Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-06
WEW,S OF THE DAY.
80 sAoay tie rlsy age and body of the Times.

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Dispatches from the western pats aof New
York state mention severe storm which pre-
vailed on Sunday night along the lakesand lake
cities. u Considerable damage to shipping Is re-
ported The propeller Ackma ioundered Oh
Dupkrk, and sunk in twenty minutes. hel
CAPTAIN and crew saved themselves by means OF
the, small boats At Rochester, man was, 40
ystantly killed by the wall OF a grapery being
blown down upon. him. One of the walls OF
the State Arsenal was blown down. and several
other buildings were more or less injured
1t is stated that the majority and minority
reports OF the Judiciary Committee on the
subject of impeachment, will be ready tor sub
mission to the House of Representatives on
Thursday, the Dist instant. The majority re-
port will be against impeachment, and will be
signed by the same members who have here
totore voted nay on the proposition.
Among the appropriations made at the sec
ond session of the Thirty ninth Congress we
notice that those made for war purposes, IN
Guiding pensions, military academy, and Indian
department, somewhat exceeded sixty millions
of dollars These are the appropriations made
at the second session only.
The pardon of JamesA Seldom, once Secretary
Of War in the late Confederate States is recon-
mended to the President by Horace Greeley,
Henry Ward Beecher, Augustus Schell, VIM.
f.. Dodge, ex-member of Congress from New
York, and several other prominent residents OF
New York. Governor Burnside, of Rhode
Island also recommended this pardon.
The Alabama reconstruction convention met
at Montgomery yesterday, SO members being
present-14 coored The colored men elected
the assistant secretary and doorkeeper. Fifty
odd members are old citizens Of Alabama, and
| the rest are colored, and men from the North.
Honolulu adviccs to Oct 5say the U.S.stean-
er Lackawana has returned from Mlddlebrook
Island She made thorough survey Of the
harbor and channels, and the result is not ia
yorabe for the selection Of the islands as a
coaling depot, Or even as port Of refuge
Messrs. Kimberly & Bro, of Baltimore have
been awarded the contract for furnishing fresh
beef and vegetables 100000 pounds Of each) at
the Norfolk navy yard, at IS! per pound for
beet and 81 for vegetables.
A project is afoat for the establishment by
| Congress of great national school of mines,
on liberal and comprehensive basis, an lnsti-
tuition similar in its general scope and organi-
cation to the great mining schools Of Europe.
! :, Gen. Sherman has issued an order to the
I troops under his command announcing that
treaties have been concluded with the Indian
tribes, that peace has been declared, and all
hostile operations should cease.
The New Iork Times says that the Copcn-
hagen kilograms which affirm the oft asserted
purchase by the United States of the Danish
possessions in the West Indies, may be accept
ed as substantially true. 80 r." =:
The Alabama Convention assembled at
Montgomery yesterday the Louisiana Con-
vention meets on the 23d instant, and the Vir-
GINA Convention on December 81.
Official registration returns from three
fourths of the districts in South Carolina, show
that the blacks so far are ahead 1884. Only
nine districts have white majorities. .sa
Adviccs from British Columbia represent
public sentiment in that region as in favor Of
annexation to the United States. The move
ment of a Canadian Confederacy is regarded as
utterly at variance with the true interests of
British Columbia. .r.-.. ....
Mr. Zendel, Of New York, was robbed of his
pocket book, containing a check for $4,000,
last evening, as he was getting on the New
York train at the West Philadelphia depot
!. The concluding words of a Utah obituary
notice are very pathetic: He leaves thirteen
widows and fifty four children to mourn his
| loss. :"
The Washington intelligence of the New
| Y ork Herald says that the trial of Mr.. Davis
has been postponed until May. ~
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel j. E. Harrison,
Captain 9Th U. s. cavalry, died in Washington
on the 18th inst .,a..-I .... ....... ..
We have accounts Of the wrecks Of several
vessels, on the coast of North Carolina, during
the late gales. os ils s..a. ,..... .
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