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

The usual testimonials and honors have been
officially ordered to be paid to the memory Of
Lieutenant General Scott, by the Army, Navy
and Treasury Department.
Archbishop McClosky preached the sermon
in Brooklyn at the funeral of the late DIR.
Pise L
The New England Anti-Slavery Society
held its annual meeting in Boston on the SOth
instant. Wendell Phillips offered series of
resolutions, relative to negro suffrage, the be-
trayal of the North by the President, thanks
to Sumner, &c. He said Mr. johnson be-
lieved in the South, and his Cabinet with
! him, and that Congress had surrendered the
only essential element of reconstruction. He
hoped the Senate's amendment of the recon-
struction plan would meet with an ignomin-
ious defeat. He said the Republicans 90 to the
people in deceit and hypocrisy, with their
faces masked and their convictions hid, and
he hoped they would be defeated
The Peruvian, which has arrived at quar-
antne, has seven hundred and fifty-eight pas
sengers During the passage thirty-five died
from cholera and twenty EIGHT are now sick
on board s.
The steamers Java and Tripoli which
sailed from New York, took $3,276, 400 in
gold. 81. Or. -.t.s o...
| The guard of honor at the funeral of Lieu
tenant General Scott at West Point, was
composed of the following officers in full
dress NH.
Colonel H. NJ Black, Seventh United
State infantry, commandant of Cadet corps
Lieutenant Colonel A. Piper, Third artillery
Lieutenant Colonel j. McL'Hildtt, Third in
| for Moio
fantry Captain F. A. Davies, Sixteenth in
fan try and Captain A. R. Arnold, Fifth
United States cavalry
The New School Presbyterian Assembly in
st. Louis, has adjourned. Generals Stead
man and Fullerton are investigating the af-
fairs of the Freedman's Bureau in Georgia
and will report favorably.
The American ship Hudson, has cleared at
Charleston with cargo of 113 bales of Sea
Island and 1856 bales of upland cotton--for
Liverpool-the largest shipment of the sea-
son.
The North Carolina State Convention has
made resolution a special order, appoint
ing committee to wait on the President
with view to restoration.
| Thirty thousand tons of coal were recently
sold in New York; the prices were lower ex-
cept for lump.
Judge Wilson of the Supreme Court of
New York, has delivered an opinion to the
effect that the trial of civilians in time of
peace by courts martial, is illegal and convic-
ton void.
| A fire in Pittsburg has destroyed $50, 900
worth of property-twenty of which was in
sured.
Three or four hundred Fenians passed
through Cleveland, Ohio, differed by men
with side arms and carrying colors. They
were going East. They were orderly and
quiet, and said they were on their way to
California to work on railroads. Very likely.
! Intelligence has been received at Toronto,
Canada, from Buffalo, of Fenian movements.
The military were on the qui uire
Col. VIM. H. Wiegel has been ordered to
duty in charge Of the Bureau in the State of
| North Carolina 4t
| In the island of Trinidad and in the County
of Mayaro there had been revolt which was
suppressed by a force of fifty soldiers. The
leaders were seized and about to be tried.
We learn from the Richmond Who that
James Stephens the Irish Head Centre is ex-
pected to arrive in Richmond next week to
organize at the South. He will be accom-
panied by General Halptn of the u S. A..
and Captain John McCaferty of Gen. John
Morgan's staff, who with DIR. Swami are as
ISOLATED with him as staff
| All ministers and their wives together with
Gen. Robert E. Lee and others have been
elected honary members of the Hollywood
Memorial Association.
In the parish of ST. Elizabeth, Jamaica, a
subscription had been taken up with the OBJ
ject of presenting testimonial to Sir John
Eyre, for his energetic and effective measures
in depressing the late rebellion. A sum of
9175 had been already collected
The Louisiana county papers give sad ac-
count of the floods and distress-the corn,
cane, and cotton, in twelve parishes, are de-
stroyed.