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

rOrney mas lelC LOT fennSy lVanla To enter
upon he campaign He is a candidate for
the United States Senate, to succeed Mr.. Cow
an, whoss time expires in March next
Edgar Wells, son of the Secretary, has been
appointed chief clerk of the Navy Depart
ment, vice Mr.. Faxon, appointed assistant
Secretary of the Navy.
Gov Pierpoint has recently made call on
the President
Mary Blake, for keeping house of i'll fame,
has been pardoned by the President. She
was sentenced to pay fine of $780, aud i'm
prisonment till the fine was paid.
The annual commencement of Georgetown
College takes place July 3D.
VIM. Berkmeyer has been arrested for the
horrid murder committed in York Co., Pa
The receipts from internel revenue sources
solely for the fiscal year to this date, amount
to $300,007 ,9e4-being already in excess of
| the estimate made for the year, viz: $780,
! 100000
Col Roberts, the President of the Fenian
Brotherhood, was on the floor of the House
Destructive fires have recently occurred in
St. Louis New Orleans, and Little Falls, N
Y
Con. j. l.. Chamberlane of Brunswick,
has been nominated bp the Republican State
Convention, as Governor of Maine.
The resolutions were radical on the subject
of equality of the negro race, and the indorse-
ment of the party in Congress.
Judge Cardoza, of the N Y. Court of Com
mon Pleas, has rendered decision adverse to
the constitutiouality of the Liquor law. The
matter will be carried to the Court of Appeals.
The barques Guttenburg and Meridian, from
Bremen, have arrived at Baltimore, with 5S4
with immigrants, all in good health. They
go West by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A large mass meeting in favor of the recon-
struction policy of President johnson, has been
held in Monument Square, Baltimore. Gov.
Swami presided, with large number of Vice
Presidents. The Governor made long and
effective speech. He said 'this cry of dis
| Notwithstanding with traitors--is the Jug
Cling by which they, the Radicals, hope to
| inflame the public mind and withdraw atten-
| ton from their own shortcomings" He said
he owed 'no obligation to any such faction, "
and the conservative men, to whom he owed
his election We're still his friends Ex-Gover-
nor Randall, the Hon Mr. Perrine and the
Hon Charles E. Phelps also addressed the
large assemblage. The meeting was to be con-
tinued this evening
One hundred Italians are to leave N Y. to-
day with a flag costing $3.50, which they are
to present to Garibaldi
TIE receipts from internal revenue on
Monday were $3.50, 943 81; the receipts on
Saturday last were 1884, 1856 sA; and during
the week ending on that day they were 3d.
776, 1876 So.
On the 18th instant the Masonic fraternity
of the District of Columbia, by invitation of
the Communicates of Knights Templar, will
pay a visit to Mount Vernon, where appro-
pirate exercises will be had
The case of Fuller vs. Dawson, of the
Twenty-frst Pennsylvania Congressional Dis
trict, was decided by the Committee on EIec-
tons to-day. The conclusion reached was,
that Dawson, Democrat, was entitled to the
seat.
Cholera has appeared at Nantes, in France,
and is making fearful ravages in Holland