Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-07
NEWS or THE DAY.
. s1soae the ge,y age and body Of the times.

by telegram, to Gen. Sheridan, certain interro-
satories concerning the late New Orleans dis
1 turbances, with the view. of obtaining g brief
statement of thematerial features of the affair,
commencing with the meeting Of the revolu-
tonists On the 9th Of July, and ending with
| the riots Of the 3Oth and 31st Of the same
month. Yesterday, telegram in answer to
| this was received from Gen. Sheridan Inform
| ing the President that the required statement
would be speedily furnished.
Chester D. Hubbard, member Of Congress
from West Virginia, declines to accept his in
creased pay, as provided by the act Of the last
session of Congress- The q. s. Treasurer
Yesterday received letter from MIR. Hub
| bard, in which was enclosed tho order Of the
scrgeant-at arms Of the House, emitting him
to $500. Dir Hubbard says he voted for the
| bill because he did not want to defeat the ap-
preparations therein, but he did not expect to
| draw his increased pay.
An editorial correspondent Of the Albany
| Argus takes very hopeful view OF the future
! Of Ireland, as follows The progress among
| the people in wealth and education is decided
| The Catholic University rivals the Queen
colleges in giving instruction to the people, and
the rudiments of learning are pretty generally
| difuscd The rate Of wages rises steadily and
food is cheap and abundant .
| In New York, yesterday, twenty new cases
of cholera and four deaths were reported. In
| Brooklyn eight cases and one death were re-
ported yesterday Fourteen new cases and three
deaths occurred at Philadelphia yesterday
| Twelve deaths from cholera are reported by
the Board of Health at Cincinnati, as having
occurred in that city between the llth Of july
! and the close Of the month.
! The Montreal papers are making some COM
plant about the extensive circulation Of Amer
! lean silver in Canada They say that this
! money has driven bank notes out Of circulation
| in the towns, and they are now almost cxciu-
| sively in the hands Of the country people, and
the danger is the greater in case Of any sudden
| alarm or revulsion. : .'"
One of the best attended places in Saratoga
! this season is john Mcrrissey's banking
house" which is the latest euphouism tor gam
bling he'll Immense sums Of money have been
staked, and one politician and newspaper spec
! uator is reported to be 100000 behindhand.-
! The ''bank" cleared $780, 900 in single week.
The Stats Zeitung, the organ Of the Ger
man Unionists" Of Tennessee, places at the
head of It's columns the name of Gen. George
r. Thomas as its candidate for President
in rs. and says that the voices Of 900 sol
diers Of the Army Of tho Cumberland will ratlty
! the nomination. II.
| Pierce Butler, is personally testing the DIFF
| ference between slave and freed labor on his
| rice plantations in Georgia. Of more than
! three hundred colored persons, once his slaves,
| all but few have returned and accepted the
| wages he has offered them. .
| The Offices Of the American Telegraph Com
pany and the National Express Company at
Atlanta, Georgia. together with three Or four
other buildings, we're destroyed by fire CT Sun
day night last. The amount Of loss sustained
is not reported.
The Chinese nine-tenths Of whom never saw
a steamboat, possess the finest coal IN the world
for generating steam. 1t is found near Pekin,
the capital, where coal field exists Of no less
than three hundred miles in extent.
The New York Herald suggests that the
Radicals arc very much in need Of o few more
riots For particulars, terms Of compensation,
! &C., apply to Thad Stevens or any member Of
! the Reconstruction Committee.
| A locomotive attached to 3 passenger traln
on the Hudson River railways has been run
| from Poughkeepse to New York city, dis
| tame Of nearly eighty miles, using nothing
! but peat to generate steam. ..... r..
| 4 mercantile letter, dated Port-au- Prince,
July Il, states that the recent instruction at
/ Gonaiyes had been entirely suppressed by the
Government, and the tom given to the regular
authorities.
! Il is rumored that Lieut.. General Sherman
! has applied TO have Brevet Brig. General VIM.
| J.. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant General ln the
! War Department, assigned to duty as bis ch'et
| Of staff. ... . E...
| The spiritualists OF the United States will
| hold their third national convention in Pro7i'
deDce, +. L, commencing on the 2lst instant,
| and to continue in session FIVE days.
The steamer General Lytie blew up On the
Ohio River, near Bethlehem, yesterday even
ing. From ffcca to eighteen lives we've lost
by the explosion.
The fashionable churches in New York, il
is announced, will be closed during the month
Of August Even religion is silent where fash
ion rules.
LID. The way to get them it is said, is h.
pretty free contri buttons to the colleges. -
$1,000 will buy a D. D., $4,000 an L. l.. D.
! Over $500, 900 has been received at Portland
Nc. IN aid Of the sufferers BY the late fire, in.