The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

ANOTHER DEFALCATION IN NEW YORK.
The exhumation of defalcations in New York
continues. Another case, though of quite q
small potato character in comparison with the
late Wall street specimens of hundreds of
thousands and millions, engaged portion OF
the Tombs Police Courts attention on Sunday
A man named Henry Singer, bookkeeper for
Messrs. Aufenanger & Co., wholesale erocers
and flour dealers, Of POS Washington street
was arraigned and committed on charge Of
having for over year past been engaged in
abstractlng money from his employers, in all
supposed to amount to ten or twelve thousand
dollars. He says he spent it all among his
friends. His marriage with an estimable
young lady was to have taken place Yesterday
morning. She was present at his examina-
ton.
The Ketchum delalcation has led to the sus-
pension OF prominent Chicago firm of bro
kers who had intimate financial connections
with the firm of Ketchum, Son & Go. Young
ketchum is supposed to have sailed for Cuba.
On Saturday he was unanimously expelled
from the New York Board of Brokers 1t is
reported that reward of $4,000 has been
offered for his arrest.
APPoINTMENTs.-The President Yesterday
appointed George w. Brooks United States
District Judge Daniel R. Goodloe United
States Marshal, and Darius H. Starbuck
United States Attorney for the district of the
State of North Carolina j. Barclay Harding,
collector of internal revenue for the first dis
trict of Pennsylvania; Thomas Orion, asses
sor OF internal revenue for the sixth district
OF Illinois, and assistant engineer James Way
son, OF the revenue cutter service, to be chief
engineer in the same, vice Geo. McNabb re-
signed. Gca
FIREMEN's RIOT IL New York des-
perate fight took place about one o'clock on
Sunday morning, on the corner of Ridge and
Delaney streets, N. Y, between Nos 6 and
Al engine companies, while they were running
to fire at 33 Ridge street A large force Of
police was called into requisition to restore
order, which they did not succeed in doing
until number of persons were badly injured,
one of whom subsequently died Pistols,
clubs stones, trumpets. and other weapons
were freely used, and the badly wounded were
taken in charge for surgical treatment.
REMOVAL OF THE MAYOR OF MoBILE.-A
telegram was received in Washington on Fri
day from Brigadier General Swayne, Assistant
Commissioner of Freedmen for Alabama,
showing that Provisional Governor Parsons
had deposed the old Mayor of Mobile on ac--
count Of his hostility to the new order of
things and his efforts to Cypress freedmen by
refusing their testimony as witnesses,
SAILING OF THE FIRST AMERICAN OCEAN
STEAMER SINCE THE WAR--On Saturday the
Circassan, the first American steamer which
has been sent across the Atlantic ocean since
soon after the commencement of the war,
sailed from New York for Southampton and
Bremen, She carries nearly one hundred
and fifty passengers and q full cargo of to-
bacco. a
CRIcKEr.-The match between eleven Of
the best players in the United States and ele-
ven selected from the best clubs in the Cana
das, will come off at Toronto. G. W., on the
18th and 29th instant. The following two
days eleven young Americana will play a
match with eleven young Canadians. H.