The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-30
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Capt Timothy Dacey, who served gal
lantly throughout the war in the Ninth
Massachusetts, regiment, and who LETT
Lawrence for his native country some
months ago, is among the Fenians ar
rested in Ireland.
The Secretary of the Treasury has of
ficially announced that the entire fifty
millions OF government five-twenty
bonds recently offered to the public in
lieu of certificates of indebtedness, conf
: pound interest notes and Treasury notes,
have been taken.
Mobile papers anticipate very busy
times and high wages for laborers and
mechanics this season. General Bragg
! was in Mobile short time since, on his
way to his plantation in Loundas Coun-
!. ty, Mississippi, where he intends rais-
ing cotton by free labor. ,t...sl .7tf.a,
| The payment of bounties to colored
troops, under the recent opinion given
Thy Attorney General Speed declaring
that they were entitled to be placed on
the same footing as white troops i'm re-
spect to bounties, has been ordered stop
ped by the Paymaster General.
/ We observe in our Tennessee ex-
changes that the friends of Judge Con-
NELLY F. Trigg, ofthe United States Dis
Itrict Court of that State, have presented
him for appointment in the United
States Supreme Bench, to fill the vacan-
cy created by the demise of the late Mr..
Justice Catron, from Tennessee.
tn the opinion of the Rev. Mr.. Stubs,
publicly expressed In the Protestant
! Episcopal Convention, that "a newspa-
per Is q nuisance, and that any diocese
| Il 1, htnh
have any," There are no newspapers
in Mobjack Bay. 'ats'* ne i.ta
The London Times, Post, Meas and
| Herald agree in regarding Earl Russell's
| proposition for q joint commission to ex-
| anime the claims arising during our late
war az the best and only way of ending
the long controversy. They all hope for
an amicable solution of the difficulty.
Judge Smalley, United States Judge
for the District of Vermont, has judicial
ly declared the section OF. the act of Con-
gress of March, 1863, authorizing the
: suspension of the habeas corpus by the
President, and sheltering all subordi-
Mates from punishment for any acts they
. might do under the Executive authority
in such cases. to be null and void.
In reply to a communication from
Governor Wells in regard to threaten
ed negro instruction in Northern Louis.
lana, General Candy says he will order
an additional white force to Shreveport,
and that arrangements have already
been made to disabuse the negroes of
any wrong impression imposed upon
them. {tl.i.t.afarri l.s..t ..,..-..f E
1T is surmised that Mr.. Cushing's visit
to- England has reference to an adjudi-
4 cation Of the claims for damage made by
this Government on Great Britain for
the depredations of the Alabama on
American commerce. 1t is believed that
, the Government has accepted the propO-
sition of Earl Russell, to appoint COM
!, mission to settle such claims. sligo
: DR.. George Hillg@rtner, well known
among the Germans OF the United
: States, died in st. Louis few days
f since. He was born in Frankenthal,
3 district of Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, received
an accomplished education, practised
) law, took an active part in the revoIu-
ton of 1913, and 0nits failure emigrated
via Switzerland and London to America,
arriving in this country i'm 1852.
. Numerous deaths from Asiatic cholera
are reported at Epping, near London.
The disease is also raging with great
violence at Madrid. Two of the French
ministry; in a report to the Emperor,
!, proposed an international commission,
! to examine the originof the cholera, and
: to study the best means to prevent it in
i, the futnre.I 1al2sD % b@na-a ~
Mr.. Romero, the Mexican Minister in
; Washington, has received dispatches in
dicating with considerable certainty the
early recapture from the imperialists of
Matamoras and the reoccupation of the
entire State of Tainaulipas by President
: Juarez's forces. BY way of New Orleans
we have advices stating that on the 10th
inst. MatamOras was so closely besieged
: by from three to five thousand republi-
cans that the imperialists dared not ven-
ture beyond the notifications of the
: town, and all their communications with
other points on the Rio Grande and with
the interior, excepting via Brownsville
on the American side of the river, were
cut off. .t5te Bae U.jeaf. 16# t.atHs
Mr. F0rney states in the Philadelphia
Press, in alluding to the American claim
I upon the English government for dam
ages inflicted upon our commerce by the
tcOrsairs and buccaneers built and armed
by English capital, and at Englishs ship
yards, in defiance of the information laid
by our ministers and consuls before the
British authorities, which is met with
characteristic hautenr by her gracious
Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Lord Rus
sell, that at is matter for himself to
decide whether he will continue the dis
cussion as a ruffian or a gentleman."--
This is pretty way to talk of one from
whom we are deeended,n and whose
"religion is our religion" and so fourth.
JOHN ADAMS CoURTsHIP. John
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