Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-17
NEWS OF THE ID Y
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. The Recon struction Committee yesterday re-
ported large mass Of testimony including
that of Alexander II. Stephens He spoke
from extensive correspondence and converse
tons with leading men of Georgia, giving as
his deliberate opinion that the people of that
State are exceedingly anxious for the restora-
ton of the Government and fol the State to
take her former position in the Union, and to
enjoy all her rights and discharge her obliga-
tions as State under the Constitution OF the
u. s., as it stands amended.
. On Thursday Of last week brilliant wedding
was celebrated in St. Peters Church, Morris
toWn-the parties being Capt. James j. Van
Horn, Of the 9th U. S. infantry, and daugh-
ter of Col. John G. Rafferty,. On Tuesday of
this week, while the bridal pair were passing
their honeymoon at the Astor House, New
York, the bride was taken i'll, and in short
time was corpse.
81 Another large fire at Portsau-P Prince, Hayti,
March 10, destroyed fifteen squares and most
Of the public buildings. The origin Of the fire
is attributed TO incendiaries, and the plot is
thought to have been general, as at the same
time fires broke out in Jackme, but were ex-
tiuguished without doing much damage.
Another incendiary attempt was made at Port
au-Prince on the 22d of March.
We have fallen on pestilental days, remarks
New York paper. Cholera in the Orient,
Italy and South France, Trichina in Germ any,
Rinderpest in Russia, Holland and England,
whereunto the Sheep Plague is added-these
are not all. Even the birds in Italy are dying
by thousands of miasma, and marine epidem-
ic on the coast has made shrimps of the French
oysters.
The American Consul at Halifax reports
that the physicians Of that city, after careful
study of the characteristics of the disease on
board the steamship England in that port, con-
cur in pronouncing it Asiatlc cholera. All the
passengers are still detained at quarantine, and
precautionary measures have been taken to
prevent the disease from spreading.
The Times represents the New York land
lords to be in agitation about their incomes
Rents have come down and houses are to let.
People have gone out Of town or taken rooms.
They cannot pay half their incomes in rent
The fact is, trade has become stagnant, bust
ness depressed, and profits greatly reduced
Salaries and wages must fall.
Sureau Lamirande, the absconding cashier
of the Bank of France, who has been arrested
in N. Y, was infected with the Wall street
mania-he speculated in stocks. His specula-
tons were failures, and four hundred thousand
francs of the money entrusted to bis. care are
alleged to have been lost in that way
By order of Gen. Grant, Maj e. NJ. Camp,
commanding at Soldiers Rest, in Washington,
will discontinue the special relief in rations,
&C., to discharged soldiers and their families
at the ''Rest, on the 1st Of May. Ratious
and quarters will as heretofore, continue to be
issued to soldiers in transitu.
The Fenians on the frontier have achieved
their first triumph Nine Of the crew Of a
Fenian privateer have captured revenue flag
on Indian Island A suspicious brig was
brought into Eastport, Maine, on Saturday
night by the United States revenue cutter.
The Texas Constitution abolishes slavery,
places freedmen on an equality with the whites
before the law, and gives the Legislature pow
erto guarantee railroad bonds for iron contracts.
It will be submitted to the people on the fourth
Monday in June.
An explosion of gas took place yesterday
evening in the barber shop in the basement Of
the Eutaw House, in Baltimore. The shop
was considerably shattered, and the occupants
made narrow escape. The hotel was not
damaged
The agony in regard to who shall be Collect
or of the port Of New York in place of Pres
ton King,sdeceased, is now over The Presi-
dent yesterday sent to the Senate the
nomination of Henry A. Smythe, for the
place.
Cassius NJ. Clay, U. S. Minister to Russia,
writes letter supporting President johnson,
and denouncing the course Of Stevens and
Sumner. Mr. c. M. Clay was an original
emancipationist, and radical republican.
English papers report that Mr.. Gordon
Cumming whose hunting adventures in South
Africa some years since, gave him world wide
reputation, died at his residence at Fort Au-
gustus on the oath ult., aged 49,
Terrill and Withers were rescued from the
Spencer county (Ky.) Jail on Friday morning
by party OF seven men, who threatened the
life Of the jailor on his refusal to unlock their
cells.
Letters to the Methodist Conference report
that Bishop Soule is dying.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. -Petitions
were presented in the Senate yesterday, asking
for reduction Of the duty on foreign barley,
acd for an increase of duty on foreign wool
The military committee made favorable re-
port on the House joint resolution extending
the thanks of Congress to Major General Han.
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