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Mr.. Chauncey M. Depew, Secretary of
State of New York has declined the DO
sition of Minister to Japan, to which he
was some time ago appointed by the
President.
General Grant returned to Washing
ton on Monday from his southern tour,
not having, as was ut one time antici-
pated, extended his journey to our Rio
Grande frontier.
An order to muster cut all officers of
the Veteran Reserves Is being prepared.
A bill is also being prepared In Congress
to make this corps part of the Regular
army.
There is strong lobby influence at
work In Congress to procure renewal
of the Reciprocity Treaty.
The prospects of the Tennessee dele
cation for an early admission to Congress
grow better every day.
A Texas paper says two epidemics
prevail In that State-break-bOne fever
and marrying.
Charles Dickens contemplates visit
to this country during the next spring
or summer.
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De BOWS Review, for January, 1865,
is printed, and comprises in 113 pages
many interesting and able articles upon
commercial, financial and industrial
subjects. Among the articles is one
upon President Johnson's plan of re-
construction, by w. w. Boyce of South
Carolina, and one on paper currency, by
G. Gayarre of New Orleans. The arti-
Gle on the national debt shows that the
burden is really very light in compare
son with the resources of the restored
Union. 1t holds out most cheering
prospect to southern industry and pro-
duction for the future. The rebellion,
it says, "has disburdened the South of
an incubus. They have at command all
that the temperate climate affords, with
the semi-tropic added. They lack no.
thing but the population, enterprise and
diversified industry of free institutions,
and these are brought to them by the
new order of things"
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FROM GEORGIA..

INTELLECTUALLY, Dec. IA. The Pro-
visional Governor has sent to the Legis-
lature the dispatches received from
President johnson, saying that the
Governor elect should be inaugurated in
a few days, and he would receive in
structions in regard to being relieved,
suggesting that he would issue no COM
missions to members Of Congress, but
leave that for the incoming Governor.
Also commencing the manner in which
the duties of Provisional Governor has
been discharged. He understood that
Mr.. jenkins desired to know his real
status before taking his seat.
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LUNDY ISLAND. The authorities at
Lundy Island, in the English Channel,
have refused to let policemen land,
and as setting up for independence
has had a lawless reputation in history
for some centuries. The first French
man authorized to colonize Canada was
enc De Vale, who was, in 1542, supplied
by the government with ships and
stores, and allowed to empty theprisons
to provide colonists for his settlement.
With these crews he hung about the
English channel, pillaging every vessel
that came in his way,-and, among
other adventures, he seized this. Lundy
Island, and made it headquarters for
plundering the Bristol traders. So we'll
understood were its facilities In this re-
gard, that, in the treaty between Eng
land and Scotland the next year, bind
ing each kingdom not to make war
against the other, the Isle Of Lundy was
specially excluded from the operation OF
the agreement.
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KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. IA. The fol-
lowing was introduced in the House to-
day, and referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations That this Assembly
heartily approve the action of the last
General Assembly, in rejecting the pro-
posed amendment Of the Constitution
of the United States, and believes that
this vote should be final, and that this
Assembly has no right or authority to
consider or vote upon this measure
until it shall be again passed or proposed
by Congress.
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tendence and jurisdiction of all eases

tendence and jurisdiction of all eases
and questions arising under this act.
Provision is made for the appointment
of registers in bankruptcy to assist the
Judge of the District Court in the per-
Torrance of his duties under this act
The register must be a lawyer, and must
give bond to the United States. He
must also be able to subscribe the oath
of office approved by Congress in July,
1862. The duties of the register in
bankruptcy are clearly marked out for
him, at length, in the bill.
An appeal may be taken from the Dis
trict to the Circuit Courts in all cases /;
but no appeal shall be allowed in any
case from the District and Circuit Court
unless 1t Is claimed, and notice given
thereof to the clerk OF the District Court
to be entered with the record of the pro
ceedings, and also to the assignee or
creditor, as the case may be, or to the
defeated party in equity, within ten
days after the decision appealed nom
No appeal or writ of error shall be al
lowed in any case from the Circuit
Courts to the Supreme Court OF the UNI
ted States. unless the matter in dispute
in such cases shall exceed two thousand
dollars.
4. The bill sets forth at length how to
commence and continue proceedings
under II in the courts designated. 1t
also directs the manner OF making as
signments, and defines the duties Of the
assignee the examination of bankrupts,
and the distribution of the bankrupt's
estate.
s. 1t provides certain penalties against
bankrupts who shall, after proceedings
have been commenced, secrete, destroy,
or part with any parts of his property,
with the intent to prevent it from COM
ing into the hands of the assignee. 1t
enacts severe penalties against any off,
Ger who shall take hribes from parties
interested in any case of bankruptcy,
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AN ENGLISH GIRL SOLD TO AN
INDIAN CHIEF,

Itappears that certain chief who
holds sway in the state of Bhatwa, in
the Kattywar territory, and who Is
named Khamaldeen, or Kumaloodeen,
lately conceived desire to add to the
live stock in his harem. For this pur-
pose emissaries were despatched to All
medabad, where lived an Englishman
with his wife and children. They were
a dissolute couple, by all accounts, and
of course had long rubbed skirts with
poverty. They had daughter, named
Anne, girl OF IA years of age, and
the Bhatwa emissaries determined to
make the parents an offer for their
daughter. The father agreed, in con-
sideration of 5000 rupees, to consign his
daughter for her life to the tender care
of Kumaloodeen. The bargain having
been struck, the contracting parties
made the best of their way to Bhatwa,
where the money was to be paid and the
goods delivered. Arrived at their des-
tination, this child ofl4, the offspring
of English parents, and daughter OF
the Christian Church, was handed over
to her purchaser, and the delicate :.
minded parents became the happy pos
SCISSORS of 5000 rupees $4,000. At this
stage of the proceedings the chaplain of
Rajkote called upon the political agent
of Kattywar to rescue the child from the
destruction to which, body and soul, she
was doomed by her guardians. Our cor
respondent does not v0uch for the truth
of the report which has reached him
touching the action taken by the politi-
cal agent i'm the matter; but what he says
is, that Anne, after she had become the
Nawaub's property, was sOlemnly made
to abjure the errors of Christian
Church, and formally received into
communion with the followers of the
true prophet. The next step taken in
regard to the child was to marry her,
after the Mahometan fashion, 10 her
purchaser, but before this ceremony was
performed the political officer is re-
ported to have caused the bridegroom,
just turned seventy, to draw up a mar
rlage settlement, by which the new
light of the harem is secured in the pos
session of an income of two thousand
and odd rupees per annum, including
an item of thirty rupees for pan and
sooparee, which may be looked upon as
an equivalent for pin-money. The po-
litical agent, however, was not satisfied
with this provision for the present wants
of Anne. He caused another deed to be
drawn up, by which it is stipulated that,
in the event of her being at any time
banished from the harem, she is to
receive, for the term of her natural life,
the allowance of three thousand rupees
per annum," This affair has naturally
caused great Indignation among the
Europeans in India.
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A WORD OR TWO.

We commend the article on 1.-THE
Southern Press" printed elsewhere, to
the attention of our readers. tits blunt,
plain, and in season. The tone of many
Of our southern contemporaries is un-
necessarily spiteful, and in some in
stances petty. A Virginia paper talks
Of papers from the United States and
Contemporaries in the United States" as
II to vex some one with notion that a
palmetto flag was visible somewhere in
Richmond. A merchant writes us,
"Oh! that Virginia would tear down
the Chinese wall that her non-progres-
sive people have built around her. The
war is over; but a majority of the inhabt-
tants-especially of Petersburg-which
thinks it was her local valor and not the
southern hosts that kept the Union army
at bay,-and Richmond,-ares still very
bitter. Will they never be reasonable
They ask for northern capital, and spit
upon the hand that extends them aid,
Whatcan the South expect if they abuse
and curse the Yankees, who stand ready
to aid them in the development of their
resources? They are strange people,
easily excited, easily deceived, easily
taken astray. For myself, had rather
live in Canton than in Richmond. OBJ
serve that youare hopeful, that time will
heal all this but sit not your genrosity
rather than your convictions that moves
you to say SOP 1 have seen much of the
southern people since the war, and l
md them generally hostile and unrea-
soning." Such is the language Of a
northern gentleman of fortune, who,
unnecessarily, has over one hundred
thousand dollars invested i'm Virginia
enterprises. We have known him many
years, and throughout he has been firm
friend of the South. What he writes
to-day, 10 in sorrow for, and not in anger
against, the people of the late confed-
sracy. We trust that his words may be
needed.
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the aid of the conservative Union ele-
ment, which they can never obtain SO
long as they persist in so foolish a policy
as that referred to. We know that An
drew Johnson is a conservative men, but
unaided by that element he powerless;
and should he so far forget himself as to
pander to the prejudices of those who
would elect rebel over q Union mali,
simply because he was Union man,
he would soon find himself in a hope
less minority.
1t therefore behooves our hitherto re-
bel friends to stand by the conservative
Union element of the country, for on
that element alone depends their deliv-
erance from the unfortunate predica.
ment in which their own folly has
placed them. This is so plain that it
seems to us every sensible man ought to
see it. MelbyuiUe (7sn,,.) Union.
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A CoNUNDRUM. The following CO.
nundrum is probably by the same man
who inquired "why Julius Caesar was
like a pump handle?" and who said he
"halln't made the answer YETI"
Why is u man in mammoth balloon
at Central Park, with a wicker basket
full of Johnson's last pardons supported
on his right arm and keg of lager beer
on the other, having had nothing to eat
for several days, nor the wherewithal to
purchase the same, and in full view of
Grace Church steeple in the foreground;
and the CrotOn aqueduct in the rear, in
the presence of a big crowd of specta-
tors, including the English capitalists
and Sir Morton Peto, the Tunisian Wis.,
itors, Horace Greeley and Ben Wood,
Ikea boarding school miss wearing a
jockey hat and partridge feather. with a
two-pound waterfall loaded with gun
cotton and punkins, mounted on an
Amoskeag steam engine making its way
to the race between the "WinOoski" and
algonquin" her mother at the same
time not know that she was out, and
unmindful of the many pitfalls that
surround Barnum's Museum lot and
other localities of O similar character, to
say nothing of the whitening rebuke ad-
ministered to Earl Russell by Minister
Adams previous to an outbreak by the
Feniaus shortly to come off, for the per.
fOrmance of which bonds have been
given, and also to ascertain previous to
the election whether General Slocum OF
Barlow stole the cotton, and whether
some ofthat same cotton is not the iden.
teal cotton with which the young lady
referred to is loaded. Why is all that
like all this? Any or all Of our readers
who may send us an answer to the above
accompanied by So, will receive the New
Berne Weekly Tmes-which will appear
to-morrow-one year, free gratis and fol
nothing. II you can't answer the co.
nundrum send the So, and the Times
shall come nevertheless, notwithstand.
ing. NeW Berne Times.
We copy the foregoing "conundrum, y
and respectfully refer it to Mr.. E. w
Marston for solution.
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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES.

VIRUINIA LEGISLATUHE.
RICHMOND, Dec. IA. The election of
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
Auditor is postponed until the 10th of
January.
The House passed bill to recognize
the Public Guard.
The resolution relative to the pardon
Of Jefferson Davis was taken up.
Mr.. Stearns offered q substitute re-
commencing general pardon.
Mr.. Joynes opposed the action, and
moved to table the whole subject.
Agreed to.
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OBTAINING POSITIONS UNDER FALSE
PRETENCES.

There is report which seems to be
well authenticated, that parties who
have never been in either the union or
confederate army, are successful in this
city, on application and for considers
ton, in procuring forged discharge
papers, made out in regular form. With
these papers In their hands they mako
applications for situations to the officers
in charge of government works, and
thereby succeed in some instances in
procuring places which it is intended
should be given to discharged soldiers.
1t is quite possible that our informant
has just reason to believe what he tells
MS, but to our knowledge there are only
two solutions in Norfolk who would be
identified with these petty frauds.
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Gtlegrapgie Webs,
NORFOLK POST DESPA TGHE,S.
THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

6ENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. Mr.. Brown
offered resolution instructing the Ju-
dietary Committee to inquire into the
expediency Of providing for the adoption
by law Of the eight hour system of all
labor within the Jurisdiction of Con-
gress, whenever practicable.
Mr.. Foote announced the death of Mr..
Collamer, concluding by Offering the
usual resolutions Of respect in memory
of the deceased.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The following Is the committee APP
pointed to inquire into the condition of
the late so-called Confederate States !:
Stevens, Penn; Washburne, ILL.,; Nor
rill, Vermont; Order, KY; Bingham,
Ohio; Conklin, N. Y; Boutwell,, Mass. !;
Blow, Mo-; Rogers, M
The House resolved that, with the
Senate concurring, the two bodies ad-
journ from December Goth to January
9th.
The House passed bill appropriating
thirty thousand dollars for repairing and
refurnishing the White House.
Also, a bill appropriating over fifteen
millions for the payment of invalid and
other pensions.
The House resolved that all papers
which may be offered relative to the re-.
representatives. Of the late so-called Con-
federate States Of America, or either of
them, shall be referred to the joint Com
mittee of Fifteen members without de-
bate, and that no member shall be ad-
mitted from the so.called Confederate
States until Congress shall declare such
states, or either of them, entitled to
representation.
Several eulogies were delivered on the
death of the late Senator Collamer.
Mr.. Henderson, of Oregon, offered the
following, which was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved. That treason against the
government Of the United States Is q
crime that ought to be punished.
Both houses adjourned until Monday
next.
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General Logan has finally declined the
Mexican mission. His reason for taking
this step, has not been made public, but
it is understood to be. two-fold. First,
he does not like the policy which the
Government have worked out; secondly,
he is going to make fight for the
United States Senate in Illinois in place
of Turnbull.
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EDITORS ON THE MEssAGE.-About
four hundred editorials upon the Presi-
dents message, from Us many journals
in the United States, have been receiv-
ed at the White House. About ninety
nine per centum of all these essays
heartily endorse the policy pursued by
the President in the past, and approve
and commend the measures he proposes
for the future.-COr, N, Y Timer,
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nay GET THE BEST. Clergymen.

DB- GET THE BEST. Clergymen, as
a class do not recommend an article unless they
have good to know it to be valuable Procure
of any Druggists one of Mrs. ALIENS circulars
of her Worlds Hair Rosorer and Hair Dressing,
and you can read over twenty testimonials Of our
most eminent elsrgymen, each one recommend
ing in the strongest terms the use Of these prepars-
ons. They restore nvigoate and beauty the hair 1t
you wish to restore and retain your hair through h use
them. Every Druggist sells them. ~
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Everybody has heard of the big organ
in Boston. 1t is in the big music hall.
The Sisters of Charity are holding fair
in the hall just now. The other even
ing, Fenian maiden accosted a we'll
known wag, Mr.. George Infant Robin
son, at the exhibition, and, supposing
him to be on~the committee on raffles,
asked him if the "organ was up" He
said Eyes; will you put your name
down for a chance one dollar" The
simple Fenian paid her dollar. Mr..
Robinson passes 1t over to one of the
ladies, and thought that was the end of
the matter. But daily, his Fenian
friend calls at his house, to inquire
I" have drawn the big organ sir?"
The organ, which she IL. so anxious to
" draw" is about as large as the Post
building.
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NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Dec. IA. Flour advanced
lO@15c; southern $s.75@15.00; Wheat
advanced 1926; Corn 1c-yellow SOUTH
ern 96@9sc; Beef, Lard and Whiskey
dull; Pork steady; Cotton firm-with
sales of 1900 bales at soc; Naval stores
quiet; Gold 46.
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p6T A TENDER TETE-A-TETE lOOses
half its charms If the sweet words of either party
are not mated with fragrant breath. Sozoposr Is
the only article that will this desideratum by
keeping the teeth speckless, the gums healthy. the
whole mouth pure and undefed 1t literally embaims
the dental substance preserving it from decay through
out life Use II daily. win find Il a pleasure
The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-15

Our press broke down yesterday morn
ing, and what we intended for fresh
breakfast-chat became stale dinner
gossip. We tender public thanks to our
neighbors OF the Nrginian, who kindly
and promptly, placed their machinery
at our disposal.
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BALTIMORE MARKETS.

BALTIMORE. Dec. IA. Flour dull
with sales of 1000 barrels of Western
extra at $3.50; Wheat and Corn dull;
Oats quiet; Seeds dull; Glover and
Sugar heavy Provisions dull Whiskey
firm.
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For the latest news, see telegraphic
column. There are three columns of
reading matter on the first page-in-
Guiding the commercial record. The ar
town affairs, see the local column.
The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-15

ORAToRIO. The members of Christ
Church Choir, under the direction of
Professor p. H. Mase, assisted by several
gentlemen and ladies' of other churches,
contemplate singing a selection of Sacred
Music on Thursday, 2lst December. The
selection will consist of ChOruses, Solos,
Quartettes and Trios from the works of
the great masters. Programme will be
given In future advertisement.
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Mr.. John A. Barnes has our thanks
for Baltimore papers; and all the Rich
mond Expresses ditto for Virginia
papers.
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FROM OREGON.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. Official in
formation has been received at the State
Department Of the ratification of the
Constitutional Amendment by Oregon.
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Advertisers are requested to hand In their advertise
ments bssors six o'clock In tho evening, p "ieuS TO
pubncaten.
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Nswsmen and nswsboys desiring papers y III please
have their orders at the counting the sw ming pre-
yt,Ss before SIX O'Clock.
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FROM PHILADELPHIA.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. IA. Rev. H.
w. Duchett, Of st. Stephens church,
was found dead in his study this morn
ing,
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8. N. Pettergl Co.. arc iautherized Advertising
Agents for the Post In New York and Boston.
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All Communications relating 70 ousi"'s' n"'
nectea with this paper should. 10 addressed NJ n
Brown Norfolk Post All communications por'an'ns "
Editorial matters. and all correspondence n'snuea 'o'
a.. ..o.,d Ia addressed to John Clark, Eiitor.
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MISCELLA

A II HI S! X L s. H!
To arrive per schooner &C. James Freeman"
100000 LATlS,
SO bills pICKLED HERRING
AL boxes SCALED HERRING,
1900 lbs C0RNED FISH.
For sale low on arrival.
H. p. WORCESTER & CO.,
dec14-tf No. IL Campbell's Wharf
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lie NORFOLK AND PORTS

.nISSOLUTION OF COMPARTMENT
SHIP.-The Firm heretofore known under the
name and style Of R0SENSWIG DRIESSEN& co, is this
day Dissolved by mutual consent
The business will be conducted in future by the
yiyug partners, ROSENSWlG & BRYLAWSKI, who
alone are authorized settle all accounts due the late
firm of ROSENSWIG DRIESSEN CO., at their Old
Stand No. 16 Main street decl3-2t
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-08-18

Tue Latest SNAKE SroRr.-Here is a
snake story, located in Brazil, which rath.
or stakes DOWN everything Of home
manufacture !: 1t IS well Known that
snakes are, 6g If max eIhere was once
snake norexempt from This weakness Of
his fellow.reptles, which hit upon the
following ingenious expedient to CRAFTY
its taste. It visited a room in which a
blsck nurse and her nurseling slept, and
avrey night his snakeship would creep in
to the bed, cunningly insert the tip OF
rs Vail into the baby's mouth to amuse it
amp prevent its crying. while the hideous
reptile substituted itself for the infant
which it thus der rived of its natural food
the nurse sleeping on, unconscious Of hav-
ing such o monstrous nurseling.
This went on tor some time, until the
infant being thus cheated of half its
allowance OF food, became SO thin that
suspicion was excited, and an old nesrcss
was .xst to watch tho nurse at night-tho
delinquent was caught i'll the act, and ex.
plated its offence With It's life while the
Dss~ only haihgne iouger kept on short
commons" recovered. its Strength aud
grew 6pe and fat as before.