Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-05
NEWS or THE DAY.
so sAoao tAevery age and body Of the Times"

fAu cHo1V ID duOuI UellS luduS W SCSulO piio
pardon Of Dr.. Mudd, one Of the persons con-
victed Of alleged completely in. aiding Booth, $
fight after Mr.. Lincoln S assassination and sem
fenced to the Dry Tortugas. At the time most
persons doubted the justice of this conviction,
and his good conduct as prisoner and atten-
dance upon the yellow fever sufferers as ply
sician, are considerations in the efforts to secure
pardonto Tor him,
John M. Hill, mail contractor, and formerly
quartermaster in the Federal army, has been
arrested at Nashville, Tenn, charged with col
lecting fifty thousand dollars on claims bearing
the forged name Of Gen. Schell. he. gave
S., 900 bond for his appearance before the y,
s. Commissioner. sal
Six negroes implicated in the riots at Pick
ems South Carolina, on the 18th OF last month,
in which white man named Hunnicutt was
killed have been found guilty Of murder, and
sentenced to be hung on the 9th of December.
The New Orleans Picayune says there is at
this time an unprecedented amount of real es-
tate thrown upon the market in that city, tor
rent or for sale Prices demanded are but little
if any less, than those asked last year. i....i
/. A terrible tornado prevailed on Lake Erie,
on the night of the Sd inst. Several vessels
were blown ashore, and much damage done.
Two men belonging to the bark P. S. Marsh
were blown overheard and drowned. @
The bank of Pettis & ingalls,, at fremont
Tazewell county, Illinois, was broken into on
Thursday night and robbed of one hundred
thousand dollars in money and bonds. The
burglars are still at large. .a. @,
Mutilated bank notes sent to the Treasury
Department for exchange should in all cases be
cancelled before sending, by cutting out the sig
natures of the officers They should also be il
packages Of $500. .aasa i
Gen. Mower, in command at New Orleans
has revoked the order removing Sheriff Hayes
and appointing Cuthbert Bullitt in his stead
Mr. .Bullett having declined the appointment
| The Lower House Of the Tennessee Legisla
ture has passed joirt resolution calling npor
Tennessee Congressman to aid in securing the
abolition of the cotton tax: gz! @aa
| Indian Commissioners Taylor telegraphs tt
Secretary Browning to congratulate the Presi
dent and country on the entire success of thu
Indian Peace Commission, thus FAR.
Robert r. Banks, recently chosen Mayor o
Baltimore, yesterday entered upon the dis
charge OF the duties Of that position, which HI
is 10 hold for Jour years
A severe thunder storm occurred at Montre
| al, on the 4:h at noon. The lightning strucl
| the French Cathedral, destroying q portion q
| the tower Noone was injured
There; we're IS deaths from yellow fever
| in New Orleans, in Two days up TO yesterday
| In Mobile ten deaths in lnrty=cight hours u
to yesterday
A proclamation has been issued permitting
The return Of political exilcs to Spain, and re
hitting the penalties pronounced against them
4 The CoLnRED POPULATION. &c enera How
ard has written 4 letter in which he declare
that carefully compiled statistics warrant III
conclusion that the aggreaat? negro popu!atio
of the United States has sensibly Increase d iron
1860 to the present date - He says
| The decrease heretofore alleged was based il
part on my report of December 81, 1866, whicl
was estimated from very meagre statistics. [
was more accur. te in regard to the rural dis
tricts. and the icssencd number Of colored per
sons found in those districts led to the inference
that the whole number had decreased, withou
properly estimating the constant changes of 10
cation, large numbers having focked to tn
cities, North and South. The apparently di
minished rate Of increase Of that population il
the entire South is accounted Tor By emigration
| to all the Northern States From the Distrio
| of Columbia alone more than ten thousant
| 100000 have gone North and oAained home
and employment. ha a
| PEDEsrR1AN1sM Weston, the pedestrian
met with an accident at Pawtucket, Rhod
Island The people turned out en- masSc
pressed around him, and knocked him down
severely bruising him on the hip. He contin
fued, however, until he reached Sterling Hill
Connecticut, where he laid up from six o clocl
Saturday morning to one O'Clock Of the same
afternoon At that hour he, resumed, ant
continued to Plain6eld, where he laid up al
day Sunday. At this time of suspension
Weston had walked sixty nine miles in sl2teer
hours and forty five Misunderstanding thirty
one miles more to make to accomplish tho
distance of one hundred miles within the space
of twenty-four consecutive hours. Although
he has failed this time to walk one hundred
miles in one day, he has yet four more chances
left before he reaches Chicago.
VIRGINIA RADICAL DoINGs. The New
York World thus sums up some Of the results
of the recent election in this State:
'EMr Stearns, Richmond Unionist, is beat
en-. Judge Alexander Rives, Of Albemarle, a
Union man of 1860 81, is beaten by Jim Tay-
Tor, an ignorant black man. jamestown dis
trict, famed of yore for Captain John Smith,
Powhatan and Pocahontas, elects a black man.
Richmond is represented by full quintette OF
worthless Hunnicutt, Judge Underwood, a
Radical foreigner and two blacks. In Meek:
lenburg, John Watson ESD, a gentleman Of
color e hn makns his mark and has only been