Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-06-23
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The monthly report of the Department OF
! Agriculture for June, the return OF five thou
sand correspondents in ali parts Of the country,
having been received from the lst to the 18th
inst, says: The apprche!!sious Of scarcity OF
crops which might threaten compulsory econ
omy in consumption, or warrant extraordinary
prices are groundeSs. From careful ana!y.
sis Of statistical returns, with due regard to the
usual average product and present loses OF each
State, the prospect on the lst of June Was Tor
Scyentcnths Of crop With favorable weather
and absence from casualties before harvesting,
the Indications point to threc-fourths OF i'll
average total.
The decision made BY } Judge Cardozo, Of the
Court Of Common Pleas, in New York, on
Thursday, that the new excise law Tor that
city is in conflict with the constitution of the
United States, is based on the ground that 1t
breaks contract previously entered into be-
tween such liquor dealers and the State Of New
York as held uncxpircd licenses under the Old
law. The unlicensed dealers who had been al
rested were Immediately released.
In New York, yesterday, the police made
about one hundred and fifty arrests of liquor
sellers who had not obtained q license. The
Tombs Court was crowded, and the offenders
held to bail Many intend to continue selling,
and to test the authority Of the Excise Board
before the courts During the examination
Mary Long created sensation by swallowing
laul,nun, but her life was saved
Extensive preparations arc being made IN
New York, for u general indignation meeting
Of Fcnians at Union Square on next Monday
evening. Money is said to be flowing into the
czchcQucr Of the Roberts party, amt new cir
cles arc forming from the Cclts who have aban-
doned the Stephens aud @ Mahony branch Of
the Brotherhood.
George Peabody is so bothered by bcggars
and begging petitions that, as rclict, his scr
wants are ordered not to answer the door-bcll
at all, and only those who arc intimate enough
to enter without ringing can have chance at
the millionaire Missionary agents and church
committees arc particularly liberal in then re-
quests for donations.
Gen. Layfaycttc McLaws, an OK general
G.. S. A., recently elected clerk of the Superior
and Inferior Court Of Richmond county, Ca,
has received an order from Gen. Tillson, COM
mandant in that State, forbidding him to mold
OF exercise any civil or political office. The
order is similar to that served on Admiral
Semrlcs. ..- ..-
The New York Herald says: - officials at
Washington seem to be attempting to shit
the responsibility Of the order putting Mr.. Da-
Wis IN irons. 1t appears that the President
had nothing to do with the matter, and that
the order has been traced to the door of Score
tary Stanton. Is he responsible for it?''
The yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz
All the work on the railroad to the City of
Mexico has been suspeucd, The Liberals rep
resent the lmperlals as losing ground in Next
co. The American emigrants, generally, it is
said, are disheartened, and returning to the
United States
Two additional casts of cholera are reported
at New York, neither of which, however ter
minated fatally At Elizabeth, New Jersey,
there was great excitement * regard to the
disease, five distract cases OF cholera having oc
cured within twenty four hours.
NJ. II. Miller, ,ate special agent of the Treas.
uy Department, and for many years one of the
trustees of the Washington public schools, died
morning at Steubenville Ohio, while
on his way from the South to Washington.
A national bank at Bowdointown Maine, |
was entered on the night of the Dist, and rob-
bed of S67, 900 in Greenba cks The robbers, it
is supposed, were 'makingy - for Canada.
Two young ladies in Louisville, Ky, were
On Monday last, sufocated in a vault, in the
yard Of house. the foorina. of which gave