Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-22
NEWS or THE DAY.
40 shoy the rery age and 6oayy the times.

Looking to the improvement Of the sanitary
condition of New York, the board Of health of
that city has for some time been engaged IN
measures for excluding the slaughter house
from its limits. Large establishments, called
as,batoi,s, are now to be rcsorted to entirely
beyond the limits of the city for slaughtering
purposes, AID these will be placed at such
points near the termini of the great railroad
lines that the cattle brought hundreds OF miles
nay pass directly to them and never reach the
city except in the condition of killed meat.
There have been complaints by our adopted
citizens of German BIRTH that when they re-
turn to Prussia or other parts of Germany,
where they were born, with passports certify
ing to their American citizenship, they were al
most instantly kidnapped, and, as deserters
from the military service of their native coun-
try, were forced into the army. Recently,
however, our government has succeeded In re-
moving, to considerable extent, the cause OF
complaint
Green Clay Smith has addressed letter to
the President Of the Kentucky State Aerlcul-
tu!al Society, in which he states that during
the rast few weeks something 10 the nature of
the cattle plague has made It's appearance
among the stock of Scott county, in that State.
It is supposed that the disease has been prop
agated by cattle brought from Texas, as IN no
instance has the disease broken out save where
these imported cattle have been.
The Atlantic cable laid in 1865 had been
looked upon as SO hopelessly lost that the Ut
derwriters had paid the full amount insured.
The Great Eastern will now be entitled to a
large amount Of salvage money, aud SO it may
be hoped that the long run of il! luck which
that vessel has had to endure has come to an
end, and that her shareholders will at last get
rich by her. ........
News from the cotton regions continues to
report the injury to the crops as serious and
widespread. Only the small district on the
uplands of the Mississippi seems exempt
Otherwise the States OF louisiana and Mis-
sisippi are afflicted with nearly total loss Of
the cotton crop, while very little corn or other
bread -stuffs have been raised
\ correspondent writing grom Fortress Mon
roe, ays:-"The old bell of William and Mary
College las been brought down from the COL
'ege at Williamsburg to be taken North for
recasting. 1t is an old colonial relic. 1t rang
out its peals summouing the college students
to prayes and studies and meals long years
before the American Revolution.
The Knoxville Commercial informs us that
large numbers Of negroes from Georgia, Ala,
and Florida, are pouring into East Tennessee,
and that, upon inquiry, their purpose is found
to be to settle there at the instance of Brown
low and his agents, with view of controlling
the State elections in favor Of Radicalism.
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, reports in his
annual address that the theological department
of the Vermont Episcopal Institute is without
students. The treasurer also says in his re-
port There are no young men 10 the diocese
looking forward to the ministry, or preparing
to enter it. - .... =
The reports from the West continue to re.
cord unusual damage by the recent foods
Many of the railroad tracks have been injured
and the bridges washed away. The injury
done to property in towns along the line of the
rivers is also said to be very great
The New York Herald says: ''Stephens,
the Central Organizer Of the Fen!ans, is re-
ceiving large acccSsions to his ranks in men,
money, arms, AMI ammunition every day
The arms are Immediately shipped in mystic
rious packages TO Ireland.
The advices from Europe by the cable are to
Yesterday The Prussian army has made a
triumphaI entry into Berlin, One Of the con-
dtions imposed upon Saxony is that the pre-
sent King of SaxoDy shall abdicate in favor OF
his son.
1t is understood that the Liberals are now
planning campaign against the City of Mexico
itself, and the chances of Maximilian escape
with his army and trains are being seriously
discussed at Vera Cruz.
The person just dismissed from the Patent
Office for malfeasance was not examiner of the
class Of fire arms, but held the position Of sec
ond assistant examiner, and had held that po-
sition less than year.
The Lawrence (Kansas) Journal of the 10Th
instant says of the grasshopper invasion =
I'm Brown county they covered tract twelve
miles in width, and consumed pretty much
everything green.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, in an
extra, announces the arrest Of Gotleib Miller,
the supposed murderer of Mrs. Miller, who
was so brutally murdered on Tuesday morning.
Rev W. H. Wilson intimates his purpose
through the Baltimore Gazette to sue Rev.
John Lanahan for alledgcd SANDERS published
the Baltimore American.
The radicals have recently organized at the
West and Northwest secret political associa-
ton to which the title of ''The Grand Army of
the Republic has been given.