Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-03-29
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4 committee of gentlemen from New jersey
had an interview with President johnson yes
terday to congratulate him on bis restoration
policy &c. After the resolutions we're read,
President johnson replied, thanking the COM
mittee for the encouragement thus offered him.
| He stated that his position was such as needed
announcement from those who are DESTROYS Of
maintaining the principles upon which the
| Government was founded. His line Of policy,
he added could not be mistaken. AT his adj
vonced age he took no step backward
The New York Board of Health have gone
to work recently with great activity and rigid
scrutiny to find ont nnisanccs and to abate
them, with particular reference to the cholera,
whose visit is seriously unprecedented. For
some two weeks they have directed their atteD-
ton to the slaughter-houses and catte-pens,
which are nearly all within the city limits, aud
which, being decided to be nuisances, are to be
ordered outside of the corporation.
McsSrs Burr and IDgersoll, of Connecticut:
have published in the Hartford, Connecticut
Times an account of an interview with Ptcsl
dent johnson with reference to the coming
election in that State. The President defined
his position, repudiating the radical Republl-
can candidate for Governor. ''The question
he said of my restoration policy is now the
paramount question, and all who oppose 1t are
my opponents.
The North Carolina papers are full Of state
ments going to show that plantations in that
section are being rapidly brought up by North
erners A Jerscyman recently purchased
twelve hundred acres in Wadesooro, al
eleven dollars per acre A New York coa-
pany arc on the point Of taking ten thousand
acres in the same State, on which they will
settle English emigrants.
A schooner lift Baltimore on the 10th inst,
Tor Accomac county, Va, having on board Mr..
William Lewis, brother Of the captain NlT.
Tully Lewis, a merchant of Hunting Creek,
Accomac county; Mr.. Chandler, Of the same
place and colored hand Some time during
the following night the schooner upset, about
twenty-three miles off Tangier beach, and every
person on board was drowned.
Mr. A. T. Stewart is building magnificent
private residence in Fifth Avenue, New York.
The walls, begun more than year ago, are
nearly completed. It is Of the Corinthian
order the most ornamental Of the styles Of
architecture The building is of marble, lined
with brick. The cost of the building Will be
about ST, 5000 900.
The principal person engaged in the robbery
of bonds and securities to the amount Of a
million and a-half of dollars, belonging to Mr..
Lord, of New York, has been arrested at New
burvport, Massachusetts. 1t is not known as
vet whether any Of the stolen bonds have been
recovered.
The recent failure in Providence for about
a million dollars was that Of an extensive cotton
manufacturing house having on hand a large
amount Of cotton purchased at high prices,
and also heavy stock of manufactured goods.
Among the la:e arrivals at Havana is Robert
Toombs Of Georgia, who has been negotiating
for the purchase Of a sugar estate; but it is
said be could not raise the necessary amount of
funds.
The House Of Representatives has passed a
bill to authorize the construction of stupen-
deus suspension bridge across the Mississippi,
at St. Louis.
The old residence Of the late Com. David
Porter, on Meridian Hill, near Washington,
Was burned down few days ago.