The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-22

tied in purely Pecksniflian manner.
The chapter, with every good feeling.
offer every facility to the bishop to
preach, without Implying that it is by
permission; the bishop, with equal good
feeling, agrees to avail himself of the
proflered facilities, without implying
that he does so by right. This is the
difference betwixt tweedle-dum and
tweedle-dee. +.
A dispute as to which outranked the
other arose on Saturday night in WASH
ington, in the barracks adjacent to the
White House, between Captains Null
enburg and Riley. Finally one ordered
the other to be placed under arrest, and
the attempt to carry out the order led to
n fight between the two companies COM
manded by these officers respectively.
Several shots were fired; but none of the
soldiers were killed. The disturbance
was quelled by detachment of General
HancOck's Veterans, and Captains
Muhlenburg and Riley were arrested.
The New Orleans Times says, in rela-
ton to the rumors of naval and military
preparations: 1--WE have information
that we are not at liberty, to disclose,
giving positive confederation to these
runners, and we hesitate not to predict
that, unless the French troops are with
drawn from Mexico before Christmas,
there will be active Intervention on be-
half of the Liberals, and the traditional
policy Of the United States be vindi-
Gated"
The New Bedford Standard says the
consideration of the contract which
Miss Hetty Robinson claims to have
made with the late Sylvia Ann How
land, on which Miss Robinson bases a
claim in equity to the estate of her aunt
is said to have been an agreement on
the part of the niece not to marry
whether for her own life, or only during
the life of the aunt, does not seem to be
ascertained.
The oldest pastor in Massachusetts is
the Rev. DR.. Emerson, of Salem, who
has been settled over the same parish
for more than sixty years, and is now
more than ninety years of age He is
tall, has full beard and hair as white as
wool, and is in good health. He attends
the church, and usually pronounces the
benediction at the close of the services.
Late news from Miehoacan states that
the French collected considerable
force and scattered the Juarist forces,
four liberal Generals named
Arteaga, Parapachos, Gomez and Sala-
Ear, who were subsequently shot. Upon
hearing of this atrOcity, General Alvarez
Immediately proclaimed thelife of every
captured French or imperial general
forfeited.
A mother and her daughter have been
burned to death at Derby, England.
The daughter Was reaching something
from the mantel piece, when her clothes
took fire. In her alarm She ran to her
mother, to whose clothes the flames
were communicated. and before they
could be eXtinguished the mother and
daughter were literally burned to ashes.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature has reconsidered its previous
action in passing the bill denying ne
groes the privilege of testifying in court
against white men. AS amended and
now passed, the bill permits them to tes-
tify in certain cases. 1t is supposed that
the Senate will concur and the bill
become q law.
1.-THE Irish have any sense, they will |
throw their ring-tailroarer Train off the |
track. He is "blower," "gas-bag,"
q "humbug," and "fu-fu.n Where
was he during the war? No where |
That is just where he was. If the Phe-
mans need such instruments to make |
the "republic" go--it will goodwin.
1t was the custom of an old lady who |
entertained travellers, before |
her guests commenced a meal, to ask a |
blessing, which she generally concluded |
IN this wise Make us truly thankful |
or the food before us. Nancy, hand
'ver the corn bread first, and then the
biscuits afterwards. Amen.n
1t is reported that a large number of
migrants are now going from Southern
tally to Egypt. They are said to be of
m intelligent, energetic class, and they
re attracted by the liberal policy of the
'iceroy and the abundant reward which
he fertile soil of Egypt promises to the
killful husbandman.
Gladiator, the celebrated French
IOrse, who has carried all before him
his year in England, was defeated in
he Cambridgeshire stakes, mile and an
light dash. He was weighted at 1873
ounds, and had no chance of winning.
he race was run by colt of the same
ge, who only carried SO pounds.
General Howard, Commissioner of the
'reedmen's Bureau, has concluded his
)uthern tour of inspection, and arrived
! Washington. He represented that
'herever he had been, the loyal whites
nd negroes are universally DESTROYS of
he continuance of the national troops {
mong them. j
The election of Congressman in Ala $
ANA, is as follows +: First District, G.
. Langdon; Secon District, George G.
reeman; Third District, Cullen III.
attic; Fourth District, Joseph w. Tay- q
+; Fifth District, Colonel Wheeler; C
Xth District, returns in complete. II
James Mccormick died in Newburg, s.
New York state, on the 18th in
ant, at the age of one hundred and
urteen years. The deceased was ma
We of Ireland, and came to this coun P
Y in 1916. He was probably the oldest
'rson in the United States. N
George Stephenson, who was private -
cretary to DR.. Kane i'm the famous
rctic expedition of that navigator, died
Brooklyn on Thursday last, in the Ca
irty-ninth year of his age. His re- di
aims were inferred in Greenwood. sa
It is understood that General Thomas nc
'its Mississippi by order of the Presi- NJ
Mt to settle the conflict of authority
tween Governors Sharkey and IN
lmphreys, both claiming the Cover ha
rship of that state. al
elijah Johnson, James Brown and la
hn Davis, convicted of highway rob- bv
~ by the garroting process, were on