Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-06
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| The statement OF the puDnc ueDt Tor the
months ofJune and July, just rendered, shows
| a decrease for the year ending the 1st instant
Of 1924, 1853, 500. 4S. The present amount Of
debt. less cash in the public treasury, is s2,,
633, 099, 276. The coin in the treasury is S6l,-
s22, 126: ard currency s75, 995, 206-total coin
currency $l37,3l7,332 The debt bearing coin
interest is 81 242 628 AL, the debt bearing cur
rency interest 81 ,079, 66S, 959 the debt bearing
no interest s443 AS, O46, and the matured debt
! not presented for payment $4,67O, 100.
There were twenty-scven cases of cholera and
ten deaths in New York, and torty-seven cases
and ten deaths in Brooklyn reported by the
Board of Healrh on Saturday The total num-
Der of deaths from all causes for the week was
seven hundred and ninety-nipe The mortality
Of the week from cholera, in the city and ad-
jacent islands, was nearly two hundred cases. =
Thirty-eght new cases of cholera occurred IN
the penitentiary on Friday. Measures are
being taken to get the epidemic under control
in the public institutions.
The officers Of the secret service division OF
the Treasury have been for several months
watching for some clue which might lead to the
detection of the parties engaged In the manu-
facture of counterfeit $50 compound-intercst
notes-counterfeits which were well executed,
and have had an extensive circulation. The
detectives have at length succeeded in secur-
ing nearly 100000 in the counterfeit currency,
and also the plates from which the notes were
printed
The Cape Ann (Gloucester) Advertiser says
"there never before was such scarcity OF
mackerel in our market at this season. At
this time last year from thirty or forty sail OF
baymen had arrived home, and business was
quite lively on the wharves The fish specula-
tors find it rather dull pickings at the present
time, and there is lively competition among
them when trip arrives Prices are daily
advancing ...s ...~
A woman in Ohio recently was riding on
horseback, smoking pipe Some of the igni-
ted tobacco fell from it on her dress, which i'm
nedately caught fire. She endeavored to ex-
tinguish the blaze, but her horse became I'M
manageable and Whirled round rapidly, aud in
a moment she was enreloped in flames. There
was no escape for her. She was burned to
death ....
The Washington correspondent of the Phil.
adelp hia Inquirer denies the report: circulated
By number Of Northern and Western journals
that delegations representing the commercial
men in New York and Philadelphia have been
in Washington urging the President 10 appoint
q successor to Secretary McCulloch.
A despatch from the U. S. Consul General
at Havana, dated July 25th, states that only
vessels from New York have thus far been sub
iect to the quarantine restrictions established at
that port, but they will also be applied to yes
sells from other ports where the newspapers re-
port the cholera to exist.
The New York city newspaper propretors
have held q meeting and decided that the rates
proposed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company
arc too high. 4 committee was appointed to
confer with the telegraph directors, and 1t is
believed that moderation Of the rate vii re-
suit from it 7ery soon. .l1
The proper officers ofevery railroad company
in the United States have been requested to
allow delegates to the National Union Convcn-
ton at Philadelphia on the l4,h inst. to pass
over their roads at reduced rates. Many Of
them have agreed to do So
a special despatch to the New York Even
ing Post states that Attorney General Stanbery
has given an opinion that the nominations Tor
public officers rejected by the Senate during
IFS recent session. can be legally made by the
President during the recess.
a salesman Of large sugar refining company
on Wall street. New York, is said to be de-
faulter to the amount of from eighty to one
hundred thousand dollars, and to have fled to
California, on Wednesday, with fifty thousand
dollars.
A dispatch from San francisco states that
be Liberals assaulted the garrison at Acapulco
Mexico on the 22d ult, but we're repuIsed
with loss, leaving the dead body of their COM
mander in the hands Of the Imperialists
The old Moyamensing Hall in Philadelphia,
which was recently taken possession of by the
Board of Health for cholera hospital, was
set on fire and totally destroyed on Saturday
morning.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: eve under
stand that the estimable wife of Gen. John G..
Breckenridge, at present temporarily residing
in Canada, presented him a few days since
with twins"
The Printing Bureau Department at Wash
ington is now printing ten million stamps Of
different denominations for beer barrels, as reau-
red by the recently passed law.
1t is reported from Washington that the
Presid snt is only awaiting the return of Post
master General Randall to remove large num-
Der Of postmasters.
Rev. Mr. Mlburn, popularity known as the