The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-30
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FRIDAY, JUNE 80, 1865.
The NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.

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- GENERAL NEWS.
The Conspiracy Trial was continued
on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh instant
Sanford Conover, alias Wallace, was re-
called nv the Government, and testified
that after he left Washington, which
was on the same day that he testlned
there he revisited Montreal, where ne
met Tucker. Sanders, Carroll, Pninn,
Wescott, and number OF others. tuck
er, while speaking of the trial, dehqnnc
ed Secretary Stanton, Presloeny oot an
son and Judge Holt, and ADDED tha. siie
fIav Of Reckoning would come, and a
heavy account would have to be settled;
suhseouentlv. when it became known
that witness had testified, his life was
rnenaced and on several occasions PTS
tolls were drawn and threats made to
shoot him if he did not subscribe to an
affidavit to the effect that he had not
j testified before the Commission, and that
the Conover representing him allace)
had testified to tissue of falsehoods.
This, the witness reported, was sworn
to by him under duress, with pistols
presented in his face. He did it to save
his life. A witness corroborated the
above testimony in part. John can't
lev, and Watkins D. Graves, printers
from Selma, Alabama, testified to the
HANDWRITING of G. w. Gale of Cahawba,
who mad procured the publication OF an
advertisement in The Selma Dispatch,
advertising for one million OF dollars, in
order to procure the death OF Lincoln,
johnson and Seward. Assistant Judge
Advocate Bingham then read an elabor-
ate argument in reply to that of Rever-
+dy Johnson on the jurisdiction OF the
Court.
d. From Europe, by the arrival OF the
Z Cuba at New York, we have news two
DAYS later. The news is not important.
The proposed insurrection in Spain was
to displace the Bourbons, and, it is re-
ported that General Prim was awaiting
events to take part with the insurgents.
In England the Ministry had suffered
slight .defeat France will only sup
ply re-enforcements for Mexico to keep
up the original number of troops quar-
tered in that country. American secu-
rites have advanced in England.
Charleston papers of Saturday, have
been received, but they contain no news
of Importance. An enterprising citizen
proposes to establish Land Company
with about five hundred thousand acres
within the State of South Carolina, to
induce emigration to that State. The
land is to be divided into fifty and one
hundred acre farms, and to be resold to
emigrants by the company on long time.
The Charleston markets are well sup
piled with beef at twenty-five cents per
pound, and pork, veal and hams at
about the same rate. Fruits are album
dant. a.
ia Pratt & Company iron works at Black
Rock, near Buffalo, N. Y, were burned
on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was
caused by sparks from steam tug. The
loss, half insured was one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. The New York
Central Railroad bridge, adjoining on
the Niagara Falls branch, was also de-
..stroyed. 3a..as
The Cincinnati colored people are sub
scribing to present Chief Justice Chase
! with q silver pitcher.
Several Mexican agents have opened
offices in Detroit. A large number have
already enrolled their names, and will
soon take their departure.
James Redpath, the Government Edu-
cational Superintendent for colored peo-
pie at Charleston, South Carolina, has
returned to Boston to recruit his health.
Senator Hahn, late Governor of Lou
isiana, Is in favor of giving the right of
suffrage to the negroes of his State, and
offers to take the stump in their behalf |
The hay crop in Maine will be i'm
imense. The weather has been as favor
able as could be desired. The harvesting
sof it will begin in few days. Other
crops will also be large.
On Tuesday afternoon fire in Phila-
-delphia, on Chestnut street wharf, de-
stroyed the stores of j. B. Bassier &
Company, pyrotechnists, Neff & Com
pany, grocers, and G. w. Allen, coal oil
dealer.
The New Orleans Picayune demon
strates, by figures, that the Crescent
City, New Orleans merchants and the
Union Banks of that city are solvent
and will redeem their notes and pay de-
positors.
The Convention of the various bodies
of Non-E Episcopal Methodists, which has
been in session at Cleveland, on Friday,
unanimously adopted declaration in
favor of negro suffrage as the "unof-
l1cial representatives of the various Nom
Episcopal Methodist bodies in this coun-
try.
The total receipts of the Sanitary Fair,
CHICAGO, were three hundred and twenty
1--WE thousand dollars.
The Toronto Leader asserts that Presi-
dent johnson has pardoned Godfrey Hy-
ans, who is said to be the agent of DR..
Blackburn, in the alleged yellow fever
plot. Hyams testified before the Mill
hry Commission, in Washington, in be-
half of the government.
The Washington Mayors annual mes
bage gives the funded debt of that CITY
q nine hundred and forty-three thou
gand dollars. The floating debt is two
Kindred and fifty-seven thousand dol
1rs. This shows an increase of sixty
Hix thousand dollars since 1861.
Mosby, the guerrilla, who was arrested
gfter he had been paroled, has finally
been released by the military authority.
An Ohio mother died the other day
with joy at the unexpected return of her
eoldler-son.