The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-28
THE NEWS.

right, except slavery, that it enioyed
prior to the war, under the Federal con-
stitution. With the exception of pro.
bate judges and sheriffs, the municipal
and county officers who were at their
duty on the 22d of May are retained
The probate judges and sheritfs will take
| the amnesty oath, and retain their 30
sitions until others are appointed. The
convention is to be held on the 10th of
September, and the delegates will be
elected on the 9lst of August.
On the 9Th of June, 1894, the loan
oranch OF the Treasury lost one hundred
bonds OF one Thousand dollars each.-
They were not signed nor sealed, but the
coupons We're complete and saleable.-
| Detectives were employed, aud fixed
upon Wallace w. Whittlesy as guilty of
the theft. He had resigned as clerk
in the Treasury, and had gone to New
York. There as hewas arrested. He con-
fessed his guilt, and said that he had hid
some of the coupons In the chandelier in
his residence. They were found there,
and he has been taken to Washington
for examination. He has squandeted
about eight thousand dollars OF the mo-
ney obtained by sales of the coupons
The bonds, he said, have been destroyed.
We have from North Carolina addi-
tional statements with respect to the
/ wreck of the propeller Quinnebaugh,
by which 1t appears that John Glass,
Micheal Finegan, John Good Leander
Mitchell and L. ID. Wright, of the One
Hundred and Sixty-ninth New York,
were drowned. The Quinnebaugh is
represented to have been an unseaworthy
vessel. There seems to be no doubt that
Lieutenant Deming, of the Ninth Maine,
was lost by the disaster, as at first re-
ported. ---
Townsmen Of Gale, the rebel who Of
fered million dollars reward for the
murder of President Lincoln, say that
he is lawyer Of some ability, violent
secessionist great lover OF whiskey,
who fully lived up to his income, aud
never possessed more than ten thousand
dollars. The advertisement Offering the
reward is said to have been the ebulli-
ton of drunken frolic, and was con.
sidered merely as silly joke in that
vicinity.
| A singular disease has been attacking
cattle, horses and hogs in the lowlands
of Mississippi and Arkansas. The ami
mails died in from twenty-four to forty
eight hours. Black gnats are supposed
| to have infused poison into the an mails.
| The loss of stock has been large. Men
who doctered the cattle were attacked
by the disease. 1t has now abated.
A letter from Galveston, of the 18th
Instant, sets down the total amount of
cotton in Texas, ut fifty thousand bales.
The report may proceed from parties i'll
terested, as other statements are at vari-
ance with the declaration. Estimates
made Of cotton reported to be at certain
points, shows that there is more cotton
at the South than has been supposed.
The trial of Captain Wiru, the Con-
federate head Of the Andersonville pri-
SOIL, has been delayed until more wit
nesses are procured. Itissaid that more
tuan three hundred Confederate soldiers
will lie called upon for te ,timcny. The
evidence will not be ali on one side, IS
witnesses for the defense have been sum-
rloned. r.
Mr.. Barnum asked the advice of his
friends as to continuing In business after
his Museum was burned. Among 9th.
ers he asked Horace Greeley, who re-
piled, Take the rest of your life easy
20 fishing. I've been wanting to go
fishing for thirty years, and haven't had
a chan e yet"
Bishop Andrews, of Mobile, has issued
a notice to the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, requesting the Annual
Conference to hold sessions in the au-
tumn for the election of delegates to a
General Conference in April. He re-
quests the churches to meet at Column
bus, Georgia, for consultation at an early
day. - .5,e.. .t
The Raleigh Progress, protesting to
speak advisedly, says that the troops
must remain in North Carolina, as the
native element, including the aristoc-
racy, are growing more defiant, and
threaten to hang Union men and ne
greesn- when the troops are Withdrawn.
Since the occupation of New Orleans
bythe Federal forces, only thirty-eight
thousand bales of cotton have been re.
ceived there, if we may credit the mar
ket report just made. The occasional
reports, when summed up, perhaps, may
chow greater aggregate.
Queer demonstrations by dog at Dan
bury, Connecticut, the other day, at
tracted man to a place in some woods
where boy was lying, sick and insen-
sible. Restoratives were applied which
Sa'Su VIC lilc VI Tic uOy, WuO WAS
year before the master of the dog.
! The Times Mobile special of the 22d
says Bishop Andrews has issued notice
to the NJ. Z. Church, requesting the an
nual conference to hold its session the
coming fall and elect delegates to the
general conference commencing April |
next.
Look out for counterfeits on the Ma
t'onal Bank of Iowa city. sos and S5y
We're extensively circulated in Phila-
delphia on the 25th, and may find their
way to Norfolk.
A French critic, writing of Millions
Paradise Lost" says: "What is most
beautiful in this Paradise is Hell; and in
this history Of God, the first part is that
of the Devil"
Commissary Scott, at Shreveport, La.,
is reported to be q defaulter to the amount
of ten thousand dollars. He has fed.
The money he took was lost at the gam
ing table.
General Grant has left Washington for
Saratoga, and will soou visit the Cana
das and Nova Scotia, going as far as
Halifax. He is to be absent about three
weeks.
On the thirteenth of June two compa-