The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-31
General News.

Speaker delivered his farewell address, and the
House adjourned sine die.
General News.
Judge Gilmore and c. L. Vallandigham
have been elected as delegates to the Phila-
delphia Convention from the third Ohio dis
trict
forgery on the Government of $4,000
has just been discovered at the Treasury De-
partment.
Nearly all the Congressman have left
Washington.
The Douglas monument ceremonies will
take place on the goth August Presi-
dent and Mr. Seward will leave for Chicago,
it is said on the 9th of that month to be
present on the occasion.
A grand mass meeting of Irishmen is to be
held in Odd Fellows Hall in Washington, to
consult upon the duty of supporting the pol
icy of the President.
The sum realized at the Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans fair, will amount to from $28, 900
to $4,000.
A republican universal suffrage meeting
attended mostly 10y blacks, was held at the
Mechanics Institute, New Orleans, on the
2Sth The call for the convention of 1886
was ratified, and the reconstruction policy of
Congress endorsed. There was torchlight
procession after the adjournment of the meet
ing.
"After the adjournment Of the meeting last
night the negroes formed into procession,
and, armed with clubs, brickbats, &c, went
bowling through the streets, threatening vio-
lence. At the meeting the speakers used vio-
lent language. Two or three serious distur-
Dances occurred in the rear of the city, result
in y oc
police officers were badly bruised by the ne
groes All is quiet now Ten or fifteen ne
groes have been arrested and placed in jail
1t is understood that efforts are being made
by the chief of police to have the speakers
who used the violent and incendiary language,
arrested, aud thai committee of citizens will
wait on General Sheridan to ask aid to sup
press the efforts Of those who are exciting the
black population against the whites.
No new National Banks were established
last week The total number now in opera
ton is 1857; to which, up to date, crcula-
ton TO the amount of 1926, 1875, S45 has been
issued by the Comptroller Of the Currency.
The Superintendent of the Newfoundland
Line dispatched a message from the Queen of
States, as follows
o9uoin, July 20, 1866.
To the President United States, Washington:
''Ihe Queen congratulates the Pesident on
the successful completion Of an undertaking
which she hopes may serve as an additional
bond of Union between the United States and
England
The following was the Presidents reply:
Executive Mansion, Washington,
l1.60 A. NJ, July 80 q
To Her Majesty, Queen of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland
The President of the United States ac-
knowledges with profound qualification the
receipt of her Majesty's dispatch, and cordial
ly reciprocates, and hopes that the cable which
unites the Eastern aad Western hemispheres
may serve to strengthen and perpetuate peace
and amity between the Government of Eng
land and the Republic of the United States.
(Signed), ANDREW JOHNSON
The first public message signalled from
Europe by the Atlantic Telegraph, was the
announcement that peace had been concluded
between Prussia and Austria
Congress, it will be seen, adjourned sine die,
on Saturday, at P. NJ.
National Cemetery is now preparing at
Culpepper Court House, Virginia, On the farm
of Mr. Hill. 1t will contain six acres, and is
about mile from the Court House.
General Dix declines the mission to the
Hague. The President, it is understood, will
make another nomination for that mission.
The New York Times says the new line of
steamers running on the Chesapeake Bay
comprising the commodious steamers George
Leary. James Il. Brady, and John Sylvester,
has been sold to the Atlantic Mail Steamship
Company of New York.
The Senate have confirmed the nomination
Of MIR. Browning to be Secretary of the Inte-
rior.
The President and all the members of his
Cabinet were at the Capitol on Saturday, in
the Wee Presidents room, att ndiny to bust
ness in connection with the bills which re-
qulre their examination and the signatu re of
the President
President Roberts, of the Fenian Brotherhood
was on the floor of the House during the discus
sion OF the Neutrality bill He was in earn
est conversation with several prominent mem
bers during the debate; and after its unan-
nous passage numerous members congrat-
uated him npon the passage of the bill, and
the nnnisakabie expression of the House of
Representatives III favor Of Irish Indepen-
dence
The parties engaged i'll erecting the wig
wan for the August Convention, in Philadel-
phia, have been arrested at the instance of
DIR. Jsnson, the owner Of the ground. who
objects to the use Of his property for the pur-
pose The building has been stopped and
will have to be erected elsewhere. The ground
was obtained through an agent without the
doctors consent or knowledge