Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-11-26
NEWS or THE DAT.
80 sAopc the:pe,y age and body ofthe times.

The executive and general committees having
charge OF arrangements for welcoming Congress,
haze had several meetings and have -designatzz.
ell certain OF their members to visit Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York to raise funds fer
the demonstration, which is to- include a ban
qnet, aeproeesson, etc. The fair building, cor
ner of rhe avenue and Seventh street, Will
probably be used as a banqneting hall. lin
vita,ions have been sent to all, the Governors
Of the so-called loyal States to be present.
The steamship Kingfsher, of Messrs. Nor
decai & Co S B fillmore and Charleston line,
which lett on the 10th instant, foundered
in severe gale sixty miles southeast Of Cape
Hattcras. The officers, crew and passengers
sock to the sr,al boats, and after being exposed
for some hours to the mercy Of the storm were
Fl ally rescued except four, by the United
States stean-frieate Susquehanna. ~"
The Coolic trade has revived in Cuba. Two
thousand Chinese were to arrive IN about
month. They gave entire satisfaction t" The
planters. The business Of the West India
and Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steam
ers has been tailure-at least, it had not he
result expected-a in all probability the line
would be discontinued altogether
A terrible tragedy occurred in Omaha,
Kansas. on Thursday night. The fire safe in
the wholesale grocery store of H. R. King y
Co., was robbed of $4,000; clerk named
Higgins, recently from Pennsylvania, was
murdered in his bed, and the building set on
fire to cover up the decd.
A number of gentlemen from Alabama and
Georgia are at present in Indiana, soliciting
aid for the poor of those States. They state
that hundreds arc actually starving; and un-
less aid is furnished them many will perish
from famine during the winter "a
The Metropolitan Steamship Company, Of
New FORK, has purchased the Neptune line of
steamers between that city and Boston, for
the sum Of three hundred thousand dollars.
Boston shippers will at once establish new
line in place Of the Neptune
Theviyt completion of the Chicago lake
tunnel was announced on Saturday. The
workmen were within thirteen inches of the
lake end, and an augur hole had been bored
through to the other side, showing that the
two ends meet with exactuess .sjg T.: -a4a
Cen George H. Stuart, of Maryland, late
Major General in The Confederate service, was
pardoned by the President on Saturday. His
pardon was recommended by General Grant,
the Attorney General, and a number of promi
nent army officers. ~ tn -.- ..
A fire occurred at Kansas city, No, on
yesterday. which destroyed property to the
value Of 100000, and two clerks in store
were burned to death, and another much in
jured By jumping out Of a three story window.
On the 18th instant, the Susquehanna ar
rived at Havana, where General Sherman and
Minister Campbell were received with marked
attention by the authorities. 1t is understood
that they would remain in Havana one week.
It is announced from the Chincha Islands
that the guano is disappearing so iast that in
the course of few years the supply will be ex-
hausted, and those islands be again given up
by man to the aquatic birds of the Pacific.
The Presbyterian General Assembly at Mem
phis, will continue its session this week. 1t
has been largely attended, and the greatest
harmony has characterized its deliberations.
Many eminent dvines arein attendance
The Legislature Of Tennessee has passed a
bill making it good ground of ''challcnge for
cause" as to The incompetency OF a"y juror,
that such person is cot qualified voter OF
thar S ate. .:r..-...
1t is reported that the cattle disease l. rag
ing with singular fatality in all tho~c cuunties
ia Re ntucky where the Texas CAT it imported
during the summer have been herde1.
Minister Rou,err, at Wa>hinstop has re-
ceved late Mexican advices which TIA e that
the French troops have lost nea' ~ tn" who'e
of he State OF Pucha.
General DIX. the United States Minis e. to
France Jeff New York for Southampton on
board the Bremen steamer New York, Oh Sat
urday last. .::<..
Two squares in Mobile we're burnt yesterday.
Til y contained some thirty or f'lty houses.
The loss is estimated at one hundred thousand
dollars 81
Hon HerSchel V. johnson has resigned the
office of United States Senator, to which the
Georgia LEGISLATURE elected him ..s-.s.-. So.
n. P Willis, the well known poet and jour
nalist, is quite i'll, having had severe paralyte
stroke. -. u -5.' ..@
The Arkansas Legislature has elected Hon.
Jno IT, Jones. of Phillips county, Us.
Senator.
1he Fall in Pr.ce Business.
The commercial and financial reaction which
was manifested last week in New York and