Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-05-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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New York quarantine. No deaths have taken
place nor additional cases received on board
the hospital ship Falcon since Friday last, and
all on board are reported to be in a fair way of
recovery@The steamer Erin, from Liverpool,
with |, $50 passengers arrived at New York on
Sunday. The Erin reports four deaths on the
passage-the causes not mentioned. She be-
longs to the same line as the England and Vir-
ginia
Mr. Thomas Cook, Excursion aud Tourist
Manager" advertised in London, towards the
the close Of February, a monster, excursion to
America, which, if the party was made up,
was to have left Liverpool about a week ago.
The tour, as proposed, was to comprise visit
to Western Canada, Niagara Falls, the Lake
cities and the Northwestern States as far as
St. Louis, returning by way Of Cincinnati,
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Yark,
h A letter dated Wietz, Grand Ducby of Lux
embourg, in Germany, April 5th, ys:-'The
greatest alarm prevails throughout the district,
owing to the dreadful rayages made by cholera
at Diekirch and the urrounding:villages Be-
tween the evening of the 1st and the morning
OF the Sd the deaths amounted to hundred
out of population of only two thousand souls.
All the means hitherto employed to arrest the
progress of the epidemic have been in vain
A letter from Paris says:-"C rinohne, for
which the manufacturers Of the article have
been long doing desperate battle, is decidedly
doomed. At Lady Cowley's last ball all the
most fashionable people, including her daugh-
ter, Lady Royston, appeared without it, and
the like phenomenon was observed at the high
ly pratronized British Charity Ball at the
Grand Hotel -
The burglars who were engaged in the robbery
of the Harrison National Bank Of Cadiz, Ohio,
were over taken. about two miles from La
Grange, Ohio, yesterday. A sharp encounter
took place, in which one Oft the burglars WAS
wounded and three captured One succeeded
in making his escape, but is closely pursued
The amount Of money recovered will probably
cxceede $l50,000. s
Gen. Candy was before the L. S. Circuit
Court at New Orleans, on Saturday last, for
contempt in preventing the execution OF writ
Of sequestration obtained by the U. S. Treas
urer against five hundred bales of,cotton No
decision was made in the case. Judge Darrell
said he might as well close the court if its writs
were disregarded. -' .....,.,.
Judge Fowlc, of Raleigh, N. G., issued an
Loot bn
Gen Kruger for refusing to recoG nize the writ
of habeas corpus, issued in favour Of Major Gee,
now on trial there before military commits.
sion Gen. Kruger refused to be arrested, and
no further action will be taken until the matter
is laid before the President. - ~
Major Hastings, Of Alabama, whose first ex-
petition for Brazil proved failure by the
wreck of his vessel in the Gulf Of Mexico, has
just been compelled to return to Mobile after
a second start by small pox breaking out among
his passengers. . --.w~..-- ..EEa ~.
Blind Tom is giving his wonderful entertain
mcnts at New York. A few nights ago he
rected from memory speech Of the late Ste
phen A. Douglas, delivered in his hearing at
Lynchburg in 1860, This African boy is so
great wonder that crowds flock to hear him.
A new food is coming down from all the
Louisiana rivers, and the whole Of southwest
eln Louisiana will be ove,fowed No progress
has been made in closing the crevasses. The
loss CT property and crops will be immense.
Fannin county, Northern Georgia. has been
the scene Of 50 many disturbances recently, that
Governor Jenkins has deemed it necessary to
call upon General Thomas to send troops there
to keep the peace ~ .-....-.5.
A New York company has undertaken the
work Of Introducing the electric telegraph into
China, and DR.. Macgowan has been appointed
to proceed forthwith to connect Pekin with
Canton .---.---...-
Dr. Hover, of New Orleans says the cholera
never visits warm latitudes in summer, but the
cold, damp weather Of the fall and early spring
produces it, and that it dies out in summer.
Gov. Peirpoint is Catching it," on all sides
He certainly, says the Richmond Dispatch,
twas bigger man when he first came to Rich
mond, " than he is ever likely to be again
The steamer Ephcsus, sailed on the 7th Ill
timo, from liverpool for Norfolk via Boston,
but at last advices nothing had been heard
FROM her .. L = VI 4
!. The President has recently appointed, as his
private and confidential Secretary, the Hon.
Edward Cooper, one Of the members of Con-
gress elect from Tennessee.
General Candy, in New Orleans, has ordered
a cholera quarantine of all New York shipping
Colonel R. Y. Montague, collector Of the
port Of Noble, died on Monday from paralysis.
In Alabama, houses, trees, and fences were
leveled by the storm on Sunday night.
REPORTED RIOT IN FALMOUTH, WA
special dispatch to the Richmond Examiner,
under date of April 30, says "A terrible riot