The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-07
THE NEws

we have interesting advices from Savan- |
nah and Hilton Head to August 81. The |
Georgia Central Railroad had been re-
paired for q distance of forty-five miles
out from Savannah, and as q conse-
quence trade had become very brisk, |
particularly in cotton. Large quanti-
ties were stored in the city, on the
wharves and about the presses, and
everything looked encouraging for a
thorough revival Of the important ..traf.
fic as soon as the railroads should be
thoroughly restored. Accessions had
been made to the line of steamers from
Savannah to Augusta, and new lines be.
tween New York and Savannah were
being established. AT Hilton Head the
commercial prosperity was not SO great.
The place was losing its Importance as a
depot, and consequently much of the
trade and traffic had been diverted else
where. Efforts were. being made to or
ganize a company to build q railroad
from Hilton Head to Augusta, Georgia.
and thus give the former place the pre-.
tensions of a rival to Charleston. There
was very little exciting in political top
les. The coming State convention was
creating but little excitement. The peo-
pie were putting forward as candidates
for the convention the old men of ster-
ling merit and integrity, and rejecting
the old politicians and their counsel.
Another arrival from the Haytien re-
public gives some additional details in
regard to the rebellion there against the
government of President Jeffrard. They
report the quelling of the Instruction
airy movements in two of the principal
towns, and claim that the government
had a firm grip on Cape Haytien, the
stronghold of the revolutionists, both by
sea and land. But these advices are
only to the 10Th of August, and are
therefore apparently of little weight, as
in last Thursdays issue we gave news
to the ed ult., reporting the virtual
abandonment of the blockade of Cape
Haytien by the government forces, and
our Jamaica correspondence in the
Herald of the following day announced
the sailing of q steamer from Kingston
for a Haytien port with the object Of Sc
curing the escape of President Geffrard,
in case of revolutionary successes render
ing his fight necessary. Late papers
from Cape Haytien give details of the
capture of Fort st. Michel by therebels.
This achievement, which occurred on
August II, appears to have rendered the
abandonment of the siege of Cape Hay
ten necessary. The details which we
give of the assault of Fort st. Michel
are highly interesting.
A little girl of twelve years, named
Bridget Mack, who was confined in the
Magdalene section of the Tombs, New
York, on a charge of larceny, made her
escape ON Sunday afternoon by forcing
open the CRATE damper of her room,
crawling thence through the chimney
to the roof, jumping down thirty feet
into the prison yard, and scaling the
iron picket fence and getting out into
Franklin street. She received no i'm
turies in her struggles for freedom and
late in the day she was found secreted
under a bed in q house in Jackson street,
r~earrested and recommitted. atf-Lu'
The Coroner's jury on the body of
/ Catharine Cleeves, burned to death dur
: ing the late fire in John street, New
I York, have found a verdict In which
they declare that the fire was the result
of spontaneous combustion of the signal
lights In the store of Thomas J. Jones,
and censure Mr.. Jones and the Messrs.
Edge-the former for keeping fireworks
in-his store contrary to the city ordi.
nances, and the latter for supplying Mr..
Jones with fireworks liable to explode
at any moment. A~i-E "4 @o1e
The steam corvette Fusiyama, built
for the japanese government by Wester-
veft 4 Son, sailed Monday for Yokoha-
ma, Japan, under orders to touch at Cape
de Verde, Cape Of Good Hope, Java, and
at Hong Hong, China. She is under
charge of Captain franklin Hallett,
well known in the merchant service, by
wh01Dshe will be delivered to the Ja-
panese authorities through the American
Minister resident in Japan.
Aspost offices continue to be re-opened
In the South postmasters who were in
possession of them when the rebellion
commenced, have drafts or notices
served upOnlthem for settlement of ar
rearages. Some few have liquidated their
Indebtedness, while others express a
willingness to pay, so soon as they can
obtain the means for that purpose. @
The Illinois State fair openedlMonday
at Chicago under the most favorable aus
pieces, and with every indication of great
success. Not only Illinois but the sew
eral Northwestern States are repre-
sented. Generals Grant and Grierson
and Governor Oglesby are expected, and
General John A. Logan has already ar
rived at the grounds. ,afo' 10y
Professor Lowe, accompanied by two
enterprising gentlemen, on Monday as
ceDded in his mammoth balloon from
the vicinity of the Central Park, New
York, bent on an excursion among the,
clouds. The balloon. was cut loose at
forty-seven minutes past four o'clock p.
NJ, and has not since been heard from.
Jackson (Mississippi) dispatches to
the Memphis Bulletin say the action of
General Osterhaus, in taking a prisoner
from the court room while on trial for
an offence against the civil laws created
much excitement among the people, but
confidence was felt that the President
would sustain Governor Sharkey.
Some of the members of the commits
sion sent to treat with the Indian tribes
beyond the Mississippi have arrived at
st. Louis. The commission is to meet
at Council Bluff on the 10th inst, and
thence proceed to Fort Rice, where the
council is to be held on October 18th.
Miss Fannie McGregor, daughter of
Mr.. James McGregor---President of the
State Bank of Boston, was accidently
shot at North Conway, N. H., on Sat
urday. She was a young lady in the
prime of youth, and was well-known
and much esteemed in her native city.