO Washing
ton society is Mrs. King, of Charleston, s. c., |
q daughter of the late James L. Petigru, and
the authoress Of "Busy Moments of an Idle
Woman" Mrs. King has been ruined by the
war and Is now in the service of the Treasury
Department. Her leisure hours are devoted to
correspondence with the press in Charleston
and New York.
A FEMALE PHYSICIAN IN TRoUBLE-The
Springfield Republican gives the name of fe-
male physician who left that city few nights
since on the owl train, to escape arrest for an
attempt to procure an alteration on the wife
Of, a young man, and has since sent Wor-
cester lawyer there to arrange al settlement
with the husband, who offers to let her off for
$1,000. FH3-
The Frederick (Md.) Examiner states that
Thomas Lechlider was arrested at Monocacy
junction last week, charged with taking from
one of the residents of that city in 1862, an
American flag and attaching it to his horse,
and dragged it through the streets. He is in
Jail awaiting trial.
Thomas Booker, negro, convicted atAnnap-
oils, Md, Of an outrage on the person of lit
tie child, has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years. John Wilson, of Baltimore, and
formerly of New Orleans, has been convicted
ct Richmond of robbing the Exchange Hotel,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
BILL ARP.-An article has. appeared in
some of the papers, purporting to be by Bill
Arp, styled "Bill Arp Announces Himself A
Candidate For Congress-" 1t was evidently
not in Bill Apps usual style, and has been
pronounced forgery by the Richmond
Times
The Louisville Union Press, radical paper
established and supported by contributions
from New England, has been convicted of
libel and damages to the amount of three
thousand dollars awarded. A chance for SYM
pathi2ers to invest.
Sam Whaley, a freedman of Savannah, Ga,
attempted to shoot Rev. George H. Eaton.
superintendent of the freedmen of st. Helena,
Island was instantly shot and killed by sew
eral freedmen. Hope Mcintosh, an abetter Of
Whaley, was logged in Savannah
The Holland brig Argus, Capt. Tux, from
Baltimore for Amsterdam, arrived at Brouwei-
shaven on the 9th ultimo. On the previous
day she was in contact with the British ship
Glen Monarch, from Callao, and had her fore
yard and mizzen boom broken, and received
other damage.
Fuller, the man who, it was alleged, coli |
lected terty-five thousand dollars from Fede4
raj office holders, on account of Secretary
Harlans National Union Committee, and was
arrested and confined in the Old Capitol some
months since, has been set at liberty II
Martin Gleeson, a merchant doing business
on Broad street, Nashville, Tenn, was found
brutally murdered In his store on Saturday
morning last. The money drawer was robbed |
About 81 600 was found on the body, which |
the murderer had not secured. ~,
The United States steam ;sloop-of-war TIL
conderoga leaves this week to join the Euro-t
pean squadron under Rear Admiral Colds
borough. She viii Recommended by Capt. |
Chas. Steadman Lieut.. Commander w. N. l
Allen, Executive Office. stta 4
The steamship Bosphorous, from Philadel-
phia, arrived at Liverpool on the 4th instant,
and the Caledonia, from New York, at Green
ock on the same day. The Bavaria and City
of Limerick, from Europe, arrived at New
York on Wednesday. 49, ..@
Rev. DR.. Hawks is now officiating in the
chapel of the New York University, Washing
ton Square. "A, movement looking to the for
nation Of new parish for DIR. Hawks is. in
progress. et
London gossip considersit unseemly conduct |
in the Prince and Princess of Wales to visit |
the theatre every night of the interval be-
tween Lord Palmerston's death and burial.
] ] It is feared that the steamer D. II. Mount |
which sailed from New York for Jacksonville, |
Fla, ON the goth ultimo, was lost in the late /
storm. Judge Burritt, on his return to Flori-
ia from Washington was passenger.
The Characteristic Railroad is again under
way, after a. suspension of work for seven
years. John Humbird, ESQ.,, of Cumberland,
Md, who has the contract for the Sand Patch
Tunnel, commented operations last week.
DR.. Benz. B. Hodges. formerly popular
physician at Marlboro, Nd, died in Mont
gomery county last week. His wife died two
days after. l..y5 f5aarsoE ~
ssItis rumored that General Logan has de-
cline the appointment of Minister to MexicoI
as he Intends to run for United States Senator