Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-09

Die otAe largsk neetigsasthat ia eHf,
held in Faheuil Half, in Bosfon, Washed 81
Saturday evening, to give expressions in re-
gard to the treatment adopted to Irish citizens
by Great Britain, and to demand their rights
sion formed on the Common, and with many
transparencies, those having reference to the
Observation-Disclosures three Fenians In Man
chester prodominating, headed by military
company, and with music, marched to the
Hall, which was filled before their arrival there,
but portion of the crowd managed to getin.
The running of trains on the Rari'an and
Delaware Bay Railroad, between Camden and
New York, has been suspended, the company
on Wednesday having housed and withdrawn
all their rolling stock from Camden and inter
mediate places This action is taken in con
sequence of the Court of Errors deciding that
the company had transcribed the provisions OF
their charter by running trains Ito Camden,
contrary to law. This order of the court stops
all operations on this road, and yesterday the
workmen sought their homes! l52lEu ri -
"A terrible accident occurred on the Oswego
and Rome Railroad: On Saturday plight An
extra freight train withempty cars, which LETT
Richland for Rome, ran into a tree, Which
was blown across the track, about three miles
west of Pulaski The engine was thrown from
the track, turned bottom up, and her wool
work destroyed by fire. Five the freight.
cars took fire and were also destroyed. 81 Ife
engineer and the fireman were killed. -.
It is. feared that the ship Lizzie Southland,
which sailed from New Y ork for Liverpool,
has been lost, as she is now long over due. =.
The ship Thornton, which went ashore IN the
b6hsey, is in q bad position, and 1t IS not
thought possible she can be Saved.
Since the vote on impeachment was taken,
the President has been visited by a number OF
his friends, who called to congratulate him
upon the termination of the effort to ,ogst MIN
from the executive chair. Among those who
called were several members OF the Cabinet
and members Of Congress- .a.
A steam marble factory has been opened In
Mexico. Juarez was present at It's Inaugural
ton and made Speech suggesting that the
first piece of marble cut should be used In 4
monument to be cree cd to the memory OF
Mexicans who fell martyrs to tho cause OF
liberty.
There arc at present about thirty oyster pack
ing houses In Baltimore employing some forty
five hundred shuckers or openers Of oysters, Of
whom the larger number are colorcd men and
women. Over ten thousand people arc inter
csted in the oyster trade in the city.
The Alabama Convention adjourned on Fri
day last. They joined in memorial asking
Congress to alter the laws so that majority
of persons voting upOna the Constitution should
decide it, without reference to the number Of
registered voters.
The Lehigh Navigation Company of Penn
sylvania, has negotiated six per cent gold
loan of five millions of dollars at IS per cent.
The amount was promptly subscribed, notwith
standing the tightness in the money market.
From San Francisco the story comes that an
American whaling vessel had been ordered
from the Ochoshock cruising ground on penal
ty of being sunk. OF course this is but one
side Of the story.
Col. 3. B. G. Twyman, consul to Mexico
under Buchanan, and formerly editor Of several
newspapers in Kentucky, has committed suicide
in Carlo, by taking solution OF arsenic.
A jury has been summoned to condemn the
land tor the Metropolitan road,i Montgomery
county, Nd, the owners having failed to make
arrangements with the company.
Tho New York Board Of Health have de-
clarcd New Orleans an infected port on account
of the cholera prevailing there.
The Vermont Central Railroad bridge at.
Mortified, three hundred feet long and seven
ty feet high, was burned yesterday.
Pconage, in Mexico, has heen abolished by
the Mexican Government, and republican liher
ty is declared to stand on firm foundations!