Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-14
NEWS. or THE DAY.
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A large meeting Of the soldiers and sailors OF
Maryland, to select delegates to tie Cleveland
Convention, was held in Baltimore on We'd
nssday. a series Of resolutions were adopted
approving The policy of the President, and a
delegation 10 Cleveland was appointed. Col.
Mau}sbury, the chairman, while msking an
address, was interrupted by a radical, when
rush was made Cor the latter and he GctIeated,
firing pistol at the crowd as he went. On
being arrested he confessed that there was a
plot among other radicals to provoke riot
which had been suppressed onlyby the prompt
itu6e Of the persons present.
Advices from Europe by the cable are to
noon on Wednesday. The Emperor Napoleon
has sent special mission to Mexico to confer
with Maximiau. A Berlin, Prussia, paper
in an article en- the Eastern question, charges
that Russia in reopening that question is not
actuated by pacific motives The steamer City
of London sailed yesterday for New York with
one hundred thousand pounds in gold. The
London Times states that the Mexican Empire
has withered away and that the country should
be left to itself.
4 correspondent of the Richmond (Fa.)
Times, writing from Lexington, says:-"lhe
Valley Of Virginia is recovering rapidly from
the effects of the late war-more rapidly, in
fact. than any other section of the South
This may be attributed to several reasons
First, the ready adaptation of its soil toany sys-
tenn of labor Second, the comparatively
small number Of freedmen. Third, the indom-
liable spirit OF energy that charaeterizes all
classes of its people.
The convention Of the officers of the National
banks Of the Northwest, was largely attended
in Chicago on Wednesday. The object of the
convention is consultation in reference to re,
dem ptions, taxations on circulations and de-
posts, and the amendment introduced in Con-
gress which requires national banks to redeem
their currency in New 7 ork, Philadelphia, or
Boston. The convention passed resolutions
Disappearing of the amendment.
In Western Arkansas a silver vein has been
struck, which for several days yielded eighty
pounds daily, then became exhausted. A
mining company in Northern Louisiana on
Friday struck solid block of pure lead weigh
ing thirty-threc tons. Other large blocks were
found at a distance of eleven feet below the
surface of the ground.
The Canadians continue their preparations
for another Fenian raid. Two batteries OF
Armstrong field guns are on their way from
England The Canadian Government will
purchase one thousand horses Immediately for
huzzars and artillery.
General Grant has accepted an invitation to
be present at the annual meeting of the Soclty
Of the Army of the Tennessee, which will be
held at Cincinnati 90 the 10th Of November.
The Chronicle, the organ of the radicals in
Washington, is urgent for the passage of laws
by Congress TO organize the negroes OF the
Southern States on q military footing.
Mr.. Joe Jefferson, the comedian, made his
temperance OF the Olympic Theatre, in New
York, on Monday evening, after an absence of
five years.
The trade sales, in New York, now going
on, show an advance of about ten per cent. in
books, as compared with the prices last Spring.
TEXAs.-Gorernor Throckmortin Of Texas,
has sent in his message to the Legislature. He
recommends the establishment OF common
schools; the appointment of a superintendent
of public instruction, with duties defined by
law change in the tax law, permitting the
assessment and collection Of taxes in specie on
": the sale to the United States government
Of land belonging to the State north Of the
upper Red river for Indian purposes; call
for laws to regulate labor to enforce labor con-
tracts law allowing the collection Of a special
tax from freedmen for the establishment Of
schools for their particular aud exclusive ben
eft the establishment Of orphan asyums; the
modification or abolition Of the existing stay
law, &C. He also disapproves, in strong and
unequivocal language, the proposed addition
of fourteenth article to the constitution CT the
United States. General Hood was invited
to seat in the legislative halls by committee,
and on his appearance was received with silent
honors, all the members standing respectfully
until he was conducted to seat The coming
Texan crop of cotton is estimated at three hun
dred thousand bales.
Cholera Reports.
ST.. LOUIS, September l2.-Therc were
thirty-six deaths from cholera yesterday.