Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-03-13
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"7b shoU the pe,y age and6ody of The TIMES"
The finding of the Court Martial in the
case Of Major Cross, U. S. A., who was tried
in New York, in August last on charges Of
disobenience Of the orders and regulations
Of the army, aud misrepresentation OF the
public money, is published. The Court
found the Major guilty of the charges, and
sentenced him to be cashiered. The Presi-
dent confirmed the sentence; but in consi-
Iteration of the Majors long an useful pub
lie services, and of the great amount OF
money that he had faithfully disbursed, and
that the government suffered no loss by
his default, has mitigated the sentence TO
suspension of rank and pay for five years.
Twenty millions of dollars of Treasury
Notes, granted by the last Congress, will
expire on the lst of July, andthe House will
not authorize reissue. but require them TO
be funded, that the country may see the debt
created by the present administration. 1t
is now proposed to connect this loan with
the Tariff bill, as the revenue derived from
that source, after defraying the regular ex-
penditures of Government, will be applied
to the extinction of this Indebtedness, there
being no other resource for that purpose.
Troubles appear to be multiplying in Mas
sachusetts Besides the shoemakers' strike
which continues to extend-the cattle dis
temper, in some parts of the State, is threat
ening if not to deprive the people of beef,
at least to add materially to the cost of it
u'.No work-no market for boots, with dear
meat superaded- things" says the New
Express, "certaily not over-well calculated
to inspire the porr white man there with feel
ings Of unalloyed and unqualified jollity.
! The Committee of the Legislature of Maine,
charged with the examination of the case of
Benjamin d. Peek, the defaulting treasurer
of the State, have ascertained the amount OF
the deficit to be little upwards of S94, 600.
Mr.. Peck has made written confession to
the committee, which forms part of its re-
port. In this confession he Acknowledges
that he has misapplied the public funds en-
trusted to bis care, and explains the manner
in which they were misapplied s
The New York Courier and Enquirer says
that mistake has occurred at one of the
United States Armories which could not
have occurred had they been under military
control. When muskets were issued to a
certain regiment, il was found that the ram
rods would not 90 ''home" and upon exami-
nation, it proved that in making certain al
terations screw had been inserted in the
barrel Of each musket, and that it projected
some distance inside of it.
The Legislature of New Jersey has passed
a law and it has been signed by the Govern
or, which in effect does away with the rail
road monopoly SO long enjoyed by the Cam
den and Amboy Company. 1t leaves some
questions to be decided by the Courts, and
1.-THE constitutionality Of the law is sustain.
ed, there will no doubt, soon be competing
lines of railroad between New York and
Pennsylvania. yefras
The Lynn Reporter remarks, practically,
that the shoe manufacturers will be az much
benefited by the shoemakers stopping work
as the shoemakers themselves, if they obtain
the higher price for their labor. This fact
is already beginning to show itself in an in
creased demand for shoes, more frmness on
the part of manufacturers, and rise in
prizes. .n7B bfss sa .G rag .a taa 81.
The Nantucket Inquirer says the Miss
Phebe Newbegin, who died in that town on
Thursday last, at the advanced age of 90
years, months, leaves sister nearly 90 years
of age, with whom she has slept every night
for Sc years. with the exception of three
weeks during childhood, when Mary, the
surviving sister, went to Newburyport with
her mother. 2a.E
The Secretary of War, having consid-
cred the claim of Lieut.. Col. J. +. Johnston
to the rank of Brevet Colonel, says the us
age and precedents of the service, as we'll as
the actual law and facts in the case, seem TO
render it his imperative duty to recognize
the claim. and Col Johnston will therefore
be recognized as of that rank from the date
of April II. lS47. se
- The bill now before the Unitod States SEN
ate for enabling the Court of Claims to fulfil
the purposes for which it was established,
provides that awards of the court, below n
certain sum, shall be paid at the Treasury;
and that decisions involving larger sums
shall be carried, if the Government Solicitor
choose, to the United States Supreme Court.
A lady correspondent of the Boston Even
ing Transcript. who has read Michelet's last
book, La Femme, only to be Inundated by
its low philosophy of convenience, suggests
that the French savan, or somebody elese,
now write book on LHomme She thinks
this a fair subject of analysis monster
of such hideous mien," &c.
Intelligence from Texas represents matters
on the Mexican frontier, and in the Indian
or Upper country. as In the most wretched
and deplorable condition. Not only are
Mexican bands committing every conceivable
kind of depredations, but predatory war has
already been commenced by the Indians.
The shoe manufacturers Of Massachusetts,
have beld meeting at Haverhill, and re-
solved to "strike"-in other words, not to
listen to the complaints of the labor ''strik-
ers' or yield to their demands. 50 that
capital can strike as well as labor.
~ The Newberry IS. CO. Conservative, pub
lished near Chappell's Depot. S. c., says
that the recent Illustration in Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Paper, of mob hanging an
abolitionist there, is an utter humbug. No
such occurrence ever took place
The House of Representatives Of Louisi-
ana on the ID instant tabled, by vote of
nearly three to one. a proposition to remove
the seat of government of that State from