Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"T1 shoe the rery age and body of the Times

: 10 SlGlr the refy age ana hody OF ne IWTS.
: A despatch from Nashville to the Democrat
says: son Tuesday night two dry goods stores
at Dechard, Ala, were burned, also a drug
store and saloon Loss $4,000. The losers
were W. H. Brien, Bricn &Austin: DR.. Brown
and Joseph Lenborn." ..
The Shoe and Leather Reporter says that
for all kinds of goods, except light work Tor
summer wear, there appears to be complete
stagpation Prices. are TO better, and all sales
of shoes already made up are at losing rates.
The steamer Tonawands, which left Boston
on the 10th of March for Havana, has been to-
tally wrecked on the Grecian,l shoals, west Of
Florida. The passengers and a portion of the
crew were saved
One hundred and fifty negroes attempted a
revolution at Panama Oh the l4th March, but
they We're surrounded by troops and shot down
like sheep Twenty-Five or thirty were killed
and a hundred made prisoners. ...'.. 7.
The total loss Of steamers and cargoes by the
fire at ST. Louis, is about half million dollars.
the insurance on which amounts to about
$500 900, in St. Louis, Cincinnati Pittsburg,
and New York Offices, - -,..-. ...
4 small Chilian steamer, named Paquet de
Maude, with $50 troops on board, has fesD
seized by, the Spanish. Peru, Bolivia, aud
Chill are still preparing to repel their com
mon enemy. ~"
ED. Rich's Bank of Exchange, at Buffalo:
n. Y, closed doors yesterday 1t is thought
everything will be paid. The cause of the Sis
pension is stated to be the embarrassment Of a
New York house. - " 10 -"'.'
T A dispatch from Washington to the Phila
delphia Press, intimates strongly that meas
urcs are to be taken to restrict Executive
patronage, and confer the appointing power, in
all but few cases, on Congress. l
/ The latest Yankee notion is a National Blu
reau Of Education, y which will secure uni
form system, and carry ont the ideas and opn-
ions of the citizens of the ''hub" by law.
1 The, New York Citizen says that James
Brooks, of the Express will be reelected to
Congress without any substantial opposition
next November.
In the straits of Dover, on the evening Of
the 25th of March, was experienced the sever
est storm tina: has swept over the English coast
for several years. rs.a1 s, ga.l, Il.
/, A furious norther is reported to have pre-
vailed within the past few days off the coast of
Texas A number of persons at Corpus Chris
ii were drowned. Z < = ~ ~ ,,.s.
General Scott was expected to leave New Or:
leans for New York on Friday. His health
has been gradually improved by his trip.
A despatch from Halifax says there is about
100 cases of cholera on board the steamship
England. There has been 40 deaths.
| Aserious conflict of jurisdiction has occurred
| between the State courts of South Carolina
and the military jurisdiction, under General
Sickles. The courts have sentenced white
men, convicted oflarceny, to be punished with
stripes under the old criminal code of South
Carolina. Siekles forbade the execution
ofthe sentence, for the reason thatIit was alb
.horrent to the ideas of philanthropy and usages
Iioi modern civilization. The Circuit Courts of
the State have, therefore, it appears, declined
to try criminals at all. The President is ap-