Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-08
VIEWS or THE Dd j.
'''7o sso,o The ve1y age and body ojhe Times.

The Buenoss Ayres Standard, of August 9,
calls the attention of the Government to the
fact that a half dozen native and Italian bro
kers have bought up all the wheat they can
get hold of and refuse to sell it except at the
highest prices. At that time -four was selling
at 500 per arlobe, twenty-five pounds in weight,
and it was expected that the price would soon
raise to 81 per pound.
1t is reported that the letter of Senator How
ard, arguing that Senators who advise impeach-
ment should not be disqualified to sit in the
trial, will not be published for the present
This action is taken upon the advice OF leaalns
radicals and financiers, who deprccate impeach-
ment as prejudicial to financial affairs and
Injurious to the political affairs OF the Radical
party.
When the steamer Great Republic lately left
San Francisco for China and Japan, several
thousand Chinese crowded the wharf, dressed
in their best, and flung after the Steamer, into
the Bay of San Francisco, thousands on thou
sands of long slips Of bright enameled yellow
and red papers. inscribed with prayers to un-
known gods for the vessel.
The papers have accounts Of tremendous
gale at Galveston on Thursday, Sd inst, estl-
mating the damage to the wharves, shipping,
goods and buildings at Il million of dollars
The highest overflow that has occurred since
1887.
Recorder Ahern, Of the First District Court
of New Orleans, died yesterday. His seat will
be filled by colored assistant recorder until
new appointment or election The grand Jury
is half white and half black
Lamb & Quinton, who recently failed at st.
Louis, and whose liabilities are stated at three
hundred and forty-fve thousand dollars, show
| assets to the amount Of four hundred and sixty
seven thousand dollars.
| Secretary McCulloch docs not intend to ap-
point Deputy Commissioner Of Internal Rev
enue from persons outside of that Department.
He intends to fill this office by regular promo
tous in the Revenue Bureau.
The telegram from Fort Ellsworth, stating
that Gen. Butterhed had been taken prisoner
by the Indians, was fabrication. Major Gen
eral Butterfed is at present at his post Of duty
in New York. a#..
General Sherman reports that there is good
grounds for the belief that Good results will
come from the abors Of the Peace Commission,
and that hostilities will cease ere long.
The number of fever interments in New Or
! leans on Sunday was sixty, and yesterday forty
nine The weather is quite cool, and will prob,
ably check the disease.
Peter LorilIard, an old and well-known and
| wealthy citizen, of New Y York, long prominent
in the tobacco trade, died at Saratoga. ycster-
day, at good old age.
Two citizens of New York are to be prosecut-
ed for having swinded the State out of three
hundred thousand dollars, in the matter Of lie
gro enlistments.
| The yellow fever has almost entirely ceased
| at Galveston, but the accounts OF its ravages
in the interior of Texas arc most distressing.
Gen. Sheridan had the same greeting from his
Radical friends at Boston yesterday as has met
him on his trip from Washington to that city
The steamship Perierc, nine days and two
| hours from Brest, has arrived st New York.
This is the fastest time on record