Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
80 shoy Tie yery age and bodyof the tfo'es.

commanding at Fort Monroe, to produce Mr'
Davis before the United States Court Tor VIZ
ginia, at Richmond, on Monday next, Is pup
lished. a Richmond dispatch OF last nlghs
states that Chief Justice Chase will be IN tnat
city on Monday. When Mr.. Davis arrives
there on Sunday he will still be retained IN
military custody, and will be kept IN LIBBY
prison until arraigued in court.
The anniversary exercises of the American
Anti-Slavery Society were held in New York
on Tuesday. Speeches were made by Wendell
Phillips and others. Resolutions were adopt
ed, declaring the oaths of the Southern whites
and the constitutions of Southern States too
slight guarantees for the civil rights of the
colorcd race, ~tavoring the immediate impcach-
ment aud removal of the traitor at the White
HOUSE" and a close watch upon the Supreme
Court recommending care in the selection Of
a candidate for the next Presidential election,
and faVoring confscation!
Thc-tnaStcr mechanics, manufacturers and
contractors OF St. Louis held a meeting ycstcr-
uat GIN oott 1SSOiullOuSQ CCIdtIDSG Dd III
will not employ or suh-lct their work to any
one who will not work ten hours and employ
their men on the ten hour system. They also
agreed not to employ men belonging to socic-
ties organized for the purpose OF interfering
with the free will of mechanics. Finally, to
take the initial proceedings for combining to
protect the interests of master wOrkmen and
manufacturers.
Among the cases before the mayor of Rich
mond, on Monday, was one ola white ciLizen
charged with chastising a colored woman in his
employment, The defendant confessed the as
sault, but justified himself on the ground that
the servant had abused his wife in the most
violent manner, and he could not submit to
such abuse. The mayor reminded him that
the time had passed when any discrimination
could be made between whites and blacks, and
accordingly fined him ten dollars, and ordered
him to give security for his good behavior.
General Sickles has been in consultation with
officers Of banks sithin his district, and has had
under consideration the propriety Of issuing an
order for regulating the banking interest in the
second district, and especially for the purpose
OF enforcing a uniform rate of interest. The
Secretary Of the Treasury to whom the com
munication was submitted, does not approve
of the project, and it will doubtless be aban-
doned by General Sickles.
A dispatch to the Louisville Courier from
Russellville, KY, says, Hon. Elijah Hise, just
| elected to Congress f,om the third district, by
an almost unanimous vote over lis radical OPP
ponents, committed suicide by blowing out his
brains with a pistol. He lett a note saying in
the present condition of the country his ad-
vanced age precluded his doing the country
any good and sought relief in death.
The overcrowding of the poor people in
South London (says the South London Press
is getting dreadful. In John street, NeWing-
ton, a man, his wife, three children, their
grandfather, and three other adults, sleep in a
chamber containing only 80 cubic feet Of air.
Another room is occupied by a man, his wife.
their children, and fifteen dogs.
A'baby elephant, attached to a circus, became
frightened near PhoeNiy, r. l., on Friday,
broke away from his keeper and ran into the
p~rincinal street. He made 4 raid upon q fruit
store. went into q saloon and emptied the con-
tents upon the landlord and customers, and
was proceeding to demolish a grocery sore,
when he was secured by his keeper.
Yesterdays dispatches by the cable bring us
the intelligence that 'the Conference of the
great Powers had adjourned until toms rrow."
1t is reported in London, from Warsaw, that
the Russian Government is concentrating
troops and accommodating munitions Of war in
Poland.
A boy was arrested in New York on Mon
day, charged with the theft Of one hundred
steel prints, valued at $1,000, from his en-
ployer, Mr.. Edward Bicrstadt, the artist. 1t
is alleged that the accused tore up the cngrav-
ings and sold them as waste paper.
Mrs. Scott Siddons, q great granddaughter
of the renowned tragic actress, has..acbieved a
most unequivocal success in Shakesperian roles
at the Haymarkct Theatre. Prior to her
debut in London Mrs. Siddons had tested her
powers in the provinces.
Petitions arc being circulated in Texas pray
ing the Federal Government to divide the State
into two parts, one to be called the Western
State of Texas. The reason alleged is the
loyalty Of the population of the proposed new
State.
Several eminent German physicians, In
Guiding Professors Wunderlich, of Leipsic, and
Won Petterkofer, of Munich, have agreed to
meet at Weimar on the 2Sth and 29th Of April
to have a conference on the cholera.
From returns published Ia Liverpool in the
last week of April, it appears that the quantity
of cotton afoat from East India and American
ports on the way to Liverpool and London. is
estimated at 100000 bales.
Seventy thousand Germans, it is said, have
engaged passage by steamer TO the United
States. The new Prussian CONSUMPTION laws
are driving many out of the country.
Frank Holtkamn, tortV-fpe years OF age,