The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-23
General News.

President johnson has recognized F. A. Sau-
tiers as Consul for Wurtemburg at Galveston,
Texas.
The 29th June, 1867, will be the 18th hun
dredth anniversary of st. Peters death On
that occasion the Pope is to convene all the
bishops of Christendom to Rome, where grand
Jubilee will be celebrated.
At an informal conference of Southern Sen
ators now in Washington, it was agreed that
Senator Stewards resolution does not represent
the wishes of the Southern people. They de-
sire no further amendments of the Constitu-
! ton. q 3t .G-
A communication from German grazier
has been addressed to the State Department,
and suggests means of preventing the spread
of the cattle disease. The theory is that the
diseased cattle poison the atmosphere; hence,
they are to be separated from the healthy an
finals, and the latter fabricated with petroleum
and small quantity of the oil mixed with
their food. The communication has been sent
to the House Committee on Agriculture.
A decision has been given that car conduc-
tors are not legally compelled to give change;
and another decision holds that the exclusion
of colored people from white peoples cars is
legal, on the lines which run special cars for
colored people
stable has been arrested ON a charge of appro-
priating to his own use one demijohn of grape
wine and box of fine cigars.
The death of German veteran, whe serv-
ed under the great Frederick in the seven
years war, is announced. He died at the
respectable age of one hundred and twenty,
at the hamlet of Slaude, in Upper Silesia.-
His name was Laurence Halacz.
The House Military Committee have agreed
to take final vote on the League Island ques-
ton on Tuesday next.
Mobile is to have new hotel, with &C
commodations for three hundred more guests
than were ever before accommodated" in that
city.
Among the most important discoveries re-
Gently made by the detectives of the Treasury
Department in the ceunterfeiting of the ma
tional currency is that of the coupons of the
ten-forty five hundred dollar bonds, one pay
mont of which was due on the first instant
1t is most dangerous counterfeit, because
heretofore unsupported.
Boston sells its house offal under contract
for $500 per annum, the ashes collected
by the city at $4,000, and the street dirt ane
sweepings for $4,000.
The yellow hair furore is raging in London
. and women with the darkest tresses are dye
ing them carrot color. Grayness or baldnes
, in two years is the penalty.
The Democracy of Danville, Montou
county Pa, have elected their Burgess by
majority of forty-nine over the "Loyal-League
Radical-Negro--suf ge-anti-Johnson candi
, data Democratic gain over last falls vot
of one hundred and fourteen!
j. w. Hasbrouck, Secretary of the Nationa
= Equal Suffrage Association, has been dis
l charged from the Treasury Department il
Washington, where he has held clerkshi]
, for the last year and half.
We notice that General Rosseau, of Ky.
who is set down in the Tribune Almanac as a
! Republican member of Congress, is announced
among others, to address Democratic meet
ings in Connecticut the coming week.
: Judge Thomas H. Davis, of the Probat
Court of Monroe county, Mississippi, has re
Gently decided that guardians who, in goo
# faith, invested the proceeds of their wards
estate in Confederate securities, are not liabl
to make good their investments under thei
bonds. The case has gone up to the higl
court of Errors and Appeals, and the fina
decision is looked for with much interest in tn
State.
, On Friday night last there was decided
Fenian scare at St. Johns, Canada West, a,
officer in command directing a company O
volunteers on the frontier to retire before al
| imaginary enemy and destroy the railway
The order, however, was countermanded be
fore any mischief was done, and the volun
teers were kept at their post.
The health of Senator Foote, of Vermont
excites serious apprehension. His family ha
been teegraphed to go Immediately to Wash
ington.
A movement is on foot to induce the Senat
to reconsider its action in rejecting the appli
cation of Colorado for admission to the Union