Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-04
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Bark Isabella y. Jones, captain Jones, VI
Baltimore, from Philadelphia August l2th'
and Capes of the Delaware 18th, tor st.
Thomas, with cargo of coal, on government
account, foundered at sea on the 9Th oeplem
ber Captain Jones and one of the crew sue
ceeded in getting on skY-light, but the rest
of the crew went down with the ship. After
remaining on the skylight seventy hours, Capt.
Jones was rescued by Spanish vessel, 1.-THE
seaman having previously died from exhaus,
ton, and carried to St. Jago de Cuba.
Mrs Lincoln, the widow Of President Lin
coin, is selling her dresses and jeWelry IN NE"
York and has given permission that the TACT
should be stated. She says she has but seven
teen hundred dollars year to live on. Inc
list of articles exposed for sale at Brady's, on
Broadway, with valuation attached to each'
is published. The estimated value OF all the
articles offered for sale is twenty tour thousand
dollars.
Money is offered on the continent, as in Eng
land, on almost nominal terms, in consequence
of the little demand for business purposes
There is fcverish anxiety in regard 10 the tu-
ture. No one, it is said, believes in war, but
until there is a stop to the increase OF arma-
ments confidence cannot revive.
A dispatch from New York dated yesterday
says: Bark Eliza Barnes, bound ioI Bermu-
da with cargo of cattle, sheep, and hay, was
completely burned Some forty head of cattle
were saved, the rest were burned to DEATH
Loss about $4,000; not insured. ~
The New York Fire Commissioners, at their
meeting on Wednesday, adopted a resolution
declaring that no member Of the Fire Depart
ment would be permitted to be delegate or
member Of any political Convention for the
nomination of candidates for office.
The contracts with Southern railroad and
steamboat com panes for the transportation OF
the mails throughout the South, which were
entered into by the Postmaster General on the
first of July last, are all being satisfactorily car
ried out.
Gen. Grant refuses to settle the claims now
before the War Department on the ground
that he is too busy and knows nothing about
them. Many Of the claims date back to the
time when Mr.. Cameron was Secretary Of War.
Mrs. Lydia Cruger, aged one hundred and
Two years, died at her residence, about 5 miles
from Wheeling. on Sunday last. The Register
says: "She has lived for years in the large
stone dwelling in which she breathed her last. y
The marine losses of American vessels during
September, by FIRE, wreck, collision and similar
disasters. were %, of which 2 were ships,
barks, 5 briggs and - schooners. The aggre
gate value of these vessels was 1891 900.
A telegraphic dispatch announces the death
of Robert Small, orderly sergeant of marines
on board the U. S. soop-of-war Vandalia, a
Portsmouth, N. H., by falling overheard, or
the 26th ut., and drowning.
Geu. Joseph f.. Johnston has resigned the
presidency of the Alabama and Tannnsa~-
River railroad. from Selma to Dalton, and hi;
place has been filled by the election of Franklin
H. Deland, of New Y DIRK.
Messrs. Lamb & Quinton, heavy -four and
commission firm in St. Louis, have suspended
payment. Shaw K Co., also heavy -four deal
ers, arc said to suffer largely by the failure OF
Lamb 4 Quinton
The fever intcrments at New Orleans, up tt
six o'clock yesterday, numbered fifty-six. The
Howard Association is now rendering assistance
to eight hundred families, averaging three cases
of fever to each.
There was serious riot ia Jefferson city,
Louisiana, last Saturday. A fight ensued be-
tween whites and blacks, and one white man
was MORALLY wounded. The blacks we're all
armed.
Commissioner Rollins, of the u S. Treasury
Department, has written letter stating that
by law of Congress all afidavits are relieved
from stamp duty
Nearly fourteen thousand acres of public
lands were sold at the land Offices in San Fran
cisco and Stockton, Cal, during the month of
August.
'lhe banking house of Stone, McCorry & Co.,
at Independence, Mo-, was entered by burglars
last Sunday night, and robbed of $4,000.
Thos. f. NOEL, member of Congress fra +;
Missouri, died st Louis yesterday 80 - %
long been suffering from disco os,on 49,, 49,
The fever has subsideS1 loso"nts Th 1i t, sns
streets are filled wis issei is abating
at the Dry Tn Tn returns from North Carolina
! neeuat the whites are in small majority.
THE TERRIBLE" MARYLAND MILITIA
The Washington correspondent Of the Bali
more Sun says An account Of the organi |
cation of the MARYLAND militia reaches hara |
from Baltimore, in answer to charges that that |
body is differed by "ex-rebels (which sets forth
that the whole militia is commanded by Major
Gen. r. n. BoWerman, late of the Union army,
who commanded brigate at Spotsylyania, was
Twice badly wounded, and served during the
entire war, from the first battle of Bull Run
Up to the surrender of General Lee He first
entered the'service in the Seventh New York
egiment
1t is also stated that there are eight regiments
in gray and the cost IN hIna