Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
80 sho,o Meve7y age and body of the Times

\ DlStrlct Attorney Chandler IS ID w asulnS w
and, it is understood will await the arrival OF
the counsel employed to aid him in the prose,
cution of Mr.. Davis, for consultation. he
states that he knows Of nothing that would
prevent the trial from being commenced onthe
25th instant, but that contingencies might
arise which would render further postpone
ment necessary. Il 5IfIa
: 10 the Alabama Reconstruction Convention
yesterday the elective franchise committee pre-
sented majority and minority reports The
majority report disfranchises all who refuse to
vote for or against a constitution when sub
mitted to the people, and is otherwise pro-
scriptiye.. These reports were made special
orders for to day.
M. De Billie, recently secretary of the DAB
ish Legation at Paris, has arrived 10 Washing
ton, empowered, it is said, to sell the Danish
West India Islands to the U. S. Mr. Seward
is anxious to purchase them. and has offered
seven millions of dollars, while the Danish
Government demand fifteen millions in gold.
The New York Tribune Of Saturday says :.
1.-THE wife Of Mr.. Frederick Essler,I shoe
maker of Park avenue, near Cumberland street.
gave birth tv four infants onGTuesday morning
last. They weigh an average OF eight pounds
each. Two are boys and two girls. Mother
and children all doing vel r. 80. " -.
!5: AN ex-so!dier of S. C:regment was arrest
ed at Knox lille on Saturday while offering for
sale $4,000 worth Of watches and jewelry
marked with the names Of Hampton and
Preston. - ~ The prisoner claims to have found
the articles during the war buried with other
jewehy. gl.s -, ~, 8 ~ S :,
IL, No wonder that men complain of the: mix
ing up Of politics andregion in Massachusetts,.
Prior to the election its clergy were formally
invited to preach 10 favor of the prohibitory
liquor law, aud accordingly several hundred
sermons were really delivered on an issue which
has been heaten out of sight.
B. F. sherwood, Chief Of the Bureau of
Steam engineering Of the Navy, is preparing
report on the experiments made with petro-
leum as fuel for generating steam in marine
boilers. The most favorable results have been
attained with the apparatus.
It is stated that as MIR. Bradley has been
''dismemberad" from the bar, and therefore
is no longer one of the counsel for John H.
Surratt, that the eminent New York criminal
lawyer, James T. Brady, is about to volunteer
as counsel for the defence.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is out in a
letter in which he says that Gen. Grant will
not carry single State, unless the PLATFORM he
stands upon will recognize manhood suffrage
and that all ofGrant's acts prove that he favors
hatdoctrinc. :.
A large meeting of citizens in favor Of the
nomination of Gen. Grant for the next Presi-
dency was held in Trenton N. j., yesterday.
Governor Ward and other leading men of the
State were present. The Radicals, alarmed at
the late defeats, are focking around Grant.
Frank Driscoll, secretary of the Radical State
Central Committee Of Minnesota, telegraphs
that Gov. Marshall (Radical) is reelected by
over 1000 majority, and claiming that official
returns show that the negro suffrage amend
ment has been adopted by snail vote.
" The annual reports Of the several Depart
ments are 10 state of forwardness hatinsures
their completion in time for the delivery ofthe
Presidents message at the beginning ofthe reg
uar session of Congress in December. A-.
The Bremen ship Carl arrived at New Or
leans yesterday bringing another load of Ger
man emigrants. Texas papers announce the
late arrival of large numbers Of emigrants In
that State
The people Of Australia have made great
preparations for the arrival Of the Duke OF
Edinburgh, the son of Queen Victoria, who was
expected in September to visit the colony during
his cruise in the Pacific.
A tornado visited Indiana and Kentucky
yesterday, demoishing Baptist church, a
large tobacco factory and five other buildings
at Franklin, KY, and the Baptist church in
Greencastle, Ind.
An additional member Of Congress from Ten
nessee, to represent the &c, 900 colorcd men re-
Gently .enfranchised, is to be elected in Dccen-
ber He will be chosen from the State at
large. - ...;.es... 80. pr
Y Santa Anna, having sojoumed for a few days
in Havana, has been naturally involved in a law
suit He has been summoned to appear be-
fore an inferior court to settle up an Old score.
The Tammany Hall Democracy on. Saturday
light nominated John It. Hoffman for Mayor
in New York by exclamation. Fernando Wood
is the candidate Of Mozart Hall. .#e.'
Mr.. Reverdy johnson is said to be in dan
ger Of losing the sight;of his righteye, by means
of cataract. elost the sightof his left eye
sometime since, @l.@yt J!l.z .,lr s2 },:-s
Weston, the pedestrian, arrived at Syracuse
from Oneida, a distanceof thirty-eight miles, at
niue clock yesterday morning. He says he is
now eighteen hours ahead of time. saa
No deaths from yellow fever are reported
in New Orleans and no applications are made