The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-02
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

The Tribune, though usually sober.
minded paper, and remarkable for plain.
! vigorous, and unadorned Enrlish
seems to have been completely unset Inv
the news of the ratification OF the Con-
stitutional Amendment, and allowed
some wild scribe, in an article on tbe
END of Slavery to call Christmas
'the great anniversary Of the human
soul, f" to make slavery "fetters on the
commerce and industry of the South
which first "corroded her religion, and
then "ate out her manhood like cank
en-" "Fetters' like these are not often
met with. Slavery" according to the
same authority, has "died violently of
Its own venOm'-one of the oldest
deaths We ever heard of; and what
makes the occurrence all the stranger
Is, that We are told in the same sentence
that the garment of the defunct ala
pollutionp The condition of the South.
as described by the writer, is, we con,
Tess, to us inexplicable, for he saws.
The past is wall to her and Goleo,
tina; the future is illimitable and full of
HE, unless she strives against her own
soul 10 lead life of oppression IN the |
sutc'de q Vtrtue." The behavior of |
the past to her in being both "a wall |
anu Golgotha" is certainly very en- |
oafrasslng; but there is clearly much
ior her to look forward to in the future
Y she avoids that singular "life in the
suicide of virtue.n Under ali the cir
cumstances, however, we confess we +
hardly know what to advise.-N. y
Nation. 0g' 80
. The business world will be somewhat
to learn of the failure of
me OF the best known merchants of
lineage. Mr.. Uriah H. Crosby. the
ounder of the grand new opera house
when bore his name, and which was
dedicated with such splendor last spring.
N Sihursday made an assignment of his 6
property for the benefitOf his creditors.
lis liabilities are stated to be between /.
our hundred thousand and half mil.
ION dollars. The opera house is adver.
sed for sale on the 9TH of March. under
trust deed. r.r -''-
A Masonic lodge in Palermo has ex- y
ommunicated the Pope! This action n
as taken in retaliation for the fuImi-
atoms against freemasonry launched n
ON the Vatican. The brothers of the
alermo lodge declare that "a man D,
amed Mastai Ferretti once received the n,
asohic baptism, and swore love and
aternity to the Masons, and that after
aros THIS man was created pope and
hg under the title of Plus IX.h Not 81
le word of truth in this. - 81
The Turkish Government has res- CHI
ndcd favorably to the French promo III,
ION for assembling a congress at Con- led
to consult as to the best
cans OF preventing the inroads of the
oiera hereafter. 1t is probable, how s
er, that the Dervishes, and the more IN,
latical OF the population, will oppose ~
sanitary measure which shall inter- :,
9 with the annual pilgrimage to -
,cca.
Dr.. the 10th of January, the Swiss r;
'ple VIII vote for or against the !
enges proposed In the federal consti- y
ION. AT Bale a public meeting of
'se opposed to the amendment has Mrs
IN held, and has passed Bundesoer- M Mr'
tksversa,oD,lu, Mr..
chtuss, or resolution of the peoples Mr.
sm6ly rejecting the revision of the ME- Mr.;
sral constitution.-Nation. b. 5. Il
ne of the questions of public interest 1
Ich Will come before the Hungarian rm
is the emancipation of the Jews in w
ngary from the political disabilities MN
er which they now labor. They are
rly million In number, mOnopolize
commerce, and have al
8 been noted for their patriotism !
fidelity to the cause Of Hungarian 4
onality.
ne Detroit Tribune Processes to have comm nm
lble intelligence that all the books -.
documents of Jacob Thompson, con- H
ing his correspondents and Fur
UNITS, are now in possession of the able +
hington authorities, ~ in !.