Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-11-01
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Ihefunerai. services over the remains OF the
late Colonel Dahlgren took place yesterday.
The President, the Cabinet, and many. army
and naval officers were present. Ihe funeral
sermon was preachedby Henry " ard Beecher
The remains were sent on to Philadelphia,
where they are 80 lie in state In independence
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A female went round the different stores on
Monday. buying goods and directing them to be
sent to her boarding house. When sent, the
money rot being forthcoming, they were not
delivered generally, though some few mer-
chants we're victimized The female decamped
Yesterday. Her husband, Alfred H. Price,
was formerly a clerk in the navy department.
Gen. Grant has rented the residence former
" occupied by John G. Breckenridge, adjoln-
ing the property of the late Stephen A. Doug
las. and has not purchased the latter. The
Douglas house is Tor sale. :.
The military authorities have extended an
invitation to the Tunis ambassadors, which
has been accepted, to visit the Freedmens VI.
lage at Arlington and the notifications OF
Washington. In making the visit they will be
under the escort Of General Haskin, OF Gen.
Auguc's command.
The sale of buildings at Battery Parrot,
Fort Martin Scott, and Battery Vermont, OF
the dismantled Notifications, which took place
on Monday, only realized sos.
Gen. Howard Superintendent OF the freed
mems Bureau, who Is now travelling through
the Scuth, will return 10 n ashingtou in about
week time, prepared to make tuil and
report Of the freedmen IN the
Southern States.
To-day the Post Office Department begins
opening the bids for carrying the mails on some
eight hundred routes in Virginia, North and
South Carolina, aud Florida The Postmaster
General has until the 18th inst to decide upon
the bids; but few have been received thus tar.
FOREIGN NEWS. The steamships City OF
Boston and Damascus bring dates to the 18th
ult. Lord Palmerston died on the 18th OF
October. He would have completed his 8lst
year on the Goth of October It is generally
believed that Earl Russell will accept the Pre-
miership but nothing official has yet trans
PRED, the Queen being absent In Scotland.
The deaths by Cholera, in Paris, average 200
per day. The London Times has report, pro
nounced to be unfounded, that Mr.. Seward has
sent q remonstrance to France but the Times
contends that "a GOODNESS has certainly risen
between France and uerica.' Cotton is
very dull and prices have decliued 81. g Id.
Breadstufs firm Corn quiet. Provisions
buoyant; Z. S. Five twenties 81.
A letter from New York says: 1.-The ladies
who are about purchasing their turs for the
winter season, ought to be informed that there
is novelty in 1nuffs just now It is in the
shape Of the morocco bags which ladies carry
when they go out shopping: 4 pocket for the
purse and another for the handkerchief are IN
the muH, and there are also cord and tassels
to 20 around the neck.
The Sanders kidnappers at Toronto have
been committed to jail until the spring term
The Jury were censured and discharged by the
Judge for not giving verdict Of conviction after
being eight days locked up -, ...,..-