Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-28
NEWY. or THE DAT.
10 sho,o. The ue,y age and body Of the times.

The recent money panic in Wall street has
been exceedingly damaging, not only to stock
gamblers, but to many operators. so rapid
was the decline that many parties were forced
to allow themselves to be sold out, being IN
able to provide, in time, the necessary margins
to carry their stocks. In few days, leading
stocks fell from ten to twenty five per Ct, ana
Que fancy stock, Cumberland Coal, declined
ffty-eight. The amount of money lost ty the
operators for rise connot be estimated
4 letter from New York to the Phila Ledger
saws The commissioners OF publlc charities
arc out with touching appeal on behalf OF the
poor They say their Office in Chambers street
is crowded from morning till night with appll'
cations for aid which cannot be responded to
for want of means There is more downright
restitution among US, just at present, than nas
been known for many years, owing to abe &C.
cline of business and general scarcity OF employ
ment"
The Patapsco Chemical Works, on Locust
Point, in Baltimore, were burnt, to the ground
at six O clock yesterday The works. consisted
of three large buildings two stores high
Three thousand carboys of sulphuric acid and
thirty tons of sulphur were destroyed. Loss
about 100000; insurance $4,000. TWAS the
property of Denison, Symonton Il Go. Mr..
Symorton, one OF the firm, died about noon on
Saturday last
The protractcd examination in. the case Of
the Rev George II. Williams, who is charged
with having picked the pocket OF q lady while
riding in Fifth avenue omnibus In New
York, in November last, was on Saturday
brought to close, by the decision Of justice
Dodge, who concluded TO commit the prison
cr fortraL.
The judiciary commmttec Of the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES have under consideration, and
will soon report, a bill disposing OF the patron
age of the government to newspapers IN the
South in such Il manner as TO ensurt ITS being
given TO thoroughly radical papers and none
others. - .
A meeting for the relief Of The destitute
poor in the South WAS held at the Cooper lns-
ttute, New York, on Friday evening. Among
the speakers were DR.. Bright, Henry Ward
Beecher, Horace Greedy and others. The at
tendance was quite thin.
Mr.. Wade introduced bill into the Senate
on Saturday which proposes to take the control
of the Capitol and Capitol grounds from the
Superintendent Of Public Buildings, and put
them under the charge of 4 Superintendent Of
the Capitol.
Letters from Washington state that 4 fund
amounting to fifty thousand dollars was raised
in New York city before the introduction of
Ashley's resolutions: Tor the purpose of push
ing the impeachment Of President johnson.
Another cotton warehouse, No. 10 Albany
street, New York, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday last Over one thousand bales of cot
ton were consumed. The loss is estimated at
three hundred thousand dollars.
The mail agent on the North Missouri rail
road reports that six men, passengers on the
Northwest-bound train, were drowned while
attempting to cross the Missouri river on the
ice, at St. Chazles, on Friday morning.
In the Anti-SIavery society, il session in
Boston, Wendell Phillips presented resolutions
demanding the removal of the President, teri
toriaizing the seeded States, and rcmodcling
the Supreme Court.
The French, on arriving at Perote, in Next
co, took away the Austrian garrison, destroyed
the upper works, spiked the guns they could
not remove, sacked several stores and then
left for Puebla.
The u. S. revenue steamer MoSswood was
burnt to the waters edge at the ship yard, in
Baltimore yesterday, where she was undergoing
repairs Her engines may be saved. Loss
500 900. ..a
Rev. Joel Lmdslcy, who has been on trial
for whipping his child to death at Albion,
Orlean. county, New York, has been found
guilty CT manslaughter in the second degree.
The St. Louis Republican has d special from
St. Joseph which says the advices FROM the
plains and mountains report that a great body
of Indians are moving southwark.
Accounts from various Mexican quarters
Indicate that the City Of Mexico is closely
besicged by the Liberals, with Indications of
its early eyacu alton by Bazainc.
The remains of Ex-Governor Allen were
buried in New Orleans yesterday. The pro-
cession was very large and the services impress
sive Bishep Wilmer oficiated.
A H. Csosby, Of Chicago, On Saturday
bought the opera house from A. II. Lee, the
lucky tiSkct-hoder in the late lottery, for
5000, 900.
The small pox has made its appearances in
St. Marys county, Nd.