Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-04
NEW.S OF THE DAY.
$50 sho,o the veay age and body Of the Times.

in Commerce street is reported. The hablli-
ties are stated at 500 900, with assets estima-
ted at $4,000 A considerable portion OF the
indebtedness is supposed to have accrued 10
the Provinces
Mr.. George e. Barrett, the shrcwdest hos Sc
dealer in Connecticut, is dead. He was very
popular among his neighbors, never tasted Ii
quor Or used tobacco, was never on a steam
boat, and only once in railway car, and lived
all his life in the same. house.
I ThurloW Weed, according to rumor current
in New York, has disposed Of his interest In
the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, and is going
to Washington to live. Even Thurlow Weed
finds that printing newspapers is poor pay
to the propietors.
The Georgia election has resulted in favor of
convention. It is estimated that los, 900
votes were polled out of total OF 1873, 600 reg
.istered votes. It is said that considerable
portion of the white vote was polled.
Gen. Grants retrenchment Of expenses in
the War Departments estimated at SIS, 900, 900
per annum. The expenditures of the Depart
ment, from lst January last to Goth ult., have
been $l09, 100000. go .el
The Secretary of tho Treasury has prepared
regulations for the purpose of relieving the
tobacco and coal oil interests from restrictions
imposed upon them which were designed to
apply to distilled spirits. 90. g. * =
Vice Admiral Porter has written letter re-
commencing that marine school be establish
ed at New York Secretary WeLes favorsi the
project and advises the passage of law author
izing it. 34;. }taa gs y
A white man was arrested in Cbarleston 5.
c., on Saturday morning, by authority OF a
negro vigilance committee. The Federal au-
tborities have taken the matter up, and those
who made the arrest are uowin military, custody.
It is stated that the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad Company has paid up all its indebt-
edDess to the Government, amounting to about
ahalf million OF dollars.
!. 4 Gen. Beauregard, who was lately in Wash
ington to secure repossession of his plantation
near Memphis, left without. accomplishing the
object OF his mission. 317a~ ~. 5-'''
The Mexicans have taken to manufacturing
riHed guns, und claim that those manufactured
in Oaxaca are equal to those. imported from
abroad, Tl. i. ss..& .-..aaase @s} s..st
Charles Dickens will give his first reading in
Boston on December The Christmas Carol,
aud Bardell VS.. PickWick are the selections for
the occasion
The steamer Alpha, at. Halifax, last from
Bermuda, reports that the yellow lever had
broken out there on the day that she left.
"A large ncendiary FIRE at the Ohio peniten-
tiary on Saturday destroyed property to the
amount of about $75 600 partially insurrd.
In New Orleans, yesterday 3 deaths from
yellow fever 10 Mobile 3.
( Il MELANCHOLY Death. = We copy the follow!
ing from the Christian IVA Sun Of Friday
About one month ago this column announced
the arrest at the instigation OF the military au-
thorities of MI Richard B. Freeman, prom
inent and esteemed citizen Of Nansemcnd coun-
ty, charged with killing negro woman durlog
the war, with whom he had a fight. He al
ways protested that it was done in self defence,
and the statement was SO generally accepted,
that no arrest was made, though the federal
soldiers then held possession Of this county. :
But long after the war was over, about one
month since, he was arrested and thrown into
prison, where confinement caused his health to
rapidly give way. Last Friday with premo-
milton that he was soon to die, be managed to
escape from the jail, and went directly home,
about fifteen miles distant, where he was pros
trated and died on Monday last An interest
ing family and many friends are thrown into
deep sorrow. - :.
!. The Coal TRADE-The shipments from the
Schuylkill region, although heavy, show the
colleres are not worked to their fullest capacity
which can perhaps only be attributed to the
dullness In chestnut and the three lar e sizes.
Egg and stove still continue active, and prices
very firm, with an upward tendency. e,'
Prices Of coal we quote as heretofore: Broad
top, 81 90 to SIS; gas coal, IS. Anthracite
white ash for eastern shipment: Steamer and
broken, 81 % egg and stove, So So. Locust
Mountain Broken and steamer, 81 and 81 TO-;
egg and stoves, 81 IS and 81 80; all stove,
81 40 TO 81 so. Red ash Egg and stove,
81 40 and Sd rs. LykeDs Y alley, SIS 25, as
to quality, on:board Of vessels. Sales OF Sham
okin red ASH egg, and stove, have been made
during the past week at IS per ton, on board.
Phil North american. .1~
A PROSPEROUS EMIGRANT-A. young col
ored man, Augustus Washington, attended,
some twenty years ago, an academy in CIV
Hampshire, in which he won the esteem Of his
teachers and fellow students by his exemplary
conduct and rapid progress in study Feeling,
notwithstanding his good treatment. the preju
dices against his racein this country, ne sought
a home in Liberia; and with what result? He
now owns a fine farm of one thousand acres,
under high cultivation, and well stocked with
cattle and agricultural implements, and be, is
extensively engaged in the making and export
ing of sugar and molasses This enterprising
farmer is also among the foremost public men
of ;horio. ho IL Snao l-nr nj tho: Housn of Rem