Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-03
NEWS or THE DAP.
80 x7,o1o the re,y age and body Of the times

| 10 SHOE the re1V age ana 0oo9H' nc '"'le'
On "Wednesday night, JAS. I. Harmer: ez-
alderman and assessor of the Second Ward OF
PHILADELPHIA, while engaged in political dis
cussion with party of six Or seven others, an
cry words were PASSED and blows exchanged,
which finally resulted in FIarmer being shot By
a man named Bastian. Mr. Halmer has always
been & prominent Democratic politician, and
was well known in Philadelphia.
| The English journals refer to the ravases 9!
the cholera in Liverpool and the country ada
cent. The malady has also made its appear
ance in London. Thirteen cases and five deaths
had taken place ia hospital alone, during the
week prior to the steamers departure At
Southampton it was making dreadful havoc, no
fewer than eighty four eases and fifty one deaths
having occurred.
4 week or ten days since forged check for
$4,000 was paid at the First National Bank
of Philadelphia. Yesterday the forger was cap
tured at the depot, on the arrival Of the train
from Baltimore, with the entire amount OF
plumber in Fivc-twenty bonds He had IL the
interval married wife in Baltimore, and came
On his bridal tour.
Some nine years since, he scheme for tun-
nelling the English channel, so as to connect
France and England, was made public by its
protector N. Gamond Now itisagain brought
forward The distance to be tunnelled, includ-
ing Gyc miles outside Of the water on each shore
will be about thrty miles.
A. serious riot broke out on Wednesday
evening, among the troops in garrison at Fort
Schuyler, New York It does not appear to
have been suppressed until after four or five
men were shot. It is surmised that the out
break was occasioncd by the fear Of cholera.
Major r. T. Eckert yesterday rendered his
resignation as Assistant Secretary OF War, to
take effect at once, that he may accept the pc
sition Of general superintendent Of the eastern
division Of the American Western Union and
United States CONSOLIDATED telegraph lines.
The War Department, on July 30tb, issued
an order relieving the Chief Of Engineers from
duty as Inspector 0? the Military Academy at
West Point, and appointing Gen. f. SchyiYer
Inspector General, to the charge Of the same
as Inspector Of the Military Academy.
\ Nashville dispatch, received from General
Wood, says there we're Ito cases Of cholera on
Tybee Island Ga, or the 18th ult., Of which
half proved fatal The troops coming to the
Southwest from New York are reported 10 be
infected with the disease.
The races at Saratoga are to be prohibited
hereafter, through the influence of the Messrs.
Lelands, the hotel propretors at that place.
The reason assigned is that the races were inju-
rious 10 the character Of the fashionable water
Ing place.
Twenty six new cases of cholera and six deaths
were reported at New York yesterday. Nine
teen new cases and four deaths were also re-
ported at Brooklyn Nine new cases and two
deaths occurred also Philadelphia.
Another fire has occurred at the Pitholc oil
region, Pennsylvania which destroyed ten thou
sand barrels of oil and other property, engines,
tanks, &c The loss is estimated at one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars
From New Orleans we learn that the yellow
fever has made its appearance at Vera Cruz
A revolutionary movement at the City of Mex
leo had been suppressed, and the parties ban
ished to Yucatan.
Gen, D. G. McCallum, director and genera!
manager Of i. S. military railroads, was relieved
at his own request: by the Secretary Of Ware
the 3lst ult. The necessity for tic Office has
now ceased.
Three cases Of cholera were reported in Co-
cinnati or Thursday, all in one family, mother
and two small children. They died or differ,
ent days, but after short illness
The Presidents message to the Queen, con-
tanning seventy-seycn words, passed through
the Atlantic cable in eleven minutes, and was
delivered TO the Queen almost Immediately.
Three hundred exiles from the Rio Grande
have arrived at ,Hanpico