Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-31
NEWS By To-DAY's MAIL.

The boilers of the St. John, the steamer
which exploded with such disastrous effort on
Saturday, at New York, were new, and cost
s62. 900. Thirteen is the latest number OF
victims of the explosion. The bodies OF some
Of the killed were robbed of their valuables
before the boat reached the wharf.
In the North Carolina Convention while B.
F. Moore was speaking against the telegram
Of President johnson forbidding the assump-
tion of the State war debt, the flag staff on
the capitol broke, and fell upon the root
With laundering shock. Mr.. Moore exclalm-
ed 'sYes, Mr. Chairman, when North Carolina
submits to dictation, that flagstaff ought to
fall
Aresolution asking for information OF the
Provisional Governor whether President ohm,
son made reputation condition Of readmls-
sion to the Union was tabled by large ma
iority in the Georgia Convention on Saturday.
The remains of Che. late Colonel Uric Dahl,
eren are living in state in the Common Council
Chamber, City Hail. in Washington. The
funeral services to-day. Henry Ward Beecher
delivers the sermon.
Another murder is reported in Philadelphia
Yesterday, George Reilley was shot in the neck
BY Thomas Tracy, and it is feared, mortally.
Cause, jealousy.
The New York News says it is no secret that
Gen Joseph E.. Johnston is to be elected
President of the new National Express Com
pany.
Gems. Longstreet and Hood are reported at
Cairo. as coming to Washington, probably for
the purpose of trying for a pardon.
The telegraph informs us Of the murder OF
two men in Albany, N. 7. One was robbed
e
dollars.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
decided that hackmen and cartmen are not
taxable under the present revenue law.
Generals Howard and Saxton arrived at Sa-
vannah on the 26th inst.
John Mitchell was released from Fortress
Monroe yesterday, and was going to Rich
mond
Letters from Texas say directly after the war
the people of that State we're willing to agree
to almost anything for the sake OF paclfcatlon;
but now owing to the dilatory movments OF
Governor Hamilton, much dissatisfaction be-
gins to be manifested, and the State has made
but little progress in restoring her relations to
the Union, nor are the proper facilities yet
afforded throughout Texas for taking the am
nesty oath.
The Tunis embassy will visit the fortifica-.
tons in Washington to-day, and sal ute will
be fired in their honor. At night they will
receive the officers of the army and navy at
their hotel
Clarence Eytinge, clerk in the State De-
partment, has been appointed Secretary OF the
United States Legation at Lima, Peru
There are as yet no arrangements tor the
trial Of Jefferson Davis.
On Saturday man named Bohagar was ar
rested in New York, and on the police search
Ing his room, they found a stock OF bogus
Treasury notes, of the denominations ct s.,
s2O and fifty cents, representing altogether
one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, put
up IN one thousand dollar packages. Ihe bills
are rather poor ones.
ln Maine they have had sleighing for more
than week. Ii Portland, on Friday, horse
sTo! came off during severe snow storm. La
New Hampshire, Vermont, and in the north
ern aud western parts of Massachusetts,, snow
Tell to the depth Of several inches on Friday.
IN Vermont, on. the line of the Vermont Cen
tGal railroad, over foot of snow has fallen.
At Wheeling, West Virginia, few days
ego, +. A. Gasmier recovered S., 600 damages
from from Henry W. Drakeley. 1t appears that
,:.ne plaintiff who is boy ten years OF age, tell
INTO an opening On public road made by the
qqelendant, the proprietor OF the Washington
iron Works, at Ritchietown, broke his left leg
sad disabled and the other for life
Cape Haytien, SO long held by the negro
insurgents of Hayti, has, at length, been sur
rendered to the forces under Gefrard.