The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-03

AhsoAoeO WAL oiA PSI SStit NiO INV tSOOiiit
law. The matter is to be carried to the
Court Of Appeals.
The bill recently reported from the House
Committee on the Judiciary, for the establish
ment of National Bureau Of Insurance,
makes tbs Bureau self-sustsiuing, while it Of
fers security in the matter of insurance, by
requiring all companies who may act under
the law, to deposit United States bonds, the
amount varying according to their capital
stock. No party is permitted TO transact fire,
marine, and life insurance business At the
same time. The object of the proposed legis-
lation is to give every company an opportu-
| nifty to show its solvency in order that the
public may be guarded against fraud-the
| principle being similar to that now applied
to the National Banking Association.
Duncan, Sherman & Co., in Boston, are
theagents of the Papal Government for the
negotiation of a loan i'll this country, Of
| $4,000,000. 4t
Joel Grissard is Surveyor Of Customs at
| Windsor, North Carolina.
Thereport of the Agricultural Department
shows that Great Britain buys this season,
ten times as much wheat from Russia as
from us, and from France nearly six times as
much. Only little more than per cent of
her seven million of hundred weight, are
bought from the United States But in four
months she has taken half million bales cot
ton.
A national Gift Concert is to be held in
Washington, free of tax or license, for the
benefit of the soldiers and sailors National
Orphans Home Fund.
Two companies of colored soldiers fou hit
on the liberal Mexican side at Canargo
Carava jail took command in front of Malta
moras, and demanded its surrender Gen
Meia refused, but sent for Gen. Escobado to
come and receive the city. Meantime Gen.
Escobado was marching to the assault Gen
Neja sent for Gen. Getty, the commander of
the United States forces on the Texas side.
who went TO confer with the imperial general.
Meja asked if he surrendered to Caravaia, if
General Getty would protect the American
| citizens, to which the latter answered THAT
is what am here for" 4da
+ The citizens of Matamoras were flying to
the Texas side Of the river On the 22d the
custom house was left open all night to faci-
tate their departure General Escobado is
endeavoring to pass the captured train into
Texas Nfl#F
The Brownsville Courier thinks that some
| arrangement will be made to hand the city
ever to Caravajal The details are circum-
stantial and reliable.
express desire to the Inferior court, to es-
tablish schools under the same rules as the
white schools. The Northern teachers are to
return in the fall, and the freedmen desire to
have Southern schools and teachers The
judge made kind and conciliatry statements,
and the freedmen replied in the same spirit,
The Savannah News Herald says that Ger
tain new corners, who are planting on all ex-
tensivs scale in that section, paid the freed
men in valueless jewelry and trinkets, and the
party has gone North for further supply to
meet the next payment The freedmen hav-
ing discovered the swinde have become dis
satisfied, and threaten to leave without full
filing their contract
A negro mob resisted the arrest of freed
man. who had murdered DR.. H, Eaton, of
Camden county, Georgia. GIT
| horrible murder took place at Station
Fifteen, on the Georgia Central railroad, on
| Wednesday night The freedmea butchered
Mrs Rollins and her two children, and COL
ored girl, killing the former and leaving the
three latter without hope OF recovery One
OF the murderers has been arrested at Macon.
| The Naval School feet left Old Point on
Sunday on cruise, during which they will
stop at Newport, Portland, Halifax, and other
| ports, expecting to return in September
| During the past month, there have arrived
at Baltimore a,151 immigrants. They wers
sent West Immediately on their arrival
Belle Boyd has appeared as al actress 10
Eng and, and made failure
| The citizens of Pomonkey, 10 Charles coun.
| ty, Md, held meeting on the 10th inst, and
| resolved that they would form associations for
| mutual protection from horse thieves and
other rogues who now infest that county
large number of hens and other poul-
try, at Atlanta, Ga. are dying Of u new dis
ease, which has just made its appearance
The malady causes their necks to swell thrice
their original size, and they die within twelve
hours.
There are four hundred and seventy lodges
OF Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania, with men,
bership OF 6,440. The receipts Of the Order
for the last fiscal year ending in May, were
S393,Sse 81, and the expenditures $780,
5is o. ae 4A fol'tJ7 Il
Virginia News.
We learn, from the Alexandria Gazette,
that navigation of the Alexandra Canal will
be resumed by the 2sd instant; by that time
the repairs on the Aqueduct and Canal,
through its entire length, will be completed
The repairs on the Long Bridge are ex-
pected to be completed on the 18th instant
The completion Of the Canal will open the
Cumberland coal trade.
1t is claimed by the friends of negro suf-
frage, in the District of Columbia, that the bill
will pass both Houses of Congress, and by
vote to override the veto
The largest rations issued by the Freed
mems Bureau, are at Richmond Petersburg,
Hampton, and Norfolk The Inspector Gene
raj recommends that the freedmen be sent
into the interior, where labor is required
A public meeting of the citizens of Angus
ia county, has been addressed by the Hon
A. II. II. Stuart and others Resolutions,
drawn BY Judge Shetfey, protesting against
the proposed amendment to the Constitution