The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-11-30

suits Of the peach growers against the Della
ware Railroad Company was decided at Dover
last week against the Company, damages to
the amount of about ST. 200 having been re-
turned against them The other cases are put
of, till April. The damages claimed amount
to about 100000. The circumstances Of the
case are as follows: The railroad contracted
to carry the peaches to New York, they were
offered in such quantities that they rotted at
the station before they were forwarded Hence
the suit for damages. The cases have excited
considerable interest, as the peach business is
one of the most important in the State--Dela-
scare Republican. Ia.q ....it 81,
The Chattanooga Gazette says the Freed
mems Bureau in Mowry county, few days
since, arrested negro and commanded him to
marry certain negro woman. The man re-
fused to do SO, whereupon he was inhnmanly
tied up by the thumbs and forced to submit
to the celebration of the marriage rites 1888 2
Robert Heth, committed to the Old Capitol
with Taylor, for appropriating to their own
use about twenty thousand dollars of specie
belonging to the Confederate Government, and
which fell into their hands after the capture
Of Richmond, was released from the Old Cap
itol by order of the Secretary of War
The schooner Carleton, from Baltimore to
Sandwich, is reported as having been run into
off Smiths Point, by large sailing vessel,
and was so badly damaged that she sunk in
about five minutes. The crew We're saved
Loss supposed to be about 100000 No in-
surance upon the vessel.
Some of the friends of the late Hon. Pres
ton King applied to the spiritualists for infor-
nation in regard to the locality of his body,
A place in the North river was indicated and
a persevering search made, but no body could
be found.
A number of persons are looking impa-
tiently for the muster out of General Baker,
as they are awaiting that event to bring
against him various charges of illegal appro-
priations of money, false imprisonment, ex-
tortion. etc.
An order is forthcoming mastering out all
commissioned officers of volunteers not in
command or assigned to active duty, and also
ordering similar officers in theinvalid corps to
return to their homes, and report by letter to
the Adiutant General. 81 s7oa 81
The Farmers Bank of Kentucky having
lost sixty thousand dollars by the Morgan
raid in June, 1864, sued j. W. Witherspoon,
returned Morgan officer, attached his land
and got Judgment from acircuit court for the
whole sum. He appeals the case. hs ~
In Cincinnati, q negro named Young, who
was elected from car of the City Passenger
Railroad Company, soma time since, brought
suit for damages in the Superior Court, A
verdict for the plaintiff, with $500 damages
was rendered. fa
A writer in Blackwood says "When PEG
pie want to speak of native of Holland, they
call him an Amsterdam Dutehman but when
they speak of the German race generally, they
leave out the Amster."
The losses of the State of Georgia by the
war amount to four hundred and twenty mill
lions of dollars, with fifteen thousand Of her
sons killed and thirty thousand wounded,
A military order has been issued to the
white children of Savannah in which they
are cautioned against stoning treedmen's chill
dren.
A mutiny occurred in the 5th regiment,
(colored), at Jacksonville, Florida, in quelling
which the Lieutenant Colonel and several Of
the mutineers were wounded. o
A despatch from Cincinnati on Friday says.
A number of Generals, including Longstreet.
Duke, Hood and Heth, are here awaiting adj
vice from Washington.
The Louisville journal states that the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad is again open for
travel, and that connection are made at Grand
Junction with the road to New Orleans.
Judge Reade and Hon. Kenneth Raynor, of
North Carolina, have just returned from Wash
ington. The Raleigh Progress says, '.they are
not very sanguine as to our prospects"
An American committed suicide recently at
Frankfort, Germany. He was to have been
married the next day. f
In London an inconstant lover was render
ed stone blind by vitriol thrown in his face by
his Su,aofboort s-5s' '-IA.t g 4aii