Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-22
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Savannah on OaturGay night. ABOUT Jour
thousand blacks and few whites and others
were present. The meeting was addressed by
G. ii. Hopkins and a few other whites, and
Bradley SIMS and other blacks There was
no disturbance till after the meeting, when
there were several collisions between the coan-
try and city blacks They we're promptly sup
pressed by the police, however. Few arrests
were made.
The auction interests are playing the mis-
chief with those who have stocks OF goods on
hand in New York. We are pointed to par
cells OF excellent goods which cost SIS IS yard
in gold to import, which have cold at auction
as low as 50 5O--a loss of about So IS a yard.
This is but sample case, but very sad one
to many in the city. The losses by auction,
we are told, mainly fall on foreign houses who
have their agents in this country.
The National Intelligencer says: "We learn
that there were about one hundred and twenty
FIVE thousand dollars worth of counterfeit 7-30
bonds put in circulation. OF this number the
Government received eighty thousand This
amount has been returned by the Government
to the parties from whom they received them.
The bonds have all been counterfeited since
August last. All bonds issued previous to that
date are correct
c.. G. Lips, dealer in gold and stocks IN
Philadelphia, suddenly disappeared about
three day since, after having victimized Third
street brokers and private individuals to the
extent of $4,000. He is described as being
of German extraction, stout, thick set, with
large red nose. The above amount is divided
among some thirty or forty parties, and no one
will lose any considerable amount
A sea captain, named Rufus Lodge, has
been put under bonds, at New Orleans, tor
brutal treatment of two English lads who
slowed themselves away in his ship at Liver
pool, in order to get free passage to America.
Among other things be had them stripped and
placed in tub of sea water and lime, and
scrubbed with coarse brush and sand paper
until the skin was taken off.
A German newspaper says: 1.-Two years ago
Mr.. Christian Segemayer became father to his
ffty-eighth child. His first wife gave birth to
twenty-three, of which six were twins and
eleven single born children. Of these fifty
eight children twentyeight are living, all being
daughters, and the man has never been sick,
and enjoys good health, as DO his children. y
A terrible gale occurred on the Labrador
coast on the 9th inst, and so far as heard from
some thirty vessels have been totally wrecked
also an immense amount Of property and forty
lives lost Wharves, boats and fish oil on shore
were washed away. Steamers are leaving St.
John with relief for the sufferers, there Icing
over one thousand people left destitute.
One of the most extensive robberies ever
committed in St. Louis occurred on Sun
day night The wholesale je~elry store OF
Meyer & Lobe was entered, the sales opened,
and from ten to fifteen thousand dollars worth
of property stolen, consisting Of watches, both
gold and silver, diamond rings, and large lot
of gold and silver chains.
Gen. Candy order for the election in the
Carolinas, on the 10th and Goth Of November,
has been issued. 1t prohibits violence, or
threats of violence or dicharge, or other OPP
pressive means to prevent any person from
or voting, and parties violating the
order will be arrested and tried by military
commission.
The substitution of the steel for the iron rail
is being steadily carried on in England, and
large establishments for the manufacture OF
STEEL particularly by the Bessemer process,
through which large masses of the molten iron
are rapidly changed into steel, are growing up,
both in that country and the United States.
Work on the Antietam National Cemetery
has been suspended for the want of funds.
This has been occasoned by New York and
Pennsylvania withholding their subscriptions
until an examination could be made of the
accounts of the officers
Messrs. Cushing, johnson, and James, the
commissioners appointed to codify the laws OF
the United States, have nearly completed their
work, and will make report to Congress at
the beginning Of the session. The patent and
military laws have been greatly reduced and
simpliGed.
The Ritualists are, it is said, rapidly increas
ing in New York The latest accession to their
.anks is the parish Of the Annunciation, Four
teenth street, OF which DR.. Seabury has been
so long the rector. The services are almost en-
tirely choral, and the boys wear surplces as at
St. Adams.
The b-judiciary committee to examine into
Maryland affairs, now in session, have de-
cided to enforce secrecy, On the ground that
revelation of the proceedings embarrasses the
committee and subjects witnesses to criticism
from the people among whom they reside.
The Governor of Massachusetts, has taken
the lead this year in designating a day for the
usual annual thanksgiving. Thursday, the 2Sth
of November, is the day set apart for the pur-
pose. 1t is probable that the same day will be
designated in most if not all the other States.