Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-09
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ceiyed letters from Rome, appointing hlm
Apostolical Delegate, with authority to con-
yeno Plenary Council of all the Archolshops
and Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church ID
the United States during the present year.
The period for the assembling OF the Counci
has not vet been fixed, but it is understood
that it will take place in September Or October
next.
It has been ascertained that goods to quite
large amount have recently been smuggleo
from Montreal to Cincinnati st. LOUIS CleVe-
land and other points 10 The West Only a
small quantity of the goods thus brought across
the frontier has been seized ; but the aggregate
value Of articles captured from smuegers at all
points during the past month Is estlmateo al
eighty thousand dollars.
The Canadian auth critics, in anticipation OF
a Fenian raid, have issued orders calling OUT
Immediately ten thousand volunteers At
Montreal guards were stationed at the afno-
rles and every preparation made tor any emer-
yencv that might arise. Great excitement ez-
st,d on III" frontier TIE Canadian mll'tla
v.re called out IN Wednesday night to guard
the gu p-nSiJr B idge at Nagara.
A land slide Occurred near Pittsbnrg on Sun
DAY nigh: lat, which d'slodg d five thousand
tons # rock; covering the Pitt>burg and Con-
nel>ville Ra lway tract for distance "fa hun
bred and fifty feet, and fal ing through the root
of the middIing buildings ofthe Pennsylvania
fo, &c crushed it in, broke the fl, wheel, covered
ND the tar mill rrain ofr Hers and furnace, and
destroyed most Of the machinery.
The Lvnchhurg (Va.) Macs Of tie 9th ult
says: I'VE regret to hear from gentleman VINO
passed over the Virginia and tennessee
railroad from Wythevlle yesterday, that the
wheatis looking very badly. The unrreceden-
ted cold has frozen.e out, and the prospect 1or
a full Weld is by no means hattering.
The Macon ga. Journal says that so far as
the South at large is concerned, no. them and
all other white emigraots will not only be free
from any other annnyances than such as are
common to the whole people, bat also that such
immigra.ianis generally desired by the the peo-
ple
Madame Murat Of Tallahassee, Florida, wld
ow of The late Colonel Achile Murat; and hrst
cousin to the Emperor of France. has received
from the latter life annuity of twenty thous-
and francs thousand doars-in consdera-
ton of her losses by the results of the war.
According to general instructions issued to
Government agents, ''horses and mules aban-
d;ned by the United States armies in the
course of military operations will not DC seiz"d'
unless under instructions from competent au-
thority hereafter to be issued.
At the Falkland Islands, besides the an'hra
cite coal deposits previously discovered, fine
quality of hituminous coal has also teen found,
and the English government has determined
on terrifying the islands, and party of miners
have been sent there.
The termination of the British Reciprocity
treaty revives claims and pretenslons, and may
reawakcn irritation, and give rise to collisions
en1angerng the tranquility, as in times past
they have jeoparded the peace of the two coun-
tries.
Out of the original issue of sixty million of
dollars in grecnback currency, receivable IN pay
ment Of customs, but three hundred thousand
dollars are outstanding, the remainder having
been redeemed and cancelled.
Sixty thnusund dollars worth Of cotton
brought to New York from Brownsville, Tex
as, was condemned and confscated to the uses
of the Government in the u. S. Circuit Court
of New York on Tuesday last.
Gen. P. St George Cooke, y. S. army, hay
ing been assigned to the command Of the De-
rartment Of the Platte, has been relieved from
duty as Superintendent Of the General Recruit
ing Service.
The Union Convention of Pennsylvania, for
nominating a candidate for Governor of Penn
Syjvania has selected General Geary as its
standard-bearer in the coming contest.
TheN,w Yo,k San notes that last week the
d, cine in wholesale prices was greater than in
any week since the present downward move
ment commenced.
All vessels from the West Indies are by mill
ta:y order, subj scted to twenty Eve days quar-
IN inc at the ports Of the United States, 10
guard against cholera.
1t stated that the vignetta of Jackson will
appear on the new is>ue of ,hr f,e cent fraction
al luneucy.
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