The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-23

ago French dancer appeared in New York,
whose style was then considered so immoral
that very few churoh-going people would
appear in her presence. Last Sunday at
tended fashionable church and there saw
that threefourths of the ladies', in entering
their pews, in consequence of their style OF
dress, made an exposure of their persons that
would have made the French dancer blush.
1t is not only in going into pews, but in
going up door steps, g ttingin and out OF om-
nibusses, carriages, and up stairs, &c, that
the morals of the present day are being i'm
paired. ..-. ada.
Can ladies expose themselves, in their pre-
sent style of dress, without impairing their
deIcacy?" .....
The N. Y. Express thinks that Fanny Fern
must have had the above writer in view,
when she SAID you can nose a man by the
sight Of lady's balmoral pettcoat or the
least bit of one of her stockings.
A Freedmen's Convention meets in Angus
ia in July, and delegates haye been elected
from all parts of the State The object of the
meeting is to memorabilia Congress in regard
to the right ofsutfrage and trial by jury of
tfer own color, George Pitts and Henderson
Beck, of Griffin, have been elected by a large
majority of colored people as anti-bureau
men At II meeting Of the colored people
both these delegates denounced the "bu-
reau" as mischievous, and creative Of disturb
ances between the races. They are willing to
trust the laws of the State and their old mast
ers and friends for justice The bureau agent
at Griffin, is represented to have said with an
oath, that he would not allow the negroes to
speak disrespectfully of his bureau, and ar
rested the delegates who were afterwards re-
leased by civil authority,
The Daily Dispatch of Wilmington N. c.,
says We regret to learn that violent hail
storm swept over Sampson county on Satur-
day. the 10th inst, causing much damage to
the crops in some sections of the county. A
gentleman from Clinton informs us that many
of the hail stones which fell in that town were
nearly as large as hens eggs.
The Raleigh Sentinel says: The Newbern
Commercial is in receipt of note from Mr.
w. P. Canaday, Newport, N. c., dated 18th
inst, inclosng fully developed cotton bloom,
the first of the season. 1t is from the planta-
ton of Mr.. George Dennis, on Broad Creek,
Bogue Sound and we are informed, says the
Commercial, that he has quantity of them.
If this is not early for cotton blooms, we do
not know the meaning of the word Can any
of our friends beat it?
The cotton crop in Georgia has commenced
to blossom. Wheat throughout the State is
harvested. The crop is not excellent though
better than was anticipated ra @ Eli
What is there in Africa akin to Indian
character? They have been laborers for ages
They have none of the Indians passion for
war. On the contrary, they are docile,
tractable and initiative race. They have been
accustomed for centuries to cultivate the soil
under the guidance ofwhite intelligence They
are not savages, disputing the pro-
gress OF civilization, but, on the contrary,
are allies OF the white man, civilized laborers,
essential to the advancement and prosperity
Of the country which in some parts of it can
not be cultivated by white labor. s5I
J. S. Bet lex, postmaster at Sterling, Mass
director in tie Lancaster Bank, and
man much esteemed for honesty and reia-
bility, according to an eastern paper, has
gone ''under terrible cloud" which means
misuse of other peoples money, and some
of the complaints against him are of crimi-
nal nature.
DEsTrUTIoN IN ALABAMA.-We learn
that many families are barely saving them
selves from starvation. Their food is of the
coarsest kind, and wholly Insufficient
Sir Walter Scott, walking once with Lady
Scott, saw some lambs and remarked on their
beauty. Eyes" said the wife, Glands are
beautiful-boiled p Weread that Mrs Words
worth was once walking in grove and heard
a farmers wife soliloquizng, "Oh my, do
love stockdoyes," The heart Of the poets
wife yearned towards that Amarylls. But, y
continued the old woman, "there be's some
what likes en in pie; but for my part there's
nothing like EN- stewed in onions" Horace
Smith tells of a city miss who accosted
keeper of sheep in the fields, as she glowed
with desire for an Arcadan concert ooh,
gentle shepherd, prithee tell me where's your
pipe p to which the man replied, ~ left it to
hum, miss, cause hain't got no baccy,"
The Lafarge House has recently changed
its name to the Southern Hotel, !" and will no
doubt be largely patronized by the numerous
Southerners now about visiting the Northern
States. The New York Hotel, however,
maintains its good old reputation of affordng
comfortable homes for travellers from the
South and West Indies . --
1t is said that the negroes about H huntsville,
Alabama, have been offered dollar per day
and rations, if they win go there to work, but
they refuse. fs-5'htu s.'t
No deaths from cholera in this city, to-day,
June 10Th, have been reported to the Board
Of Health, Last night, officer Green was at
tackled with unmistakable symptoms of chol-
era, but was doing well to-day. At pm,
to-day, George A. Simpson, porter, living
in Mulberry street, was attacked by cholera,
and is not expected to recover
New Orleans letter of the 18th inst, says
that two men were arrested there that morn
ing, charged with completely in the assassina-
| ton of Mr.. Lincoln. One admits some asso-
citation with Booth, while the other denies all
knowledge of the affair Both are strangers
in that city, and it was understood were to be