Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAP.
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The passenger and freight depots Of the De-
troit and Milwaukee and Michigan Southern
Railroads and the ferry steamer Windsor were
destroyed by fire last Friday night. The loss
| 10 the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad by fire
will reach s20O,O0o and Michigan Southern
Railroad will lose $50, 000 The fire was occa-
stoned by barrel of kerosene oil, which leak
ing, was ignited from lamp.
The farmers are very active in making prep
arations for large crop Of corn. Land which
was idle for years before the war, has been
broken up for corn, and the work is going for
ward with determination which promises
success so far as the efforts of man can accom-
plish it. re
At a convention Of fraternity lately held in
the city of New York, we'll attended by ex' Off
GERS of the Federal army from all the Northern
States, Henry Kid Douglas, esq, of Winches-
ter, Va, was elected to deliver en- Grafton be-
fore the next convention, which will assemble
in Philadelphia next December
4 national cemetery has been commenced at
Winchester, Va, under the direction of COL
J. N. Moore, A. @. ~, which is intended to
contain the remains of the T. S. soldiers buried
in that portion of the Shenandoah Valley. It
is situated near the ruins of the old Quaker
church.
An order will be issued in day or two
mastering out all volunteer staff officers. This
will include all adjutant generals, quartermas-
tiers, inspectors, commissaries, surgeons Of the
volunteer corps, (excepeing those in the service
of the Freedmen Bureau ect. ect.,
A numerous delegation of New York whis-
key spectators arc endeavoring to induce
Congress to reduce the tax on whiskcy, A
delegation of tobacco manufacturers are also in
Washington to get the tax on manufactured
tobacco modified.
The negro testimony bill before the Tennes-
see Legislature passed the House on Saturday
on the first reading, and will soon become a
law. Gen. Fisk is urgent for its passage, in
order that he may abolish the freedmen S court.
Mrs. Anna Ell. Hahn has sold 1861 acres OF
land adjoining the village Of FcrrestTille, in
Prince Georges county, Md, for the sum Of
S., 1000. It was purchased by Charles Fredcr-
lex Anderson, esq, of Washington city.
Cave johnson, formerly Postmaster General,
was recently elected to the Tennessee State
Senate, but that body has refused to allow him
to take his seat on the ground that be was dis
loyal during the war,
Thirty thousand copies of Bancroft Grafton
have been ordered by Congress, and are now
being printed at the Government Printing Of
fee The frontispiece is q, steel engraving Of
Abraham Lincoln.
The House Committee on Elections, in the
case of Follett VS.. Delano, have unanim ously
agreed, we hear to report in favour Of Nlr.
Delano, the sitting member.
The revenue officers at Louisville, Ky, have
seized the books Of the Louisville and Cincin-
natl Mail Line Company for their failure to
stamp freight receipts
Nearly all the leading mail routes in Texas
have been reconstructed, and postmasters who
can take the test oath appointed
Rev r. L. McMurran has resigned the pas.
tolship of the Presbyterian Church at Shep-
herdstown, West Va
The Senate WIS not in session on Saturday.
In the House the time was devoted to the de-
livery of speeches.