Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-19
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LATEST BY ATLANTIC CABLE.

LATEST BY ATLANTIC CABLE.
We have the foreign news up to yesterday,
Ireland is said to be Tranquil Small numbers
of Fenians concealed in woods are endeagorng
TO make TO the coast, but the national troops
have been so disposed as to render escape I'M
possible Troops have been sent to Malahlde
to overhaul Stephens, who is reported and Is
believed to be in that eighborhood. As Tar as
lis known, in the whole rising. only one person
was hurt.
The Fenian plan was to attack Killarney,
capture the place, and then march to Cork, but
the immediate dispatch of troops from Cork to
Killarney by Gen. Bates, and the CELEBRITY OF
Col Horsford' S movements, defeated the whole
plot and caused the insurgent band to dlsperse::
O'Connor and his staff are said to have reached
the Fenian vessel off Dlngc Bay,
/ Ghirty-four suspected persons were arrested
[ in Dublin Yesterday, aod after an examination
five of them were retained in custody.
Head Centre Murphy and Colonies Lnwior,
Healey and johnson, have been arrested at
Limerick, end important papers found upon
their persons and in their lodgings.
The alarm caused by the event is now about
over, and the excitement is subslding.
The American Chamber of Commerce OF
Liverpool, have voted to present gold medal
to Cyrus W. Field.
A dispatch from Toulon announces the death
by apoplexy of Lieut.. Cornwall, OF the Amer,
can iron-c'ad Miantonomab.
The famous ex- Confcderatc steamer Sumter
has been lost in the North sea.
Dispatches from Madrid state that the hlng
Consort has been exiled from Spain on the
charge Of plotting for the regency oil the king
dom. .s . ....
Pedro Escudcro Echanol, Minister of justice
and Public instruction. &c. &c, OF Maxlml-
ian's Government in Mexico, has arrived in
Paris accompanied by other high officials OF the
| Mexican empire.
Bismarck will soon go to Studgard Tor the
purpose OF forming a new Iovcrcln.
The King of Prussia is about to visit Dresden.
GENERAL AssEMBLY.-Thc greater part of
the Senate session on Saturday was consumed
in discussing the bill to provide for the obiga
tons q the State Speeches were made by
Messrs. Keen, Lee and McRue, at considerable
length Early in the progress of the discus
sion, vote taken on the substitute propo-
scd by Mr. Lee, and it was rejected, receiving
only one vote The substitute proposed by Mr..
Meade received similar fate. A proposition
by Mr.. Ould to make the rate Of interest six
per cent from the date Of resuming payments
Ton the two thirds OF the debit instead Of grad
Mating it from four to seven per ct. during the
first ten years, received only four votes because
of the unwllIingness of the Senate to impose
tax as high rs thirty-tive cents on the $780,
But before arriving at any vote on the main
merits Of the question, the Senate adjourned.
NJ iptroIuoad q oSo1utin, loOk n
the adjustment of the militia officers train
ings. A committee Of conference was appoint
ed to consider the disagreement between the
two houses on the bill for the New River i'm
prOvcment.
The bill reported from the Committee on Fl
nance amcndatory Of the act in relation to the
collection of taxes Is a measure OF some inter-
est 1t requires that each sheriff shall give
notice and attend at the court house of his
county or corporation and at least one Of the
most public laces in each magisteral district
in his county on some designated day. for the
purpose of collecting taxes for the current year.
All persons who pay taxes to the sheriff, in ac-
cordance with this notice. snail be entitled to
deduction of five per centum on The emount OF
their taxes respectively. This bill Is similar 10
the law at present in force in North Carolina
and some other States.
were presented and referred Senate bill to
regulate charges of telegraph companies in Vir-
GINA was rejected The bill to Incorporate the
Covington and Ohio railroad, and the bill to
provide for the completion Of line Of railway
from the seaboard to the Ohio river, by facili-
tatiDg the construction of the Cumberland Gap
Railroad, were postponed until Monday. The
Committee on Schools and Colleges presented
Joint resolutions Of thanks to Mr.. George Pea
body, for the munifcent donation Of -, 600 900,
which he has made TO the cause Of education
in the South. House bill to consolidate the
debt Of the State, and to provide for the gradual
payment of prnci pal and interest, was taken
up and read the second time. Mr. Crump ad-
vecatcd the adoption of the bill at length, and
at the conclusion of his remarks, MIR. Seawe
offered substitute for the bill, (which is the
same proposed in the Senate by Mr.. Meade on
Friday, when the further consideration OF the
subjectwas postponed until to-day. Richmond
Enquirer.
Among the resolutions offered were the fol-
lowing:
BY Mr. Robcrtson-A resolution nquiring
into the expedicncy Of amending the stay-law,
by inserting in section 2 tie following clause:
"Or in any case in which bill may be filed,
to subject the real estate of a deceGcnt to the
payment OF his debts and liabilities, and wher-
ever it shall be made to appear to the satistac-
ton of the court that there is a deficiency of
personal assets and that without a sale of said
real estate the rights Of creditors may be Sc
riously damaged"
BY Mr.. Robertson-A resolution inquiring
into the cXpediency OF imposing penalty on
persons for receiving or buying from minors or
irresponsible parties, any scrap iron, brass,
lead, metals or the like.
CONGRESS tie Senate, yesterday, vari-
Gus bills and resolutions were introduced and
referred. E1e bill providing for the election
of Congressional Printer was passed. The
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