Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-29
NEWS OF THE DA ?.
$40 sho,o the vsry age and body Of the times.

Great excitement Is III" eAlslluS III Ai""
don. Vermont, owing to the discovery OF
the body of daughter of Mr.. Gco1enoush
buried in her fathers cellar. The girl has been
missing for some time and it was supposed
that she had either committed suicide been
accidentally drowned in one of the mill streams
or ponds in the vicinisy Mr.. Goodenoush has
been arrested and lodged in jail at Rutland on
suspicion of having murdered her, the report
being that he wished to get rid OF her on ac-
cout of her being Of unsound mind
The splendid portrait of Queen Victoria, III
enamel, says an English paper, to be presented
to Mr.. George Peabody, has just been COM
pleted, after a twelvemonth's work. 1t has
been painted in enamel by Mr.. +. A. lit from
life-size portrait taken by Mr.. Dlckenson.-
The portrait must be sent to the Minister
in Washington, in the course of a few days
and it is said that Mr. Peabody only waits now
in his own country to receive 1t, lntenalng ~
return to England Immediately. e."
| Several prominent merchants of Charleston
visited General Sickles on Tuesday, and as
sured him they would heartily cooperate with
him in the work of reorganization. General
Sickles replied that the military would not IN
terfere in political movements as partlsans A.
G. Brown, of Mississippi urges the acceptance
of the conditions imposed in the Sherman bill
on the people, on the plea that a conquered
people have no rights which the conquerors
! are bound to repect. "'L".
The Revenue bill enacts that any person
who shall sell, give away or otherwise dispose
of any empty cigar box or boxes which have
been stamped, without first detacing or de-
stroying such stamp, shall, on conviction OF
either offense, be liable to penalty OF one
hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceed
ingly sixty days, or both, in the discretion OF
the court, with the cost of the trial.
A letter from Jacksonville, Illinois, contains
information from gentleman recently returned
from the lower Mississippi, relative to the dis
astrous foods in that section. He states that
the whole valley OF the river is inundated, and
the water is from twenty to fifty, and in one
place ore hundred miles wide. All live stock
is drowned ; men, women and children, on
RATS and tops of houses, are starving.
One of the circus riders OF Robinson $ circus,
10 Chicago, on wager, recently ro0e one OF the
circus horses from the bottom to the top OF The
circular stairs leading to the dome on the court
house The dome is one hundred feet from
the landing. The stairs arc not more than
ol *ba bori act
than three feet high The daring perform
ance attracted large crowd.
Gerrit Smith. the welknoWn abolitlonist,
has written letter 10 VIM Lloyd Garrison,
advocating the liberation of Jefferson Davis,
and holding the North responsible with the
South for the crime of slavery, and therefore of
rebellion. He asks why, if Davis is imprison-
ed, some representatives of the North should
| not be confined with him ?
The New York Quarantine Commissioners,
believing that the cholera will soon reach this
country from Europe, have determined to make
Immediate preparations without depending
upon the hospital buildings on the Hudson
which will not be ready for use before midsum-
mer. lney propose 10 use h"a'l'lS hoSiI''''''
as was done last summer.
Ey-President Buchanan has declined the IN
vitation TO public dinner, to be given at Phil
adelphia, which vas rendered him recently by
prominent Democrats Of that city. tie says he
prefers to remain silent on all political ques-
tons and only advises steady adherence to the
Constitution.
The late Henry W. II. Mali, Tor many years
Consul General of Belgium at New York, has
left by his will the sum of 81 ZOO rs the nucleus
of fund for erecting a monument to John
Brown. In case the monument is not built
within five years, the money is to 90 to the
next kin.
A Washington dispatch denies that the
Senate Judiciary Committee will report in IA
vor of the adoption of the resolutions for the
release of Jefferson Davis. The resolutions
have not been referred to any committee, but
were laid on the table.
It is stated that the large stationery contract
for supplying the assessors and collectors OF
internal revenue throughout the United States,
awarded in January last to other parties has
been cancelled, and given to Philip 4 Solo,
mon, of Washington. .-..-- .....
The schooner Mary Russell, from Whining
ton, put into Hampton Roads yesterday. She
reports meeting the schooner Ealing, from
Brookhaven, above Hatteras, with the crew in
starving condition No assistance could be
rendered them.
A conductor on q Philadelphia street railroad
car has been arrested on the complaint of a
negro woman that he refused to stop his car
and allow her TO ride. He was held to bail 10
the sum of eight hundred dollars to answer the
charge. ....
Captain William Fitzhugh Harrison, IA
tive of Virginia, and for many years resident
Of the Chickasaw nation, was murdered in