Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-27
NEWS or THE DA 7.
"7b slooc The rpJv age and Loogofhe hin'sS.

80 sIo,c lhe rpyV age and Joly Of the hD1Ss.
A coloi ed mass meeting to ratily the Radical
platform recently adopted BY the Union League
Of Charleston, South Carolina, waa held in that
city yesterday afternoon. Four or five thou
sand of both sexes and OF all ages were present
Addresses were delivered by four white and
several colored speakers, among the iorlner
being the 4. S. Marshal EpplnG and Scion
Robinson of the New York Tribune. \ torch
light procession took place i'll the evening, dur.
ing which some negroes made an attack upon
the street cars and took possession Of one OF
them The cars were subsequently guarded ny
policemen. Considerable excitement wa9 re-
ported to prevail throughout the city aud grave
apprehensioDs Of further trouble.
Gen. Hancock started from hcavenworh,
Kansas, on Monday, for the country inhabited
by the Sionz, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
with fifteen hundred cavalry and infantry and 4
battery of.artllery. He was also accompanied
| by several chiefs and braves Of the Delawarcs.
who are TO act rs guides and scouts. Gen. a.
). Smith commands the regiment Of cavalry.
Scarcely 4 vessel arrives in Hampton Roads
but that additional particulars are received of
the fearful gales and storms which have made
| this month so cventrul in marine annals. The
record Of disasters and sutferings at sea will,
perhaps, never be fully written, and it is pain
full to contemplate the fate Of many IN home
ward or outward bound muruGr wrecked in the
gales.
The Boston Post says The State constablcs
have notified All the saloon keepers in that city
that they must close up onthc sale Of cider and
ale on and after April |. It is understood
that The sale OF beer ana cider will be prohibit,
ed in every city and town throughout Massa-
chusetts on the period above named. The sale
Of all other liquor is, of course, forbidden.
George Role, al inofensyc man, aged thirty
five years, was murdered on Sunday morning IN
The Williams House, in Falmouth, IN Maine,
by Ebcn Williams aged twenty one years, who
shot him through the heart with rifle and
then cut off his head with an axe. Williams i.
an imbece, under guardianship.
A colorcl man was yesterday admitted tt
registry az ID freeman by The Republican board
Of registers Of Nleridcn, Connecticut. and de-
clared 10 I,e entitled to vote. There Is mncI
excitement in consequence
Some uncaSiness is felt in Paris, al the enor-
nous increase Of prices, iii consequence oi Tie
crowd gathering there for the Great EZposi-
too.
The Senate committee Oh foreign relations
has unanimously agreed t1 lepnt III favor 81
rtiecling the nomination Q! ecu +. +. E!ar Il:
miul;.ter 10 Austria.
Appleton & Co., Now York, have given to
the Trustees Of The Peabody Education filni
for the South, 900 school books.
The town Of Laconia, Arkansas, ha, been IN
undated by the Giving away Of the lc9ce; and
the cilizeus have haeh forced 10 leave.
The New York Quarantine Commission arc
actively at work making preparations aGan:t
cholera and yellow fever.
Hon i. Stone, Of Maryland, Is detained
from his seat III the lIouae Of Representatives
| iy severe illness.
Tie ca icaro Lake Tunnel has been compile
| ted This great work c5"t wo and Il hall nil
| lions TT dollars
Capt. George Coffin, ole Of the uIdc>t ship
ina }ter. III Massachusetts,, died ycA..rd4y.
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