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The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

SALE OF A CARGO OF SUGAR.--Old Boreas, who
sent us a cargo of Brandy ashore few weeks ago,
determined to do the " clean things" so he pulled
ashore the British brig John Givan laden with Su
car and whilst, on yesterday, Phelps was selling
1the Brandy, Ry Roberts was selling the Sugar to
sweeten it.
Z The Brandy audience adjourned to meet at the
sugar sale, and the sale of the Sugar was proba-
zbly rendered more spirited by the "previous en-
sgagement" of the bidders.
Be this SO or not the sale was largely attended,
and the sixty thousand pounds of Sugar sold, real
lied prices satisfactory to all parties concerned.
DAYS of Moses Myers and Warren Ashley, Of
*Christopher Fry and the Whites, of Thorburn
and Smith, George Murray, John Tabb, and Ro-
bert Soutter, are you coming back to us once
again. Shadow of the West India trade, is your
ghost once more upon our wharves? What says
Our friend Johnston? Is Commerce street ready
flor the fray?
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

OCEAN House, PORTSMOUTH Everybody, and
everybody's wife is daily making inquiries of US,
in turn are continually asking the stockholders
when it is to be opened. We learn that the pre-
sent Jesse of the establishment contracted to open
it as first class hotel, so soon as the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad was completed; and also,
that many advantageous offers, from parties in
Baltimore, and elsewhere, have been made for it..
Let it ne opened at once, and we feel assured a
sufficient number of permanent boarders can be
secured Immediately, to say nothing of the tran
sient custom which must come to it over the S. &
r. r. r. and the D. C. & P. R. r.
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MARKETS.

A small lot of cotton was sold on Change yes
terday, at as cents. This shows an advance Of ?
cents per pound on local quotations, which can be
readily accounted for by the advance in gold to
l4l, at which figures it stands firm, with an up
ward tendency.
Naval Stores are become a drug in the market,
and are dull.
Tar, at So Is; Crude Turpentine, at S4 90 );
and Rosin at So 95@S4 00-no demand; Coal
stands firm at SIS per ton, and wood ranges from
S7@S9 so.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

FREEDMAN's CoURT.- Oliver Perkins, j. Mccoy,
George Mcintyre, Chas. Butt and VIM. Mccoy,
charged with an attempt to rob, and shooting j.
Cain, with intent to kill him, also for breaking
in the honse of VIM Topping and stealing there
from $40, and stealing from the house of B. G..
Jones several articles of value, and burglary and
larceny upon the premises of Sarah Evans, whom
they robbed ef$l75, on the morning of the 5th OF
jan, in the city OF Portsmouth.
These men were all sent to the Hard Labor pri-
son to await trial before a Military Commission,
where it is T. be hoped they may get their de-
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

IMPORTANT ARREsTs.-Our readers will remem
|ber that on the 9Th of January the City of Ports
mouth was the scene of list of outrages on the
part of a band of negroes, in which one person
was shot and several others beaten and robbed.
Through the energy and activity of Officer Har
|rlson, five of these scoundrels have been secured
and one of them, Oliver Perkins, has been recog
nized as the man who shot Mr.. Cain.
1t is to be hoped that an example will be made
OF these outlaws. Otherwise the communities o
Norfolk and Portsmouth will continue to be at thu
mercy of such scamps as may choose to murder
and rob at will,
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LOCAL.

Nor,cr-Persons on the Portsmouth side, hav-
no Advertisements, orders for job printing, COM
munications or local items of interest, will please
cave them at the auction store of Messrs. Hatton
& Maupin, on Crawford street, and they will be
attended to-
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING. The Officers of the
Customs inform us that the mate of the bark AIDE
laide, Pendergrass, laying in Hampton Roads,
ing to smuggle four sacks of coffee, not on the
manifest of the cargo The Collector ordered the
officers ofthe Revenue Cutter to seize the coffee
and to send the mate to this city. Lieutenant 9.
Il. Smith of the..Revenue Cutter Kan kan-kee re-
ported the breach of the law, and was directed
BY Captain Slime to remain by the vessel until fur
Their orders.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

MEMORANDA Captain VIM. Parrish, of the
pilot boat VIM. Starkey, reports speaking the fol-
lowing vessels of Cape Henry on the 18th instant.
The English brig Artistic, rs days from the Span
lsh Main, bound to New York. Bark F. A. Hun
ter, 70 days from Liverpool, bound to Baltimore.
Ship Elvira, from the South, bound to New Y ork,
with fore and main-top gallant masts gone The
English schooner Grampus arrived in the Roads
Yesterday with her head-rail, board, and gear
gone, and her forecastle carried away.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

PUMP IN THE MARKET HOUSE, Many of the Mer-
ket House, complain of the habit of taking the
handle out of the pump in that institution by
some one in authority as it subjects them to much
trouble and loss of time in forcing them to go
some distance for water. We can see no reason for
this, true, quite crowd gather round it, but it
was put there for the convenience Of the
public, so we understand it, and if it were not
used, it surely would be no convenience Keep
the pump in trim, and let everybody have swill
at it..
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

TAxES.--According to the notice of James NJ
Flemming, City Sergeant Of Portsmouth, the citi-
zens have opportunity of paying off their State
taxes, for 1862, '63, '64, and '65, by calling on
him at the Courthouse each day from IL to 2
o'clock.
This holds good until the LIST of March, when he
will then proceed to collect the taxes by law. A
word to the wise, TO.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

MEETING OF THE COMMON CoUNcIL.-A Special
meeting of the Common Council took place at the
City Hall last night, to consider the report of the
Street Committee on the subject of maturing a
plan for cleaning the streets of Norfolk. The re-
port was submitted, and various amendments were
offered.
After discussion Of considerable length the
Committee requested further time to perfect their
report; and thereupon the Council adom ned to
assemble again at the next monthly meeting.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

The LATE FIRE AT ASHLAND HALL.-Maj. j. N
Croft, late Chief of Police in Richmond, and Mr.
G. E. Johnston, of the Freedmens Bureau. Nor
folk, are now Investigating the cause of the late
fire at Ashland Hall, with view of ferreting out
and furnishing the incendiary.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

street last evening between white and black
drayman. The right-ofway was the disputed
point, which from words led to blows. They
were finally parted without serious damage to
either.
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ARRIVALS.
ATLANTIC HoTEL-NoRToLK, Va, Jan.

AII3ANIIO HUIEL-NORFOLK, va, Jan. II.
c Jones, A Schmitz, II P Carper, Lane,
Jr, 2 Cofer and lady, G Mountcaste, W
Britten, DIR Ross, Virginia VIM Kelly, Jr, A
Gage, Boston; j Williamson, VIM P Clot-
worthy, Baltimore; F Sprague, Charleston /;
Capt j NJ Hunt and wife, j Hurniston, New
York; DR. J C Jacobs, WfGay, H L Mandrell
North Carolina.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

MAYORS CoURT, POrtsmomh.-Y esterday his
honor Mayor Collins had but a poor audience,
and the police report the city all quiet, and say
that if the Council would only have the City
Lamps lighted, authorize the Gas Works to
furnish the needful, they could promise the citi-
zens perfect millennium.
Oliver Perkins, John Mccoy, William Mccoy,
Geo. Mcintyre, G. Butt, five Of the negroes charg
ed with the late robbery in Portsmouth, were
arrested on complaint of J. R. Cain for robbing
John Cain, Sarah Evans, VIM Topping and b. G.
Jones, the night of the 5th Jan. 1866, and were
sent over to the Freedmans Bureau for trial.
In an action to recover possession of a clock,
valued at So. Judgment was rendered for plain
tiff in the sum of SIS.
The Court adjourned till the usual hour to- day.
We take occasion just here, to tender our ac-
acknowledgements to his honor, Mayor Collins and
the members of his police force, for their courtesy
and kindness in affording every facility in re-
porting the proceedings of this Court.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

uTALIrY.-Y yesterday, near the Ferry wharf
we saw two drunken soldiers beating an molten
sive black man, and so far as we could learn
without any cause whatever. They ought to be
iugged.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

GospoRr NAVY YARD.--There was discharge
u lao workmen from the Navy Yard yesterday,
sill share the same fate in day or two. Go to
'srmlng men, and call no man master.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

MAYORS CoURT, Norfolk.-The Watch report
the City quiet, and only fifteen lamp5 reported out
on the various beats. Two emigrants applied for
lodging at the Watch House, and were taken in
and provided for. Three horses picked up by the
main until reclaimed.
Commonwealth VS.. S. G.. Ship, charged with
forgery. Charles Sharp appeared for the :ccused,
but; despite his ingenious argument, and his ami
madversion upon Mayo's Guide, as the Uade naecHm
tor all magistrates, the prisoner remanded for
trial before the Corporation Court.
The five mutineers of the English schooner Su-
san West, reported yesterday as having arrived
in Hampton Roads the day previous, were brought
out and examined. The Court declared its want of
jurisdiction; but a matter of courtesy to the
English Consul, upon national comfy, it would
hear the statements in the case. After listening to
great array OF evidence, and "a very lucid expla-
nation of the English maritime law by the English
Consul the prisoners were remanded.
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MARRIED,

On Thursday evening, by the Rev. 7. Hume,
Pastor of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church,
Mr.. JAMES e. WIRMIEeToN to Miss ANNIE LOUISA,
daughter of the late John w. Davis.
The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-20

COUNTY Court, Portsmouth The County Court
ofNorfolk County, recently in session in Ports
mouth, adjourned Thursday till next month";
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IsCOPAL METHODIST.

PISCOP PAL METHODIST
VOLUME II, FO4 1868.
The EPISCOPAL METHODIST is published In the
City of Richmond, Va, by Rev. John E. Ed
wards, and the Rev. D. S. Doggett, D. D., Ed-
tors and Proprietors, at two dollars for six
months
1t is an independent Journal, published in the
interests of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, on the personal responsibility of the Edi-
tors and Proprietors
The second volume will commence on the LIST
OF January, 1866, and close the lst of July fol-
lowing.
ANY person renting two dollars by mail, at
the risk of the Editors, will be furnished with the
paper for six months, commencing on the first
week in January, 1865.
Ministers of the Gospel who will consent to re-
ceive subscriptions and forward remittances,
will be entitled to copy for six months at one
dollar.
Any person sending the names of ten new sub
scribers, with the money, will be furnished with
one copy free of charge.
Clubs of twenty subscribers receiving the pa-
per at the same Post Office, will be supplied with
the paper at one dollar and fifty cents each, for
six months.
to end on the LIST July, 1866.
Persons subscribing after the 1st of January
1866, will be furnished with back numbers 9th
erWise the subscription will be taken for the re-
udiuuel Vi tue SIX mOuIuS, at tQlrCV-QV6 cents
per month, till July, 1866, at which time the Sc
cond volume will close.
The Editors will spare no labor or reasonable
expense in making the Episcopal Methodist first
class religious family paper
Persons intending to subscribe, or to renew old
subscriptions, will greatly oblige us by sending
in their names by the LIST of January.
Our terms are cash in advance, or at latest
within one month from the LIST of January.
A limited space will be given to advertisements.
Our terms for advertising, from which we cannot
depart, except by special contract, will be found
in standing article at the head of our first col
umn.
Address &c Episcopal Methodist" Box 40, Rich
mond, Va. j. E. EDWARDS,
janl7 D. s, DoGGETT.
GNUFF, SNUFF.-Three thousand
y pounds Carolina Belle Scotch Snuff, in 60 ID.
boxes.
Also, samples of the Ready Companion" and
"Rappee's," Macaboy and Scotch, put up in
very neat paper boxes, containing one dozen
(each) small handsome silver pocket cases.
We can also furnish both kinds in bottles and
jars Warranted equal to any that is made,
Very great inducements are offered to the
trade. Please call and examine our samples.
For sale on manufacturer account by
DAVIS d BRO,
Rowland's Wharf,
Janl0-tf Foot of Boanoke Square.
GALT.-lOO sacks Liverpool Fine.
Also, 800 sacks G. A. Salt. to arrive
For sale low from vessel
janl7 NORRIS, GwAyHMEY 4 co,
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INSURANCE.
r AMERICAN INSURANCE

VNHE AMERICAN INSURANCE
COMPANY OF NORFOLK.
IN G OR P r A TEL 1872.
G.a aPPhar',zod can,tal 81 aSS ,,c,,
Board of Direc'ors;
j. c. Deming, President.
JOhnsS; Whitehead, President Franklin Saw
ings Bank.
Gilbert G. Walker, President Exchange Ma
tional Bank.
C. L. Cole, President First National Bank.
c. Ii. Rowland, of late Rowland d Brothers:
John D. Gordan, Of ]. d. Gordan Co.,
Bankers.
Joseph R. spratley, Director Mer. & Nee. Saw
ings Bank.
Advisory Board
Charles Reid, President Mer. & Nee Ex-
change.
w. T. Harrison, President Mer. and Nee. Saw
ings Bank.
G. Burruss, of Burruss, Harrison & Co.,
George Sangster, Esq, ]. E. Barry, Esq, A.
L. Hill, Esq.
rs City and Country assurances of every
character taken at lowest current rates. and losses
promptly adjusted.
Office AZ, Bank Street, Norfolk.
INRE, LIFE, MARINE & INLAND
Il INSURANCE.
j. C. d E M N G , AGENT.
New York Life Insurance Company,
NEW YORK.
Manhattan Fire and Marine Insurance
Company, N. Y.
Home Fire and Marine Insurance Co.,
New Haven.
Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance
Company, N. r.
National Fire Insurance Company,
Baltimore.
Mutual Fire Assurance Society, Va.
lss- Life Policies, Fire Policies on Buildings,
Merchandise, &C., and Policies Cargoes and
Hulls of Vessels issued at this AGENCY at the
lowest current rates.
J. C. DEMING, Agent,
Franklin Savings Bank, Bank street,
au 26-6m Near Main ST., Norfolk, Va.
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16

Steamer Montreal, Liscomb. Boston. r. o. -.-,
Barque Annie Mackenzie, tBrl Stevenson, Buenos
Ayres Nov %, via Fayal, where she put in Feb 24th
and split nearly all other sails, sprung mainmast
and sustained other damage. - -. :. -.
Brig George G Roberts, tBrl Campbell, Trinidad
22d ult.
Sch Harriet Baker, tof Freeport) Weber, Carde-
mas 9th ult. 90 49,
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16
The Presidents Proclamation.

A legal decision has settled one point in the
discussion about the effect of the Presidents
proclamation. The Boston Post, for exam
pie, holds that "the Southern States now
stand just as they did ten or twenty years
ago." and the article setting forth this opinion
has been widely copied by the Democratic
press. The Republican press has not been
ready to admit that the consequences OF
four-years war can be abolished by proclama-
ton. There was little stir and whisper in
Virginia, at first, about seeking the release OF
Jefferson Davis by virtue of writ OF habeds
corpus. Apparently the notion received no
official encouragement, and was soon aoan-
doned. A test case has just been decided at
Alexandria, which settles the matter. 1t APP
pears that sometime ago man was convicted
before the Provost-Judge at Alexandria, Va,
of an assault on negro boy, and sentenced
to fine and imprisonment. The sentence was
approved by General Augur. The counsel
for the defendant, claiming that protection
was extended by the recent peace proclama-
ton of President johnson, applied for his re-
lease under a writ of hdbeas corpus. But
this, Judge Underwood, of the United States
District Court, sitting last week at Alexan-
dria, denied, on the ground that "the procla-
nation did not apply to such cases, and be-
cause, by excepting Texas, it practically de-
clared the rebellion continued to exist"
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16
Civil Expenditures.

In, the bill making appropriations for the
civil expenses of the government, which has
passed both houses of Congress and will un-
doubtedly receive the Presidents signature if
not already approved by him, we find the fol-
lowing items of local interest: -a-@ Ill
For building custom-house at Portland,
Maine, in addition to the sum heretofore ap-
propriated by Congress, seventy-fve thousand
dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the
Treasury may, ii he thinks it advisable, ex-
pend a sum, not exceeding thirty-five thou
sand dollars, in the purchase of ground adj
joining the site of the old custom-house on
Fore street, now owned by the United States,
for the purpose of charging the same, or the
Secretary may exchange the lot now owned
as aforesaid for a more eligible one, if the
same can be procured; but no money shall be
paid or agreed to be paid by the United States
in consideration of such exchange, and no
transfer, assignment, or conveyance of proper
ty by the United States shall be made upon
such exchange, except a conveyance, ON its be-
half by the Secretary of the Treasury, of the
interest of the United States in the lot afore-
said and the building thereon. - 5il
For certain alterations to the post-office por-
ton of the building in Portland, Maine, used
for post-office, custom-house and courthouse,
five thousand dollars. 10
For securing the right of way and building
bridge across the canal to the marine hospi-
tai near Portland, Maine, three thousand dol
lars. org 7H4 'YiA A
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16


The attention of thepublie is invited to Hdsheesh
medicine known for the OF all diseases of the
Throat, Lungs and Nervous System. The proprie-
tors, thus offering it, feel confident that trial will
fully sustain the high reputation it has already ae-
CURED in various parts United States. To those
who let their prejudces always blind their Judgment
it is useless to present facts arguments but to 9TH
feel that it will be sufficient to say that offer
no new discovery experiment; our goods stand
ard. In the East, Hasheesh is the beginning and
the end of Medcine it is used for numberless dis
cases. and that it is used with we need only
refer readers to the unlimited testimony of tray
elers in all ages That it should long have escap
cd the practical science of the Western Wcrl is
astonishing fact but that it is prepared in such
form as to make it pleasant safe, and above ALL eff
fectve, there can be doubt that it is destined to
obtain the confidence of the public, and especially of
those for whose relief it is prepared. Invalids
be assured that it contains not particle of opium,
anything else that is in any way injurious to the
system, but that it is an agreeable and permanent
tonic. s--. .t .4-. .-,--.....
Sent to any address on receipt ofprice and stamps
Price-Large Box $1.OO, postage is cents; Small
Box so cents, postage cents For sale by all Drug
gists and Apothecaries Patent Medicine Dealers.
Imported and manufactured solely by the SYL-
VAN ORIENT COMPANY, 151 Washington St.,
(opposte the Old South Church,) Boston, Mass.
W.T. PHILLIPS & CO., Agents for Maine.
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The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16
ARREsrs,5Some. eueninn las. ..a

ARREsTs-Some evening last week tIe
gunsmith shop of Frederick Goth, corner of
Lime and Milk Streets was broken into and a
number of pistols stolen. Saturday, officers
Irish and Gerts arrested John Harrington
aged sixteen years and George johnson aged
thirteen years for committing the offense, and
recovered the stolen property. The boys were
locked up for examination.
These same lads, at the recent session of
the Supreme Judicial Court pleaded guilty to
breaking and entering the shop of Warren F.
Hill on Exchange Street, and, at the earnest
request of their counsel, Messrs. Howard and
Cleaves, who pleaded for them on account Of
their youth and the manner in which they
had been brought up, were discharged upon
their own recognizance until next term
Judge Tapley solemnly admonished the boys
that unless they behaved themselves they
would be brought up at the next term for SEN
tence, and also admonished their mothers to
take better charge of them. I'd
These admonitions do not seem to have
been needed in the least degree, and the lads
will now have to suffer the penalty for their
various crimes.
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16
The Negroes Won't Work.

So say the rebels. "The negroes will not
work, except under the whip; they will starve
first" DR.. Livingstone, in his recent book on
Africa says: "They 1.-THE negroes) had former
ly exported largely, both cotton and cloth to
Manika and even to Brazil" The Portuguese
told him that-"On their own soil, the natives
are willing to labor and trade, provided only
they can do so to advantage: when it is for
their interest blacks work very hard" The
Doctor says, "We often remarked subsequent
ly, that this was the opinion of men of energy :,
and that all settlers of activity, enterprise and
sober habits had become rich, while those who
were much addicted to lying on their backs
smoking, invariably complained of the laziness
of the negroes, and were poor, proud and des-
picable." 4uls 4r 1
The Portland daily press., 1866-04-16


BB- The office of the State Constabulary
force of Massachusetts, are directing their at
tention to the dealers in lottery tickets. The
: Advertiser says:
Constable James w. Kirk of Chelsea en-
tered the establishment of Messrs. Gill e
Bruce, No. 81 Congress Street, yesterday morn
ing, and found about thirty people assembled
waiting for a draw" The proprietors of the
office presented themselves and, being skilful-
fully drawn out, offered the officer his choice Of
a varied assortment Of tickets in Kentucky lot
teries at different prices, volubly explaining
the chances of winning fortune BY the expen-
diture of dollar or so. Constable Kirk called
in his associate, Charles w. Thompson of Bos-
ton, to whom equally tempting offers were
made, until interrupted by a summary arrest of
the selt-confessed criminals. The persons in
the room were much grieved that the officers
would not wait for the draw to take place,
but law for once had no delay, and the proprie-
tors with the confscated packages of tickets,
were taken at once to the Police Court, where
they waived examination and gave bonds for
appearance before the May term of the Supe-
rior Court in the sum of $1,000 EACH zt-. -.