The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-09
THE NEWS.

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deavoring to arrest man named Johl
Connolly. A man known as John Car
roll, alias Cahill, was at the time arrested
on suspicion of being the murderer, blu
was discharged for want of evidence
Very recently man named Owen Hart
who had been arrested on charges O
grand larceny and felonious assault
stated that certain persons were very
DESTROYS of getting him out Of the way
as Cahill had confessed being the muir
derer to him. This led to search fol
Cahill, who had disappeared from the
city; and, aftcr much travel labor and
man9uvering on the part of the detec-
tives, he was found keeping drinking
shop In Columbus, Ohio, arrested and
brought on to New York, where he ar
rived on Friday night. Saturday an
examination of the matter took place
cradle testimony had been taken, Cahill
and Connolly were both committed to
the Tombs, the former on suspicion OF
being the person who fired the fatal
shot, and the latter as an accessory.
The corner stone of a Roman Catholic
orphan asylum to be erected in Brook
lyn was laid on Sunday with imposing
ceremony, Bishop Loughlin, of that
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and charitable societies turned out In
great force on the occasion, and It was
computed that between thirty thousand
and forty thousand people were present.
The site is on the corner of Wyckoff
street and Albany avenue, in the East
ern District. The festival of st. Charles
BOrrOmeo was celebrated at the Sydney
place Roman Catholic church, Brook
lyn, on Sunday evening by grand mu-
steal performance, subsequent to which
Archbishop McClosley delivered q most
interesting and eloquent address, en-
bracing sketch of the character of the
saint In whose honor the ceremonies
were performed. ai.f
The total number of national banks
organized up to the present time IL sos,
all of which, but four, are now in exist
enOe. According to the quarterly re-
port OF the comptroller Of the currency
the loans and discounts of these banks
amount to 1856, 000. 600; circulation,
Sill 900, 900; individual deposits, $435,
100000; circulation of State banks,
about 500, 600, 900. Efforts are to be made
to have Congress extend the limit of
national bank circulation from $780,
600, 900 to $500, 600, 900; and the proposed
extension is said to have the counte-
nance of Comptroller Clark.
Macmillan has recently issued the
following in Mexico: "Our honorary
Counsellor of State, M. f. Maury, is ali-
thorized to appoia seven agents of COL
onization in the following States and
cities of the United States: Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Texas, Mis-.
souri,, California, New Orleans and Mo-
bile. Said agents shall receive one hun.
dred dollars per month as compensation
and the further sum of three hundred
: dollars per annum for necessary ex
penses." In the meantime Maximiliar
! must beware lest Mr.. Maury should sud
denly espouse the liberal side.
Mark ShinbOrn, convicted of robbins
the Walpole Savings Bank, and sen
fenced to ten years. imprisonment, es
capped from jail In Keene, N. H., on
Thursday evening, by means of a KEY
and pistol, furnished him by an alleged
confederate in the bank robbery, named
George White. Shinborn opened the
Jail door with the key, threatened to
shoot the jailer, and escaped to the
woods. A reward of $500 is offered fol
his arrest. He is German Jew, TWEEN
ty-five years old, dresses well, of gentee
, appearance. White is held for trial In
bail of $4,000
On Monday afternoon the Tunis enl
bassy called on tile Secretary Of State
who accompanied them to the Execu
tive mansion. The object of the visi
was to take leave of the President. The
, interview continued about twenty min.
utes, and was of the most agreeable
character. The Tunisians have express.
the civilities everywhere extended to
them, both by the officers of the Gov.
eminent and many of ourhospitable cit
liens, and left Washington on Tuesday
for Philadelphia, intending to depart
from the United States next week.
Mr.. Bunch, formerly English consul
at Charleston, who is hardly less rebel
than his South Carolinian wife, and
who was promoted by the English gov
eminent to the post Of consul general at
Havana, in reward for services rendered
by him to the southern cOnfederacy, is
reported to have called upon the cap
tain general of Cuba for assistance in
REFRESHING negro riot, which is alleged
to have broken out In Jamaica. MFR.
Bunch's plea is said to be that the Brit
ish governor of that island is at the
mercy of the rioters.
The Government will evidently he
compelled to sustain, during the winter
months, a goodly portion of the popula-
. ton of Richmond, Virginia. At q re-
cent meeting of the Councils of that city,
! it was announced officially that there
was but one dollar and fifty cents in the
: treasury. No less than two thousand
poor whites are now subsisting upon ra,
lions drawn from the Government, and
with the approach of winter this mum
Der must be greatly increased.
Another case of embezzlement ant
fraud has recently been developed com
T mitted by J. H. Ogden, for long tim,
, clerk of the Louisville and NashyilI,
Railroad. The books of the road show
deficit of over $4,000. Last Tues,la,
he absconded, going to Atlanta, Ga.
whence the detectives traced him, ant
and he was brought back to Nashville
and lodged in Jail. A fast woman il
to be at the bottomof the affair."
The Providence Journal has lettel
from Brazil stating that, in less thar
three weeks, Professor Agassiz collected
more than three hundred entirely new
species of fish in the region ofthe Anna
zon. An immense number of speci-
mems in the department of natural his
tory have been collected. The writer
thinks the Professor is doing too much
work for so hot climate, and should be
careful of his health.
An exhibit made up at the Post Office
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