Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-30
NEWS OF THE DA 7. ,
so sho,ao the very age and body Of the times.

head of the column before continuing their
demonstration. He also required that guard
Of honor should be detailed from among the
fremen to carry it, that it should be placed
opposite the reviewing personages, and be
respectfully saluted by every fireman raising
his cap as he passed The firemen acqulesced.
The arrest of all persons disobeying the order
was threatened.
The New York correspondent OF the Phlla-
delphia Ledger says: Among the latest ar
rivals in town is Gen Butler There Is good
authority for saying that he will revisit the
South, and New Orleans even, some time IN
the course of the ensuing summer, with VIC"
of following up the campaign begun by Senator
Wilson. He says the people down there arc
laboring under serious misapprehenslon as 10
his views concerning them, and he IS ANXIOUS
to have them corrected.
A circular signed by fifty Of the leading
manufacturers of Nea York, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg and Boston, has been issued, calling
conference of the manufacturing interests OF
the country, to meet at the Astor House, New
York, on the Sth Of May next, ito deliberate
upon the present condition and prospects OF
the material interests of American industry,
and to decide upon some method OF arouslng
public attention to this subject"
On Friday night the through train on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail
road, ran over man yirg on the track near
the Grove road A hand car was sent to the
place, expecting 20 see the body horribly man
gled, but before reaching the spot, the persons
who were on the car, were informed that the
uan mad recovered sufficiently to walk away
from the place where the accident happened,
bur very much bruised
At the last meeting Of the ho5a! Geograph-
cal Society, Sir Roderick Murchison announc-
ed that an expedition for the exploration Of
the unknown Interior of Greenland was ready.
It is to be conducted by mr.. Edward Wbgm-
per, of Alpine celebrity, and Mr. Robert
Brown, an accomplished naturalist and ezplor-
Ell of the Rocky Mountain slopes, whence he
has recently returned after an absence of near
ly four years,
The workings for the Treasury for the mouth
lust closing will show another reduction Of the
national debt. In the next statement Srcra-
tary McCulloch hopes to reduce the total debt
to about twenty-five hundred millions, III which
point he believes il must remain stationary. so
long az the present rate Of Government income
and expenses is maintained The Indian war
will draw largely on The national resources
this summer.
The Loyal League, in Blonnt comfy. f"un.,
led among Others by the Sheriff Of that county,
drove ont by force minister Of the Methodist
Church; South, the Rev Mr. Haynes, and
the same DAY broke up and dispersed con
gregation Of The same church, while assembl-
ing for worship The mob vas COMPOSED OF
whites and blacks Several Acts OF violence
have occurred in that place.
A Maine paper says that notwithstanding
the vigilance displayed by the officials, as much
liquor is drank in that State as ever, and the
effort to more risidIy enforce the la"s only
causes dealers and consumers to use more cir
cumspecton The Massachusetts, Republican
says: THAT'S just what's the matter in Mas
sachusetts.
4 poultry man OF Boston recently sent to
Manchester, N. II. pair of Branah fowls
colored q beautiful crimson, and they we're
passed off as just imported, at a great expense,
from Japan. The beautiful birds caused a
sensation amongst poultry breeders, and their
eggs sold at fabulous prices--it is said as high
as S4 an egg.
Since the decision of Judge Deadly, in San
Francisco, that Gen. Mcdowell was liable for
damages in arrestng and imprisoning people
for using reasonable language and rejoicing
over the assassination of President Lincoln
suits are being commenced throughout the
State by persons arrested during the war.
Correspondents with Gen. Hancock $ expe-
dition against the Indians say the Cheyenne
village. where the y. S. troops have been
camped for several days, was burned on the
GOTH involving loss Of 500, O00 General
Custar is still pursuing the Cheyenues, who
had fed northward
On the 23d instant the Medical Society Of
Mobile, Ala, had very interesting reunion
for the purpose of bidding farewell to DR.. j.
c. Mott, who has concluded to take up his
residence in Baltimore For many years Dr.
Mott has been at the head of the medical pro-
fession 10 Mobile
The Supreme Court of Michigan, on Tues
day, issued perenptory mandamus, COMPEL
ing The registration of a colored man as voter,
under a late decision that persons of mixed
blood, who have less that one-quarter negro
blood, are white, in the meaning Of the State
Constitution.
Last evening 9 large gathering Of coIored
people assembled al Douglass Institute, in
Baltimore, where portrait Of the late Henry
Winter Davis was received on behalf of his
widow from the cQlored citizens Of Baltimore,
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