The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-18

the buildings and other property of tbs Theo>
logical Seminary, near Alexandra. During
the war these Seminary building have been
used for hospital purposes. We learn with
much graf fcatiln that the United States
autho rites at Washington are in every way
disposed t. coDpy with the wishes of Bishop
Johns in his effort to restore the Seminary;
ami that Surgeon General Barnes has pro-
missed to turn the properly over to the Semi
nsry trustees by the LIST of Aug lst.
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Maxmiiian has issued d cree relative to
the working of coal mines, salt mines, salt
.prings, vel IS or lakes, bituman,
pc ro UNI alum, kaolin, ana precious stones
in Mexico No person can exploit these sub
3 ances without obtaiaing special conces-
zion rom the Government, and making COM
peDsatioo to the proprietor Of the lands II the
,ubs aeces are obtained Oh private property.
the nature of tbs pCoduct, aud The grantees
are obliged to work them under paia of for
fixture.
Att trial before the Royal Agricultural
Society of England of agricultural impls.
| ments, held at Plymouth in July last. the
Wood" Grass Mower, American, look the
first prize, Woods Reaper the fret prize and
Woods Mower and Reaper combined the
| reapers aud mowers The prize tria's Of i'm
pleneuts before the Royal Society takes place
only once in four year.. 5a
The rush of emigrants to this country from
the north Of Europe is setting In with more
than usual vehemence. Fifteen thousand
Polish exiles are making arrangements with
the Swiss Government for trans poriatlon to
the free soil of the States. From Norway the
exodus of the most valuable part Of the pop
ulation is so great as to excite the fears of the
authorities, who are endeavoring to check it,
Mr.. Bigelow, our minister at Paris, has re-
Gently lost by death hisson Ernest, promis
ing boy of five yerIs cd. His illness was of
brief duration Mrs. Bigelow, who has been
spending few weeks with her frient 10 in this
couutry, received news last Friday of her
cbilfs illness, and left in Ssturd sy's steamer.
which passed on its way out ire Lafayette, in
which the body of the child was sent to this
country for burial.
The recent rep orts from the silk-growing
regions of Europe are of a very dish artening
character. The annual produce of silk in
France, which is to be worth al hundred mll~
lions for the past year And 80 widespread
is the disaster that three thousand Eve huns
dred and seventy-four mayors in the silk
growing Departments memoralizs the French
Government for relief. Acommttee ofscieo-
tifc and practical men has been appointed TO
see if any means Gao be discovered to remedy
the evil which now almost ruin the business.
For Bankers Magazine for July containes a,
list of 222 savings backs in the six States Of,
New England, and IS in the city or State Of
New Ynrk, with the amounts of deposits and
number of depositors in each of those 295 in
situations; the aggregate deposits beng in the
New England States $ll9, 693, 426, making
together 1921 l76, 366, which Is more than the
savings dep, sits ia all Grea, Briton, and more
han in the remainder of the United States.
fine horse, one of pair worth $500,
owned by Major Medbury of Roc eater, was
killed in singular manner night or two
since The animal put his nose into hole in
spout to draw out hay. and threw the
weight of his body back in such a manner
tina, his jowls rested upon the edge of the
trough of the mapger. Thus he hung and
suffocated
REGULAR ARMY APPOINTMENTS. Gen Geo.
q Thou as has be- n Apo n ed Major General
in the regular array, in place of Fremont re.
signed Gen. schofeld becomes Brigadier
in placs of Sheridan, promoted. Gen. Terry
becomes Big Gen, in place of Meade, pro-
noted Gen. John A, Rawlins sts appointed
Brig. Gen Chief of staff of the Lieut.. Gen.
commanding the armies of the United States
The United States Sanitary Commission q
Chicago has been Informed that the Sixteenth
Corps will be Immediately mustered out at
Vicksburg, and that supplies are wanted for
some 500 or 600 sick in hospital at the point.
With he departure Of the sixteenth Corps.
only colored troops and q small force Of cayal.
ry (whiie) will remain.
A New Orleans correspondent says the pro.
perty of John Sldell, comprising eight bun>
dr. d and forty two 10 and squares Of ground.
with stores, DIV Hing. houses and a banking.
house, wer sold for $lo04lo. Before the
war it was es,iea'-d at $sOe,oO0. Had the
war not take pace. it is estimated that Mr..
Slidel would have been worth $2,O00,000.