Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-01
RICHMOND WHIG.
MONDAY MoRNING...........JAN. I, 1866.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Seth W Nye, for fifty years an eminent citizen oil
New Orleans, died on the 18th.
Dr. Louis Kormendy committed suicide in New
Orleans on the 18th. Cause married unhappily'
The University of Georgia located at Athens Is
to be reOpened on the third OF January
Brgadier-Genera Hickman is a conductor on the
Central New jersey Railroad
There are two hundred smallpox patents IN the
Chattanooga hospitals almost destitute oil cothng'
General D.jH. HILL late of the Confederate army
Is DELEGATE to the Presbyterian General Assembly,
now sitting at Macon, Georgia.
Mrs Baily has recovered SlO,OOO damages IRON
the neSssyivania Railroad Company for causing the
death 81 her husband by sheer carelessneSS.
Mr.. southern of Dubuque, Iowa, lately brought
an action AGAINST Mr.. Overpeck for seducing MS
Wife, and rec0Sered $1,000 damages.
The bridge over the ChattahOoche River, seven
miles south of Atlanta has been carried away by d
ireshet.
A tornado swept over Pulaski, Tenn, on Tuesday
unroohng buildings, and temporarily destroying tel
egraphic communication with the SOUTH
At the lowest estimate there are now in the Dis
trict of Columbia ut least fifty thousand negroes,
against about eighty thousand whites
The Sandusky Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad Is
advertised To be sold at auction, to satisfy mort
gage, on the 5th OF January next.
The Cincinnati Presbytery has dismissed in dis,
orare the Rev. Dr. NJ. l.. p. Thompson ofthe Second
PRESBYTERIAN Church in that city for icentious con-
duct
The Hon. J. J.. NJ. Curry has accepted the PreSi-
dency of Howard College, Alabama, and WI! take
steps Immediately to put it in condition for the re-
ception of pupils.
\ man named John Jones, living at Atlanta, Ga,
sends to the Wyandotte (kansaS) GGsette the small
suu of $50 900, Confederate money, and asks the
editor to send the paper month!
Mr.. W. H. Crosby, of Chicago, has made an as
signment of all his property for the benefit OF his
creditors. His liabilities are between S4OOOOO anu
S50OOOO.
General Sheridan and staff called on General Scot
while he was in New Orleans. In discussing the
late war, General Scott spoke in lign terms OF
Generals Lee, Johnston and LongStreet.
Lady Augusta Halliburton, only surviving natu
raj daughter of King William ~, by Mrs. Jordan
the actress, is dead. The deceased lady was born
Goth November, 1903.
Thirty.one disabled soldiers, belonging to the old
brigades of Stafford and Hays, arrived in New Or
leans on the 2ls Their wants were promptly attended
TO.
II IS asserted that not less than $3.50 600 of counter
felt one hundred dollar United States Treasury notes
are at present in circulation They are so well exc
cuted as almost to defy detection.
1t is understood that Secretary Harlan will soon
retire from the Cabinet. The gentlemen named US
likely to succeed him are, either Montgomery Blair
Senator DoOlittle, or Ex-Governor Randall OF Wis
consin.
The Savannah papers of last Saturday announce
the arrival OF the second nstallment OF shad from
the ST. johns River, Florida. large lot of them
were shipped North. In Savannah, they sold iol
Sl.25 each.
A daring robbery was perpetrated at Mound City,
on Thursday night last, by some parties, who, as
vet, remain undiscovered, of some S2O,OOO, which
was taken out of the safe belonging to the Paymas
ter of the station, Major Spauldins.
The Macon JOarnai and Messenger says:s So
unsatisfactory have been experiments with free ne
gro labor the Central Road that the Atlantic and
Gulf Road has been bringing foreign white labor
from the North
4 report is prevalent in Nashville that Mrs. Bald
win a sister OF the deceased General MCCOOk, i'll
tend, To intercede with the President for the pardon
of Gurley, who Is now under arrest, and who com
manded the squad by whom the General was killed.
The Detroit Tribune processes TO have reliable in
telligeuce that all the books and documents OF the
| Hon. Jacob Thompson, containing his correspond
ence and accounts, are now III possession OF the
| Washington authorities.
Commodore WinSlow, formerly commander of the
kearslrge has been ordered TO take command Ofthe
Gulf squadron, in the place of Rear-Admiral
Thatcher, who has been detached. This squadron
now consists o twenty vessels carrying one hundred
and thirty-eight guns. e.
II is said that General Butler is to deliver an adj
dress in Lowell, in Il few days, in which he will re-
ply to General Grants Z" corked bottle criticism.
Rev George Maxwell Randall, ID. d., of Boston,
was conSecratcd Bishop OF Colorado and parts ada
cent on Thursday.
About 1850 the Hon. Theodore Atchison, of Ports.
mouth " H., left legacy of El, ,OOO the income OF
which was directed to be distributed in lOayeS OF
bread To the poor of that town every Sunday. This
has been done regularly for nearly century; about
20 900 have been thus spent, and the fund has not
| been impaired.
! \ report Of 4 most remarkable discovery comes to
rs from Italy An Italian SGrGRt said to have dis
covered process by which sounds may be transmit
ted by an electrical process any distance so that
| two perSOns-Onc in Rome and the other in Paris
may converse together recognizing the sound OF
each others voice.
The Barugs have taken two millions Of the five
per cent gOld.bearing bonds of Massachusetts, at a.
bout uineyseyen per cent This sum, it Is believed
will be sufficient 10 meet the present Indebtedness OF
the state and thus do away with the necessity of is
sung the remaining million and a-half authorized
| by the Legislature.
In Florida, the new State officers are elected as
| follows-GovernOr, David s Walker without OppO.
| ,tion; Ieutenant-GOvernOr W. W. j. Kelley; Sec-
retary of State, B. F. Allen; Attorney General j.
| B. Galbrath Comptroller l.. &. Pyles Treasurer
| C. II. Austen; Representative IN Congress- Ferdl'
| uand Mcleod, Judge of Suwannee Circuit, T. I.
| Long; Judge Of Eastern Circuit, L. 4. Putnam.
| While a couple were being married in an English
church the other morning, the mother of the young
| lady. who was under age, rushed into the church
| and forbade the wedding. The officiating minister
stopped the service, and, although the bridegroom
| had pronounced the words With this ring thee
wed" declared that no legal marriage had taken
| place. Since then, however, the matter has been
discussed at a meeting Of the clergy, and the uuani
mou, decision they arrived at was that the couple
had been properly and lawfully married according
to the rites OF the Church. The point is a very tick
sh one aud will probably have to be settled in the
| law courts,