The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-29
THE NEWS.

The steamship Damascus, from Lon
donderry on the 10th inst, with Euro
pean advices oneday later, passed Port an
BASQUE, G. b., on her way to Quebec,
on Sunday. United States Gve-twenty
bonds had advanced to SO in London
The demand for them was large, and
there was short supply in the market.
The official correspondence between our
own government and that of Great Brit
ain regarding the assassination OF Pres
ident Lincoln has been published III
London. Regrets upon the event are
expressed on the one hand ana appfecl-
alton of these manifestations OF synlpa-
thy on the other. The Paris N0nateeti'
contradicts the rumor that the frehcn
government is preparing to SEND large
reinforcements to Mexico. a new elec-
tricaI internal machine, by which it is
said an iron clad vessel can be instantly
DESTROYED, was shortly to be tested at
Toulon. A London and Monmouth
shire firm engaged in the iron trade had
suspended, with liabilities amounting to
about one million seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Consvls for mo-
ney closed in London on the 18th inst.
at 9O1 a 90l. In Liverpool cotton was
buoyant, and had advanced one penny
and provisions were inactive.
The rebellion in San Salvador has end
ed. On the second of June the Govern
or issued a bulletin announcing Il victo-
ny of the loyal troops at Union, where
the rebels were intrenched. The loyal
Generals Gonzales and Natruch invest
ed the place, and after short battle, in
which thirty men We're killed, three
cannon, a hundred guns and fifty pris-
oners were taken, the rebels yielded
Their Chief, Cabanas, however, plunged
boldly toward General XatTuch and fired
at him. Xatruch fired his pistol in re-
turn, and Cabanas was wounded, but
strangely disappeared, taking refuge, it
is said, ON United States vessel, where,
ii is added, he died.
The Paraguayan Congress has declar-
ed war in formal manner against the
Argentine Republic, and the National
Chamber of Deputies has declared war
in return against Paraguay. The en-
croachmcnIs in the River Plate by Bra
iii have led to this condition of affairs.
The Brazilian Government has been
purchasing transports for itswar service,
and several foreigners have been seized
by the pres5-gangs.
The arrival of the Damascus at Port au
Basquj, Newfoundland, gives advices
from Europe to the 18th inst. The news
is unimportant, generally. The special
correspondence betwecnJhe British and
American Governments on the assassi-
nation of Mr.. Lincoln has been publish
ed. American securities have advanced
one per centun.
Our Havana news is to the twenty-1irst
instant. The most important fact an
nounced is the capture, by a.portion of
her crew, of the blockade runner Wren,
on her passage to Liverpool. She has
been taken to Key West as a prize.
Many blockade runners are in harbor at
Havana. From Santo Domingo there
are reports that the Haytians are invad.
ing Dominica, and that the people are
emigrating from that part of the island,
dissatisfied with the Government.
A messenger of the Ontario Bank in
Montreal absconded on Friday last, with
nine thousand dollars belonging to the
Bank. He was intrusted to take the
money to the Express office for New
York, but instead OF that he took it and
himself off.
The Quebec papers announce that
General Dix arrived III that city OH
Tuesday morning lust.
The loss by the recent fire in Quebec
Is estimated at one million dollars. The
burnt district extends from Bishops
School House to within about six houses
of the vacant space under the CITADEL
A public meeting, to raise funds in aid
of the sufferers is to be held. Appeals
will probably be made to other cities for
assistance, as Quebec has suffered cnOr-
mOusly from similar calamities. The
distance devastated by the fire is about
one-third of mile.
Before the war Virginia had eighty
thousand free negroes within her borders.
The Petersburg (Va.,) Ncacs says that
at least one hundred honest Irish servant
girls are needed in that city.
The first train for Danville, Virginia,
since the evacuation of Richmond, left
the latter place on Saturday. The road
has been repaired throughout.
The old route to Richmond, by way of
Aqua Creek, has been opened.
A Nashville, Tennessee, dispatch says
TINT Robert l.. Caruthers, successor to
Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Ten
nessee under Confederate rule, was ar
rested about nine miles from that city
by United States Marshal Il. r. Glas-
cock, and lodged in the military prison.
A dispatch from Springfield, Illinois,
announces that Mrs, Lincoln has ac-
cepted, by letter, the proposition of the
association for building the monument
at Oak Ridge, and giving her and her
family the use OF the lotas burial place,