Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-15
NEWS or THE DA y.
80 sho,o the ve,y age and body Of the times.

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A few months since one of the citizens OF
Liberia, j. L. Crusoe, sent to the United
States tor vessel to be built and named
i" Edna, after the place Of his residence, at
the mouth of St. Johns river. On.Thursday,
another vessel will be launched in New \ ork, to
be called the A. Lincoln, built for the enter
prising firm of McGil( Il Brother, at Monrovla.
The Edna cost $4,000 and the A. Lincoln
$4,000. The latter will sail for Liberia on thu
Goth of this month. The trade Of Liberia IN
palm oil, camwood, sugar, coffee, ginger, lvo-
ry, etc., is steadily increasing.
There is in New York an institution called
the Ladies Christian Union, whose object Is to
furnish the comforts Of a good home to young
women at a moderate cost Its affairs are
managed by committee oftweny eight ladies,
who lease two frst-class residences, connect
them together as one house, furnish them we'll,
and afford all tie comforts ola home to sixty
FIVE young women, with board from three to
four dollars per week.
The Postofice Department will soon make
changes 10 the system by which letters are now
registered and forwarded in the mails, so as to
provide for a more certain conveyance OF these
letters, and a more strict accountability OF post
masters, clerks, &c, to the department. for the
packages going through their hands.
A committee of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture yesterday, exonerated Simon Cameron
from all corrupt practices in relation to his
election to the u. S. Senate The other can
didates for the Senatorship also come out OF
the investigation with 'pure hands, and every
member of the Legislature likewise
The Dry Goods trade, in New York is more
active, especially in the last few days; and
some large houses, accommodating themselves
to the circumstances of the times, are very
busy encouraging cash buyers by liberal dis
count, making it more profitable to pay at
once rather than take credit.
At the interview between the President and
Mr. Peabody the following was portion otthc
languague OF the latter, on that occasion: ':lle
had always expressed his belief that the Presi-
dents course was prompted by a sincere desire
to do rights and what was for the best interest,
of our country.
In the u. S. Supreme Court, on Wcdnes-
day, Judgment against the city of New York,
for $1,000 damages, was affirmed in the case
of one Sheffield, citizen Of Rhode Island, who
fell over the stump Of a tree near the City Hall
Park, in that city, receiving thereby serious
injuries.
Messrs. J. J. Giers aud w. II. Smith, of
Alabama, are out in card denying that they
signed the paper which purported TO have
been adopted by the Southern Republican AS
sociation and which endorsed Mr.. EIiot's bill
for the reconstruction of Louisiana.
The House bill accepting League Island, in
the Delaware river, as Naval depot proffered
by the city of Philadelphia to the national Gov
eminent, passed the Senate yesterday afternoon
by vote of 81 to II. 1t Only needs the Prcsi
dent signature to make it law.
On Tuesday evening, in Baltimore, J. J.
Stewart, Esq, appeared before Judge Bond to
offer testimony to contest the election OF Col.
Phelps as member OF Congress from the Third
Congressional District of Maryland.
Mrs Peter Brewer, an old lady ofsevcnty-
years, fell down stairs on Saturday last in
Utica, and broke her neck. She was trying to
decend 10 the dark to relieve the watchers over
her dead husband.
The steamer City OF Bath, from Boston to
Savannah, was burned at sea off Cape Hattcras
on Sunday morning last, Of twenty six per-
sons on board, all but four Of the crew are be-
heved to have been lost.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher delivered q lee
ture in the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, We'd
nesday evening, on universal suffrage, in which
he strongly advocated the extension of the stuff
rage to women.
A new and fatal disease, it is said, has APP
peared among the cattle and sheep in some
portions of Ohio, called the mad itch. -
Mr.. Bigelow, late Minister to France, has
arrived at New York.