The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-06
THE NEWS.

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! cised just ut this time, over nice little
speculation on the part of some leading
Republicans in that State, by which they
put some three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars into their own pockets. Ii
seems that some seven hundred men,
chiefly negroes, were enlisted into the re-
bellious States, who should have been
counted upon the quota of the State, re-
ducing it by so many, and should have
been credited to the several districts.
But the agents who procured these ell
listments, sold the men to different
towns in the State, at some five hundred
dollars apiece, and the money was pock-
eted by the persons perpetrating the
fraud. The Legislative Committee hush
ed m the matter before the election, but
the facts are now ont, and the people are
| beginning TO talk about ''graceless scoun-
drels rioting in their ill-gotten gains"
| A correspondent writes from the Aus
trian watering place of Gastein, that q
rich Englishman has for some DAYS
taken up his abode on the Malniter Ia
ner, Il mountain more than six thousand
feet high. He lives i'm an extremely
comfortable tent, but the cold obliges
him to warm it with stove. lie has
thirty-two horses at his disposal to COM
municatc with the lower earth. He
chooses this singular dwelling place, in
order to enjoy at leisure, and for some
length of time, the spectacle of sunrise
in midsummer, in Il warmed tent, sur
rounded by snow and ice.
The New Bedford and Taunton Rail-
road have an arrangement for prevent
ing brakesmcn from being knocked of
the tops of the cars by bridges while
riding backwards. About thirty rods
distant from every bridge crossing is a
bar or joint twenty feet above the track
from which number of laths or similar
small strips of wood are suspended by
short cords, hanging within three or
four feet OF the car roofs. Persons stand
ing on the cars cannot pass these sticks
without strillin.- one of them, and their
attention is thus called to the fact that
they are rapidly approaching bridge.
Great Sunken Lake, twenty miles long
and ten miles wide, in Oregon, Is sup
posed to lie two thousand feet below
the mountain, which form Il perpchdic-
ular wall all around. A party recently
visiting it fired a rifle several times into
the water ut an angle of forty-five de-
grecs, and were able to note several Sec
onds Of time between the report of the
gun and the moment when the ball
struck the water. 1t does not appear
that anybody has yet made the descent
to its shores,
The Eth Illinois Regiment ut Law.
renee, Kansas, positively refused on Mon
day last to obey an order To cross the
Plains, and manifested quite DISPOSE.
ton to fight II out ON that line. Troops
were sent for to Leavenworth, and upon
their arrival, by the use of some strnte
~, the camp of the nnltinccrs was sur
rounded, and they were taken in. The
greater portion of them subsequently
agreed to obey orders, but about Al, Obstf-
nate still, refused to- and We're marched
to the guard-house.
In the Belmont robbery ease ycster-
day, Charles Jones, alias Chauncey
johnson, the accused, succeeded in prov
ing an abb. In the Adams Express
case, wherein the same prisoner Is
charged with 'liiting'' package of one
thousand dollars on the same day, the
same defense was offered, and the pris-
oncr's counsel moved his discharge.
The Judge took the papers and reserved
his decision.
A match between the horses "Sea
Foam and "Tom Thumb was an
nounced to take place at Portland last
week, and large crowd had assembled
at the trotting park. when it was dis
covered that one of the horses, "Sea
Foam,' had been UNANIMOUSLY poisoned
in his stable. The horse soon died; il
was worth $500. The poison used was
probably crotOh oil.
The Free Masons in South Carolina
having appointed Henry Buist, of New
berry, as State delegate to the National
Masonic Convention in Kentucky, lie
accepts, and i'll his letter says that ms Il
Free Mason he would endeav0r to do all
he could to aid in the restoration of fra
ternal feeling between the North and
South.
A fellow made his appearance i'm Meri-
den, Connecticut, Oh Thursday, with a
large live rattlcsnake, some five feet ten
inches long, which he had captured on
West Mountain. He went round, hold
ing il in his hands, trying TO sell it, and
finally obtained So for it.
A woman named Golf has been ares
ted in New London, Connecticut, on
suspicion Of having poisoned the Duri-
van family by putting arsenic in one of
heir cooking utensils. When locked
up, she attempted to stab herself hut III
iicted only a slight wound.
a woman named Myal Scvior was |
hot and instantly killed Wednesday in |
New York, by man with whom she |
had been living with, named Garrett |
Six shots were firel into her, all of |
which took effect. Jealousy was the |
'ausc. Garrett is in jail.
DR.. Wilmer, formerly pastor of st. |
Marks tEpiscopaD Church, Philadel-
)hia, who joined the South at the be-
ginning OF the war, returned and at
cmpted to Otficiate last Sunday, but was
deserted by a large portion of the con-
,regatiOn.
Leslie, the tight ropepcrfOrmer of Nj
gra celebrity, made II balloon ascension
With professor Lowe from tile New York
CENTRAL Park on Saturday, and astonsh-
ii the populace, when at the height of
Ialf mile, by some startling ieats on
opes hung from the car.
a Cincinnati young lady who cnthu-
iastically admired General Grant stole
is cigar from under his nose at n recep-
on at the Burnett House one day last
eek. The hero was too much astOund-
| at the audacity to prevent or punish
nc theft.
A speaker at n recent Fenian meeting {,
! Worcester mysteriously intimated