The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-01
7Generai News.

das. is to be held this year in Albany, N. Y,
on the LIST June. i' '9." '.' W.T. 9Itt'. ("
3 Richard Pollard, tailor, was murdered in
New York by VIM. Cormick, his late en-
ployer. s-..eg.b .-5..f,a,.,..fsl ...-
Governor Morton of Indiana is not expec-
ted to recover from his Illness. aa .slI
Efforts are on foot to start the Lynchburg
and Danyille Railroad; 100000 have already
been subscribed by Lynchburg.
The Assistant Commissioner of n Carolina
reports the number of destitute freedmen as
reduced, and hopes that at the end Of another
quarter, there will be no necessity for the fur
Their issue of government rations. He says. it
is no longer asked what shall, be done with
the negroes, but where can laborers be found?
The U. s. Frigate Chattanooga returned to
Philadelphia from her trial trip, having sus-
tanned damage to her machinery. Forty-six
revolutions were obtained with only half her
boilers. ,..fe. ...
The Jews lave a project to build maghi-
fcent college for educating their young men in
all the scientific and classical branches and
particularly in French theology Heretofore
their young men designed for the priesthood
have been sent to the continent.
party Of twenty four gentlemen in Cald-
squirrel hunt. The total number of scalps
was 1896 One man killed eight hundred
and twenty seven Of these animals that sit in
the shadow of their tails-as their name i'm
plies. ~. ID. az ~ .'6f ..ag l'.'
new variable star has been discovered at
the U. S. Observatory at Washington. H
Maria Philips and her child were burned
to death few nights ago, in house in Cor
tens district Worcester county, Md.
The President has ordered the closing of
the several executive departments Of the gov
eminent on the day which may be appointed
for the funeral of Lieut.. General Scotland
directed the heads of the War and Navy De-
partments to give orders for paying appro-
pirate honors to the memory OF the deceased.
In Boston all the church bells were tolled by
telegraph, striking eighty times, for the death
of Lieut.. Gen. Scott. fg esF HfEE tfs5
Senior Don Frederic L. Barreda, formerly
minister resident of Peru in this country has
returned as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of that republic. He has
been introduced to the Secretary of State and
the President, to whom he delivered his Gre
dentials. Speeches were interehanged by the
President and the minister. :" 'l' '.j ~
The Department of State learns from our
Minister at Paris, that if naturalized citizens
of the United States, liable to CONSUMPTION in
France, will report at the district in which
their names are enrolled, and produce the
evidences of their naturalization as citizens
or the United States, asking to be released
from consumption, they will relieve themselves
from all difficulty or apprehensions about this
matter
Consul Dudley writes from Liverpool to the
Secretary of State, that the steamer City of
Dublin was to sail on the 9th, with fifteen
thousand bushels of wheat 1t is American
wheat, inspected, and sent back to be sold in.
the United States This is characterised as
sending GOALS to Newcastle 'fa5 y 'rH :.
1t is stated that the proposed constitutional
amendments OF the Senate are not specially
Objectionable to President johnson. These
amendments, however, have nothing to do
with the pending question Of the admission
of Southern representatives.
Attorney General Speed it is reported, says
he has had nothing to do in the Indictment
against Mr.. Davis. It's supposed to have
its origin entirely in Virginia.
Republican Senators speak of the early ad-
journmsnt of Congress.
Among those appointed at St. Louis on
the reunion committee of the Old and New
Schools of Presbyterianism, are the names of
the Rev. DR.. Backus, of BALTIMORE Rev. DR..
Gurley of Washington, and Rev. Dr. Schenck,
of Philadelphia W A7 A."
The soldiers of Cumberland county, Pa, in
series of resolutions denounce the radicals,
repudiate negro suffrage, declare the Southern
States entitled to representation, endorse the
restoration policy of President johnson, and
the nomination of Hester Clyner for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. ,5sj sqr%
The New York Commercial says that the
reports of an over issue of Erie stock are I'M
founded or rest on very slender foundation.
Quite number of Fenians left Cincinnati
on the 28th inst, bound for Canada, Large
shipments of arms have gone northward.
| dictate business of serious character. 81 3
| Congress Hall Hotel, at Saratoga, New
York, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
| 100000. '-'- '7''
| There have been heavy rains for two days,
pretty generally, West and Northwest-and
no fears of a drought are entertained p
| In New York all the flags in the city and
harbor We're at half mast in respect to the
memory of Lieut.. Gent Scott The steamer
Oak from Hawkinsville, for Savannah, Ca,
was destroyed by fire near Wilmington Island
together with 525 bales of cotton.
The steamer North Point on her last trip
from Baltimore to Savannah, carried the con-
tributions of provisions made by the lady
managers of the Southern relief fair to the
destitute people of Florida g e SIT . va" '''.'
At the present time there are about $685.
bales of cotton afoat from India, against
10000 last year; whilst the fonr months i'm
portation from America into Liverpool were
equal to $4,000 bales, The proposed tax Of
two and half per cent. on American cotton
is regarded as premium on cotton grown in
India, for if the price Of middling Surat can
be kept at Sd. per pound in England, this
figure would be remunerativs to growers in