Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-10
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after the aSSaSSln5tlO HIS peeh pow
for services and damage TO his furniture on 'haC
| ever memorable night. Among the items
charged in the bill was one OF sl5O FER injury
done his carpets; $50 for personal services; -
for Gas, and a large numter o! similar charges
r. is also said tha! anothereharge was MADE LOT
Gloss of time in exhibiting The room IN which WI
the President died to the throng OF people
who hockcd thither to crafty their curiosity
This claim, hoWeytr, was dsalloWed
The newspapers are, very properly, Syenll-
la,ing" tie fraudulent confidential circulars
parties promising prizes In lotteries upon
recent Ct a certain sum. This fraud was ex-
posed by publication in the Gazette, from tue
pen of one Of our most respected citizens, rev
DAYS aso. A concern called the Mutual Pro.
tec.ivo Union of Connecticut is, also, held up
as 'waruing. Why are not the writer's OF
these circulars prosecuted?
The long pending ascot Blackburn vs. geo.
T. Craufurd and others, taken up from the
Prince Georges (Md.) court, to the Supreme
Court of the I. S., Involving the title to all
The landed estates OF the late DR.. David Crau-
furd, was decided On Monday In that Court
The Judgment OF the Court below, which was
in favor of the appellces, was reversed, and the
case remandcd for new trial.
Extracts from the testimony of various per
sons given before the Reconstruction Com
mittee Of Congress, touching the state of pub
lie feeling in the South Western States, are
published in the papers. aThetestimony seems
to be designed to show that Southern people
4 are rot s,lffioientysloyal, and ought not TO be
trusted. There may be testimony, still strong
er, to the contrary
In letter to a meeting of conservative cl'1-
zens of St. Louis, the Hon Edward Bates sub
iects The Frcedmen's Bureau bill to merciless
analysis, in which he exposes the Interior
revolutionary object Of the proposed statute,
and depounces with logical severity the danger
Gus subterfuge Of its contrlverS, which was
couneraced by the prompt and bold interposi
ton of the President.
Shad are becoming plentiful in the New
York markets Last week, about 1900 OF
them were brought from the rivers and sounds
Of North Carolina, and few from further
south. and the promise for the next week or
two of much larger supply is good. Those
row in market are bought up as quickly as
they appear at prices ranging from 81 80 each
and upward.
The jackson (Nlississippi) News states that
beautiful plantation in Madison County,
valued at three hundred thousand dollars be-
fore the war, has been sold to Bostonian for
6nv thousand dollars in greenbacks.
Two persons have recently been arrested at
the Presidents House, fvr muilating the fur
niture, and carrying off strips Of the curtains
as relies that's the phrase nowadays.
At sale of the personal effects Of deceas.
ed prostitute in Cincinnati, few days since,
the excitement to gain ingress was remarkable.
The trial Of Detective Baker, on an indict
r.eut for as ault and robbery of Mrs Cobb, .
has been postponed until the 20h inst.
The celebrated CIGAR slip, the Rose Winans,
was launched in the Thames OF the 20th ut.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS- Senate
yesterday came to vote on the joint resolution
rorosing constitutional amendment SO as to
fix basis IF representation in Congress. After
the rejection Of several proposed amendments
to the resolution, the vote was taken on It's
passage, and rcsuItcd-yeas %, nays %. The
chair thcreupon announced that, as the resolu-
ton had not received a two-thirds vote, it was
~ To-
tie vote was recAnsdered when.a motion was
made 70 amend il 50 as to base representation
on the number CT voters in each State. Other
amendments were also offered but without
further action the whole subject was postponed
until Thursday next, and the Senate adjourned
until Monday. il
The House, by vote of 50 to TO- recommit-
ted to the committee on the judiciary the bill
to protect all persons 10 the several States in
their civil rights, and to furnish the means of
their vindcation In committee Of the whole
the new reciprocity treaty bill was discussed,
and an amendment adopted taxing bituminous
coal one dollar and twenty five cents per ton
instead Of fifty cents as proposed IN the bill.
The committee then rose, and the House ad-
Ijourned.
Oscar T. Burns, Of Albion, New York, is re
ported as an absentee, and defaulter to the
amount cf more then 100000 He was large
ly engaged nspeculation in real estate, oil stock,
&c. 4 great number Of banks are largely in
volved by the transaction.
There are in the vaults Of the Treasury De-
partment $l4, 240, 900 In five dollar rotes. To-
tai amount of all denominations, $40, 00O
The Treasurer will receive in a few days from
the Bank Note Company, 100000, in ones
and twos Of the greenhack issue.
1t is estimated that the Fourth Auditor S
| Office has during and since the war adindicated