Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAP.
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The people Of North Carolina last week
voted on the question Of the ratification or re-
lection of the new constitution Of that State
But little interest seems to have been taken il
regard to the result, and very light vote was
cast. At Wilmington the vote stood For re
lection 27S, and for ratification :. The result
IN the State is act known.
The National Intelligencer publishes letter
from lawyer Of high standing in New Orleans
to friend Ia Washington, throwing light upon
the recent riot in that city, going to sustain the
charge that the whole riotous movement was
concocted in Washington by the Radical lead
degs, for partisan purposes:
Some producers say that the production Of
peaches this year will not be one fifth what it
was last season. Thus far, but very few
have appeared in market, and they are quite
inferior, being brought from the far South
AS yet, Maryland, New jersey, and Delaware
have sent scarcel y any to market.
On the 9th all was quiet in New Orleans.
Many families arc coming in from the adjacent
parishes, for fear ofnegro insurrection. Dostie
and Horton were buried quietly. Trouble was
anticipated, bet lone occurred. The military
investigation will continue for several days.
It seems to be expected in Canada that
another Fenian Invasion will soon take place
The militia are kept drilling, and an attempt is
being made 30 have Parliament prorogued il
the latter part Of this week, to avoid an inyes-
tgation of the Fort Eric affair
The John Henderson, jr., member OF the
Louisiana convention who was killed during
the late riot at New Orleans, was a son of a
former United States Senator form Mississippi,
and before bis removal to Louisiana an inmate
Of the lunatic asylum ct Jackson.
! Some Of the land owners in the burnt dis
trict Of Portland are obtaining as much rent
for their land as they used to get for their
buildings Rents will probably be increased
one hundred per cent in the neHly-built por-
tions of the city.
In the State of Ohio there are ninety-seven
| Episcopal parishes and one hundred Episcopal
clergymen. Twenty of the former are without
services. The total number of commandments
is seven thousand two hundred and seventy
| two.
News from Port-au-P Prince, Hayti, Of July
| Is, states that the instructions at Gonalves
had been completely suppressed, enc free par
don was to be extended to all the Insurgents
| hut three.
Eleven deaths ~ cholera are reported al
New Orleans since the lst instant The ply
sicians pronounce the disease there Of maig
nant type.
The Republican Association Of the 9th dis
trict. New York, have unanimously repudiateG
its representative 10 Congress, Nh Henry J
Raymond.
Only five cases OF cholera were reported a
New York yesterday, Two Of which proved
fatal
BY the explosion on the steamer Lytle, OF
the Ohio River, fifteen persons were killed anc
about seventy wounded Ten OF the wounded
have since died
The Yacht Alice, of % tons, from Nahan
Mass, arrived ct Isle of Wight England OF
the 10Th ult.
The Fenians, ii is said, are organizing il
Indiana under the form OF q benevolent society
| E. T. Pilsbury, of Pennington. Maine, was
unanimously nominated for Governor Of tina
State yesterday. Ea"..
| Thomas Swami, jr., only SOD Of Governor
Swami, died in Baltimore yesterday.
General Dick Taylor, is q delegate to tht
| Philadelphia convention.
Prince Hohenzollern is having a silver LEI
madeto replace one lost at Sadowa.
! The Springfield Mass Republican, WHOSE
right to be called a Union paper not the mos
radical can dispute, thus exposes one feature o
! Ire fraud which was contemplated in conncc
ton with the New Orleans Convention.
1T is acurious Illustration ofthe irregularit
Of the convention movement that after it wa
called to meet on the 30th Of July, the Cover
nor ordered an election ofdelegates to fill vacan
ces on the Sd Of September, after the conven
ton would have been in session over mouth
The reason for this doubtless was to give tn
present delegates the opportunity to carry ou
! the programme fixed upon before it could b
interfered with by those fresh from the people
who would have been majority, for SINAI
portion only of the State was represented il
the old convention