Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-13
NEWS OF THE DA 7.
''Go sEo,o the ve7y age and body Of the 'i"1eS

The Washington Star says: Two gentle
men-one Mr. Cochrane of this city, ana
the other citizen Of Ohio have recently pur-
chased the cotton factory at Harper's Ferry,
from Mr.. A. Fl. Herr, the miller in George
town, D. c., ana intend converting the same
into an extensive -four mill. The price paid
therefor was SIS, 600 1t is also contemplated
by these cnterprising gentleman to erect an
agricultural implement factory at the same
place.
One of The most earnest Republican papers
in the South isthe Savannah Republican, edited
and published by D. +. Hayes, a Northern man,
and an officer in The Union army dUlng the
war. Iat the Republican il denounced by the
Radical whites, who control the colored men OF
Savannah, Aecatlse il has consistently opposed
confscation and all measures Of vengeance
against the Southern whites.
\ letter from Gen. Sheriden received at Gen.
Grant headq u4rters, contains complaints
against Geo. Rousseau, 10 the effect that while
in New Orleans he advised the rebel citizens
there rot to accept Gt!i. Sheridan cona'rnc-
ton Of the Reconstruction acts, and that ms
general tlemeanor toward Sheriden was not
such as the commanding officer Of the depart
ment had right TO expect
The fifteen knitting mills at CohoeS which
together employ 1000 hands have agreed to
all shut down by the 18th of August. Some
Of them have already, ceased running, and all
will do SO as they respectively use up the stock
on hand The proprietorS are buying no new
stock whatever The stock Of shirts and
drawers OH hand Is now enormous.
It is believed that the Government has been
deirauled out OF lniions Of dollars by the
system Of collecting money on forged soldiers
| discharges transportation vouchers, &c, re-
Gently discovered. 1t is thought many persons
moving in respectable society have been cngag'
ed in this business.
A Fort Gibson letter says that Lewis Down
ing has been elected Chief Of the Cherokee
Nation, over VIM. Ross, by large majority.
Both the Northern and Southern Cherokees
voted for Downing, who is said to favor the
sectioning of the lands OF the nation, and other
public enterprises.
Two citizens Of Columbia, S. g., who recent
" committed an assault in bar-room upon
| two correspondents OF Northern paper, have
been tried by court martial, found guilty, and
sentenced to six months Imprisonment in Fort
Macon. Gen. Sickles has approved the yer.
dict and sentence
Gen. Beauregard has organized, at New
Orleans, the electrical Brake Company of
America" of which he is president. 1t is
claimed that railway train running forty-foul
miles an hour can be stopped by electricity
between fifty and one hundred yards.
The Argentine ship David Stewart Captain
| Prcntiss, has arrived in the Chesapeake from
Valparaiso, bound to Baltimore, having on
board Il full cargo of wheat This will be the
first cargo of the kind received in Baltimore
from that quarter of the globe for many years.
Captain Morarty, who was arrested during
the first Fenan outbreak in Kerry, Ireland
and has been on trial for treason before the
Commission in that county, has been found
guilty.
General Rousseau is now in Washington fol
the purpose Of taking formal possession of the
newly acquired territory from the Russian
| Commissioner now at the capital
1t is ''rcportcd' that Maximilian's body has
been given 10 Baron Won Magnuz, the Prus
sian Minister resident at the city Of Mexico
Mayor Horton, Of Mobile, charged with
violating the Civil Rights bill, yesterday gave
bail 10 appear before the United States Court.
\ report is in circulation that Judge Holt
will shortly be suspended from his functions as
chief Of 'thc bureau Of military justice.
In Charleston yesterday, of five hundred and
Gfty-six persons registered rs voters, tnnr hun
drpd and three were colorcd
Postmaster General Randall has returned
from New York. His reported departure for
| Europe was incorrect.
An Austrian frigate was yesterday dispatch
| ed to Mexico, to make another effort to obtain
NIaximilian's hody
i nnlrbc! Of brilliant 'lcI'.ors We're observed
from P0ughkeepsie, N. s.. nn he night Of
| the 10Th Instant
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