Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-06
Dr. H. B. Caldwell, OF the White Sulphur.
Springs, Greenbrier county, Va, died recently.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned on yes
tcrday, until Monday. "
NEWS OF THE DAY
10 sho,o the vesy age and body Of The t'n'e H

c.. and shut up the whole family IN an out
house on the premises, after which they rob
bed the house of all its contents; when the
family thought to relieve themselves from con
| fnement, the scoundres etupon them and
committed some of the most cruel murders
ever recorded
Adyices from the Plains state that great
alarm exists among the whites between Forts
Yankton and Randall on account Of an expect
ed raid of Indians Vigilance committees have
been organized at Julesburg, the western ter
minus of the Union Pacific Railroad, for the
protection of the persons and property OF the
citizens.
The Red River levee 10 front Of Alexandra,
La, gave way on Friday night, flooding tho
lower portion Of the town; but the break was
repaired by citizens On the night OF the lst it
again gave way. A dispatch says the only
chance for the town to escape overflow IS By
| fall of the river
| The steam ram Dunderberg. recently sold to
the French government, took her departure
| from New York on Thursday, for Cherbourg,
| where she is to be turned over to her imperial
purchaser. She goes out in charge Of Amcrl-
| can officers and manned by an American crew.
The Washington correspondent OF the New
York orld states that in view Of the certain
action Of Congress defining the powers of the
military satraps South President johnson will
do nothing towards rcinstating the Southern
officials deposed by Sheridan and others.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister, does
not believe that Gen. Escobedo ever SAID or
used such words as have been attributed to
him in regard to his making terror the order
of the day, and his desire to see split blood OF
everv foreigner that resides in Mexico.
4 race was trotted between Dexter, IN har-
ness, and Ethan Allen and running mate: on
the Morristown; IN. J. course, on Thursday,
which was won, after close and exciting con-
test, by Ethan and his mate, the best mile
being in 22O The purse was $500
Our consul at Kingston, Jamaica, under
date of June Sth, reports that yellow fever
prevails at his post AS an epidemic aud IN a
very malignant form At least % per cent OF
those attacked died, but the disease Is mostly
confined to persons unaccllmated.
Accounts of restitution among the poorer
classes of the people in some Of the counties OF
North Carolina. are constantly being received,
and leave 10 room for doubt that the most
intense suffering and sickness from the want OF
food prevail to an alarming extent.
In Boston on The 4th, young married man
named Edward A. Walsh, boarding at No.
1873, Purchase street, shot Ellen Sweeney,
cook in the family, killing her instantly. -
Walsh wasarrested. He says it was accidental.
At circus exhibition 10 Rochester, 4. Y,
ON the 9TH, Elias White, the Lion King, while
in cage Of ferocious lions, was attacked Gy
male lion, inhcting severe wounds He was
rescued by the circus men with iron bars
Interlocutory iniunctions have been granted
BY Judge Underworld at Alexandra, restrain,
ing two dentists in Richmond and tw' IN
Petersburg from the further unlicensed use
of hard rubber, or vulcante plates.
The frigate Susquchanna, with Admiral
Palmer on board, sailed under sealed orders
yesterday from Hampton Roads, osfcnslby tor
the West Indies, but it is now known that she
will proceed direct to Mexico .... ...
Wendell Phillips is calling upon Congress 10
sit in permanence until the White House sur
renders or is cleansed He styles President
Johnson ''besotted rebel, - and calls for his
immediate removal.
Senator Sherman, nov on his Way home
from Europe, denounces Attorney General
Staubery' S recent opinions on the Reconstruc
ton laws as an attempt to annual the laws ut
Congress-
The President has rendered the Governor
ship Of the recent purchase from Russia TO Fir.
Benjamin Stark, OF New London, Connecticut,
lately Democratic Senator from Oregon.
The French Government has granted a con.
cession to a new Franco American Company,
to lay submarine telegraph cable from Brest
to some point on the American coast
The body Of Rev s. N. Merrill, of Troy,
who was drowned a few days ago, has been
found, which puts to rest the rumors that he
was not dead
Accounts from the interior Of North Carolina
give very dlScouraging prospects OF the crops
in that State this season.
+ Two women we're accd sntally Killed in Baltl
more, on the 18th, by the discharge Of pistols.
The new Brazilian minister was introduced
to and received by the President yesterday.
FoREIGN NEws.-The Atlantic cable dis
| patches say that the Austrian Court has been
placed in mourning for MaximiEau. The
grand review Of British troops and Belgian
| Volunteers ordered to take place in Hyde Park
has been postponed 10 consequence Of the uo|s
| from Mexico. 4 general feeling of indigna ton
prevailed 10 England and ON the Conliucn
against the Juarez government. Loul Lyons
| has entered on his duties as English Minister
at Napoleon's Court. The Italian Minister of