Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-11
NEWS OF1THE DAY
$50 shovtAevay age and body Of tie Times

The Brighton House. outside OF the city
limits, at Chicago, together with stables, shed,
&c, was burned on Saturday afternoon; loss
$4,000 to $4,000, on which there is ar in
surance o.. SIS, 600 in Chicago Offices. Ten
horses were burned. On the same day, about
2 O clock, the boilers in MARBLES Touring mill
Aexploded with tremendous violence, tearing
the buildingto fragments and scattering the
debris over the entire neighborhood. The
iron root was thrown, almostin a compact mass
! distance Of one hundred feet. The building
took FIRE after the explosion, aud was entirely
consumed; loss estimated at 9$75s 900, The
engineer is missing and is supposed to have
been burned In the ruins. {tsi a3 hi't9.s
Y Yesterday at Brownsville, Tennessee, a suit
against the Southern Express Company was
tried, ia which the plaintiffs claimed damages
for goods destroyed by the Federal troops on
an express car id + Virginia. The Express
Company plead that their billsprovided against
damages for loss by fire or the common enemy
Judge Butler decided that the Federal troops
were not q common enemy, and rendered q
verdict for sixteen thousand dollars against the
company. t4 .H.j va .s s'.'s':
A New York correspondent says THE
Italian Opera has been obliged to succumb tor
awhile The aAiricainc' wasadvcrtised to be
sung this evening, but it has been withdrawn
on the plea that the house is required for re-
hearsals during the entire week. The fact is,
the losses of the season thus far have been be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 '.,'l l, ;.z :a.'
It cannot: be learned that the President has
yet taken any further action relative to the
colored troops in the District of Columbia. a
delegation from the white Conservative volun-
teer organizations has protested to him against
the breaking up OF their companies; the color
ed companies have sent request to General
Grant, not to be disbanded.
An Omaha dispatch says, full representa-
ton OF northern Sioux, Cheyennes, Arrapa-
hoes and Crows will meet the Indian Commits
sion at Fort Laramie. The Commission will
return to North Platte about the 18th, where
all the southern Sioux and Cheyennes, who
are represented as very anxious for peace, will
meet them. 49,, ..,,,t.,.a >..s....s,.., !
A letter dated St. Johns, Porto Rico, o.
tober &c. states that we last night had a
severe gale Of wind and rain, In which several
coasters were lost ut the wharf, and Spanish
bark and brig driven aground, but all the for
eign vessels arc safe. No serious damage was
done ashore various buildings being injured a
little" o:...4. o
The Nashville Gazette says Men con-
versant with matters agricultural assure us that
from ten to fifteen fold the usual amount of
wheat will be sown this fall. Our planters
have become heartily sick Of cotton. Thous-
ands on thousands Of acres devoted last year
to the delusive staple will be. sown in wheat. y
Joseph Whyte, esq, died at his residence in
Baltimore, on Saturday, in the 77th year Of
his age. In the various Offices be held, such
as Navy Agent, Judge Of the Appeal Tax
Court, and as Director OF several Institutions,
he always discharged his duties to the satisiac-
ton of the public t{i,g tIItJt5I IL
Ships Astronom and Constantine have arriv-
ed New Orleans from Bremen with AZ emil
grants Most of them, for the Northwest,
we're taken aboard steamboat for St. Louis
without landing. Quite number of emigrant
ships have arrived at New Orleans lately.
Gen. Howard, the Commissioner of the.
Frcedmen's Bureau, has left Washington on
an extensive tour of inspection through the
South. He will also visit Kansas to see what
chance there is in that State for employment
for idle freedmen.
The brewers of Chicago recently notified
their customers that alter Monday next, they
should advance the price of ale from SO to Sl2
per barrel. The saloon keepers have, there
fore, held convention, and resolved to resist
the advance i atEr'.i.. &E.'E5 1s. F.!
" Capt. David Kinklcy, Of Livermore, Maine,
died on Friday, aged 102 years. He voted
for Washington for President, and remember;
ed Gen Arnold expedition upthe Kennebec
river. ~. i.h .s.>..-s 5sg5 r.
= An order has been issued by the War De-
partment lorbidding clerks and other employees
O! that Bureau, to hold interviews with claim
agents during business hours
On Saturday, Gen. Ord ordered the arrest
of Col. VIM. II. ,McCaudle, editor of the
Vicksburg Times, it is said for personally de
nounciug him. ~
The schooner Atlantic, of Baltimore, was
sunk near Providence, r. l.. on Saturday
night Officers and crew all safe.
The vile of Senator Nyc, Of Nevada, died
at Oswego, New York, on Saturday.
Mr. Stanton has returned to Washing ton.
SHERIDAN's RIDE Now AND THEN-A
COMPARISON When General Sheridan made \