Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
20 sao,o the vegy age and body Of the ''"r,s


York, yesterday, for perpetrating outrages on
no less than seven little girls who we're under
his charge. Wendt had been there only i lew
daya. He is regularly ordained Lutheran
clerayman. He confessed his guilt. 5
Secretary McCulloch gives notice that the
time for changing Seven thirties falling due on
the 18th into Fiye-twen,y bonds OF July, 1867,
has been extended to the 18th Of September.
All notes not presented for conversion on the
day last named will be paid in currency on pre-
sentaticn at the Sob-Treasuries
Mexican advices state that Mejia, the Mih-
lister OF War, is dangerously i'll, and Escobedo
has arrived at Vera Cruz 1T has TRANSFERRED
that an Austrian alliance was guaranteed to
Mexico in return for Maximihan lille, but Jua
rez replied that the decision OF the whole case
remained with the Jury.
Justice Bowling in New York city on Mon
day refused to entertain complaint against
Foochemats, Of the famous Japanese Troupe
for the larceny OF 81, 500 from MIR. Thomas
Mcclure, as there was no evidence Of the prls-
oner's guilt He was accordingly discharged.
A man named John Wade jumped from the
mast OF vessel in dock at Brooklyn, yester-
day, distance OF seventy feet, into the water,
to decide a bet The wafer was only twelve
feet deep, ana he stuck in the mud at The bot
tom and was drowned.
In North Carolina the farmers are complain
ing bitterly that they have been yictimized by
parties from the North in the purchase of gu
ano for their lands, and that they have paid n
high price for it, yet it is perfectly vaIueless.
A serious fight occurred at Louisville, Ky.
Yesterday between two brothers named Black
and two brothers named Reddipg, resulting
from family feuds. Several persons were
stabbed and injured by brickbats.
1t is rumored in New York that 4 defalcaton
of 50, 900, 900 has been discovered in the Treas
ury Department at Washington. We regard
the report as somewhat sensational.
A telegram reports twenty three new cases
of yellow fever at New Iberia, Louisiana, yes
terday, but no deaths have occurred. The dis
ease is assuming mild form.
A dispatch from San Francisco dated The
10th says, ''the business portion OF Bencla was
destroyed by fire last evening. About forty
buildings were burned.
Tremendous thunder storms, succeeded by
scattering suowhakes, are the latest atmos-
pheric eccentricities reported from Georgia.
Registration returns from forty-seven ccnll-
ties of Georgia show majority for the coIored
voters of nearly seven thousand.
Advices.from Mauritius to May G represent
that 10. 900 persons had died Of the plague dur
ing one lnonth
A meeting of New York Radical Republi-
cans has nominated General Sheridan for the
Presidency.
Four hundred persons have lately Joined the
Methodist Church, in Marion county, West
Virginia
Little "All Right" the japanese acrobat is
not dead, as was reported but alive and we'll.
Several Cases Of cholera, it. is said, have re-
Gently occurred at Shelbyyille, Illinois, +
The National Academy of Science is holding
A session at Hartford. Coma.
MIR. BRADLEY AND JUDGE FtsHER The
following is the note handed by Mr. Bradley Il
Judge Fisher, on Saturday last:
WAsHNaToN. August e, 1861.
Hon. Georqe z. Fisher:
SIR: liz the alteration which occurred
between Ia, when you returned to liz: court
room alter the adjournment on the I'd of July
last, you observed that YOU were then sick, and
were pleased to add, ION know where to find
me, and [ hold myself responsible III every
form for whatever say or do or words to
that effect, after which you applied to me the
most opprobrious epithets. There is but one
among gentlemen
told you | could wait and | ain sratiGrd
to find you have recovered, anG: that the trial
Of the then pending case being now 'losrd, VI"
are both at liberty.
That 90 time may be unnecessarily lost, |
beg Yon will let me know, as soon as yu', con
yeuienty eau, wien it. will suit You TO meet
Inc out Of this District that We may arrange
to our mutual satisfaction the points OF dll1er-
ence between us, without incurrlng the risk
and odium which might accompany any con
troVerSy here or in public.
With the same view, | take the liberty to
hand you this note in person,
And am, sir, your most obedIent servant,
JOS H. BRADLEY
FoREIaN News. The latest adviccs rrceiv-
ed from Japan via Shanghai report that the
case of the ship Anna kimbalI, Captain VIII
lialns, which was seized for infractlon O! the
commercial treaty between China and the
United States, has been satisfactorily settled.
It is reported that the differences between
Prussia and Denmark in regard to North
Schelswig, and the execution Of stipulatons o:
the treaty OF Prague, are in 4 fair way to be
settled.
Captain NIoriarty (thc Fenian) has been
sentenced to imprisonment for ten years.
Garibaldi is known to be at Sienna, where II
is said he is actually engaged in renewing his
preparations for that movement on Rome
which was to have been attempted last month.
A report from the Island of Gambia, is that
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