Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-08
VIEWS or THE DAY.
80 sAo,o the ve,y age and body of the times

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The New York Times states that a single
firm in New York has produced, for this year $
trade, in Valentines, an aggregate Of over two
and half million Valentines ranging in price
from three cents to one hundred dollars, and
the total value OF which, as sold at retail, Is
more than three hundred thousand dollars
This is the production Of a single firm.
On Wednesday, while workmen were engag-
ed in demolshing building lately occupied
by George c. Neal, in progress of opening
Holiday street. in Baltimore, the third floor,
on which was piled an immense quantity OF
bulk rubbish, gave way, causing large por-
ton Of The walls to fall in, killing two men and
wounding six others
Brigham Young, Of Utah, has been blowing
up the women of that free and easy Territory;
He accuses them of whining, and says they
must either stop that sort Of nonsense or
else start for the other side of Jordan at once
and he tells bis own forty wives that ne
means them as we'll as the rest OF the feminine
Utabyans. @s1+o.
The new adjustment plan, lately arranged
and sent to all the Southern Governors, is
accompanied by letter signed by Governor
Orr, Governor Sharkey, Governor Parsons,
Governor Worth, and Others which, while it
recommends the adoption of the proposition, Is
decide lily nou-committal and very brief.
The managers of the gift enterprises and pre-,
sentation schemes are likely to be brought to
account by some of their victims, without ret
erence even to the general statutes against lot
teries The Crosby lottery business Is being
looked into. A citizen of Chicago pronounces
the whole affair swindle.
It's reported from San Domingo that the
mission of Mr. Frederick Seward to that Re
public for the purpose of purchasing certain
naval privileges, failed OF success, owing to
the fact" says the letter writer, that the
power to conclude the treaty was entrusted to
an incompetent man.
The statement which was extensively circu-
lated, that zen. Robert E. Lee is now engaged
III preparing history OF the Army OF North
ern Virginia during the late war, is now known
to be wholly unfounded. General Lee is not
writing any work Of this character.
Smith, Hall, and Buckland, cartridge max
ers, Of Boston, shipped on Tuesday from their
mandatory, on Mill river, u lot OF eighty
thousand cartridges to the firm Of Baumgnr-
teur 4 Co., at Bucharest, in the Austrian prov
incc of Wallachia.
1t is stated that President Johnson has ac-
cepted an invitation from the Grand Lodge OF
Massachusetts to visit Boston OH the 24th of
June next, and aid in dedicatng the new Ma
sonic Temple, if his official duties will permit.
By a vote Of the West Virginia Legislature,
it has been decided that Morgantown, it Mo-
mongolia county, is to be the new capital OF
that State Heretofore the scat Of government
has been at Wheeling.
James NJ. ScoviiI Of New jersey, has given
the judiciary committee of the House informa.
ton concerning alleged action by the President
in regard to the New Jersey election last year.
At the present time great desitnlion pre-
walls among the poor in Philadelphia from the
lack of employment. The Inquirer relates a
terrible case Of suffering ola whole family.
The most extensive preparations have been
made for working the important fisheries in
the waters Of Albemarle and Curituck Sounds
and the contributing streams.
The winter has been as severe in England
and on the Continent as in the United States.
a private letter from Paris reports that the
cold is intense.
Great destruction of property on the Ohio
river from the breaking up of the ice. The
river is now open for navigation.
Two hundred dozen cedar buckets, manufac-
tured at Murfreesboro', Tenn, were, on Satur-
day, shipped to St. Louis.
4 grand bail was given at the Ovcrton Hotel
in Memphis, on Friday night, in honor of Gen
cral Beauregard.
Commander Samuel Swartwout, !. S. n.
died in Brooklyn, on Wednesday, in the cd
year of his age.
C. v. Culver, NJ. G. from Pennsylvania, re-
Gently tried for fraud, in Franklin, Pa, has
been acquitted.
The harbor of Baltimore is now entirely Open
+. VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. The Senate on
Wednesday, " indefinitely postponed" the joint
resolution to send commissioners to Washing
ton on behalf of the interests Of Virginia.
The vote was quite decided. Mr. Mcrceir, Of
Loudouu, opposed the resolution, and said that
the "Rubicon had been crossed and Thermo-
py'a is before us.
House bill No. 167, to incorporate the Alex
andria Dock Company, was taken up, twice
read, and. on motion of Mr.. Dulany, the rule
requiring it to 90 to a committee, was suspend
ed, whereupon MI. Mitchell moved 10 amend
the bill by striking out 40 and inserting Sc
as the limit of the rate Of interest which the
proposed company should be allowed to pay
for the use of money. The motion was dis
cussed by several Senators, and the amendment
rejected The bill was then read third fine