The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

North CAROLINA Po1ITIcs.-Col. Bedford
Brown and Lewis Hanes, Esq, are the can
didates for Congress in the Fifth District
Col Brown supports Gov. Holden, and Mr..
Hanes supports Mr.. Worth.
Col. j. ?. H. Russ and Hon. Josiah Turner,
are candidates for Congress in the Fourth Dis
trict. Col. Russ supports Gov. Holden for
Governor, and, we presume, Mr.. Turner will
support Mr.. Worth
Charles G. Clark is announced as a candi-
date for Congress in the Second District
Progress.
INAUGURATION OF GEN. HUMPHREYS AS
GOVERNOR OF Observation-Disclosures Hum
phreys was inaugurated at jackson, Miss, on
the 18th, and delivered his inaugural address.
He took ground that no State has a constitu-
tional right to secede, and regretted that the
State Rights school of politicians could not
have found better mode of solving the ques-
ton than by the dread arbtrament of arms.
He favored absolute freedom forever of the
negro, but approves neither social or political
equality.
Lamartine is publishing "Life of Byron"
as a teaiHeton in the Paris Constitutional.
Two chapters have already appeared Re-
marking on Byrons early years, Lamartne
tells that the poet fell in love when a child of
eight, and adds that Dante conceived his i'm
mortal passion for Beatrice at eleven, and
that he himself Alphonse de Lamartine, was
similarly affected at ten years old.
In the last number of the North British Re-
view, occurs searching critique ON Miss Brad
don. The writer acknowledges that ain her
own branch of literature Miss Braddon is
without living rival. - - .. She may
boast without fear of contradiction, of having
temporarily succeeded in making the ltera-
ture of the kitchen the favorite reading of the
drawing-room.'
TEE ONLY REsoURoE-A good one is told
of one of the wealthiest men in Columbus.
After General Wilson's raid the gentleman
was overwhelmed by his immense losses, and
to party thus expressed himself: Gentle
men, / am ruined; the hard earnings of wears
gone in "a moment. My negroes and all are
gone, and all l have in the world to depend
upon is seven hundred bales of cotton IL ca
tatD,bus San.
CALEB CUsHING.-The unprovoked attack
upon Caleb Cushing in Mondays Times by
''T W." causes much surprise in well in
formed and Governmental circles, it being no-
torious III Washington that the Secretary Of
State continually seeks and accepts the conn-
ellis of Mr.. Cushing,-Nen York Iiib'0,p
The Religious Union is the title of Il new
religious newspaper started in Washington
The editor says in his prospectus: st will he
national and Catholic in its charactcr--nu.
local and bgoted."
Contrary to general expectation, the varoti.,
theological semlnaries open this fall with full
numbers The young men who have been
variously employed during the war are return
ing to their studies.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Kin
street, New York, between McDougal and
Varick streets, has been sold to the National
Express Company.
Launt Thompson, after finishing bust o
James Gordon Bennett, has begun his statn,
of the late Gen. Sedgwick, which was ordele
by theSixth Corps for West Point
Ex-senator WIGFAIL-A MississipPi
paper says that ex-senator Wigiall, OF Texas,
has gone to Mexico The Texan Governor
Murrah, died recently in Monterey.