The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-04

General Sweeney was confidently expected,
but did not come. Tomorrow will prove
whether this is true or not
General News.
| The loss which will be sustained by the
Government, from the operations of cotton
speculation at Memphis, will be between
100000 and 100000. 1t has been ascer-
tanned that 100000 of Government money
was placed in the hands of a person named
Carlton, which was used by him in the pur-
chase of cotton, when selling at seventy cents
pound. This cotton was consigned to him
in New York. 1t had fallen to forty-fve
cents, and resulted in the loss to the Govern
ment of nearly 100000 TBs
The Rev. George Cummings, of Chicago,
has been elected bishop of the Diocese of Ken
lucky ......... .....
The receipts from customs at Boston, New
York. Philadelphia, and Baltimore, for the
week ending 26th ult, were $3,009,671 %.
The frgate Susquehanna had left Rio for
New York. She leftin Rio the United States
gunboat Shamokin. e.....
The news from La Plata river was impor-
tant 55lA.sst . F.
Twelve hundred Paraguayans who had at
tackled the Brazilian batteries on the island OPP
posite Itapicura, had been slaughtered The
entire allied army had been transferred to the
Paraguayan side of the river Parana.
The Paraguayans had abandoned their
camps on the road to Humaita and retreated
to the fortress, on which the allies were march
ing.
Twelve thousand Brazilians had reached
within thirty miles of the city of Ascension,
the capital of Paraguay .
Humaita cannot be held by the Paraguay
ans, and a speedy end to the war is antici-
pated.
Coffee at Rio was declining.
The steamer City of Memphis from New
Orleans for St. Louis, ex ploded at the foot of
Buck Island A number of persons were
killed and others scalded The steamer was
owned by the Atlantic Steamship Company
and valued at 500, 900. No insurance
The House Committee on the judiciary is
still examining witnesses relative to the i'm
plication of Mr.. Davis in the assassination of
President Lincoln.
At GAINESVILLE Tennessee the grand tourn-
ament for the benefit of the widows and Or
phans of the soldiers of the Confederate army,
resulted in the realization OF 100000
The corner stone of the Roman Catholic
cathedral in Portland, Maine, has been
laid by Rev. Bishop Bacon The concourse
was large.
The internal revenue bill will occupy the
close attention of the Senate Five hundred
amendments to it have been adopted by the
| House-and as many more may be made by
the Senate.
In Washington the first was universally OBJ
served in respect to the memory of General
Scott.
A convention was in session at the Metro
politan Hotel, Washington, of officers of rail-
roads, for the purpose of arranging time Ia
bles and uniform systems of tickets, in Or
der to save time and expedite the through
travel 4...f
The court martial which is to try Lieuten-
ant Colonel Paulding has been organized.
The friends of Admiral Semmes are strong
ly urging that he be permitted to exercise the
functions of Probate Judge OF Mobile, to which
he was recently elected
The Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal,
is to be erected in Washington.
The great tunnel under Lake Michigan,
to be constructed by the citizens of Chicago,
to procure an adequate supply of fresh water,
is rapidly progressing 7,454 feet have been
excavated There remain 3,106 feet to be
excavated. The work progresses at the rate
of 25 feet day. HEf
Rents have fallen in Richmond Stores
which brought $4,000 and $4,000, now are
rented for $500 and $1,000
The Collector of the port of New York, has
begun the work of removal of radical politi-
clans from the Custom House.
At recent fire in Auch, France, a woman
with her child were in burning house; the
Archbishop offered 1000 francs then 5000
francs, then an annuity of 200 francs, to
anybody who would rescue them. Nobody
budged Thereupon he threw off his cassock,
ran into the flames, rescued them and gave
them the 1900 francs, annually; he had won
for himself. A noble and magnanimous deed
of true heroism. ......-. a..,....,...
Two negro men, formerly slaves of Col.
Robert Preston, of Montgomery county, Va,
were carried through Lynchburg yesterday,
en- route to Richmond, to be tried by Mill
tary Commission, upon the charge of attemp
ting to murder their former master, some
months since.
The Commissioners of Emigration at their
semi-monthly meeting complained of the If
Irregularities of the railway agents in over
charging emigrants and taxing baggage pass
ing through Castle Garden. The number of
eraigrants arrived this year is 829,9SO
In.1839 Forney denounced Thad Stevens
as civilian at heart" This remark was as
true then as it is now.