The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-22
ReyersiOn Of Decision of Court Mar
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Captain Francis De Witt, Commissary of
Subsistence, United States Volunteers, who
was recently tried by court-martial at Raleigh,
North Carolina, on FIVE. separate charges, in
shaving knowingly and wrongfully sold sub
| sistence stores of the United States" applying
| to his own use and benefit money, the proper
ty Of the United States" and for fraud, was
| found guilty on nearly all the charges and
specifications, and sentenced by the court ''to
pay fine Of five thousand dollars ($5,O00)
to the Government of the United States, and
that he be imprisoned at Fort Macon, North
Carolina, until such fine is paid; and that the
crime, name and place of abode of the ac-
| cused, and this sentence, be published in the
newspapers of the States of North Carolina
and Massachusetts," .-'.
The. proceedings, findings and sentence of
the court were approved by the department
commander, and the record for @arded for the
action of the President, who has ordered as
| follows: I.f.e rs
The proceedings, findings and sentence are
disapproved, and Captain De Witt is hereby
restored to his rank and position, free from
any stain upon his Character National In
| telHgencer. 81,
FUNERAL OF JARED SpARKs-The funeral
services of the late Jared Sparks, LII. D.,
were held in Appleton Chapel (the chapel of
the University on Saturday. The body was
conveyed to the chapel at II o'clock, accom-
panied by the family and relatives of the de-
ceased and preceded by the pal-bearers, Pre-
sident Hill, Colonel Thomas Aspinwall, Mayor
Merrill of Cambridge, and Prof. Asa Gray
The seats on each side of the main aisle were
reserved for various societies with whom Mr.
Sparks had been connected. Governor Bullock
and many other distinguished gentlemen were
present, and the chapel was well filled with
ladies and gentlemen, to whom the excellent
qualities of the deceased were well known
The services were very impressive and were
conducted by President Hill, Rev. DIR. Newell
and Rev DIR. Peabody. An opportunity was
offered to view the body for the last time, and
it was then conveyed to Mount Auburn and
inferred in a lot near the main entrance
| Boston Commercial 1t9h. ..a
| DISMISSAL OF TREASURY AGENTS. The
dismissal of Treasury Agents in the Southern
States is said to include many who stand
charged generally with compatibility in their
cotton transactions, and the action Of the
Government is looked upon as equivalent to
an abandonment of trial, or even further in
quiry into their respective cases. The truth
| is, / am told, the malfeasance extended in nu-
merous instances from the head down to the
meanest subordinate; but 50 implicated was
one with the other, and so complicated were
the transactions all through, that the whole
set would have had to have been punished to-
gether, in order to give justice. her due 1t is
possible there may be exceptions to the sweep
ing disrnissas, scot free; but the suits, if any
will be few, and perhaps end only in an extra
bill of costs to the Government = Pashingtof
4 Letter. Ir.f.-l. ID. {
i LOVE AND SUIcIDE.-They have had q rea
sensational case of love and suicide very late
4 ly in Amboy, New Jersey. Albert Fellow
was excepting company" with Mary Palmer
but Marys brother John was opposed to tn
match so strongly that he threatened to shoe
!; Albert if he married Mary. Albert swore gu
warrant against Mary's brother, and on tn
trial it transpired that Albert was alread.
i possessed of better-half, whereupon Mar
refused to have anything more to do wit
ilhm. Thereupon Albert goes to drug-stor
land buys fifteen cents worth of ''cold pizen
Hin the shape of opium, swallows it, and "gos
dead" Mary's character is not above re
-proach, and this puts Albert in the light of
Il atiE hiooar fool i' I s'-.''. 70