Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"To sAoeo the pay age and body of the Times.

In the matter Of Edwin A. Weed, recently
arrested with Leonard Huyck, on tue charge
of having in bis possession internal revenue
stamps which had been stolen from the collec-
tors office in Baltimore over month since,
the case was reopeped 10 New York, on Wed
nesday, and testimony offered which went to
exouerate Mr. Weed from any guilty know
ledge ofthe stamps having been sto len. These
facts being shown to the satisfaction OF Judge
Hogan and u S. District Attorney Bell, MIR.
Weed was discharged, and his bail bond cancel
led.
Havana Specials from Mexico City, dated
10th inst, announce that President Juarez
read his message to Congress on the Sth, and
that it was replied to by the Speaker o! the
House. The message was highly eulosistic OF
the of the people Of the United States for their
aid in defeating European intervention. The
reply of the Speaker of the House was Of the
same character.
The Jamaica colonists are greatly disap-
pointed at the policy of the Home Government
in refusing to favor Southern emigrants From
all indications the British Government will put
every obstacle in the way of Immigrants from
the Southern States in all her insuar and
continental possessions, as hasjus taken place
in Jamaica AMI Belize.
The accident at Angola on the Lake Shore
railway, was more serious than at first report
ed. The rear car went over an embankment of
fifty feet, was set on FIRE, and out of fifty pas
sengers On y two escaped he rest we're burned
to death, and all that is left is mass Of black
ened and charred remains, without any means
of ascertaining their names.
At CINCINNATI an attempt was made to rob
Duhmc & Co., jewellers, last night, by a man
who entered the store, and while selecting some
diamonds, threw snuff into the eyes of the clerk
ard escaped with a tray containing $40, 900
worth of diamonds. He was chased and ar
rested, but fifteen or twenty valuable diamond
rings were lost on the street.
A court Of Inquiry has commenced an exam
ination into the circumstances of the recent
railroad disaster at Mortified, VT, whereby
nearly hundred wprkmen on the Vermont
Central Railroad were hacked off bridge, and
fifteen killed and many injured.
The coroner jury on the bodies of the per-
sons who lost their lives by the New York Sc
cond Avenue tenement house fire found YER
dict yesterday, to the effect that the fire
was oripinated by Max Miller, ard censures the
owners of the house. Miller was committed
without bail.
Mr. Jefferson Davis and wife we're passen-
gers in the steamer Cuba which left Baltimore
yesterday for New Orleans. The same vessel
took out Geu Buchanan, appointed by General
Grant to command the sub military district
OF Louisiana When Mr. Davis went on board
lie was cheered by the crowd on the wharf.
VIM B. Schnider, Grand Tyler of the Grand
Lodge Of Pennsylvania, Of the Masonic Order,
died yesterday. Mir. SCHNEIDER was welkuown
to Masons all over the country. He possessed
rem 4rkable powers of memory, and the lapse OF
time seemed powerless to efacs from his mind
the image of any man he had once met
The report thattbe Dominican army is march
iug to the Haytien frontiers is confirmed Baez
the ipsurrectionary leader in Dominica has, it
is reported, been shot by order Of President
Cabra Arevol has broken out at Cape Hay
tien, in Hayti and Salnave is actively engaged
in supprcssing 1t.
Dispatches from the Pacific Coast represent
that terrific storms have prevailed in Oregon
ann Washington, Territories. The town,of Mon
ticelo is represented as having been destroyed
by q food In the Cowlitz river.