Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-21
NEWS OF THE. DAY r
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Mayor Horton, oeMobile, who was APPOINT
ed to the position be occupies by Gen. Pope,
was tried yesterday in the u. S. District Court
for violating the Civil Rights bill, By tanlsh;
ing negro tor selling papers rejecting upon
the official conduct OF Horton. The jury
brought in verdict of guilty, and the sentence
is to be promulgated to-day @.@
) j The Nashville Banner asserts that, at an
early day, President johnson will issue an adj ID
Dire s. announcing that heis nota candidate tor
reelection. The Banner ALSO states that he
will take up his residence at Nashville at the
close of his present term OF office. a''1 ',,. .'
A dispatch from Troy, NY, announces the The
failure 1.-THE State Bankio Of Montgomery coul-
ty, occasioned by the sptcnlations Of its pres-
dent MIR. Edward, Wells +, It's stated that
thu bank will pay Its 2deposltors 10 iu!l, but
that it's capital will be almost total loss ~
,15s Another FIRE occurred ut Vicksburg on Thurs,
day night, destroying properly to the rstimat-
ed value thirty FIVE thousand dollars. The fire
is attributed4eo an incendlary, and IS the thru
from the same cause that ckastaken place there
on consecutive nlghts. i:s.12 && t,'l.5A@ >t..
81 VIM. .JeferN claiming t2 have been resi-
dent Of Louisville, Kyapwas arrested at Phila-
3delphia on Thursday last, on the charge of at
tanpting to obtain small sums Of money from
quite a plumber Of ,merchanl s of Baltimore, "
A coalsoil distillery at St. Adams, Vermont,
was seized on Friday last on the charge OF
making fraudulent returns, and an inspector
of coal oil and ASST tant assessor. has since been
arrested on suspicion Of completely. /.
The Democratic caucus of the, California
Legislature, on Thursday night, nominated
Eugene Casserly, for U. s. Senator. A tele
srarhic dispatcl from San Francisco, says he
was elected by the Legislature, yesterday.
Gen. Hancock has revoked at New Orleans
two more orders previously issued BY General
Mower, by which quite number Of judicial
ufficers we're removed Portions Of two other
ord, rs issued by Mower are conhrmed.
A dispatch from Vicksburg announces the
death, on Friday, Of Gen. Jasper A. Maltby,
of yellow fever, after seventeen days illness.
At the time IF his death, he was Mayor OF
Eicksburg, by the appointment of Gen. Ord.
1t is officially. reported at the State Depart
ment at Washington, that the cholera is IN
cr asing nj Havana There is no cholera It
Cudiz or San Fernando, Spain, as previously
reported.
Rev John Guyer, prominent minister OF
the East Baltimore NJ. E. Conference, and
presiding elder of the Northumberland Pa. J
district, died in Tyrone, in that State, few
days since.
S0me burglars entered private residence
in Williamsburg, n. Y, on "Wednesday night,
and stole Fifteen thousand dollars In bonds,
stocks and Treasury notes.
Chicago expects to pack from seven hundred
and fifty thousand to eight hundred thousand
hogs this season. One third OF the number
we're received during the last two weeks.
The subject at present most agitating the
minds of the people of the several counties OF
Maryland, is the Improvement of their public
roads
The elephant Romeo killed his keeper, VIM.
Williams, in Montgomery county, Penn, on
Wednesday morning, while in his stable.
Well executed counterfeit ten-dolar notes
on the National Bank of Commerce Of New
York city, are in circulation.
Mr.. Alexander Fl. Stephens, of Georgia.
paased through Augusta yesterday, on his way
to the North. s..4 .
John Mitchell, in New York, declines the
craftsmanship of the United Fenian Brother
hood.
Mrs. Generel Sam Houston, died Of yellow
fever at Independence, Texas, December 9Th.