Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To shoio the re,y age and body ofte Times y

The steamer City of Norwich of the New
London line, came into collision with the
Schr. Gen. S. Van Vliet off Huntington, yes
terday. The schr. struck her amidships cut
ting her through The fires communicated to
the wood work, and the steamer was entirely
destroyed About fifty persons were on board,
forty of whom were saved by boats from the
steamer Electra, from Providence. The re-
mainder are supposed lost. a.
The fine portrait Of Stonewall jackson,
drawn by Mr.. Corcoran, of Washington city,
at the Baltimore Fair, will be placed by that
gentleman in the public gallery which he IN
tends to open in the great edifce now occupied
by the Quartermastcr General in Washington,
whenever he shall regain possession OF it. 1t
is said that Mr.. Corcoran has expended forty
five thousand dollars in private and public
charities since his return from Europe few
months since. .
The young men of the city are getting up a
bank, to be called the Union Bank Of Rich
mond 1t was chartered by the Legislature at
its last session, and granted all the rights of
similar institutions. The plan proposed for
raising the funds it that the subscribers pay
for their shares at the rate of one dollar per
month, sharc-the shares to be worth one
hundred dollars For the first year, or until
sufficient capital is raised, it is proposed thot it
operate only as savings bank.
The anonymous letter affair." in Baltimore,
remains in statu quo. Iii generally believed
that duel will grow out of it. The friends of
both parties still have the matter under iaves-
tigation. Informs the entire fashionable COS
sip of the town. All concerned stood at the
the top of "the quality
1t is feared that the levee5 of the lower Nj lis
sissippi will be swept away by the current fresh
ct. Vessels are leaving New Orleans with en-
igraDts for Mexico. The liberals in Mexico are
said to have captured conducta with $500, 900
and killed or taken prisoners 200 French troops.
The wife of Ex-Governor Harris, of Tennes-
see, is in New Orleans, bound for Mexico. She
had letter from President johnson saying
that passport is unnecessary, bur the provost
marshal had required one.
,:s Burglars got into the rooms Of Delmonicos
Hotel, Memphis, on Friday night, and robbed
L. G. Stewart, wealthy planter from Summer
county, of about $50, 900 in notes and all his
clothing.
Gen. Meade is expected at Portland, Maine
A steamboat has been chartered to take COM
pany Of regulars to Eastport This is induced
by Fenian movements on the frontier.
Instructions have been issued to quarantine
all vessels arriving at Fort Monroe and Norfolk
from Key West, the same as those from the
West Indies
The city Of New Orleans is reported very
healthy, and crowded with strangers. Vessels
from the West Indies have been relieved from
quarantine.
Thousands of freedmen in Georgia have
broken their labor contracts, ratified by the bu-
rcau, and left their employers for higher wages.
There has been another great fire, in the Oil
region in Pennsylvania (Tltusville,) the loss
from which is said to be 100000.
The government hospital buildings, ordnance
and other workshops at Old Point and Fort
Monroe, are being removed.
Work on the plantations in Texas is going
on finely, and the crops promise to be very
large.