Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Twelve more of the cholera patients of the
Virginia, in New York Bay, have died, and
ten cases of the disease have occurred among
the passengers who had previously escaped it..
Twenty-nine persons have died since the trans
fer CT the sick from the Virginia to the hospit-
al ship Falcon. The fears OF cholera in New
York city are said to be greatly increasing
Governor Fenon has issued proclamation
comforting upon the Health Commissioners ey-
traordinary powers. ~
We have two kilograms relating to Mr.. Da-
Wis The first states that Mrs. Davis applied
to President Johnson for permission to visit
her husband, but the request was not granted
for prudential reasons simultaneously with
the above comes a telegram from Montreal
stating that she had obtained the required per-
mission, aud was to leave Montreal for Fortress
Monroe by the first train.
Mr.. Wells, the Chairman of the i. S. Reve-
nue. Commission, in response to a letter from
Secretary McCuloch relative to the equaliza-
ton Of soldiers bounties, as proposed by Con
gross, and which would add from two hundred
and fifty millions to three millions to the public
debt, has replied that any increase of the
present taxes would be ruinous to the country.
The average increase of wages during the
last year was 81 per ct. whilst the ayerge de-
crease in the cost Of living is % per Ct Stats
tics show this 1t is therefore, argued, that q
demand for temporary higher wages, in the
nature Of things is unjust, and cannot be sue
cessful, and is likely to be injurious to the per-
sonal interest Of all workingmeh.
Three indictments have been found against
the Rev. B. T. Kenny, an aged Baptist clergy
man Of Missouri, for preaching without taking
the test oath He was seized in his house
after dark, taken ten miles: held in durance
through the night, and only released in the
morning BY giving security to appear fer trial.
Among the appointments sent to the Senate
on Tuesday was that of Wade Hampton, esq,
to be postmaster az Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
vice S. Ven Bonhurst Radical removed
Mr.. Hampton is Republican: supporter of
the Presidents policy, and an old merchant Of
Pittsburgh. ........
Within the past vast week sub-Reconstuc-
ton COMMITTEES: composed Of the middle and
Western State delegations, have been formed,
and caucuscs have been he'd at which it Was
determined that the extreme views of some Of
the New England men must be abandoned or
voted down -. -. ......E
& row occurred at g circus at Crittenden,
Kentucky, night before last, when the rioters
fred into the circus killing one Of the perform.
ers and wouading two others, and also several
Of the audience The rioters escaped.
\ man in Jail in Newbuyport Massachusetts,,
named Golden makes q statement that be
knows all about the famous DR.. Burdell muir
der in New York, and that Mrs Cunningham
offered him s25 900 to Kill Dr.. B.
The active demand this spring for the ferti-
lizers which were 50 popular before the war is
favorable indication Of the spirit with which
farmers have commenced the operations Of the
year. - ; \ =, s'-~.
The emigration from the Southern States of
persons heretofore engaged in planting, to
Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, appears to have re-
ceivea no check, but rather an additional i'm
pulse.
The best cotton plantations in Alabama
which brought tron eighty to hundred dol
lars per acre IN specie times, may be now bought
at from fifteen TO thirty dollars, currency.
w llllam Il. Walker of Philadelphia, first
class clerk, has been dismissed by order of Sec
rotary McCulloch, for using improper language
and ungentlemaply conduct
Edwin Booth made his first appearance for two
yearsin Philadelphia at the Walnut Street
Theatre on Monday night, He was received
with great enthusiasm.