Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-13
ALEXANDRIA.
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST Is.
NEWS OF THE DA Y.
TO shoav the vcry age and body Of the times.

10 shoav the very age and body Of the times.
The Harrisburg Telegraph Of Saturday says:
It is horrible to contemplate the fact, and
equally abhorent to discuss it, but it is never
theless true, that there was deliberate, Or
,ganiZed and persistent attempt, at York, on
Thursday, to assassinate the present, as we'll
as the future Republican Governor Of Penn
sylvania. At least twenty reliable and intelli
gent gentlemen corroborate each other in stat
ing that a murderous fire from revolvers in the
hands of Copperheads was directed at the ear
occupied by General Geary and Gov. Curtin,
IN the train carrying the Dauphin and Cumber-
land delegations from York, on Thursday Of
this week.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that the act Of March Sd, 1865, amended
July 18th, 1866, imposing tax of ten per
cent upon banks and banking associations for
paying out the notes Of said banks, does not
apply to private bankers doing business without
/; charter. II, however, a private banker
receives and pays out the notes of State banks,
as the agent Of National Banking Associa-
zion, the statute liability is created.
Active measures are being taken by the New
FORK police to break up the gangs of pick
pockets that infest the street cars and other
public conveyances. Detectives in citizens
clothes will be employed to arrest all suspected
persons who will be registered at Police Head.
quarters and their photographs added to the
Go1Io !, i
dealt with
The Grand Jury at New Orleans have made
report Of the testimony taken with regard to
:he late riot. 1t contains no new features, but
corroborates the statements heretofore made to
President johnson. Mayor Monroe has been
ordered by the military authorities at New Or
ieans to make 10 more appointments CT per
form any other official acts without their ap-
Droval
The President has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen commissioners to the Universal
Exposition, to be held in Paris in 1867: J. r.
:Ereese and Alexander Fl. Stewart, of New Jer-
sey, and j. II. Alexander, Of Maryland-
James A Hall IS appointed and commissioned
borough, Maine.
The New York Herald has what is said to
be a sensation report from its Philadelphia
correspondent to the effect that Governor Cur
tin, Of Pennsylvania, has secretly called for two
thousand militia for service during the session
Of the Philadelp hia Convention The writer
further alleges that it is thought trouble will
cnsuc.
A divorce suit of considerable interest is
about to be tried in Chicago. The dcfendcnt,
Rev Hart l.. Stewart, il, is young Metho-
dist clergyman, who, however, has not Of late
ueen actively engaged In his profession. Mrs.
Stewart is the daughter Of Mr.. Washington
Smith, a merchant Of Chicago.
Queen Emma visited Greenwood Cemetery,
New York, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard on
Friday, beside taking an excursion in a Gov
eminent vessel up the East River At the
I'avy Yard she was received with much cere-
42ony and rendered the compliment of two
loyal salutes Of 81 guns each
Major General Baird, Assistant Commits.
s.oaer of Freedmen Affairs in the State Of
louisiana has tclegraphcd to the Commits
sioner to have two additional surgeons detailed
&c report for duty at New Orleans, with as
itte delay as possible as none could be OBJ
aimed there.
By order of the President the Secretary Of
,irar mas placed upon the retired list, the name
o. Liajor General Richard Dealicld, Of the
engineer corps. Gen. Delafcll has served
OYER tify-two years continuously in the United
States Corps Of Engineers.
i meeting is to be held at New York on We'd
2csday evening next, at which prominent ctl
Zens Of New Orleans are expected to lay before
,he public the facts concerning the late riot
Over eight thousand EuropeanMormons have
passed up the Missouri River this season,
bound Tor Salt Lake City. They are said to be
Of the lowest and most ignorant class Of foreign
2:ligrants.
LIIER FROM EUROPE.