Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-25
NEW.S or THE DAY.
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s 1t is5said that the harvest has not been as
good il the Northern counties of England, as
it was expected it would be.
A woman has been arrested in Princess
Anne, Md, charged with attempting to poison
whole family with strychnine.
Fires in the woods have recently been raging
in the mountains near Wheeling.
Mai. II. G. Wall, resident Of Richmond,
Va, died 10 that city on Tuesday, Of dropsy.
Maj. Wall was native of Baltimore, and came
to Richmond attbe beginning of the late war,
leaving a lucrative and responsible position in
the Adjutant Generals office in Washington,
to take part in the Confederate cause. He
was appointed chief clerk in the Adjutant-
Generals Office.
COL Parker, of, General Grants staff, who
has been making an investigation of the con-
dition and value of the Dismal Swamp Canal
for the use of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
return to Washington, yesterday, and is now
engaged in the prep ,ration of a report.
Gen. Campbell of the U. S. volunteers, who
his been acting as Secretary to Gen. Schofeld
for some time, has received an appointment as
Lieutenant in the regular army, and been as
signed to the 5th artillery.
Its reported that the committee on retrench-
ment, now examining into the affairs of the
printing bureau Of the Treasury Department,
will ask Secretary McCulloch to suspend S.
NJ. Clark temporarily from the superintendency
of the bureau above named.
There were seven deaths from cholera yester-
day on board the Potomac, at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard. There is no question now but what
the disease is Asiatic cholera of the most maig-
nant type. There are some twenty persons yet
sick with it.
There is no doubt but that Brownow will be
elected u. S. Senator from Tennessee. May
Dard has Withdrawn from the contest, aud
Brownlow only lacks but seven votes Of an
election.
Hon Schuyler Colfax, in an address at
Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednesday
evening, advocated the impeachment of the
President, and the nomination of Grant by the
Radical party next year, as their standard bear
er in the Presidential campaign.
Typhoid fever is very prevalent in New Ha
ven, and many of the Yale College students
are sick with it, one of whom has already died,
and another is in very critical condition. A
number of students have left for their homes,
and the faculty are considering the e1pediency
of temporarily suspending college exercises,
and dismissing the students.
At Cambridge, Maryland, on Wednesday
last the first ground was broken for the con
struc,ion of the Dorchester and Delaware Rail
road. The road is destined to run from Cam
bridge to Seaford, Delaware, and eventually to
Lewistown Delaware, which is the best sea-
port that the State has on the Atlantic coast.
From Cambridge to Lewistown the distance is
sixty miles, Seaford being half way
In New Orleans yesterday 10 deaths from
fever in Mobile 2; in Memphis Weather
getting to be cool.
In North Carolina the opposition to Con-
vention is increasing. but it is probable that it
will be carried nevertheless. In this case it is
still believed there will still be a sufficient num-
Der Of white Conservatives elected to control
the action of the Convention
Gen Marmaduke has not yet been pardoned
by the President the announcement yesterday
was premature His case is under consdera
tion.
The cattle sheds attached to Rhomberg &
Cos distillery, in Dubuque, were destroyed
by fire last night. Loss $4,000 to $4,000.
The property was in the hands of the govern
mcnt at the time, having been seiZ2d by the
revenue officers.
The SANE OLD CooN-Judge Chase, Sal
mon P Chase, in an address at Columbus,
Ohio, on Saturday last, said: II abide in the
faith and cherish the sympathies you have
often heard me avow.' This avowal is quite
candid on the part of the Chief Justice Some
years ago, when he was Governor Of Ohio,
Judge Chase avowcd extreme State Rights
doctrines. He said: ''We have rights which
the Federal Government must not invade,
rights superior to its power, on which our SOW
ereignty depends, and we mean to assert these
rights against all tyrannical assumptions OF au
thority." This is the faith, he informs Us, to
which he still address, and the sympathes
which he still cherishes Jeffe rson Davis
never expressed stronger State sovereignty SEN
timents than that. We wonder if the Chief
Justice will think Of this, when be goes to try
Jefferson Davis?l
For the first time, since his exploits in
the Valley of Virginia during the war, the
once famous Gen. Milroy is brought to public
notice. At the request Of the Radicals of
Winchester he actually appeared in that town