The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-17

| tlirougllOut UnlS district as q scout i'm the
Confederate army during the late war,
ana it is stated that the charges against
nm are OF a grave nature, connected
with his career as a scout.
| The steamer Belfast, loaded with pri-
| waite cotton, her way from Demopolis
10 Mobile, was recently boarded by guer-
fiias, who commanded her to round to
ana render her barge of cotton, and
upon her refusal to comply, fired on her,
riddilhg the pilot house and sending q
| number OF bullets through the cabin.
me passengers escaped by taking refuge
behind the cotton.
a REMARKABLE DECISION. In New
Orleans, lately, Judge Duplantier de-
cided that the value of pew in church
might depend in great degree on the
y" Legitimate pride of u father to establish
n gifted daughter with the benefit to be
derived from the conspicuous position"
in question. 'I
This is the first time we ever knew it
to be said so from the judicial bench.
The thing is not new, however.
A writer in M0cnuRaa opines that
" the deliberate selection of able and
beautiful women by able and beautiful
men, would inevitably produce a race
far surprising that at present existing in
the world We think he is right but
there is this difficulty in general,
though the man appears to select the
woman, it is really the woman who Sc
lects the man. The wicked witch sees
the man she likes, and deliberately fas-
climates him. She makes him propose
how she will and when she will. He
is no more conscious of the wayin which
she tames him than if he were an infe-
riOr animal.
The report that Ralph Waldo Emer-
son was large loser by the Concord
(Mass.) bank robbery, is unfoundcd
The Boston T'dreicr, however, says that
the widow and son of the late Hon. HO-
race Mann and Mrs. Samuel Hoar were
owners of many thousand dollars of the
United States stocks that were stolen
A citizen of Concord, a few days before
the robbery, took $50, 900 in United
States stocks from the safe of the bank
for the purpose of changing them for
IOther national securities. Some other
citizens We're not SO fortunate, but hav-
ing invested all i'm government stocks,
are now reduced to want. The bank
offers to settle with its stockholders at
seventy-five cents on the dollar.
Norfolk should have establishments
like that of the late Mr.. Appold, the we'll
known English engineer, whose remark
able cleverneSs as an inventor was Illus
trated by collection in his own house
and the buildings adjoiningit. There ev-
| erything chat could be made so, was au-
tomato. The doors opened as You ap-
| preached them, and closed after you had
| entered; water, came unbilden into the
| basins; when the gas was lighted the
| shutters closed; n self-actiug thermome-
ter prevented the temperature rising or
falling above or below certain fixed
points; and the air supplied for ventila-
| ton was both washed to cool and
screened to cleanse it from blacks. Even
| the gates of his stable-yard opened of
themselves as he drove through, and
closed again without slammng.
To the esthetical eye nothing can be
more repulsive and outrc than The huge
bags of horse hair, gunny bagging aud
sawdust yclept waterfall. 1t is never
difficult to turn a wOman's head, but
when the membranes and tissues become
top-heaVy with the conglomerate colIec-
tons embodied in waterfall, giddiness
and vanity are but n natural result.
Fancy the adOring Alphonse about TO
to embrace his charming Georgiana;
he clasps her swan-like neck, and when
attempting to imprint chaste sa-
lutte upon her marble forehead, lnhales
the fragrance of n dead PERSONS hair.
combined with the smell of carpenter
shop, and, relaxing his embrace, retires
disguised, and VOWS never to forsake the
state of celibacy.--N. Y. World.
ALABAMTANS GOING TO BRAzIL.-Ma-
ior Hastings, of Alabama, appears to
have succeeded in organizing a colony
to emigrate to Brazil. The Selma Mes
senyer says he is to have one hundred
families of five hundred paying mem
bers, each paying Il quota of money,
which they forfeit in case they fail to be
ready to embark at the time and place
designated by their written agreement.
The transportation will cost twenty dol
lars for adults and ten dollars for chill
dren between two and twelve years of
age, each family being entitled to one
ton of freight free of charge, and each
unmarried person, not of the families.
to Two hundred pounds. The time and
place Of enbarlkation are already desig-
mated, and about half the required num-
Der have signed the agreement. The
full number will soon be obtained, when
the final arrangements for the departure
of the colony will be made.
To the profession of arms belongs be-
culiarly the characteristic of honor. To |
the modern gentleman, who seeks fame
and glory in the tented field, has de-
scended the mantle of chivalry. The |
parole d'hOnneur of a true soldier is q |
more valuable guarantee than any mere |
everyday promise or bond. Sooner than |
break it he would endure any penalty.
Sooner than have his military integrity |
he would meet any RESPONSE |
bility. From the days of Bayard that |
sans pear etsdRa rei)rOche, down to those
of Latour d, Auvergne, ''the first soldier
in Europe and the illustrious Lee, the
profession of arms has given to the
world menin whom the noblest physical
and mental traits were only transcended
by their moral qualities. TO do his du-
ty faithfully, without fear or favor, TO
Dbey orders strictly, and keep his shield s
lntarnished by infamy or treachery. is |
,he aim of the warrior The fidelity
with which the pledges of General Grant
o Lee have been kept, and the wonder
ul accuracy Of the execution of the i
erms of the convention between Gene
ais Johnston and Sherman, have won 3
he heart of the South, and excited the :
dmiration of the world. But the other
nv un had occasion to oynroco o,v