Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-24
.ANDRIA.
sATURDAY.EYENING, MARCH "a, 1866.

~ The House Of representatives, yesterday, BY
vote of S3 yeas to. SO nays, passed the loan
bill, which was reported from the Committee
3sof Ways and Means with some important
amendments The. amendments were made
with view to limit the powers ct the Secreta-
;of the Treasury in funding he United States
notes. Y The first provides That not more 5than
zen millions may be.retired within six months
from the passage of the act, and thereafter not
more than four millions in any one month. -
The second provides that the Secretary Of the
Treasury shall make a full report3to Congress
@ofall his operations under the provisions Of the
bill. ga 5t..s. :9z: i. s3,la;s sl u
81 The Washington correspondent Of the Bal
timore Sun says:-sssA gentleman OF this city
having sued General Terry, commanding in
Virginia, for $4,000 damages, in the United
States Court of the District Of Columbia, for
an injury which he and his family suffered
while temporarily sojourning last summer on
the Eastern Shore Of Virginia, an attempt is
now being made to procure a special act Of
Congress to prevent a trial The proposed bill
was drafted by the counsel of Gen. Terry ex-
pressly to fit the case. -
q Our Consul at Liverpool, England, informs
the State Department, by letter dated March
9th, 1866, that all the steamers and cmigrant
ships now leaving that pot for the United
States are filled with emigrants. Ship owners
and others say that the emigration to the United
States will be enormous; and the indications
are that it will be greater this year than at any
other time since we have been a nation.
1 The Wilmington IN. c. Herald abiding to
q report that secret societies exist throughout
the South, organized to foment disturbances,
hopes that the guilty persons may be brought
to punishment. It adds: Good knows North
Carolina has had enough Of war to last her for
the next century. yrE.5
An extensive prevalence Of smallpox in va
rious parts of the South, AMI the facility with
which it spreads, renders it proper that the
people should everywhere avail themselves of
the preventive against that dangerous conta-
gien. Vaccination should be carefully attended
to, by every head of family. .a.,
The United States Consul atSheAfeld, Eng
land writes to the Departm ent Of State, under
date Of March 6, 1866, that. the steady increase
Immortality among the cattle is creating a-seri-
Gus alarm. It has now extended to the sheep,
which is a proof of its contagious character
The repairs to the Winchester and Potomac
river railroad are fast approaching completion
to Winchester, Va. The track is now laid to
within two miles Of the town, and tits expected
the remaining distance will be completed by the
frst}of April. At
-Thereis much speculation as to whether the
President, will, OF will not, sign the Civil
Rights" bill. A few days VIII determine
DIR. Snow, of Providence, who has given
much attention to the subject Of sanitary rega-
lations, has memorialized Congress in opposi-
ton to the proposed quarantine orders as a
barrier to the advent Of cholera. He considers
them as utterly useless for The object. The