The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-26

the expulsion of Gen. Rousseau, the other
censure only.
Forney has announced himself at Lebanon,
Pa, as a candidate for the U. s. Senate, in
place of Mr.. Cowan.
Secretary Stanton has been unwell for the
past few days. His family have removed to
the Soldiers home for the summer.
A temperance meeting was held at the
Northern Liberties market and several
speeches delivered
Generals Grant and Meade have recently
had protracted meeting with the Presi-
dent.
The following gives a list of the Bishops of
the Episcopal Methodist Church" with their
salaries: Bishop )ule, ST 500; Bishop Pierce
$4,000; Bishop Early, $4,000; Bishop Kava-
naugh, $4,000; Bishop Andrew, $780,
Bishop Paine, $4,000; Bishop Weightman
$4,000; Bishop Marvin, $3,OOO Bishop
mcTiere, $4,000; Bishop Doggett, $4,000.
A few days ago a freedman in Nelson
county, Virginia, attempted an outrage on
the person of young white woman, who
was school teacher. She was on her way to
| the school, and her cries attracted attention
The villain ran off, was arrested and imme-
diately hung by the excited populace.
William H. White, Confederate spy who
was captured at Charles City Courthouse,
Virginia, in 1854 and sent to the Dry Tortu-
| gas for twenty years, was pardoned by Presi-
dent johnson on the 23d day of May last.
He was sentenced to be hung, but on &C
count of his extreme youth, the sentence was
afterwards committed as above
The New York Academy of Medicine have
recently adopted sanitary resolutions looking
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urging their enforcement upon all who have
charge of the sick and directing that disin-
fectants should be freely used in water clos
cts, &c. The Academy regards the nature
and cause of cholera as subject to control,
and that there should be no fear or hesitation
in the personal care Of the sick, and all that
| pertains to the same. 1t recommends a
thorough cleansing and disinfection of all
personal clothing and things that have been
exposed to the discharges OF persons sick with
cholera. 1t says the main source of protec-
ton against epidemic cholera at the present
time, is to be found in the vigilant and effect
| i've operation of sanitary measures-munici-
pal, domestic and personal. The Academy
invites the physicians of every city and vii
lage throughout the country to urge the i'm
mediate adoption of adequate measures of
sanitary protection against the introduction
of the ravages of cholera and to this end,
the members of the Academy pledge the
hearty and untirlng cooperation of the
| Academy.
The Government is preparing to proceed
against the delinquent Southern Postmasters,
appointed prior to 1861. The total indebted
ness of this class Of persons is about $500 OOO
of which 100000 has been paid on demand
and nearly the same amount put in process
of collection. The general defense set up by
such postmasters is that they should be cred
tied with the stamps which they turned over
| to the Confederate Government Mr.. Cohen,
OF Savannah, member elect to the House of
Representatives, claims over five thousand
dollars, and Mr.. Galloway, of Memphis, over
nine thousand dollars. The postmaster at
Mobile has paid over twelve thousand dollars
under protest, intending to institute suit for
its recovery.
The recent Tobacco Fair, at Louisville, Ky,
showed some of the profits of farming The
hogshead which brought the first premium,
was grown by Mr.. Jacob Detweiler, in Frank
lin county Missouri, and was sold for SIS IS
pound. Mr.. Detweier's otal consignment
to the fair was six hogsheads Of tobacco,
weighing IN the aggregate $3.50 pounds and
which sold for sums varying from 81 cents to
| SIS IS pound, according to quality, the
total sum being $1,000 These six hogsheads
were grown upon four acres of ground, so that
his farm Melted him ST. 1925 80 per acre.
| DR.. Dabney has written letter to Messrs
Bellock & Co., of New York, contradicting
the rumors in certain quarters, to the effect
that their publication OF his Life of jackson
is unauthorized by Mrs. jackson or himself
This was the first intimation we had of such
rumor DR.. Dabney also states in his letter
that Prof. N Schele DeVere of the University
of Virginia. is engaged in making translations
Of this book into the languages of CONT
mental Europe.
1t is stated that Guizot is IS years of age;
Victor Hugo is "a; Dumas So; Lamartine is,
and Theirs 49, Eminent Frenchmen are
seldom admitted to the Academy until they
are 40 years of age, and the average life Of
the academlcians is quite advanced.
A great German physician is publishing
in the Augsburg Gazette, series of letters,
in which he takes the ground that there are
such germs of disease in Germany at this
time, that if war breaks out, there will be the
most terrible epidemic of cholera ever wit
messed
By the destructive fire of April, 1865, in
Richmond, the Virginia Bible Society lost its
records They now appeal to the friends
of the organization for any reports or records
which may be in their possession.
Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, contemplates running
for reelection to Congress, without the form
ality of denomination by a convention, which,
it would seem, he couldn't get from his party.
The manufacturing establishments at COL
umbus, Ga, burnt during the war; are nearly
all In process of reconstruction, and the city
promises to recover its former prosperity
1t is said there are eight hundred families
in one district of South Carolina on the point
| of starvation.
The Hagerstown Torchght says it is pro-
posed to dedicate Antietam Cemetery on the