Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-11
ALEXANDRIA.
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY II.
The Southern relief commission in New York

The Southern relief commission in New York
have collected s2l 1000. Orders have been IS
sued to purchase 10000 bushels of corn, and
5000 bushels of wheat; of which, 5000 are
for Alabama, 5000 for Georgia, 5000 each for
North and South Carolina. This is to be ship
ped from Western markets, except that for
North Carolina The railroad companies have
met the views of the commission, and have
agreed to transport these purchases tree Of
charge
We mentioned few days ago, the murder
Of Henry Clay Lee, respectable colored man,
in Warrenton Several colored persons. are
under arrest, but nothing definite has yet been
discovered The Warrenton Index says
'This is the only secret murder which has &C.
Cured in our community for a century, and the
only one supposed to be committed for money
that has ever taken place in the county,"
It seems that the Crafts, Crafts, Croft 5,
and Groves of this country are al! equally in
terested in the prosecution of the investigation
now being made by ]. Hervey Ewing, lawyer
of Baltimore, looking to the recovery OF an
immense estate, which, as has been stated,
would revert to the Groves, of Jefferson couu-
ty, Virginia, and, by Implication, to the Groves
alone.
A number Of local bills relating to the Dis
trict Of Columbia, acts of incorporation, &c.,
were acted on in the Senate on Saturday. A
bill was introduced concerning the selling of
liquor without license, gift coucerts, the prize
ring, pawnbroker's licenses, &C., in tic District
of Columbia.
The Atlantic Gable reports that the Pope is
about to make an appeal to the Catholic powers
of Europe, in relation to the present state of
affairs-that Garibaldi has written letter ex
pressing his sympathy for the Cretans-and
that the Turks are to evacuate Servia.
There is quite Bridge" excitement in
Washineton-as to where bridge across the
Potomac shall be built Some are for one on
the old site, some for one on the aqueduct PIERS
and others for one at the Three Sisters, just
above Georgetown
General Sheridan, it is said, has presented
Miss Rebecca Wright, of Winchester, with
gold watch, chain, &C., for having, duriog the
war, conveyed to him intormation which led to
his success in the battle OF the 10th September,
1864
The Georgetown Courier "lcarnS from un
doubted authority that the branch railroad
from the Point of Rocks to the District to run
directly into Washington NOT coming into
Georgetown at all.
The 'lcaders" who are engaged in engineer
ing the new State of eve Virginia, are now
called the West Virginia ''scceSSionists. -
There is more truth than poetry in this
appcllation.
Eighteen thousand prairie chickens we're
shipped from Cedar Rapids Iowa, to Liver
pool, England, last week, and on Thursday last
six tons were shipped East from Des Moines.
The death of Hon. Henry Order, late a
member of Congress from Kentucky, was an
nounced ir the House of Representatives on Sat-
urday, and the customary resolutions adopted.
The Nebraska bill was passed in the House
of Representatives on Saturday, by vote Of
120 to A, over the Presidents veto. 1t had
previously passed the Senate.
The Military Force Bill, In TIC House of
Representatives, it is thought, BY some will be-
recommitted to the Reconstruction Com
mittce.
Much damage has been done to mill dams,
fences, &C., on the branches Of the Shepan-
doah river, by the recent break up of the ice.
We learn that the Steamboat wharf at Chat
terton Landing, in King George county, has
been carried away by the ice.
The vote rejecting the Bankrupt bill has been
reconsidered in the Senate, and the bill again
placed on the calendar.
The statement that Morgantown has been Sc
ected as the capital of West Virginia, is said
to be mistake.
The Legislature of North Carolina has pass
ed bill staving off the payment of debts for
twelve months.
Barpum, the Museum man, has been nomi-
mated for Congress in Connecticut.
PARIS Observation-Disclosures PRICEs.-
The State Department has received from Paris
the plan of the general arrangements for the
Exposition, by which it appears that the open
ing is to be on the 1st of Anril and to close on
admission to the sections of the park and the
garden is fixed as follows: On the opening Of
the exhibition, for admission to both sections,
four dollars on any other day of the week,
from Tuesday, April I'd, to Sunday, April 7th,
inclusive, one dollar on and after April Sth
admission To the mark after the hour n ronor