Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-25
NEWY OF. TIE DAD.
40 s7so,o the ve,y age and body Of the times

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A four story tenement house, corner Of Thlr-
teenth street, New York, was destroyed by fire
on Sunday morning. The building was occu=
| pied by several families The family of Cor
neIius Rottger, consisting Of himself, has VIE
auGl three daughters, aged respectively eight,
| ten and sixteen, were occupying theth1r story,
and fearing 10 leap from the windows, were all
turned to death, being found lying together IN
one group, their remains baked to a crisp.
Another family Of five persons, named Hartz,
leaped from the fourth story, bed being held
below for them to alight on, and two OF them
the father, Phillip Hartz, and son, Edward
Hartz, missing the bed in their fall, so were Sc
verely injured that their lives are dcspaired Of
A paymaster in the regular army Of the U.
S., and but lately chief of al important dis
tlict, is charged with having appropriated to
his own use very large amount Of coupons
attached to scven-tbirty bonds, cutting them
off before paying over the bonds to the troops
in his district. The amount thus dishonesty
obtained is said to cover many thousands OF
| dollars Charges have been prefer red against
him at Washington.
| a circular from the Supt. Of Police CT Mem
| phis has been issued offering reward OF
| fifteen hundred dollars for the arrest of one
| Adolpus Bernard, who had absconded, taking
with him ten thousand dollars in funds, the
property of the Memphis and Charleston rail
road company. Bernard was the late ticket
agent OF the company, and up to the discovery
Of his delinquency was looked upon as honest
and upright.
A despatch from St. Louis gives the follow
lowing version of the recent disgracetr riot at
Platte City: "There had been radical meet
ing in the town, and at It's close drunken rad,
ical named Donagan brandished a pistol on the
street and bullicd the citizens The city mar
shall, with posse, tried to arrest him, when u
scuf1e took place, in which many shots were
fired, and number wounded. y
! An Arkansas paper says gentleman was
lately married to Choctaw belle, Miss Kath-
la-no-he, daughter OF BLACK Cloud, a Caddo
chief The lady is described as & lll-blooded
Caddo, over sig feet in statue, vclJ comely,
and straight as one Of the pines Of or" Northern
wilderness. At the wedding the blidc wore
silver decorations in her har weighing over a
pound .-. -...# .. ,.... ..,I
At Indianapolis, yesterday Senator Her j
W. son addressed Ra1;c@1 meeting. His
speech was most emf ely devoted to abuse
of the President end defence Of Cor ress. He
utterly ignored the question of bonds, taxa, on,
tariff, and negto suffrage He had been wa. ned
Against the latter by prominent Radicals, as
it was a tender point With the party in the
West.
The American Colonization Society has pur.
chased the ship "Golconda," l,0l6 tons, and
Intend to fit her up to carry emigrants to D.
bcria She is expected to sail from Charles
| ton. South Carolina, on the lst of November.
Upwards of thousand freedmen have applied
to the society for a passage this fol. Many
others are getting ready to embark next
spring. ............
The large missionary ship Mol1ing Star,
built at an expense OF twenty five thousand
dollars the money being obt@ined from the
various Sunday Schools waslaunched in Boston
yesterday, in the presence of ten thousand visit
tors. The ship is to be employed in the service of
the American Board of Foreign Missions, aud
will be commanded by Rev. Hiram Bingham,
The Postmaster Gcnaral has, since THUS
day, made about one hundred andfFty changes
of postmasters, and Of twenty five route agents,
the latter principally in the West. In addi-
ton the President has appointed some post
masters and has removed their Immediate
predecessors.
The accounts that reach US iroul the West
as to the great 1reshets last week are really dis
tressing. The great State of Ohio seems to
have been literally ahoat One Of the most
discourag;ng effects Of these disasters is: the
wholesale destruction of The partially harvested
crops.
| For several months explorations have been
making for gold il Montgomery county and
near Washington city. The Rockville Senti-
mel says, ''the facts show that tic presen, of
rich gold deposits within few miles of Wash
| jngton is no longer problematical.
A delegation of Southern business men
mostly cotton factors and planters-are seeking
modification Of the EXISTING rules and regula-
tions under which cotton is transpol ted 70
market, the revenue tax paid and final ship
ment Of it made to domestic ports
James r. Hood, Esq, formerly connected
with the newspaper press Of Washington, and
more recently member Of the Tennessee Leg
islaturc, has been appointed by the President,
secretary Of Colorado Territory. ~.
A collision on the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
| between De Sofa and Quitman, killed seven
and wounded seventeen persons. Two loco
| motives and several cars were destroyed.
Wendell Phillips has declined the nomina-
ton for Congress. Mr.. Phillips assigns as his
roocon for docl; n;nr III ot hn oon cargo tba ro1