Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-16
NEWS or THE DAP.
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The Fenian excitement is still kept up on
the Canadian frontier and ut Calais, Maine,
there seems to have been free fight between
the Fenians and toWnsmen on the one side and
some provincals who had crossed over tie
frontier line The latter were driven across
the bridge which spans the river that consti-
tutes there the boundary line bstween the ..
s. and the British Provinces. An executed
crate officer named Wheeler was arrested at
Toronto, on Saturday last, and commission as
lieutenant colonel in the Fenian army was found
on his person
An intelligent negro man, in Mississippi,
lately made speech to his colored brethren,
i1 which be told them that he had travelled
much in the North, and found out who was
who, andswhat was what, and that it was a
mistake to believe the Northern people were
any better friends to the negro race than the
Southern people, The Southern men, he said,
would prove to be their best friends.
The Mobile papers have most tantalizing
accounts Of the abundance of vegetables in the
city markets. Green peas were plenty-some
brought from New Oreans-but the most of
them home growth. The finest of carrots,
celery, cabbages, ruta-bagas, radishes, lettuce,
beets, &c, were displayed New potatoes were
also in abundance.
The steamship Vera Cruz, from New York,
for Vera Cruz, &C., went ashore on the after
noon of the 18th instant, during a thick fog,
on Body's island, on the North Carolina
coast. Her passengers, mails and baggage
were landed safely. The greatest part Of the
cargo will be saved.
The Tennessee House of Representatives
has expelled James R. Hood, one Of the ab-
sconding members, charged with wilfully alb
senting himself to prevent quorum. When
brought before the House he persistent)y re-
fused to answer to his name.
In murderous ARRAY at Yonkers OH the
18th, Matthew Tansey was killed and his
brother Roger mortaly wounded, by man
named Delaney, formerly in the Confederate
service. The Tanseys we're endeavoring to
stop fight in which the murderer was engaged.
A special dispatch f1em Washington to
Boston Advertiser states that preparations are
being made to hold regular term of the y.
S. Circuit Court at Richmond next month,
and that the trial of Mr.. Davis may be ex
pected to take place within the ensuing sixty
days
Mrs Jefferson Davis passed through New
York on Friday last, en- route for Canada. She
reached that city by sea, direct from Savannah,
and has, therefore, not been in Washington,
as reported by correspondents; nor has she
been able to obtain permission tosee Mr.. Davis.
Gen. Sheridan orders that all persons en-
barking from New Orleans for Vera Cruz,
Tampico, or Matamoras, Mexico, must have
pass from the provost marshal. The order
causes much remark.
The University Of Louisiana has conferred
upon the Hon Rapdpll Hunt, one of the Sen
ators of the United States elect from louisa
ma, the degree of LII. D.
A disease called chicken cholera, has broken
out among the fowls in St. Louis and st.
Charles counties, Missouri. Numbers die
soon after being attacked.
The Police Commissioners of N. Y ork have
undertaken to investigate the facts connected
with the compouuding of felonies by the police
officials of that city.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says that there
are four hudred and thirtyfour thousand negroes
in the Southern States at this time, who are
fed at the expense Of the Government.
Mr.. Courtenay, the Deputy U. S. District
Attorney of Southern New York, has been ap-
pointed to succeed the late Hon. D. S. Dickin-
son.
Col. Henry n. Cummings, an eminent law
yer of Augusta, Ca, died suddenly on Satur