Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-22
y NEVIS OF.,I,HE DAY.
'" To shoe the ve1y age and body of tie Times.

Returns from eight court housesi in South
Carolina show 8 743 back votes and, II 5Vhitec
This will be about the proportion throughout
the State. Not one white, vote is known to
have been cast against the convention. A ne
gro register who, in August last, violently or,
rested a white citizen, and encouragedahe ne.
groes to violence, has been sentenced by NIL 2
itary commission to Imprisonment torq SIX
months at hard labor: ie5.5t .i 2t* s=5.i -
A terrible accident occurred on the Cincc1m
natl, Hamiiton and Dayton railroad yesterday
The express train, due at six o'clock, was de-
tanned at Lockland byathe freight train coming
South. While waiting. for the freight frantic
take theHside track, another freight train fol-
lowing ran into the rear car of the express
train Four ladies, three ofithem sisters, and
one man were burned to death, and nearly all
the train was burned to ashes. r.r -, ~:
The persons who placed the distinctions
upon the track, Of the T oledo and Western
Railway, last week, BY which the train was
throwntro the track, near West Lebanon,
and the engineer lost hisl life, have been dis
covered, They are three boys one aged about
seventeen, and tho others not more than four;
teen. One has made full confession, and
says they placed the distractions on the track
to .ssee the engine and train jump
"A meeting was held at St. Paul's Church, in
Baltimore, yesterday for the purpose Of raising
funds for the education of Southern children.
Resolutions were passed asking aid for the So
ciety alre ady formed for that purpose: and
establish ing similar societies In Northern cities.
Cergymen from New York and Philadelphia
were present, and promised that the work
should be pushed forward in their cities.
1t is understood that the new fifteen cent
denomination of fractional currency is now
ready to be issued, but that the delay is occa-
stoned by desire to know the opinion OF Con-
gress on the subject of issuing it. 1t seems
that so tar all the members who have been
conversed with 10 regard toit are favorable to
the new denomination.
The election returns from North Carolina are
very meagre, but enough have been received to
establish the fact that convention has been
called by u large majority, and that the Rad
calls have elected a majority Of the delegates =
Very few negroes have been elected, but q num-
Der of extreme white Radicals.
he failure of one of the heaviest grocery
houses in New York-that Of Messrs. j. X.
Place & Co.'s announced. Their liabilities
are said to be, very heavy, ranging from one to
two millions OF dollars They were dealers
Oh lefty in sugar and tea.
A slight Improvement in New York iii all
departments of the dry goods trade has been rea
Elzed during the week; and, Tor part of the
time, sales were lively and prices OF certain
styles of domestcs, advanced.
MI Davis left CuDada on Wednesday even.
lug for Richmond, where he is expected OF
Sunday evening, Lis trial being SIT down iol
Monday the 18th. ~
The Paymaster General says that the stop.
page Of pay from enlisted men in favor Of suit
Iers is no longer allowed.