Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAP.
80 showthe uery age and body ofthe Time

The c0iOred people at Buffalo, New l ork,
have shown determination to force their
children into the public schools in that city,
for the education of white children. The City
Council having refused to grant permission,
they sent their children, nevertheless. The
latter were elected by the Superintendent, who
is now threatened with arrest, and a suit at
law under the Civil Rights bill
Two men entered the cars of tie Ohio and
Marietta railroad at Seymour, Indiana, last
night, and making their way to the Adams,
Express car, secured the messenger, and rob-
bed the safe of about ten thousand dollars. :
The robbers escaped.
!. The municipal election atNashville was con.
Quoted under the General Franchise law OF the
State and passed off without disturbance. :
The Radical nominees were elected. Their
opponents talk about contesting the matter in
the Courts
A few cases of yellow fever have occurred
at Green Point. Long Island the disease
having been commune ted from the sick on an
italian bark lying at the wharf there. Three
persons have died, but is thought the danger
is now over.
The cause Of the money spasm just
passed is still occupying attention at the North.
Spectators are always benefited by these
temporary commissions, to the prejudice OF the
entire community, of commerce, and Legitimate
dealers.
Gen. SCOTS will, just probated, bequeaths
all his property to his daughter, the wife OF
Col. Scott, his Pulaski sword to the West
Point Academy, and his sword worn in Mexico
to his grandson Winfield Scott Hoyt.
Judge Wilson, Of the Superior Court Of
Chicago, has rendered a decision adverse to
the widow of Stephen A. Douglass, who claims
dover in real estate worth 100000, in the
southern part Of Chicago.
The N orth American Steamship Company
of San Francisco, is about to enter into vigor,
Gus competition with the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company for the freight and passenger
business via Panama.
Advices from Mexico City to the Goth, state
that Barron, the English banker, died on
the 9th. The body of Macmillan had arrived
at the capital Otterbourg had received his
passports.
Mrs. Fanny Kembe came passenger in the
Java, and has gone to Philadelphia to sec hel
children. Her former husband, Pierce Butler,
died few months since in Georgia.
Several of the prominent citizens Of New
York and Brooklyn, have rendered a compll'
mentary dinner to Senior Romero, the Mexican
Representative at Washington.
Gen. Sheridan arrived in New York on
Saturday, and will be publicly received to-day.
He has accepted an invitation to visit Boston
where reception also awaits him.
It is not thought court of inquiry will be
called in the case of Gen. Sickles. He has
been ordered to await further instructions at N
York.
Mr.. Thomas H. Bell, formerly of Washing
ton. died on the 10th Of February, 1866, OF
typhoid fever, in Humaita, the headquarters
of the Paraguayan army.
From Charleston we learn that great injury
has been done to the crop of Sea Island cotton
partly by the caterpillar and partly by the late
rains
Tar is said to be a speedy cure for the dis
ease now prevailing among hogs. The tai
should be mixed with the corn, and thus fed
to the hcgs.
A cable telegram announces the death OF
Professor Charles King, in Italy. He was
president of Columbia College, in N. York.
Gen. Sterling Price, late of the Confederate
army, and for the last six months doing bust
ness at St. Louis, Missouri, is dangerously i'll.
Lieut.. Com. Fleming, of the U. S. Navy
died at his residence in Mount Holly, N. J.
on the Goth instant.
Several foxes kept in Fredericksburg, as pets
have made their escape, and commenced de-
predations upon the hen houses,
Capt. Ralph S. Fritz, of California, who
recently died, left $4,000 to be applied to
wards paying off the national debt of the u. S
Admiral Semmes, who tried newspaper,
ing" in Memphis, has quit and withdrawn.
FOREIGN NEws-The dispatches by the
Atlantic cable from Italy are conflicting. The
official announcement asserts that the disorders
consequent upon the arrest Of Garabaldi have
been suppressed, and that the country is tran
quill. Other accounts assert the continuance
of serious riots in the cities The Pope has
sent message to Napoleon thanking him fol
the arrest of Garibaldi. From his prison Gar
ibeldi has issued letter declaring that the Ro
mans have the right of slaves to rise against
their oppressors, and urging his fellow patriots
not to be discouraged but to march on to the
liberation of Rome. The Turkish Government
having refused to accede to the demands o.
Russia for cession of Crete to Greece, and
for the equality of the Christians, the Russian
ambassador went to the Crimea. where tho
Emperor is staying, to obtain fresh instruc
tions. Ignatieff has now returned, and de-
cares that his Government insists on the de-
mand formerly made The Sultan has, how
avar at Ienoth annointed Commission to in.