Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-07
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Gu Wy y. IL. VittcneI, aGtne corner VI l eaii
and John streets, New York. was destroyed
by fire yesterday. The New York Milk-Con
densiug Company, lose 800, 600 q. Bishops
rlcks i Co., baking powders, lose s12,0Oo;;
s. W. Hiscex, observation-disclosures $4,000
The building cost, i'm 1862, $4,000. The
Total loss is estimated at 100000. A fire &C.
yesterday at 264 Washington street,
occupied by! Knickerbocker & Cook as a coffee
and spice factory: Loss, on stock and build
ings, $50, 600: insured. The fire spread to AN
adjoining building. Loss, $4,000: o4.& Z
Z The New York correspondent Of the rPhila-
delphia Ledg ger says: Several additional
suspensions So, uns :' were reported, in the street on
Thursday atternoon-among the. rest, the
wholesale grocery house of Bensley, Burton 4
Co., Beaver street. Their liabilities are under-
stood TO be large-some say not less than a
quarter of a million of dollars. The frequent
recurrence of these announcements within the
few days past is<e2erclslng a very depressing
influence in almost-eVery department. OF trade,
and creating unpleasant apprehensions.o OF fur
ther embarrassment in the future. -
Attorney General Stanbery has had under
consideration for some time, the question
whether the Government holds possession of
Harper's Ferry in fee simple, or merely IN
trust for the specific use of an armory, and no
other. He says, in an official communication,
that the trust, or use, declared in favor of the
United States, is not confined to any specific
purpose or object. The Government has, had
absolute and undisturbed use and possession
of the property for seventy years, and there IS
no doubt, on examination Of the statute OF
Virginia, that it has a perfect title. I &EEs
A number of members of Congress are of
the opinion that the act of February goth,
1868, regulates Gen. Grants tenure Of office
as acting Secretary of War. The language of
the act, they say, is that when some officer OF
tbs Government, either the head of a Bureau
or otherwise, is designated by the President TO
occupy q vacant Office 10 an emergency, he
shall not serve more than six months; and
hence they want him ''ousted.
The riuderpest has broken out among the
cattle in the western part of Baltimore county.
Twenty-one head of cattle have died on the
farm of j. Howard MeHenry, near Pikesvllle,
az d other farmers have lost more or less. The
diseased cattle are taken with vomiting and
p%urging, and then linger long, have no appe-
tite, become poorer and poorer, until they die.
Gen. Hancock's order r%evoking Gen. Sheri-
dams jury order, was ELECTED by the represen-
tation OF eminent udicial officers thatthe course
of justice was impeded. By that order II was
almost impossible to obtain jurors who could
read or write, and it was aimos! certain that
should conviction be obtained BY them, pro-
ceedings would be set aside by the supreme
Court.
A man was roughly handled at the Capitol
yesterday, in Washington, and summary
elected from the building by Mr.. John E.
Roberts, one of the Capitol police. The rea
son assigned for the assault was that the man
after asking some questions commencet to
speak of Congress In abusive langu .ge, d-g
that body in general, and Thaddeus Stevens
10 particular.
Among recent 'strikes" is a strike Of Queen
Victoria against tie London butchers. She
refuses to pay them for her establishment the
large prices they have been exacuing. This
course, which was taken to benefit the POOR,
has already, it is said, produced a p%erceptible
reduction in the price Of meats 10 the markets
of England.
The treaty recently concluded with the Dan
ish Government for the purchase by the United
States of tho Danish West India Islands, has
been sent to the Senate, and considered in
SAtCuGlRc SeSStUU. IL Was lClCllCA " VIC
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Thomas P. Martin, U. S. Revenue Collec-
tor at Vicksburg, was arrested in St. Louis on
Thursday, on the charge Of absconding from
Vicksburg with a large amount of money EN-.
bezzled from the collectors office. Nearly
$1,000 were found on the person of his wife.
The Senate held a brief executive session
yesterday, and considered several nominations.
But the only confirmation was that Of Johu
S.. Walton, as sub-treasurer at New Orleans,
vice Thomas P. May, removed for alleged de-
t~alcatioD.
A dispatch from Sir. A. Rumbold, president
of Tortola, received by the Secretary for the
Colonies in London, shows that that island
was not submerged, as reported by the Havana
cable, but that many lives were destroyed by
the recent hurricane.
A letter to the New York Herald says, Sec
rotary Seward is negotiating for the purchase
of Cuba, and that the Spanish Government
looks tavorably towards the proposition
''Expansive' as are the ideas OF Mr.. Seward,
We doubt this report, just now.
The biological Society of London is rejoic-
irg in the possession Of a walrus, recently
brought from the Greenland seas. 1t is fed
on shell. fish of various kinds, known to form a
large part of its proper food.
The Criminal Court at Indianapolis, has
decided that the State law forbidding mar
riages between the whites and blacks is not
made null by the U. S. civil rights law. The
case will be taken to the Supreme Court.
A private dispatch from New York SAYS
that q certain banker on Wall street, had
twenty counterfeit legal tenders Of a thousand
dollars each, Dew issue, ''shoved" on him yes
terdsy. -,
Gen. S. A. Hurlbut, "Commander-in il. Chief
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic, has is
sued an order for the assembling of National
Convention of the Order at Philadelphia on
the 18th of January. ..s.
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