Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-31
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The late rise in the Little Kanawha has
brought out fully fifty thousand barrels OF
petroleum. If the owners could have had
access to the market during the whole season.
this oil could have been sold for an average OF
about eleven cents per gallon; now 1t as worth
but seven cents, making an aggregate difference
of $50 600
Advices from Jamaica represent that mucn
curiosity and speculation prevailed there ID re-
gard to the visit ofthe Dominican Commission
ers to the u. S. with the view,it supposed, OF
Offering the harbor Of Samanca tor sale; bat
nothing definite was known there OF the real
tentions of,the Dominican Government.
Gen Hancock has w,itten aletter to the M
York Tribune, denying the statement made
some time sioce by Colonel Wyncoop, u IS
Indian agent, III regard TO the burnlng OF In
dian villages End other measures olcTetaila.
ton alleged to have been adopted by General.
Hancock. 800.
S The Washington Chronicle says, Thaddeus
Stevens has so far recovered from his recent
at ack OF lness that he has resumed his labors
of prepar ny speeches on the Alaska appropn
alton hi / and other similar measures now
pending before the House. 49, q
| Through the liberality Of Jay. Cooke, OF
Philadelphia, a church has been built at I'll.
rardville, Schuy xiii comfy, Pa. He also sup
ports chiefly, if not altogether, a pastor at that
piac:, Rev. NJ +: Hqsson, OF tne fnllama zoe
conference of he Method. t Episcopal Church.
| From, the Island Of Granada our information
is to the Oth'instant. There had been ter
riole volcanic eruption just off the coast. The
! sea rose several feet above wafer mark, and the
tidal wave rushed on shore, destroying several
! houses i. :. @..EDa ~. esa al. $50
The discharges of workinemen from the va
rious navy yards of the country contlHue 1t
is i'm orruna that this should be done at this
time. as i turns So many helpless people admit
ia mid winter. !, =.
The resignation Of the Commissioner of
Patents Mr.. Theaker, has not been: accepted,
! and the Candidates for his place are sill on the
anxious seat. Each day develops the claims
o. Ole of The heaviest snow storms ever known
In Tennessee commenc d on Sunday eveuio@,
and prevailed threushorr the whole OF US
| trr1av. fbe snow WAS five inches deep last
night, and vas crttng turlou-ly.
Thenews from Demerara is 10 the 9Th inst
The ship Oasis had arrived with 400 coolies
Sixteen OF the cargo died on the voyage. There
WIS IN ahu dance If PROVISIONS In he colony,
| and the exuo'tS TO he i :. were large.
| Two more iucendiary f res occu red at Vicks
burg on Sunday last, causing a loss Of proper
ty of the estimated value Of forty. five thousand
dollars The Insurance was but fifteen thou
sai d.
| A negro who assaulted white girl on the
public road, near Louisville, Jefferson county,
Georgia: on Saturday last, was arreSt' d on Mon
d and bnrned to death bya mixed crowd of
whites and blacks.
a deputy collector OF Internal Revenue and
his assistants whit engaged in Selling an ILL
CT di,tll~ry last evening on Hud ,ons street,
New York, were Sc. UPON by mob, badly
seafen,and d iv'n off
Private ad,ices IN reg rd to the recent
! ~hnoting o! Judge Busted, of Alabama, by
Mr.. Mafti, show that it crew out OF personal
a"d not 20 iical differences
A Gre broke out at Quincy, Illinois, on Sat
urday, wich destroyed property valued at fl
ty thorSand dollars. The insurance on the
property was about fifteen thousand dollars.
IT. calculated that the pcrishable articles
ir,z up on the boats in the New 7 ork canals,
principally potatoes and apples amount to
sou,e millions of dollars worth.
Much encouragement is felt in Charleston
owing to the ,cconnts from Washington repre-
senting the probability of Congressional aid to
planting Interests.
| Iii said there is q probability OF the mission
| Aus ria being tender, to Gen. JUhn G.
/ Fremont and conceded, that if accepted, 1t
W Il be confirmed
L,rge fires, with heavy losses, occurred yes
terday, at Chicago, birmingham, Mass, Har-
rlshurg, Pa &c
The news from Sweden is appalling. Three
hundred thousand of her people are reported
to be on the eve of starvation.
A heavy snow prevailed yesterday al Fortress
Monroe, and the neighboring couulry.
A woman in Canton, Illinois, lately sold ner
husband, for $120
POLITICAL. Morton, Of Indiana,
addressed at Washington, last evening, the
members of the Soldiers ard Sailors Union.
! His theme was, the issues of 1868. Among
| those lS>ups, nc SAID, would be The complete
restoration Of The Southern State governments:
which would be put into the hands of Rebels
by the defeat Of the Congressional plan of re-
construction "He said that the success Of the
| Democratic party involved compensation tor
slaves, the assumption of the war debt OF the
Southern States, and pensions to Confederate
soldiers, their orphans ard widows. )" General
HancGck's recent orders did not please the
speaker at all. He predc that if Hancock
proved recreantlto the principles for which he
bad fought, and became the ally of hisenenies
against his friDnd>, 'his lsurels would wither
as the tender flower Sc, &c.
Much of all this is ''bosh and stuff The
speaker is evidently frightened at the condi-
ton Of the Radical party.
SHALL we HAVE A ST. DOMINGO. Our
! Havana correspond mt saws it is the opirion of