Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
10 saoso tie rery age and 6odyof the times.

and Of the public services Of the late President
Lincoln The work is under the superincn-
dence OF Dr. T. Tomkins, d. {. l., who has
spent some lime in America. The hey. Y.
w. Denison, the American agent, has now
presented this object in Paris
Philadelphia has among housekeepers' the
reputation Of being the best and cheapest
market in the country. The explanation Is
simple It furnishes the greatest facilities to
country people to come 10 and sell thar c1cn
products from their own wagons. The result
is that the city is perfectly surrounded with
garden patches, and the markets are thronged
with producers.
The ''strike" 10 the PittSburg Rolling Mills,
which ended in clock out" on the part Of
the proprietors: has been settled by compro-
mise-the result having been, seven thousand
men thrown out of employment ever since
March last, with a loss during that whole time
of all their accustomed wages, aud no benefit
whatever obtained.
In Norfolk, last Thursday night an iron
safe, weighing some 800 poun Is, was stolen
from store. It is mentioned as 'colnc-
dence," that on Thursday morning one of the
party who had been arrested and tried for
stealing safe from the Mcclellan House, was
DISCHARGED, and that very night another sale
was stolen.
A California correspondent OF the New DIRK
Journal Of Commerce calls attention to the
practice of polyg amy aud slavery on the Pacific
coast, within the States and Territories. Both
these Institutions, he says, prevail among the
China settlements and native American races,
without hindrance or denunciatiou
Yesterday, at New Haven Conn two lads,
aged about Is years, named Thomas Sullivan
and Matthew Cahill, while returning from
Sunday school, got into an alteration, and
Sullivan stabbed Cahil with penkulte, in
flicting wound from which he died in few
hours Sullivan has been arrested.
Admiral Tucker formerly of the late Con
federste navy has not, as it is enormously re-
ported by Some Of the New York papers, been
dismissed from the Peruvian navy. He Was
simply relieved, at his own request, from the
command OF the fleet He still holds his rank
AS vice-Admrul in the navy.
The officers OF the Secret Service Division
arrested few days ago, near Lawrence, Kan
sus, two counterleters Over $500 III cnun
tcrfeit $40 and $50 ire lsury notes, one set OF
steel dies for making counterfeit $40 coin,
crucbles, batteries, &c, were tnnnd III their
possession.
p. IT. Blow, who testified recently before the
Congressional Investigating Committee, with
reference to the Lowenthal frauds, and the
relations of Lowenthal with the Pay Depart
ment, was yesterday discharged by Gen. &. II.
Tompkins, deputy quartermasler general, IN
der whom Blow was employed as clerk
The old Atlantic cable has broken again. -
The point of rupture is about fifty nautical
miles from Hearts Content 1t is said that
from the moderate depth Of water at the place
indicated, the cable can be repaired with great
facility.
y disturbance recently occurred in Centre
vile, Md between the whites and blacks, in
which pistols were used, and several persons
wounded Whiskey Was one and the principal
Cause Of the tumult.
Advices from New Orleans state on the au-
thority of the captain OF the Austrian steamer
Elizabeth, that up to this time the Mexican
Government has refused to deliver mp the body
Of Macmillan.
Mr. Samuel Bradlee, o! Boston, celebrated
the fftieth anniversary Of his marriage last
Wednesday by family gathering, being at
that time in his usual health The next day
he was dead.
During the month of July 1856 emigrants
arrived at New York Nearly oue-halI OF the
number remain in that State, while Of the
Western States Illinois receives the largest
proportion.
Sheridan yesterday removed Joseph Herman
DEE, the Treasurer Of the city Of New Orleans,
and appointed Stoddart Howell in his place.
Hernandez, was an ''impediment to reconstruc.
ton
From Nashville we learn that Major Alden,
Commissioner Of Registration, was bound over
yesterday by the City Recorder, for issuing
fraudulent p registration certificates.
MARQUEE and Juiroga have succeeded in
escaping from the City Of Mexico. They shot
four soldiers who attempted to intercept them
and took to the mountains.
In Baltimore, colored cavalry company Is
forming, to be called the Bond Cavalry and
the colored Republican league is to have 4
flag presentation to-day.
q General Rousseau is on his way to Washing
ton for consultation with the Russian Commls-
Sioner respecting the transfer OF our newly
acquired territory.
Five cholera deaths occurred in New Orleans
Saturday, and seven yesterday. The chief OF
police and Or. Taylor, medical director, are
dead