Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TO sto,o the ve,y age and body of the Times. :

side in Paulsboro, N. J., worth, it is said, over
two hundred thousand dollars, were arrested IN
New York on Friday on charges, supported by
afidavits in the possession Of Wood OF the
detective force, Of being the chiefs of a gang
of counterfeiters who have recently put the
spurious Seven-thirty bonds on the market
Mrs. S. paid $4,000 as bail for herself and
husband on the examination at Newark, where
they were taken. Several other persons are
supposed to be engaged with them, and they
are all reported to be very wealthy.
The Louisiana Convention met on Saturday,
and elected blacks as temporary chairman and
secretary. No permanent organization was ar
rived at. The convention adjourned till to-day
Forty four negroes and twenty five whites were
present. It is understood that it was resolved
in caucus that the first step of the convention
would be to declare all the State Offices vacant,
and fill them with appointees acceptable. to
the Radical party. The recent appointments
by Gen. Mower, with one or two exceptions,
do not satisfy the members Of the convention:
There has been some excitement among the
ignorant blacks at Richmond over the absurd
notion that black men are caught alive and ia:
ken to the medical college there for dissection.
The safety OF the college building being threat
ened, the Dean of the Faculty has had an in
terview with Gen. Brown, Hunnicutt and a
number of negro preachers, who have promised
to exert their influence to disabuse the minds
of the negroes Of the absurd fancy which has
taken possession of them. e. 80 T..
5lie An immense mass meeting of Irish citizens
was held in New York on Saturday at Cooper
Institute, under the auspices OF the Irish Bri-
gade. for the purpose of protesting against the
iofrngements of the rights Of American citi-
zens OF Irish birth on the part Of the British
government. Gen Charles G. Halpinc, Gen.
Cochrane, and others made addresses, and res
oiutions favoring the object of the meeting
we're adopted.
Dispatches received from New Orleans yes
terday state that in pursuance OF Gen. Grant 8
instructions, Gen. Mower had suspended his
orders making removals from Office, and that
everything remained quiet, despite the efforts
of the Radicals to create excitement, if not
trouble, for political effect at the North. Gen.
Hancock has been delayed in his arrival by
the grounding of his boat at Cairo.
There are five steamers running now between
Norfolk and New York The Niagara, Sara
toga and Virginia no longer go to Richmond,
while the Hatteras and Albemarle do. These
last complete their freight at Norfolk, which is
augumenting so rapidly that Thomas Fl. Webb,
Esq, agent Of the line, left for New York last
week, with the intention of attaching sixth
vessel to the line.
Official news, it is said, has been received
that the treaty for selling two Of the Danish
West India Islands to the United States for
S7,50O,000 in gold, has been recently signed at
Copenhagen Denmark retains Santa Croce
The population of the newly acquired dominion
is not sufficient to constitute State, SO that it
will have to remain for some time territory.
Weston, the pedestrian, reached Edgartown,
Ohio, at halfpast five o'clock on Saturday,
having abandoned his fourth hundred mile at
tempt in consequence of discrepancy in the
distance. He goes from there to Waterloo and
fifteen miles further west, where he was to re-
main over Sunday, and commence the next
one-hundred- mile trial to-day.
Ii is understood that the Government csti-
mates for the next fiscal year will be considera-
bly, in excess Of those Of last year. Those OF
the War Department alone are in excess up
wards of $40, 100000. Lastyear theWarDepart-
ment required but little upwards Of $40, 000,-
OOO and for the next year Gen. Grant asks for
over s70,OO0,O00. "
Official advices from Havana represent that
cholera prevails to considerable extent in
Cuba From October 18th to November 10Th
there were in the city of Havana FIVE hundred
and thirty-four cholera cases and two hundred
and forty-one deaths No cases have as yet
been reported in the interior of the Island.
Serious disturbances have broken out in ia
maica. At Falmouth, on the north side of the
islands, collisions have occurred between the
negro soldiers and the new police force recently
organized by the Government. The negroes
engaged 10 the disturbance have been arrested.
and at last advices were on trial. ~
Ten ocean steamers left New York on Satur-
day. OF these two were bound for Liverpool,
one for Glasgow, one for Hamburg, one for
Antwerp, one for Rio .Janeiro, three for New
Orleans and one for Savannah. The passenger
list of the Brazilian steamer numbered three
hundred and sixty seven names.
On the afternoon Of the 22d, Fitz Greene
Haleck was laid under the sod of his native
village of Guildtord, Connecticut. A long
procession OF mourncrs on foot followed the re-
mains to the grave, and at their head walked
Miss Halleck and her cousin, Charles Elliott,
each in their S0th year.
1t is stated in kilograms to the North that
the creditors of the ten national banks which