Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-20
GENERAL NEWS.

el!ef Of the Portland sufferers, by an lDjunc-
lion from the Supreme Court, granted at the
equest Of some of the citizens Several
cwns have taken similar action, it being un-
~erstood that the municipal authorities have
&c light to make an appropriation of funds
.ollected By taxation for other than specified
purposes
Il few cases of cholera are reported daily in
Philadelphia, but SO far as examinations have
Jeen made by the sanitary committee none of
:aem have been declared to be Asiatic cholera,
clthough the physicians reporting them have
pronounced their cases to be of that disease -
Nhe sanitary committee say that the cases ex-
.nined by them are of malignant type of
,holera morbus.
i dispatch from Helena, Arkansas, dated
ne l4th, says: Mrs. Henrietta ". Daven-
2or6 has just been notified that she has fallen
,eir TO an estate worth 50, 600, ,OOO in Scotland,
through her uncle, Robert Bruce Blackburn,
.ecenty deceased, who was one of the heavi-st
manufacturers in Europe
Gov. Swapn, of Maryland in recent speech
- Frederick, took strong ground against the
Radicals and approved of the course and poll
y Of President johnson. So did Ex-Governor
Bradford Governor Swami is against negro
outrage.
Among the persons who died from sun stroke
a Baltimore, on Tuesday and yesterday, were
TTra Spear, insurance agent, Captain James
Frazier, and Capt. W. Piidham About thir-
= persons in all died
Mr. Towers, of Philadelphia, arrested for
being concerned in the assault upon Mr. Pain
:eg, in the Capitol, has been discharged from
custody by order of the House IF Representa-
ives.
The Secretary of the Treasury has appoint
e. 10 the new Office of special commissioner Of
:ae revenue, Hon. David A Wells, now chair
.nap of the +. States Revenue Commission.
Since the close Of the war the recruiting ser
zee ci the regular army has been unusually
acii7e, the number of recruits far exceeding
hose enlisted previous to the war.
The high price Of paper is inducing attention
20 the manufacture Of the article from straw,
me pulp of wood &c. Speed the day when
ne price Of paper shall fall.
Every indication shows that if the people Of
biaryland-tbe bona fde citizens-could vote,
The Radicals in that State would be routed
horse, foot and dragon.
The conscience fund at the U. S. Treasury
'7as further increased yesterday by the sum Of
800, enclosed in a communication from Balti-
nore.
The total subscriptions in aid Of the suffer
rs by the Portland conhagration in New York
;ity, amount to S109, 553.
.'HE POLITICAL FUTURE-Under the head
The Political Future" the New York Times
lYepublican) has letter from Washington,
signed "R, " supposed to be Mr.. Raymond,
fI. O., } in which it is stated that the republi-
can party in Congress lis Just now experiencing
{ panic Of more than usual severity, and It's ac-
ion under the circumstances does more credit
% its Zeal than to it's discretion. The writer
;hen proceeds as follows
You may have noticed the passage in the
House, few days since, of a resolution offered
by Gen. Paine, of Wisconsin, calling on the
States to organize, discipline and equip their
militia, and directing that two thirds OF the
arms, ordnance and ammunition now under
custody of the general government be dlstrbu-
ted among the States, the distribution among he
loyal States to take place immediately, and that
among the STATES lately in rebellion to be post
poned until further orders.
The resolution came up from the committee
III military affairs and was pushed to vote
Without debate or delay, under the previous
question. 1t attracted rs little attention IN
Congress as 1t has in he country, and the pub
re will doubtless receive with lncreduhty the
assurance that it was intended, by those who
cecured its passage as the first step towards
preparation for another civil war. Although
&c debate was had upon it, members were urged
@ vote Tor it by direct conversational appeals
~ the for on the part of the twsswho were
.orivy to its introduction. Some were tod that
t s?as necessary to enable the Southern oyallsts
o protect themselves Others that 1t was simply
matter Of detail in the War Department,
liners that The arms must be taken out OF the
asHos OF the President; and others hat it was
21Troposeu at the instance OF the Secretary OF
Var.
triumph OF SCIENCE Recent experiments
Z England have given to the word another
triumph OF scleuce in the control and manage
nent OF the dangerous explosive, gunpowder,
1lore wonderful in its results than the use and
aomesticatlon as it were, of lightning, as ap-
piled to the magnetic telegraph. The an
Aou1ncement that gunpowder has been so put
ander control that in one minute tarrel Of it
Ihrowr ou burning materials will smother the
;lre, and IN the next instant it can be 50 rear
ranged hat it will propel cannon ball with
Andlmlnished force, Will possibly draw largely
"pon the credulity of our readers, but it is sta
ED to be the fact. The gunpowder isrendered
innnocuous, it, is claimed, by admxture with
glass crushed to an impalpable powder, which
can again be ranidlu senarated trnm the ol1n-