Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-12
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The Agricultural Department has received
information showing that the crops throughout
the country are in better condition than had
been anticipated, as the weather during the
spring had been very unfavorable. The pre-
sent appearance of the corn crop is promising
and the oat crop throughout the whole country
is unsurpassed All cereals promise u large
yield, aud it is expected that the crops will be
unusually heavy.
Considerable excitement prevailed in Phil
adelphia yesterday, in consequence ola report
to the effect that the cholera had broken out
at the navy yard, on board the frigate Chatta-
nooga Five men on the ship have certainly
died within the past few days, but it is given
out that the disease which proved SO fatal was
not Asiatic cholera, but cholera morbus. The
officials at the yard would give no information
on the subject.
1t is said that the Cabinet is at variance
with respect to the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
The President is said to have determined to
veto the bill, but was opposed by Secretary
Harlan, the latter being supported, to some
extent, by Secretary Seward, who, we are told,
fears the effect of so many vetoes.
The importations Of dry goods for the fiscal
year ending June so were valued at $l37, 000,-
900, being $50: 900, 900 more than the impor-
tation Of 1860, the heaviest previous importa-
ton. The average value of dry goods imported
for ten years, ending June 80, 1865, was ST.
100000.
The National Union Executive Committee,
whose headquarters are at Washington, has
issued an explanatory circular to facilitate the
appointment of delegates from the several
States and Territories to the Philadel phia
Convention, which meets on the 18th of August
next.
A special despatch form Washington to the
New York World, states that serious differ
euce has occurred between President johnson
and Secretary Stanton, in regard to the inter
probation to be put upon the Peace Proclama
ton, in its relation to the writ ofhabeas corpus
Among the speakers at the late Conservative
Union Convention in St. Louis, was an ole
acquaintance, Nat Claiborne, formerly o.
| Franklin county, in this State, and notable ii
political and Legislative circles.
4 thousand bales of cotton were destroyed
by fire at Mobile on Tuesday last The loss
which is estimated at one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, was covered by insurance.
A negro man has been arrested in Prince
Georges county, Md, for an outrage on {
respectable widow lady, and another negro mar
for shooting horse.
The Nebraska Legislature in joint ballot have
elected Gen John NJ. Thayer and T. W. Tip
ton, to the United States Senate. They art
both Republicans.
The Senate of the Legislature of Tennessee
has adopted the Constitutional Amendment.
No quorum of the House of Representative
has yet appeared.
The preliminary survey of the branch of tn
'Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, to Wash
ingtop, commenced last week near Collngton
Payu aster Remington's safe, in Memphis
was broken open on Tuesday night and tel
thousand dollars distracted.
The Juarez government in Mexico, is abou
to DC established at chihuahua The Liberal
| have invested Tampico