The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-26
General News.

General News.
On Sunday night an attempt was made to
burn the town of Ttusvie, Pa. The result
was, the organization of vigilance committee
to rid the place of all ncendiaries, robbers,
and other scoundres.
The Hon. Oswald Thompson, presiding
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Phila-
delphia, and one of the most distinguished law
yers of that city, died on Tuesday from Sec
ond stroke of paralysis which happened few
days ago.,
Major General Lew Wallace has rendered
his resignation to the War Department, and it
has been accepted.
Colonel Mcmahon, of the One Hundred and
Eghty-eighth New York Volunteers, has
been breveted Brigadier General of Volun-
teers
The marriage of Mrs Douglas to Major
Robert Williams took place on Tuesday even
| ing, at the residence of the brides mother in
| Washington.
General Grant has taken possession of his
new house on 1 street, in Washington, which
has been undergoing preparations for several
weeks past. The furniture has been brought
from the Generals mansion in Philadelphia.
The Honorable A. HI. Stephens has been
invited by the Legislature of Georgia to adj
dress that body on the state of the country.
The delay in the trial of Admiral Semmes
is understood to be occasioned by the objec-
tons of the President to any further conyic-
tons by military commissions.
Detective Lafayette C. Baker, it is reported,
retires on a handsome fortune
man in Illinois inherits from relative in
Scotland forty-fve million of dollars.
1t is understood that the House Committee
on Freedmen's Affairs will soon report bill
establishing negro suffrage throughout the
Southern States by Federal law.
A girl of Is is on trial at Boston for biga-
my Her first husband, married at the ma
ture age of IA, is in the States prison.
An iron theater, with hotel attached, is
being constructed at Sydney, Australia, to be
erected at the new gold field of Hokitika.
Siam is anxious to enter into a commercial
treaty with the United States.
General j. H. Wilson has resigned his COM
mission, and accepted the Northern agency of
the National Express Company.
The Russian Government has placed war
steamer at the disposal of the Russian Over
land Telegraph Company.
The French Minister at Washington has
asked the State Department for official infor-
nation of the recent affair on the Rio Grande.
General Sheridan has been instructed to
punish any United States soldiers that were
implicated in the attack on Bagdad.
President Roberts and General Sweeney in
tend to make a tour through the West stump
ing in behalf of Fenianisn.
The Reconstruction Committee is sti u taking
testimony. The witnesses examined thus far
represent an unfavorable condition of the
South.
The Ways and Means Committee ..a still
undecided about Secretary McCulloch's finan-
cial bill.
An ice bridge has formed above Niagara
Falls, extending three miles down the rapids
f. naa,,, l~~seaf nna for many years. and the
The Nation rr Banks saI in Massachusetts Neu
York and other States, which have more thar
their apportionment of national currency. will
probably have the amount of notes which
they are authorized to issue reduced. in order
to effect fair proportionment in the South
ern States.
carriage containing four persons was run
into by a train on Flushing Railroad, L. |. on
Sunday night, and smashed to pieces One of
the horses was killed and the other everely
injured. The occupants of the carriage re-
ce1vcd some serious contusions
The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says it con-
tlnues to receive encouraging accounts of the
cotton crop from planters throughout south
western Georgia. The freedmen have gener-
ally made labor contracts. There will, how
ever, be little corn-not enough to feed the
plantations, to say nothing of the towns and
non-residents.
Over five hundred original Union men of
Alabama, noted for their answering fidelity
to the national cause, have forwarded petit
ton to Washington, setting forth that they are
prescribed in that State as /" traitors to the
South" recounting the continued bitterness
and violence of the men recently in arms
against the Government, and deprecating
the withdrawal of Federal troops from the
State