Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-23
VIEWS OF THE DAY.
20 sAoao the very age and body Of the times.

Thomas McCauley. arrested IN klng couG-
ty, New York, on charge of being concerned
in series Of burglaries at Coney Island and
elsewhere, appears to have been model burg
lar, (if burglar at all, of taste. He is a mar
rled man, and his residence has been fitted up
with elegant furniture: paintings Of great merit,
library Of the works of the best authors, and
his cellars contains the choicest wines and
liquors, all reputed to be the result OF daring
midnight explorations.
The Commissioner of the General Land VI
fee has received letter from Hon. "A. a.
Denny, of Washington Territory, relative to
the recent discovery of coal mine about three
miles from the Eastern shore of Lake Dwanlsh,
few miles east Of the town of Seattle, IN that
Territory. The letter was accompanied by a
specimen of the COAL the supply OF which, 1t is
stated, is iuexbaustible. The discovery will,
it is said, be of great importance to the North
Pacific Railroad Company.
Senators Wade and Sherman made their
first political speeches of the campaign on We'd
nesday Wade claimed colored suffrage as the
result of Republican principles, and Sherman
declared that the National Bank system was j
blessing to the country, and the failure to col
lect the whiskey tax was blot on the prevail
ing method of taxation.
The work of reducing the working force and
the expenses of the War Department is regu-
larly progressing. The mastering out of vol
unteer officers whose services are no longer
needed continues. 1t is stated that among
those mustered out yesterday was included
Brigadier General f. A. Hitchcock, Commits
sa,y General of Prisoners.
The Atlantic cable dispatches continue to
produce reports in relation 10 the Salzburg
Conference. 1t is asserted that defensive al
lance has been formed between Austria and
France, and that one of the conditions TO be
insisted upon is that the South German States
shall form a confederation under the dOmina-
ton Of Austria
The leading gamblers of New York recently
held private meeting for the purpose OF TAX
lug measures to protect themselves against the
Anti Gambling Society. 1t was finally agreed,
after some preliminary discussion, to tax each
establishment one hundred dollars to raise u
fund for the employment Of lawyers and other
purposes.
The recent order mastering cut a number OF
volunteer Surgeons, most Of whom have been
engaged in the Bureau Of Freedmen and Aban-
doned Lands, has, with one exception, muster
j II a. Il l,aEl Ia Hat
the few vacancies existing in the regular corps
will soon be filled.
While on visit to Lancaster on Tuesday,
says Il correspondent Of the Evening Express,
Il learned that Thaddeus Stevens is becoming
more and more feeble every day. He had in
tended to visit Bedford this season, but was
compelled to abandon the idea on account Of
i'll health. "
The lost GnlI cable Was reco vered on Sunday
and the wires between Havana aud hey West
are now in perfect working order. Communi-
cations are passing between the two points,
but the movements Of the Geographic party
between Pnuta ko>a and Key West We're mn
known.
The workmen on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road not having received their pay Tor eighteen
months, are on Il strike They assembled at
Jackson and stopped the trains, and 4 compa-
ny of military were ordered to that point.
Gen Sheridan has tecgraphed TO Washing
ton that the yellow fever las become an cpl
demic in New Orleans, and that several Of his
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active at Point Coupee, Louisiana.
The Radicals Of Delaware have called meet
ings to elect delegates to the Border State Con-
vention to be held in Baltimore next month.
The object is to secure colored suffrage in
the border States.
Western dispatches say the military author
tiles are arming all the citizens at Fort Sedg-
wick for protection of that post. Cholera is
raging among the Seminole Indians. About
twenty new cases appear daily.
On Wednesday night, fire broke out in
Plattsburg, New York, which destroyed, one
church, bank, and two printing offices, twen-
ty-fve residences, and twenty five stores, Loss
$75OOOO
New refrigerating cars are now bringing to
New York the dressed carcasses of steers and
sheep killed in Ohio, and the meat arrive in
perfect order.
Reports from the Plains state that Forts
Sedgwick and Reno were besieged by the In
dams.
The cholera is raging with great malignancy
in and around Shawneetown, III.
Another death from yellow fever is reported
in New York.
ADDRESS OF HENRY A. WIsE--A tee-
egraphic dispatch from Richmond says: Tx
Governor Wise delivered an address at the
Washington and Henry Academy to. day. lie
said that VIC i'll now owed natural allegiance