The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-10
PARAGRAPHS.

Bv the arrival of the Manhattan from
Havana. we have news from the Guy oi
Mexico to the twenty-fourth OF june,
together with the dates from vera Cruz
to the twenty-eighth ultimo. A most
important item of news is the announce
ment that q decree was about TO 20 as
sued ceding Sinaloa, Durango ana 30
nora to France to secure the debt due 10
that country. The health of Vera Cruz
was GOOD. The American emigration
scheme is said to be failure, but TINS
NAV be deemed as not definitely settled.
Reports from Mexico are very contra
dictory.
Another light draft monitor, the Nsu,
set, built in East Boston by Mr.. Donald
Mckay, is now finished and accepted
by the Navy Department. She Is TWO
hundred aud twenty-five feet long,
forty-five wide, seven feet ten inches
deep, and draws six feet six inches OF
water. The hull is of iron and the ar
mour is backed by white oak; the turret
and pilot-house are of iron ten inches
thick; the turret is twenty feet in dame
ter inside and nine feet high, and con-
tains two heavy guns.
There were more than one hundred
persons Frustrated by sunstroke in Gin.
cinnati and vicinity on the fourth of
July. Several cases proved fatal. The
mercury marked one hundred degrees in
the shade.
Lewis 7. Stoddard, Boston broker,
was accidentally drowned in stream
near that city on Thursday.
The Louisville Journal says that II.
G. Burnett, formerly member of Con
gress from the First Kentucky District,
and afterwards member OF the rebel
Congress, was arrested four days ago at
Hopkinsville, by order of the Secretary
of War. He was taken to Louisville,
where he has been turned over to the
civil authorities, to be tried for high
treason. He Is now awaiting action i'll
his case.
+ A Missouri paper says there is a young
lady in Henry County, In that State, not
yet sixteen, who is this year cultivating
sixteen acres of corn. She does all the
necessary work, Including blowing.
She has undertaken this piece of work
to obtain money with which to educate
herself.
Captain Maury, formerly of the Wash.
ington Observatory, and recently en-
gagged in placing torpedoes in Southern
waters, Is in the City of Mexico.
Middletown, Connecticut, is excited
over a regular elopement, with the
cruel parents, hasty moonlight ride, and
all the other proper adjuncts. The flee
/ ing pair have not yet been overtaken.-
The names are John Vinton, nineteen
years old, and Anna Brainard, an impul-
sive little girl of fifteen.
The New Hampshire Legislature adj
( journed on Saturday, after taxing all in
comes, not already taxed, twenty-five
per centum.
3 The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Farmer
. says, Colonel ira Gregory is lying very
. low of disease called the dry mortifica
g ton, which, commencing in one OF his
g toes, has extended through his body
. Two other persons there are similarly
9 afflicted.
4 ~ Count Albert de Revel has, according
!. to Partisan correspondent of thu
:. Athenmum, been left two Thousand
: pounds year by an eccentric uncle, Oh
y the singular condition that, within two
!. years, he shall marry tall, slim lady
of harmonious proportions" with Ions
! and thick golden hair. She must have
!. an open. forehead, blue eyes, brilliant
: white skin, a well-made nose, small
!, mouth, and she Is to be full of grace
!. and her character is to be slightly shad-
. ed with poetic languor.
y The White Mountain Bank, Ian.
rs caster, New Hampshire, has suspended
IF payment, and its assets are now in the
$, hands Of an assignee.
" The grand Jury of Brooks county,
!. Virginia have found indictments for
!, treason againsta number of returned
. COnfederates. 1t Is claimed that they are
y guilty of treason against the State of
!. West Virginia.
. q. At Newborn, n. c., factories are to be
9 established for improved processes for
, producing tar, turpentine oil and pyro.
e ligneous acid from ]ight.wood.
+ North Carolina Is rapidly filling up
!, with emigrants from the North who
: wish TO buy land Governor Holden
= has sent commissioner to Washington
, fiscation, 30 as to make sales of land
!. easier than they are at present.
. A Queene Anne gun, two hundred
. and thirty-fve years of age, which went
/ through the revolution and the war of
y eighteen hundred and twelve, was fired
. by Arch Young at the Van Rensselaer,
4 Mansion, at Albany, on the Fourth of
+ July morning. 1t was fired two years
: ago by the same gunner, both times at
, the request of old Mr.. Van Rensselaer,.
' With these exceptions, 1t has not been
J fired since thewar of eighteen hundred
and twelve. yfraE,
Negroes are making stwo and three
dollars day in North Carolina, hy
washing the waste or trailings of the
gold mines there. Thousands Of tons Of
gold-bearing dust and rock are on the
surface near the mines. f.
Newborn, North Carolina, israpidly
increasing in population. Many North.
!, ern business men are there, engaging in
profitable enterprises.
The city gates of Quebec have neve
been without guards since its capturl
from the French by General Wolf unit
last Thursday week, when they were
permanently withdrawn.
The Arab girls who came to see Ma
poleon in Algiers wore nosegays in their
ears.
The election in Petersburg, Virginia,
tax es place on the 18th instant.
General Hatch, commanding the dis
trict of Charleston, South Carolina, has
learned that some of the planters in their