Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-23
NEWS OF THE DAP.
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The Chicago Republican makes the following
extract from private letter frvm an officer IN
the army, dated New Orleans March 49,
s:OGicial news that the cholera has broken out
at Key West has reached us Assistant Sur
geon Taylor and sixteen men are down with It,
A strict quarantine is established below New
Orleans, and vessels from Havana and Key
West are subjected to twenyone days quaran-
the"
The Tyc: On Of japan has sent to the Empe-
ror Napoleon a present consisting OF hf'een
thousand cases of silkworms The present Is
more highly priced as these worms not only
produce silk Of superior quality, but are less
liable than the ordinary silk worms, to the
disease which has Of late years caused so much
distress TO the silk growers of France.
Henry S. Foot, formerly of the Confederate
Senate, has written letter denying the report
that he was tie author of the resolutions OF
Senator Stewart, This son-in-law) proposing
general amnesty for universal suffrage Lie
says, however, that he warmly approves them
The butchers of New York have presented
President johnson with piece of beet, taken
from the g. eat OK Reunion" The OK is said
to have been the largest on record, weighing
3,762 los before slaughter, and 2,475 los
dressed.
The sharp downward movement in the pre-
MUM on gold during the past two or three
we,ks has occasioned considerable comment and
speculation as to the cause.
The Secretary of War is relieving all civil
ians acting as agents of the freedmen S Bureau
and substituting officers of the veteran reserve
corps.
A stetl-plate engraving of President Lincoln
is to preface the Congress edition of MIR. Ban
croft's ora'ion, which will be issued in about a
month.
The committee of ways and means have come
to no decision on the loan bill yet though sew
eral meetings have been had on it THIS week
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS The Senate:
yesterday, adopted resolution that the com
mittee on finance inquire into the ezpedlency
Of allowing disabled Union soldiers to act as
pedlers without license. A petition was
presented from certain citizens of the District
of Columbia asking Congress to adopt measures
to ''save the country and reform the world"
The bill to authorize the construction of
bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis was
passed. After the transaction Of other bust
ness, the case Of Senator Stockton, dem, OF
New Jersey, was taken up. The legality OF
his election is contested, and although the
judiciary committee Of the Senate some weeks
ago reported that he was rlghttul]y entitled to
his seat, an effort is now being made on par
tisan grounds to Gust him. The subject was
debated up to the hour of adjournment.
The House recommitted the bill amending
the act donating lands to the several States and
Territories to establish agricultural schools and
colleges The Senate's amendments were con
Cured in to the joiut resolution TO allow GER
tain naval vessels to be used for temporary
hospitals. The House then took up the def
cieacy appropriation bill, and concurred 10
most of the Senate's amendments, but dis
agreed to the one striking out the provision
declaring that the likeness of no living person
shall be placed on any government bonds,
postal currency, &c. The House then struck
out the amendment of the Senate appropriating
| SITS, 900 to supply deficiency in the appro
priations for the Naval Academy tor the year
ending June 80, 1866. The appropriation for
the purchase of Ford's Theatre, in Washing
ton. was retained. Ga the disagreelng votes
the House asking for a committee OF contereDce.
FREEDMEN's BUREAU IN VIRGINIA. is
matter of interest to know the character OF the
reports sent to headquarters in Washington,
n IL