Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-12
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ITEMS OF NEWS.

Fort Sumter is to be rebuilt.
Macmillan keeps 1000 men at work on me rail-
road from Mexico to Vera Cruz
The imperial government of Mexico is about 10
issue S3O0O00 O1 of legal.tender paper currency,
The St. Mary's (Md.) Gazette says much of the
wheat crop in that county has been winter killed."
The trichina disease is said to have appeared in
Paris.
Governor Morton, of Indiana, has returned from
Europe. His health is but little improved.
Macmillan has created the grade of field marshal
in the Mexican army, and General Mcjia is 10 be the
first marshal.
The report that the cattle disease had appeared in
Montgomery county Pa, is contradicted Oh medical
authority.
Edward Ryan, formerly of Lasalle, Illinois, com
mited suicide at Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday,
by shooting himself near the Chattanooga depot.
At convent near Paris there has been an auction
sale of the hair of the young girls who have taken
the veil since 1910; the 500 lbs. fetched SG,GuO,
New Brunswick has warned American fishermen
of from the inshOre fishing ground after the 18th
inst.
A few DAYS ago NJ. Blondcl, one of the judges Of
the Tribunal of ArbOs, France, died from hydrOph0
bia He was bitten two years since by one of his
dogs while out shooting.
At Cairo, man named Frazier and his grown
daughter and three small children were drowned
in the Ohio, while on their way in \ canoe to ILL.,
nOS.
Lieutenant Colonel Wilcox, of the 10th Colorcd
Infantry in removing his flagstaff from his former
headquarters at Nashville, Tenn, on Thursday, fell
70 feet the fall killing him Instantly.
4 Telegram has been sent by Captain Hunter,
from Grenada Missouri, to Governor BrOwnlow, at
Nashville, Tenn, urging the latter to beware OF as
SassnatOn.
A Quarantine of ten days has been established in
the harbor of Fortress Monroe, by Major General
Miles on all vessels, government or otherwise COM
ing from the West Indies where the cholera is ut
work.
Orders have been issued for the release of the Hon.
s. II. Mallory, now in Fort Lafayette, and he will
be Immediately released and allowed to join his
family who residing in Connecticut. lie is very
feeble in health.
The case of General n. b. Forrest was called up
in the United States Court sitting at Memphis, on
Wednesday, when his counsel asked for n cOntinu-
ance on the ground that General Forrest was then
sick with the smallpox. The application was gran
ted.
Charles Arson hodge, who was arrested for the
murder of the Joyce children, in Massachusetts,, has
confessed the crime. lie is u native 0f Massachu-
SETS seryed in the rebel army, was captured, enis-
ted IN the federal army deserted again, and subse-
quently served in the United States navy,
A Party of eight discharged cOlorod soldiers went
aboard Il steamer at Louisville, Ky, yesterday,
which was bound for st. Louis, and claimed cabin
passage which the clerk refused. The soldiers then
became disorderly, and the boat Waterman interior
ing one of the soldiers fired upon him, whereupon
the deck hands threw the negroes into the river.
The negroes were rescued without damage, and
went away
Mr. Goschen, the youngest of the English Cabinet
Minister'S is thirty -four years old Earl de Grey and
Ripon, is thirty-eight; the Duke of Argyle, forty
two Earl Granville, fifty Mr.. Cardwell, ffty-two
Mr. Gladstone, fifty-siX; Mr.. Gibson, tiftyegh In
the new House of Commons, there are forty members
under thirty years Of age. The youngest is tbs Fail
Of Tyrone, who is only twenty .one OF the Others,
the Hon. e. DeGrey, Lord c. j. Hamilton, and the
Hon. C. A. Darlington, are twenty-five; the Hon. V.
Dawson, twenty-three; Captain Stanley and Mr.. A.
| Greville, twenty-iour. Nine members stand at
twenty-6ve the rest of the forty vary from twenty
six to twenty nine. The oldest member of the House
is Sir w. Werner who is eighty-thrce; the next is
/ Mr. W. II. Barrow, who is eightyone.