The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-21
General News.

The Hon. John Van Buren, is on a visit to
Charleston, s. C.
Dumas, senior, proposes to erect a gigantic
theatre in Paris, where the plays of every ma
ton shall be produced. He asks two millions
of francs to carry out the project.
The Matamoras Ranchero asserts that the
filibuster General Crawford was permitted tc
escape from Fort Jackson because he had it in
his power to implicate high military men in
the robberies committed on the Rio Grande
The City Hotel in Natchez, Mississippi, was
burned to the ground on Tuesday night last.
The Hon. Pierre Soule's Mansion on Epala-
made street, New Orleans for about about twt
years occupied as Freedmen's Orphan Asy-
lun, has been restored to him by order o.
Gen. Howard.
All Moose or Wasp, head chief of the Lac
de Flambare tribe of Chippewas, diedin Wash
ington of black measles on Saturday. This
disease is peculiar to the Indians.
News from Montana says the BlAckfeet III
dians are retaliating for some of their tribe
who were killed by whites last fall. Til,
Governor has called out five hundred volun
tees, to rendezvous at Fort Benton.
A son of Mr. G. Lane Fox, gentleman
holding large estates in Yorkshire, England
has become convert to the Church of Rome
and he has sought priests orders; but Arch
bishop Manning has declined to grant his re-
quest, on the ground that he will be more
useful to his new faith as layman than as ar
ecclesastic.
Mrs. S. A. Young, clairvoyant and fer
tune teller at Hartford, Connecticut, died a
few days ago. Her son was in Jail for pound.
ing his mother, and the city buried her and
sold her effects to pay the expenses.
A Savannah paper is afraid the raising OF
rice is at an end, and pictures the rice lands
deSenerating into unproductive swamps. II
says the white man cannot, and the black man
will not, cultivate the swamp plantations. 1t
therefore goes for compulsory cultivation OF
them.
Advices just received from Fort Abercroln-
bic, at st. Paul, says that the bodies of Capt.
Field and four soldiers, lost in the great storm,
have not been found, though diligent search
has been made All the horses bat one have
been found, which dispels all hopes of their
being yet alive.
few days ago party of men, one of whom
is said to have been deputy sheriff of Livings-
ton county, took possession of a train on the
Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad, and refused
to lay their fares. The train was stopped at
the next station, and they were put off Two
Of them attacked brakeman, and during the
trouble that ensued shot him il the abdomen
Two OF the rowdies were arrested, and Others
are known, and will be taken soon.
The Mississippi has at length cut channel
through Terrapin Neck, in the vicinity Of
Vicksburg, by which the river is shortened
some fifteen miles. This has been expected
for years, and is gratifying to steamboat men,
but disastrous to the plantations below Vicks-
burg.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
have decided upon reduction of freight Oh
Coal, rs cents from Cumberland, ST. from
Clarksburg and Paramount
A council of physicians WAS at the residence
OF Senator Foote, his condition being consider
ed critical, but heis thought much BETTER with
fair prospect that he will again join his col
leagues in the Senate.
The House Military Committee have agreed
to report in favor of the equalization Of boun-
ties. The amount due to be paid both in land
and money, according to the estimates of some
members of the Committee, will involve an
expenditure of four hundred millions.