Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-09-16
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day before the flagship Susquehanna, which
arrived at Norfolk on the 18th. She sailed at
once for Washington, and it is understood,
will undergo some extensive repairs at the
Navy Yard there, and then be sent to join the
Asiatic Squadron She has been cruising IN
West India waters, and visited ports as far
south as Cayenne, French Guiana. She was at
ST. Thomas while the yellow fever was pre-
yailing and lost the Surgeon and three Seamen
attached to the ship, by this disease.
At Jackson, Madison county, Tennessee on
Saturday morning, citizen named Hart was
shot dead by militia after he had given up his
arms. The militia went round compelling cit
liens to give up their arms. The murder is
said to have been most atrocious one. The
citizens collected together and commenced to
arm for the purpose Of driving the militia from
the place. u. S. troops were being forwarded
to the scene of disturbance. The militia had
been committing dcprcdations on citizens in
various localities
1t has transpircd that one great cause OF the
weakness of the Farmers and Citizens Nation
al Bank, at Brooklyn, is the fact that the firms
Of O. NJ. Beach, Beach Il Williams, Williams
Il Bro, and one other Williams who arc all
officers or directors of the bank, owe the instl-
tuition over 100000, this debt having been
contracted in direct violation Of one of the pro-
visions of the banking law
On Saturday evening" just before the Ham
burg steamer Deutschland arrived at her wharf
at Hoboken, salute was fired, during which
the cannon used exploded into fragments, in
stantly killing three men who were serving the
gun, and mortally wounding two others. The
unfortunate victims of this terrible casualty
were all Germans.
The Hartford, Con-. Times says THE great
WOODEN and stockinet mills having come to a
stop, the cotton mills are now following the ex-
ample; and the silence of the machinery at
Cohoes IS followed by similar ominous cessa-
ton in some OF the mills at Lowell The Ire,
mont and Suffolk Q0wel) mills are about TO
stop running. " ..
The New York Post says: A large insurance
and brokerage agency in Boston, which has
branches in New York and Chicago, has sus.
pended payment. Their liabilities are said to
be 5000, OOO and many Of the insurance com
panies of this city for whom they acted as
agents ia other places, are sufferers by their
failure.
Matthews, who is charged with obtaining
$4,000 from the bank of Moses Taylor 4 Co.,
New York, in July last, by forging the name Of
Cornelius Vanderbilt, was arrested on Wednes-
day, in Illinois About $4,000 of the money
was recovered, the rest having been expended
in the purchase of farms, horses and stock.
An Omaha dispatch says telegram from a
special agent at Fort Laramie reports that one
hudured and seventy lodges Of northernArapaho
Indians, under Little Shield, offer to surrender
if the Government will protect them and feed
their families Orders have been issued to &C
cept the terms.
Yesterday, the cornerstone OF the new cath
edral, Holy Cross, in Boston, was laid with i'm
posing ceremonies in the presence OF an m
meuse multitude Archbishop McCloskey, OF
New York, delivered an address. The estima
ted cost of the cathedral is million and a hall
of dollars. ........
1t is stated UPON apparently reliable intor-
nation, that Chief Justice Chase has written
to the President sustaining the civil authorities
in the judicial cases in North Carolina ont OF
which arose the conflict Of authority between
Gen. Sickles and Marshal Goodloe.
The report OF the Judiciary Committee on
impeachment is being printed for presentation
to Congress- Great precautions have been
taken to keep the report from being made pub
lie before its presentation to the House Of Rep
sentatiVes.
The annual session of the r. W. Grand
Lodge of the United States, |. 0. 0. f., will
be opened to-day, in New York city. This
National Grand Lodge is the supreme head
and ultimate tribunal Of the Order Of Odd
Fellowship.
It's said that the Government has official
information that the negotiations with the DO
minican Government for the purchase of the
Bay of SANTANA, in the island of st. Domingo:
have failed, that Government declining to make
the sale.
The widow OF John J. Crittendcn, who was
the widow of Gen. Ashley whom she married
Mr.. Crittendeu, has put in claim on behalf
of the estate of her first husband, for valua
bic tract of land at the foot Of Ashley street,
in St. Louis.
The double-ender Lenapee, from Key West,
arrived at Fortress Monroe, yesterday. She
was boarded by DR.. Cooper, the quarantine
officer, who found two cases of yellow fever -
Two other vessels were ordered to quarantine.
Mr.. Collect, revenue collector Of the third
district of New York, has been suspended by the
President upon charge Of misconduct in office,
regularly filed in the Treasury Department
In consequence OF wound accidentally re-
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