The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-14
THE NEWS.

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a half to two per cent, if so many. are
counterfeit. The spurious notes are cas-
ny detected and promptly branded
counterfeit" with an iron constantly
Kept heated for that purpose. OF course,
me holders and not the Treasury bear
Ine loss. From 800 to 500 of such cur
rency OF various denominations is de-
stfoyed every day. No knowledge of
counterfeit national bank notes has
come 10 the bureau, nor of ones or twos
OF tne United States currency. The lat
Ter denominations, however. are altered
10 represent higher amounts. and some
photograph fives are in circulation
.oierably well executed $50 note recent
~ found Its way to the redemption bu
reau, having previously been stamped
as counterfeit by an Eastern bank. The
inost numerous counterfeits are on the
fractional currency.
A terrible steamboat disaster occurred
ON Lake Huron about six miles from,
shore ON wednesday evening, the ninth
instant. The steamboats, Pewabic and
Meteor struck each other, while running
at full speed, with such force as to crush
In the entire bow of the former, causing
her to sink In four or five minutes, and
carrying down about hundred passen-
gers. 1t was scarcely dark when the
| accident occurred, and the boats saw
each other when six miles apart. When
| approaching they exchanged the usual
signals, and the Pewabic bore off to let
the Meteor pass; but for some unaccoun-
table reason this boat turned in the same
direction and struck the Pewabic In the
manner stated. A number of the pass
engers on the Pewabic were killed by
the crushing in of her timbers. There
were from one hundred and fifty to two
| hundred passengers on the Pewabic,
only seventy-five of whom were saved.
The British gunboat sphynx, one of
the Geographic fleet, which was left be-
hlnd by the Great Eastern on Thursday
evening, the twenty-seventh of July, ar
rived ut Hearts Content on SUNDAY the
sixth instant. She brings no additional
| news in regard to the laying of the ca
! BILE, but reports the weather as having
been favorable. The commander of the
Sphyn does not see how he could have
passed the Great Eastern without OBJ
serving her. The Sphynx arrived UNI
der sail, having. been short of coal for
| several days. The Cora Clinton arrived
at North Sidney, on Friday, the 18th
instant, and reports that no tidings of
| the Great Eastern had reached Port au
Basque up to the evening previous, 1t
was the opinion of Engineer Everett,
who assisted in laying the first Atlantic
cable, that the laying of the present one
is failure.
The Republican State Convention of
Maine unanimously adopted resolutions
congratulating the country on the sue
cess of the national arms and the extir-
patton of slavery, and thanking the army
| and navy therefor; expressing confidence
in President johnson, asserting the right
of the colored people to the exercise of
the elective franchise, maintaining that
the Southern people should be kept I'M
der provisional governments until it has
been proved safe to trust them for low
atty, and that they should not be admit
ted to representation in Congress until
they have prohibited slavery in their
State Constitutions and removed color
disabilities, and urging the speedy trial
and punishment of jeff. Davis.
By the arrival of the Saladin from Rio |
lie JaneirO we have later news from the |
war on the river Plato. An important
naval engagement had taken place be-
tween the Brazilian and Paraguayan |
fleets at Riachuelo, on the Parano, in |
which the Paraguayans were totally de- |
feated, losing four steamers and six float |
ing batteries. On the other hand, the |
Paraguayans had captured the town of
San Rorjy, in the Brazilian province of
Rio Grande.
The Navy Department has received |
intelligence that the Rebel pirate Shen-
andoah, before leaving Australia for her
career of plundering and burning in the |
North Pacific, took on board at Mel
bourne twelve hundred tons of coal, and |
that her present First Lieutenant, who
joined her there, gave up the command
of an English steamer to enlist in her
piratical service.
The State Department in Washington
has been informed by our Consul in
Malta that the cholera is raging there
fearfully. Communication with the ad-
Jacent islands has been suspended, but
the steamers still continue torun between
England and Malta, thus giving the
dreaded disease chance to spread be-
yond the Mediterranean.
The railroad train from NIuscatine.
Iowa, to Washington, in that State, met
with disaster on the tenth instant, at
Ainsworth, by going through bridge.
One OF the passenger cars was precipita-
ted into a chasm. Four persons were
killed and several passengers were
wounded. {
The Commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue, Hon. VIM. Orion, has been absent
at his home since Friday, sick, and was
so indisposed on Wednesday as not to be !
seen on business. In his absence, the
duties are efficiently performed by AS
sistant Commissioner, Hon. S. A. Rollins
On Monday night there was a severe
hail storm extending through Sank, !
Richland and Iowa counties,
Wisconsin, willing and destroying large
fields of wheat. Two hundred farms !
were laid waste, with a loss of from I
$500, 900 to 100000. "
The army worm is said to be making c
great ravages in the cotton crop in Texas. c
At Wharton one field of two hundred n
lcres was entirely destroyed in one {
light. This report was made a week
lgo, and is renewed, probably for specu-
alive purposes.
The Monitors Dictator and Agamen- v
ious had an exciting race last Tuesday "
lfter leaving Boston harbor, in which
he Dictator was the victor, notwith-
tanding she had bursted one Of her boil :
II fiues.
During recent storm at Natchez sew
,raI ooal harpps on the river vera aunE. | n