Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sRo,y the ucy age and body Of the times.

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REASONED from the kiowa indians. The girls
say that Oh the 9th of August last the Klo"as
attacked their home in Northwestern Texas,
and killed, scalpcd and burned their father :
Themselves. mother, and a sister, eight years
old, were carried off into captivity.
In the u. S. Circuit Court at Treuon n. j.
yesterday letter was read by Judge Field,
from Judge r. G. Grer, stating that he had
received letter from Chief Justice Chase,
with an opinion showing that the United
States had no right to hold circuit courts any
where until there is new assignment of the
circuits lately made at Washington, so that he
can hear 40 more cases as circuit judge until
after next December.
The opponents of Sunday car travel in Phil
adephia made two applications for al lnjunc-
ton against the Uhion Passenger Railway, to
prevent the running of the cars on Sunday,o one
from pcw- holders and householdcrs along the
line. ara thc other from stakeholder or the
company. The question has been deliberately
argued before Justice Strong, who gave his
decision adverse to the company on Thursday
last
The Chicago Driving Park Association had
meeting yesterday, to take into consideration
the best means Of dSposing of the property at
Driving Park 1t was resolved that all racing
should be discontinued on the grounds OF
Driving Park that no more purses shall be
given by the association for public racing, and
that the grounds shall be kept exclusively for
a driving park until disposed Of by the asso.
citation.
Yesterday Baron Stacked, for many years
the representative Of the Emperor OF Russia
to this Government, waited upon the PreSi-
dent, in the company Of the Secretary of State,
final departure. The Russian Government
will be represented b. NJ. Waldemar Bodisco,
who has been attached to the legation for a
number ofyears.
As the Paymastcrs train on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad was proceeding south
ward yesterday, the train, was thrown off tie
track by rail which had been loosened and
pulled from its place by men as the train APP
preached the vicinity Of Bowling Green Mr.,
Church, the trainmaster, was seriously injured
BY the ovcrturnng of car The robbers OBJ
tanned $ll 900.
The schooner Constitution Captain Smith,
from WILMINGTON, n. c., for New York, was
of Hattcras Inlet on the 9TH instant, with the
captsn, mate, and one man sick Of typhoid
fever. All the rest of the crew had died.
She was boarded BY one of the pilots, aud
brought into the inlet in a very leaky condi-
ton.
The latest Montana advices report that
forty miners out OF a party Of scveniy-fye, in
the Green river diggingS, were killed by the
Cheyenne Indians, and the remainder driven
away The miners On Wine river were also
driven eff by the Sioux, and were compelled to
flee to the nearest forts.
The funeral of John S. Rarey, the great
horse tanner and much respected gentleman,
took place at Groycport, Allegheny county,
Pa, on Sunday, Octobcr7. The attendance
of friends from all parts Of the country Was
very large, maay persons being present from
Pittsburg.
Conversions OF the sevcn-thirty notes fall
Ing due August 1857, into five tWcntics con-
tinue to be made 20 the Treasury Department
at the rate Of something less than $1,000, 900
per week There arc nov outstanding about
$27O, 0O0. 900 OF this issue Of seven thirties.
A despatch from Ottawa in Canada, says:
Military men say that the object Of the Britl: h
Government in sending additional troops TO
this country IS not SO much to guard against
Fcnian attacks as to be prepared for more
serUns consequences.
\ coIorcd man employed upon propeller at
Chicago, H., lass Tuesday asked the mate for
some money. when the latter seized him and
threw him overheard Efforts were made by
others on board to save the man from drown
ing, but without avail
4 dispatch from San Francisco says "A
dctaicalion is reported which will amount to
half million dollars in currency. The proprie
tor and hookkeeper have absconded, and it is
believed they have gone to China or Panama.
In the case of Captain J. Il. Bryant, late of
The I'recdmcn's Bureau, at Augusta, Ueorgia,
charged with larceny, after trust was reposcd
in him by the freedmen, the grand jury Of the
Superior Court have ignored the BILL.
The Secretary Of the Treasury yesterday
received two 800 Seven-thirty bonds of the
issue of August, 1864, from Rev. Arthur j.
DornclIy, pastor OF St. Michacps Church, New
York city, who received them from a pcnitcnt
The proposed visit Of the New York 7th
regiment to Paris is attracting much inter est.
and board Of officers have the matter under
adyiscmcnt The cost in round figures will
amount to 100000.
1t is estimated that the centennial fund OF
thn Methodist EOiscnnal Church, which was