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

joining the rebel army during the inva
sion of Pennsylvania In 1853, and con
; veyed to Pittsburg to await his trial.
The result of the examination of the
: affairs of the Virginia State banks, BY
the commissioners appointed for tht
purpose by Governor Peirpoint, shows ,
1amentab1e condition of those institu.
lions. Their resources In some cases
consist of millions of rebel bonds and
j only few thousand dollars In specie,
An important report on the subject will
shortly be issued.
Details of the explosion of the propel.
Ter Molleson, at Trenton, show the terri.
BILE power of steam. Barrels, boxes and
fragments of machinery were huvletl.a
great height in the air. The column OF
steam arising from the explosion was
seen mile and a alfoff, and the report
was heard for several miles. One iady
passenger is missing, and is supposed to
have been drowned. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The fine sidewheel steamer Niagara.
intended to run between New York and
Richmond, Virginia, was launched in
New York on Wednesday, at the foot of
Houston street, East river, in the pre-
sence of considerable number of Spec
tators. Everything passed off most salts
factOrity.
The length of the new suspension
bridge, which is soon to span the Ohio
river, will be fifteen hundred and fifty-
seven feet, being about two hundred
feet longer than the Niagara suspension
bridge, and longer than any wire sus-
pension bridge in the world. i.
The State election for Supreme Court
Judge and members of the Legislature
took place in California yesterday, but
we have yet no statement of the result.
1t will devOlve upon the Legislature
elected to choose q successor to United
States Senator McDougall. f},f 'i'
A daughter of the celebrated Ameri-
can sculptor, Hiram Powers, was mar
ried, lately, to Mr.. Ibbetson, one of the
wealthiest merchants of Sheffield, Eng
land. She is represented as the most
accomplished lady in that part of
England. I1.ftUaa -Er1rI
Professor Lowe and the getleman who
accompanied him in his balloon ascen-
sion of Monday last, descended safely
near Hackensack creek the same even
ing, after a journey of nearly 100 miles,
accomplished in an hour and thirteen
minutes.
The cotton picking commenced in the
vicinity of Newbern, North Carolina,
last week. The fields are said to be ex-
tensive and the crop uninjured by the
worm. The yield of this staple In the
eastern part of the State will be good.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that
Henry, >. Foote (ex-rebel) passed
through that city on Tuesday last, en-
route for Memphis.
, Miss Dix, the philanthropist, has gone
TO Williamsburg, Va, to look after the
welfare of the lunatic asylum there and
The comfort of its inmates.
The Empress Of the French has trans.
mitted the sum of one thousand dollars |
'oWards the erection of a French orphan |
'syluIn8p New York.
James d. Colt, of Pittsfield, Massa-
'husetts, has been appointed Judge of
ne Supreme Judicial Court, In place of
Judge Metcalf. -.
A specification has recently been
lied, at the London Patent Office, for
improvements in boiling eggs. ia.
The French infantry is to have a new
cad dress low shake of scarlet
10th. f''7t' - F
Some ladies. in London, have started
periodical called the Attempt b.
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