Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-31
..-..nIseELLANEous ITEMS.

Scotchman committed suicide in New York
rather than be dishonest.
| In a stepe-chase near Liverpool, Eng the win
ner pocketed $4,000 cash.
A Wisconsin dressmaker has fallen heir to L6OO..
600.
A betrayed young girl committed suicide in Gale
ma, n. Y.
The mass meeting to endorse the President, called
| in Washington has been postponed till next week.
Suicide is becoming.a AN epidemic. We have coun-
ted fifty-four cases during one fortnight.
General Bragg is proposed for President of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The National Republican of Washington will be
issued as morning paper after this week, and will,
it is said, be the Administration organ.
A. G. Cattell, Of Camden county, and President of
the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia, is men,
toned as Senator StocktOn's probable successor.
The Georgia Legislature has passed the Stay law
over the Governors veto and a law furnishing horse
stealing and burglary with death.
j. C. Smith, a federal soldier in the late war, CON-
mitted suicide in BROOKLYN n. Y. on Tuesday, be-
cause he had been swinded out Of $500 by sharper
A bill to construct an underground railroad
through Broadway has passed the New York House
of Assembly.
A young man who had lost leg in the war
killed himself in Philadelphia because he could get
no work.
| W. d.
that he will not be molested by the Federal author-
ties The assurance was given at the request of
| Generals Grant and Sherman.
correspondent of the New York NerS asserts
that General Thomas suffered his friends in 1861,
to apply to President Davis for commission in the
Confederate army.
John Bell gays that for some time to come, with
the destitute whites as we'll as the blacks, the great
need, the most urgent want, the wailing cry must,
indeed will be, bread bread! bread
On Monday, at Charleston, s. c., an attack was
| made by cOlOred troops and freedmen on a body OF
police The disturbance was finally queed by q
white regiment.
The President has pardOned Thomas Martin, a
blockade-runner, who made twenty successful vOy-
ages and acquired large fortune, which is thus
cued from cOnfiscatiOn.
General G. w. Smith, formerly Street Commits
! sioner of New York, and during the war q Ma
| ior General in the Confederate army, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Chattanooga Rail
road.
A correspondent says that Secretary McCuloch
has had Il conversation with President johnson
in relation TO the cotton and Treasury agent
system in the South and that the President indicated
his intention to abolish the whole concern.
Southerners are buying nice residences in the fash
ionable parts of Boston. Over twenty first class
houses there have lately been purchased by South
erners who say they made fortunes during the war;
and have come North to invest it.
A negro woman in Nashville having fallen in
| love with anOthers husband, and finding sick
wife, on whom she waiting, likely to get we'll, set
| fire to the bed clothing, badly burning the wo-
man that her case is critical.
A New Jersey Committee waited on the President
Wednesday, and presented resolutions passed at Il
mass meeting in Hudson county. The President, in
reply reassered his intention to remain firm in his
policy.
The Honorable Cave johnson, formerly mem.
Der of Congress for several terms from Tennes-
see and Postmaster General during the admin
istration of President Polk, is candidate for
the State Senate of Tennessee, from the GAINESVILLE
| District.
The office of the Savannah Republican has been
restored to Mr. F. n Lewis its former owner, by
orders of President Johnson. When General Sher-
man occupied Savannah, the Republican was turn
ed over to j. E. Hayes, of Boston, who has since
published it.
great many of the SOutheners who took up
their residence in Canada during the war have ia
ken their departure. Major General Breckenridge
is still in Toronto The Rev. Stuart Robinson, of
Louisville, KY, it is said is about to return to his
pastoral charge.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Express says that Messrs. Maynard, Stokes and Fow
Ter of the Tennessee delegation, have gone to speak
in Connecticut for General Hawley in utter defiance
of President JohnsOns wishes, expressed after per-
sonal interview with him.
| There is divorce case now before the Chicago
courts which has a very humorous feature about it.
Mr.. Willis, the defendant, is of twin brothers,
partners in business and the resemblance they bear
to each other is so striking that the lady who is
changed with adultery, finds herself unable to den-
| tfy the true DrOmio.
| The Vidette, the anti Mormon paper published mt
Salt Lake City, is disturbing the Saints seriously,
| OF Young, it says" does he acknowledge that he
cannot stop the advancing career of CIVILIZATION? He
knows that when civilization reaches the threshold
of his infamous system it will hur him. reeking with
pollution and covered with innumerabe wrongs and
crimes from its presence. He trembles now as he
gazes upon its advancing column, and nightly re.
quires his dupes to stand guard over his couch and
harem. Does he fear the stroke of an avenging
| shirt ?"