Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-12

D.,
adopted the gold FIVE franc piece and its null
tiples as the basis for uniform currency
among nations.
The extensive Touring mill Of Messrs. K.
Tyson & Co., Leicester, Howard county, Md,
on the line Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail,
road, was totally destroyed hy fire yesterday
morning.
Havana advices Of the 9th, state the slaves
recently landed were 500 Congoes who were
immeme diately distributed among importers.
Ad7ices from Jamaica represent the plant
ers as oqerburdened with taxes, and are !eav-
ing the island.
CONGRESS. The Senate, yesterday, spent
the whole day in the discussion Of their Recon
struction bill The bill was finally passed.
The House held an evening session, at which
the Senate bill was received and referred to the
Committee on Reconstruction, who will report
on it to-day. As the matter stands each House
has now passed separate bill, but it Is be
heved that III agreement will he reached, and
the perfected bill sent to the President 10 day
or tomorrow, and that the President will return
it with his objections az promptly ~ possible.
The House Of Representatives spent the
most of yesterday in discussion of MIR. Bout
wells resolution providing for IN adjournment
till October, in which was involved The I'M
parchment question The members favoring
impeachment urged the resolution, while 'hos,
opposing impeachment contenled against the
meeting Of Congress at that time. The House
refused to second the call for the previous
question, leaving the resolution open for amend
ment. y substitute making the holding OF i
session at the time indicated contingent upo"
the presence of u quorum in both Houses was
rejected Finally the resolution was amended
so as to provide for the meeting Of Congress
on Wednesday, the 18th of November, and
passed-yeas 81, nays SO. subsequently N.Y.
Stevens offered resolution directing the judi
CARY Committee to report at the present SEES
sion the evidence relating to impeachment, land
moved the previous question: The House
refused to second the call, and Mr.. Wilson
moved 4 substitute directing the committee to
have copies of the testimony printed IN time
to be placed on the desks Of members on the
first day Of the next session. MI Stevens
said that after the vote taken he was Wiling
to abandon the matter, and on his motion the
resolution was laid on the table. Mr.. Scho-
field had read from the Clerks desk 4 letter
from Professor Agassiz, characterlzlng as 4
"vilIainous calumny" the newspapcrparaeraphs
attributing to him certain views in reference
to the colored race.
FOREIGN News. In accordance with the
declared intention of the Austrian Govern.
ment, bill making the ministers OF the En-
peror responsible to the Legislative body was
L. knf IL po3o afr
passing through the various stages Of Iegisla-
ton was yesterday finally adopted, aud is now
law of the Empire
Abdul Aziz, the Sultan Of Turkey, has gone
to England.
Orders haYe been sent out for the recall OF
the Ambassador of Prussia, ut the City Of
Mexico
1t is said that an eytenuve conspiracy
against the life OF her Majesty Queen Isabella,
of Spain, has been discovered, and that over
two thousand persons have been arrested in
consequence OF the developments which have
been made.
A manifesto has been issued Jy Garbald, in
which he declares that his sons and friends
will fight for the liberty Of Rome
The authenticity of the Russiao n ote to lis
Ministers in Washington, London s nd Paris,
in regard to ireland, is doubted in Lo ndon.
SURRATT's TRIAL. Yesterday, Nv. John
I. Hollohan was on the stand long ii me, tel
ling the court and jury about his trip to Can
ada with Weichman and several dett cTives,
when he lost the Surratt handkerchief He
was rigidly cross-examined by the prosee uti0n,
and lost his temper several times. A G. olored
woman, testified, upsetting the evidence given
by the colored woman Susan Jackson f II the
prosecution, as to the presence of John H. Sur
raft at his mothers house on the night the
late President was assassinated. Other wit
nesses testified against Clea7er, one CT Shem
giving interesting particulars as to how horses
were furnished the government during the late
war, while that individual was inape ctor. An
other witness, Mrs. Lambert, testified that on
the night Of the assassination she heard some
soldiers going by say that the President hsd
been shot, and that she raised wind ow, called
to them, and questioned them about the facts.
and that the night was dark. This testimony
bears hard on that of Sergeant Eye who
swore that Mrs Surratt talked out Of her win
dow to him on the night in question, only a
square away from the spot mentioned by the
witness above named Mrs. Lambert was cor
rohorated by her son and by servant in the
house, and the object is to show t hat it was
not to Mrs. Snrratt that Dye spoke on the
night OF the assassination, but to Mrs Lam,