Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-14
NEWS or THE DAY.
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Thomas B. Birch and A. D. Evans, two
highly respectable citizens of Baltimore, who
were arrested by General John E. Wool while
in command in that city during the war, have
determined to procure judicial decision upon
the questicn of the Generals, or Of any gene
RAILS right to commit such acts They some-
time since entered suit in the United States Cir
cult Court FIR that city, and the case is still
pending. When the docket was called, a few
days since, the defendant asked for continu-
ance of the case on account of the absence Of
important witnesses.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Fair, held yesterday, it was resolved, in
view Of the pressing necessity for food in the
interior of Georgia that SIS, 900 be appropriated
for immediate use in that State; that $4,000
be invested in Flour, Corn, and Meat, and
shipped at once to Savannah, subject to the
order of the Governor of Georgia, Charles j.
Jenkins, esq.,, and that $4,000 in money be
sent to the Governor, to relieve immediate
cases Of want.
The Southern Relief Fair in Baltimore was
closed last night Agrander and more success
tul affair was never witnessed in this country.
1t has more than fulfilled the expectations Of
its originators, both as regard the receipts ard
contributions, and the attendance which was
immense during the whole period of its con-
tinuance up to the minute when the gong
sounded its closing hour.
The steamboat Financier, bound from Pitts
burgh to New Orleans, was burned on the 18th
inst, at Remington Eight lives were lost.
The boat and cargo, consisting of agricultural
implements, iron, nails and glass, we're totally
destroyed Insurance on the boat, $25 1000; on
the cargo, $4,000; mostly in Pittsburg off
| ces.
Gov. Peirpoint on the 9TH instant, designa
ted Col. Chas Il. Lewis as al Aide e-camp
on duty under the act of Assembly authorizing
the appointment of one Aid, to receive pay
when on duty, according to the rank designa
fed by law; the pay to commence on the lst of
April, 1866.
The Leesburg Washingtonian says I'VE
are GLAD to hear that the money which was ille-
gally exacted of Tbos ". Edwards by Chap
lain Ferree, the former agent of the Freedmen
Bureau, atthis place, has been promptly re
funded to him by order OF Gen. Howard.
The news from England is that butter had
there fallen 3D. pound Butter has no doubt
been hurried from all quarters into England,
and elut in the market is the consequence
1t is to be hoped the price will tumble here.
The church, in New Orleans, in which the
Methodist Conference is holding its sessions,
was struck by lightning on Thursday night,
during the prevalence Of one of the severest
storms which has visited New Orleans.
A railroad train fell into chasm produced
by burning bridge, on railroad in Vermont,
yesterday, and one person was killed and seve-
raj seriously injured. The locomotive ''leaped
over the chasm, but the cars fell in.
The Tennessee House of Representatives
has passed bill DISTINGUISHING and prohibiting
all from holding Office, who participated in the
late war, in opposition to the government Of
the U. S.
The Mississippi Clarion advocates the cleo
ton of Gen. Johnston to the Presidency of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Gen. Bragg, who
was presented as candidate, has Withdrawn.
The ,workmen have commenced the founda-
tion of the new Banking House, for the use of
;. the First National Bank Of Harrisonburg Va.
Gov. Hamilton, Of Texas, blames the Con-
vention there, for not passing laws sufficiently
republican y
Mr.. Geo. B. Lipscomb, one of the police
officers of Georgetown, D. c., died in that
place yesterday.
The Fenian excitement in Canada seems to
be somewhat abating.