Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-05-07
NEWS OF THE DA z.
10 5sAo,o tie ve,y age and bodyof The times.

lsChampinas, and are attracting the attention OF
the Brazilians BY using the plough aud other
indictments, and the dealers in these articles
are driving a brisk trade. Americans who set
tied on the coast south of Rio have erected saw
mills, and are now supplying the Rio market
with excellent timber.
Reports from New Orleans are, that a num-
Der of coored persons on Saturday, attempted
to get up a riot by taking possession OF the
Rampant street cars appropriated to the whites
refusing to ride in those appropriated to them
selves; and that on Saturday night, they
| threatened to force an entrance into the
| French Opera House, on an equality with the
| whites
A Cincinnati dispatch in the New York
Herald, states that on Saturday night, at
Paris, Tenn, party Of ten or twelve white
employees on the Memphis and Louisville
r. r., broke into house where there was a
colored ball, drove off the men, and brutally
outraged the women All but two OF the
scoundrels, it is said. have been arrested.
! A fatal case of snake bite occurred in Muir
. physboro, Jackson county, Illinois, few days
ago Two little girls, while hunting eggs
under house, thrust their hands into nest
where lay a large rattlesnake. When bitten,
the children supposed that the hen had peck
cd them. Both children died in less than
twenty-four hours.
The carrying out of the programme of the
! Newborn, N. c., Memorial Association last
Thursday, was, as regarded procession, pro-
hibited by the military But large concourse
of citizens assembled in the cemetery to witness
the laying OF the corner stone Of the vault pre-
| pared to receive the remains Of the Confedc-
rate dead.
T. C. Weatkerby Senator of the South Car
DINA Legislature, has been summoned to APP,
pear before the Judiciary Committee Ii Is
surnlisel that he is to be questioned as to his
visit to Washington during the winter, and
the conversation reported to have taken place
between him and the President.
Judge Frazer Of the Criminal Court OF
Nashville, Tenn, has been impeached before
| the State Senate on the charge that he cor
| ruptly ard unlawtully released certain members
| of the Legislature from arrest under authority
of the House Of Representatives, on a writ OF
habeas corpus, in July last
The case OF John H. Rogers, late paying
teller OF the National Mechanics Bank of
Baltimore, indicted for esabeZzlement, alb
straction aud wilul misapplication Of the
funds of the bank, was commenced III the u.
s. District Court for Maryland, before Judge
Giles yesterday
| The Revolutionary party in Rome has issued
manifesto notifying the people Of the Roman
States that the hour is at hand when the signal
| for insurrection will be given, and Garlbaldl
| had been invited to assume the leadership OF
the movement. 10 letter from him, he
accepts the trust.
New Orleans papers complain Of the NUM-
Der Of divorce suits in the courts, saying that
ten are now entered to one instituted before
the war. Three such snits have been entered
| in a single day. Most Of the cases relate to
persons married during or subsequent 10 the
war.
In letter TO friend, Robert roomba, of
| Georgia has expressed his willingness to ac-
cept the situation as it is He says, No true
patriot of the South will forsake his native
land, Let us remain here, and endeavor by
the favor OF God to build up our waste places. !"
A gentleman named Marnaduke OF Saline
county, Arkansas, who went to Scotland last
fall for The purpose of procuring laborers has
returned with quite number OF Scotch peas
ants. He contemplates second voyage soon'
for the purpose of procuring more
The Petersburg papers OF Saturday report
meeting of the Republican organization, held
on Friday night, in that city. 1t is composed
Of Republicans without regard to color, and
its object is in consonance with the recent con-
rention held in Richmond.
The Department of State has received in
formation from the U. S. consul at Lambaye-
que, Peru, that an important discovery has
| been made in Peru recently Of the silk plant
| Preparations are being made to cultivate it
upon an extensive scale.
Eighteen thousand FIVE hundred acres of the
| public lands were disposed Of in March last at
the land Office at Boonville, Mo-, thirteen
| thousand four hundred and twenty-five acres
| being taken up for actual settlement and cult
| vation.
We learn that the officers of the u. S. Gov
| eminent on Saturday, took possession OF seven
of the distilleries situated on James river. be-
low Richmond. 1t was done on account of
alleged violation of the internal revenue laws.
At Sandyville, Iowa. recently, a man who
was annoyed by the crying of his child, four
or five months old, at night, got up and de-
liberatey strangled tito death. He has been
| arrested for the crime.
Speaker Cofax in speech at New York
last night, said 'the Thirty ninth Congress
| was the noblest and most patriotic body of
| men that he had seen in the Capitol during
his public service.
A number of prisoners, under military