Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-02
NEWS or FL DAY.
10 :sAoaoM The veaysage and body of tn. Times.

~sf1 nTee 1T0H7claQe---tQ tennessee, NdSlVlllc,
and Osage-were sold at auction at New Or
leans a few days since for twenty one thousand
dollars. Tho New Orleans P~icayune says:
"One of these vessels-the Nashville lies
sunk near the bank. Two Of them-the Ten
nessee and Nashyille-were celebrated Conted-
crate rams, the former, almost unaided and
alone, commanded by Admiral Buchanan, hay
ing encountered and fought the immense Fed
ertal feet Of non and wooden ships commanded
by Admiral Farragut 10 Mobile Bay 5.y 3
Three desperadoes entered the First Nation
al Bank. at Independence, Missouri, on Tues
day last, and while one remained at the
door the other two ifed the safe and drawers
of all moneys. William Mccoy, Cashier and
a clerk named Rayes were then locked In the
vault, where they remained two hours. Some
citizens passing by, hearing an unusual noise
in! the bank, caused by pounding ou,the vault
floor, released them, -f-I
"a. sywi1ndler calling himself K. S.. Coleman,
bearing a forged letter of introduction from H:
B; Chahin, Of New York, has obtained SIX
thousand dollars in currency from the First Ma
tional Bank of Charleston, besides a check Tor
one thousand dollars on the National Bank of
Augusta, Georgia, by depositing a check onthe
First National Bank Of New York, and Suffolk,
National Bank of Boston. He tdecamped last
Monday. =. =. ~ liz
An extensive. conhagation occurred on Sun
day evening at thefoot of42d street, East river,
New York. Sixty thousand feet ofcedar wood
piled around the lead pencil factory Of r. Fa-
bel, was partially destroyed, aud what was not
consumed was rendered valueless. The loss,
| $780, 900, IS ouly; partially covered By insurance.
The various branches of trade interested IN.
| the internal revenue tax on spirits, met In New
| York Saturday, and electeda delegation to at
tend the Washington convention, which
meets on the llth Of December. Thisis the
fourth delegation Of business men thathas been
appointed from that city.
The Pardon Clerk, uoder the direction OF
the Attorney General, is engaged 10 preparing
an; opinion of about three columns in length,
sustaining aud justifyingf the action OF the
President 10 pardoning some persons who were
convicted of counterteiting the National sccur-
tiles. ~ s . Il,
On Monday, the 9th day Of December, 1867,
It'll O clock A. NJ, eighthunarcd (S00) shares
ofstock owned by the United States in the
Dismal Swamp Canal Company will be sold al
public auction, to the highest bidder, at the
Treasury Department, in the city Of Washing
ton.
The American steamship line to Havre, con-
| sistiug of the Arago and Fulton, owing to the
insufhciency of patronage, and the fact that the
Government has failed to graat a subsidy to
assist in maintaining an American line of steam
ers, has been suspended.
The Kirkwood Hotel, at Kirkwood, fifteen
miles west of St. Louis, was burned Saturday
night, aud nearly all the furniture destroyed.
The building Was insured for $4,000 and the
furniture Sc, 900. The actual loss by tie fire is
not ~ascertai ned. ...,v.a
One Samuel Chase Barney has asked Con-
gress to change his name because bis father
and uncle had disgraced it; and Congress has
granted his request! The petitioner claims to
be a grandson ofCommodore Barney.
Edwin Forrest begins an engagement of a
| week in Baltimore this evening, and then comes
to Washington, where he will play two weeks;
after which he will go to Richmond, and thence
to the different Southern cities.
All the railroads in Virginia have now agreed
to return free all delegates to the Radical and
Conservative Conventions, who pay fare to
Richmond. t
1t is stated that Treasurer Spinner will soon
propose to Congress 10 sell all the stock now
| held in trust for the Smithsonian Institution,
| the Indian annuities, &C., and to place the
avails in the Treasury.
Mr.. Dickens commences his first series Of
readings in New York on the 9th Of December.
He designs to give some twenty readings in
that city.
Messrs. Tickuor Il Fields, the Boston pub
fishers, have issued a new edition of Charles
Dickens's former American Notes.
Two deaths from drowning, and several mar,
row escapes Of skaters, occurred in Lewistown,
Maine, on Thanksgiving Day.
CONSERVATIVE Meeting I N Hanover Co.