Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
10 xboa0 the re,y aye and body Of The Times.

The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday
sent to the Senate communication in response
| TO a resolution in relation TO the appointment
Of Albert E!more as collector Of customs at
Mobile, Ala. The Secretary transmits cory
Of the official oath, taken b. Mr. Gilmore IN
the form required by law. The department
had information, prior TO Mr.. Elmorc's ap.
pointr3ent, that ne had never held office under
the late Confederate Government. nor given
the same aid and support.
\ communication has been received at the
Department of State from our legation at Lon
don, enclosing two pamphlets relating to GER
tain experiments by Dr. James Dewor OF
kirkcaldy, Tor testing the efficacy OF sulphur
Gus acid gas as disinfectant Results arc
cited which lead to the conviction that the dis
cases cholera, linderpest, pieuro pneumonia,
and others, may be not only very much modG-
ed, but even wholly prevented by this means.
The I. S. steamer NyacE- and Suwanee we're
at Panama. The commander of the former,
T. Ii. Newman, died at Callao May 3ist Of
brain lever. The T. S. steamer St Mary S
was to leave Panama for San Francisco on the
3d. for Valparaiso, being strongly fortified.
Admiral Pearson, with the steamer Po|ha'an
and double cn3er Waterce. vas at Caao.
The Chicago Tribune ore of the rabid sup.
porters of the faction now in power: denounces
the Alncndatory Tariff bill as "a pure scheme
Of plumber without the slightest excuse or par
liation,'' and threatens to hold 'every Western
member OF Congress who votes 1T, whatever
bis politics may be, up to the execratlon of his
defrauGed constituents
From the latest Paris fashions, it will be
seen that the newest thing in bonnets is to
have one full blown rose on the top of the
head: the leaves arc supposed to be falling,
and in their fall hang lightly on the VEIL nger-
ing there rs if unwilling to descend to earth. Is
not that pretty? What a love of a bonnet. y
An English counterfeiter of greenbacks has
been arrested at Atlanta He states that the
| bills were made at Nottingham. England and
| that he with niue accomplices, came here for
! the purpose Of peddling them. Three are in
| New York. two in Boston, one in Cincinnati,
one in ST. Louis, one in Nashville and one
| unknown.
| The St. Paul (Minn Press reports the ar
| rival of messenger from the Red River Set
| Element, (some five hundred miles north Of ST..
| Paul who brings the news that cattle train
| Of thousand carts, with furs worth more than
| a hundred thousand dollars: is on its way to
| the lakes.
| 1t is understood that Captain Jerome Titlow,
described in the scene Of the manacling of Mr..
| Davis, is preparing statement, rejecting upon
| the accuracy Of Doctor Crayen's statement, in
regard to that occurrence, and 1t is also said
conradicting some OF the points Of the nara
| tive.
The Savannah News and Herald says, that a
freedman arrested in Macon for the murder of a
woman in Wilkins county, was brought back to
the scene of the outrage and after having por-
| tons of his body mutilated, be was bound to a
tree, surrounded by fagots, and burned.
Generals Steedman aud Fullerton are now
| investigating the workings of the Freedmen S
Bureau in Louisiana Two Justices of the
Peace in Vidala Parish, Louisiana, have been
arrested under the Civil Rights Bill and taken
to New Orleans for trial.
It is understood that General Joseph f.
Johnston, will retain his position as President
of the National Express Company, and also
that of President of the Tennessee and Alaba-
ma River Railroad, to which he has been
recently elected
| Judge Martin L. Conway, at one time a
Representative in Congress from Kansas, orr
ginally printer by profession, has been con-
trmed as consul at Marseilles France,
| The Senate has confirmed the nomination
Of Joseph NJ. Humphreys as collector of Gus
toms at Richmond, Va,
| Victor Hugo, is engaged on a new novel
and Lamartines Memoies are soon to be pub