Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAH 7.
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the steamship Baltic, in the port of Bremen
haven, Prussia, by the Prussian authorities.
1t is not known whether the sailor was natural"
lied or not, but he was on the ships articles
as having shipped from New York. He was
surrendered by our Consular Agent at Bremen
haven as Prussian citizen Mr.. Henry Funk,
late Mayor of Muscatine, Iowa, it is reported,
was also seized lately by Austrian officials In
| Austria, while on pleasure tour, and forced
into the ranks of their army.
A gentleman who has just visited Portland,
Me-, says the people are covering the devasta-
ted region With temporary frame buildings,
one story in height, that present curious
appearance in localities that were formerly
occupied by large and handsome structures.
Some of the citizens, he was told, went to New
York to buy building materials soon after the
| fire. and found that everything available or
that nature had been bought up by persons In
New York with view to speculation. They
had also engaged all that could be prepared
within a certain time. The Portland men
were obliged to purchase of these spectators
at advanced rates, or not at all.
A letter from Saratoga says of the young
| ladies and the water there: A whole bcvy of
them about the spring with their futtering
ribbons, and their funny little perkings and
twitterings, and twitchings, looks like some
flock Of rare, gorgeous, noisy birds, picking up
their breakfasts with pretty red bills They
skim back, however, to a much more substan-
tial breakfast at the hotel, fitting 10 from s to
10 o'clock, for they cannot forget their city
habits, as why, indeed, should they, when there
is no element of country life TO remind them
that they have escaped from the bondage Of
conventional habits and artificial hours.
Governor Wells, Of Louisiana, has issued an
address to the people of that State, in which
he charges that the recent riots in New Or
leans are attributable "to the slaveholding
aristocracy." He is Of opinion that if the
military forces be withdrawn the lives of Union
men will not be safe, and concludes by asserting
! that the security Of both of the Government
and of the Union depends upon the ratifca-
| ton Of the Constitutional amendment, and
upon granting negroes the right to vote. If
these opinions place him in opposition to the
President he (Wels) must acceptthe situation.
In the negro Convention now in session at
Nashville, Tennessee, there are said to have
been some quite stormy debates. The Mayor
and City Council have sued out an injunction
against the new Police Commissioners authori-
zed by the late State Legislature. Charges
we're preferred against the Commissioners
which they pronounce to be false. The case
was expected to be argued in the course Of a
few days. ...#--.-...
A lady, wholly unknown, applied for admis-
sion to the residence Of family in Belvldere,
N. j., during the thunder shower Of last
Saturday week, and was kindly taken in. She
has remained there since, eating nothing,
and refusing to hold conversation or tell any
thing about herself In the meantime she
continues to be kindly cared for by the family
circle in which she has become so strangely
domiciled.
Gen. Kirby Smith has declined the Presi-
dency of the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad,
| to which he was lately elected. He left Lynch
burg last week, with his family, for Kentucky,
which State he has adopted for his place Of
residence He will enter at once on the dis
charge of his duties there in connection with
the telegraph and the insurance companies.
AS practical joke, petition numerousy
signed was addressed to boarder at one of
the hotels in Saratoga-a hard water-drinker
requesting him to leave the place, as he was
exhausting the spring His capacity is prod
igous.
Prentice says that expanding so many mil
lions upon the Freedman in the form of rations
| ism rational, and that the man who stamps
upon Northern radicalism and rebel radicaism
is man of the right stamp.
Rev. George D. Cummins, D. D., of Chica-
go, has notified the standing committee of his
acceptance of the Office Of assistant bishop of
the diocese of Kentucky, to which he was
elected by the late Episcopal Convention.
| The news by the Java leave it in doubt whe-
Their peace was yet certain between Austria
and Prussia; but the advices of a much later
date, received by the cable, would seem to
place this question almost beyond doubt.
AS Messrs. Bowen and Debow, opposing
candidates for jailer, were standing talking
together one evening last week, in Mercer
county, KY, both were struck by lightning
and both instantly killed.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that ferry companies are liable, under
the law, to tax Of three per cent on the gross
| receipts from the transit of beasts, teams and
| passengers.
Mormonism is largely on the increase
| Seven thousand have passed through St. Joe
from Europe this season.
| Mestern hrink LAYERS have strnck for s. 80