The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-05-10
General NEWS.


within day or two, signifed purpose not
to leave Washington during the summer for
watering places or elsewhere. His daughters,
Mrs. Slower and Mrs. Patterson, will proba-
bly, spend the summer in Tennessee.
The people of Louisiana are considerably
interested in the petroleum question. The
surface indications in the Calcavieu region are
said to be equal to any in Pennsylvania. Two
companies have been formed to operate in
that region, one having 1,400 the other 1000
acres OF land.
The Oarol,nian, lpubliahed at Columbia,
South Carolina referring to the question Of
veracity between General Hampton and Gen.
Sherman, as to the responsibility for the
burning of that city, says: awe have only
to reiterate in this connection that plenty Of
witnesses can be produced in Columbia to
prove incontestably that Gen. Hampton's
statement is correct and Sherman "a base
Misrepresentation"
The Annual Council of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Virginia, will be held
in Alexandria on the Sd Monday in this
month the 10Th inst.
The remains of Major Thomas H Clay, of
Kentucky, who died in Atlanta, Ca. in 1864,
was disinterred on the 4th inst. and forward
ed to Kentucky. Major Clay was a dstn-
guished rebel officer, son Of Colonel Clay
of Mexican fame, and grandson Of Henry
Clay. His remains are to be reinforced be-
side his father in the State Cemetery, at
Frankfort. They were escorted to the depot
/ by number OF KentucEians. who are in
Atlanta
The ladies Of Fredericksburg contemplate
the organization of memorial association,
similar to those of Richmond and other
| Southern cities, the object of which will be
to preserve and identify the graves of the
Confederate soldiers buried at the cemetery
and elsewhere in and around the town.
From the mails of the steamship China, we
learn that there is difference Of opinion in
regard to the course which the British minis
| try will pursue i'll consequence Of barely es-
Gaping defeat in the Reform bill The Lon
don Morning Herald says it is obvious the bill
is lost, but whether the Government will abide
| by its pledge, and fall with the bill, will not
be known until Monday. The London Morn-
ing Post asserts that whilst the ministry have
+ gained nominal victory, they have, in truth,
slisainedsa partial defeat. Nothing, says the
/ Post, remains but to resign. The London
| Times expressed the same views. The London
Star thinks the small majority looks i'll for an
early and tranquil settlement of the Reform
question, and looks for new delays and fresh
difficulties
Secretary McCulloch paid a visit to Mr..
Davis Of an hours duration on Sunday last.
| The exact nature of the interview, we are
| told, is unknown. The Washington Repub-
dcan of yesterday, states that arrangements
are now making for the trial of Mr.. Davis in
Virginia, and that it will take place at an
early day, and in a civil court. It is under
stood that Chief Justice Chase will preside on
the occasion.
In the narrative Of the capture of jefferson
Davis furnished to the War Department, by
| those who made the capture, and especially
by Gen. Wilson and COL Pritchard to whom
Mr.. Davis was taken, nothing whatever is
said about his being disguised, or in any way
cor-roborative of the stories. then circulated,
and which formed the staple of the aviti and
| the carricatures, and the falsehood SO freely
circulated at the time
The Bev. Dr. Staley, Bishop.of Honolulu,
says that the result Of the teaching Of the
American Board of Missions there has rem
dered the natives ten times worse than they
were under the heather system.
! The New Orleans papers announce the ar
rival in that city of Ex-Governor Charles
Clarke, Of Mississippi, and state that though
still using clutches the veteran soldier never
| looked in finer health.