The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-10
NEWSPAPER NEWS.

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The editbr 81 the Louisville Journal,
alludingtp a recon-, interview with the
Pree1dent says we expected to find
tho PRECEDENT wear and worn and bag
gs5& Never were we more mistaken
Haz Jas ID the fiHest and most vigorous
lhe1Izh, his face as fresh as in earliest
upon him, andAs calm and serene and
a private citizen rested upon him. 1t
would have been evident to any one
seeing him as we saw. him, thathe is a
firm, resolute ,self-poised man, confident,i
but not vainly or arrogantly confident,in
bis own strength, and az fmmovable as a
rock orimountatni in his own deep and
fixed purposes. His will Is like his
frame, and that is of iron. n
Resolutions were UNANIMOUSLY adopted
by both houses of the Virginia Legisla-
ture on Tuesday, cordially approving
the policy of President johnson !; &C
quiescing in the results of, the late war,
Including the destruction Of slavery, and
declaring that Virginia has no intention
again to violate her plighted faith with
the nation, and that representations put
forth to this effect are criminal and
cruel. The legislators, however, take
occasion to tack little bit Of State
rights doctrine on the tail of the series,
to the effect that Virginia will not
voluntarily consent to change the ad-
Ijustment of political power as fixed by
the constitution of the United States.'
OF the great cotton basin within the
parallelOgram by the Arkansas river on
| the north, the Mississippi on the east.
Bayou Bartholomew on the west, and
the Louisiana line on the south, EN-.
| bracing the valuable cotton-groWing
districts of Red Fork, Amos and Bar
tholOmew bayOus, not one-eighth is in
| cultivation, and wild lands in any of
these districts can be purchased at the
ordinary prices of from five to fifteen
dollars per acre, the customary terms
being one-third or 0ne-half cash. VS. 81
The notorious burglar, Henry Coats,
alias Carr, alias Morton, whose arrest
we mentioned, a day or two since, as
having takenvplace in Charleston, and
who with Lyman and Williams, robbed
| the National Bank at Wellington, Lo-
raine county, Ohio, of fifty-seyen thou
sand dollars, was brought to New. York
on Tuesday from Charleston on the
steamship Alhambra. The parties who
made the arrest travelled over twelve
thousand miles in track of the burglar
before they succeeded in nabbing him.
| "Have you read Summers speech !"
| inquired q yankee Of a southern friend
| "What! Would you expect me to read
the rawlings Of that fanatic ?'' By-and-
by he of the South inquired. Have
| you read the great speech of Henry A.
| Wise?u "What!" exclaimed his friend.
l"Would you expect me to read speech
of that mailman 2"
The Hartford Republican papers are
at loggerheads about the Presidents poll
ICY. The (Ourdnt sustains the course OF
Senator Dixon and the President while
| the Press and Post .unqualifedly con-
denim, and charge Dixon with seeking
to break up the party. ~ II
/ 4 President johnson stated to q promi-
nent member of Congress, few days
ago., that he not only considered the
more in the Union than ever before, be-
lican than they ever were.( esasl %
Lieut.. General and Mrs. Grant have
recalled their invitations to dancing
reception on next Monday evening,
February II, on account of that being
the uay appOlnteu lot tnp SuuBTtsSlonai
ceremonies in memory of the late Presi-
dent Lincoln. d 81 III d al
General Wood, In command Of tho
Department of Mississippi, has issued
ali order that no intervention be taken
by the military in the case of negroes or
white persons who may be and are pun
ishable by the laws of the State. Jl
There is q strong probability that S.
s. Cox will be the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the district now repre-
scented BY Raymond, of the New York
Times. ,f.t
| The Shreveport (Louisiana) people
to do the largest cotton business Of any
inland city IN the South, A very active
trade in this staple is doing there at the
present time, i k4{eE q.
The extensive paper mill at st.
Charles, Illinois, said to be the largest
in the West, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night, entailing loss of one
hundred and ten thousand dollars. ' q.
The appointment of f.. Il. Parker as
Surveyor of the port of New Orleans is
said to rive universal satisfaction in that