Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-21
NEWS OF7HE DAP.
"7o shoao the gerry age and body ofthe Times.


A Salt Lake dispatch says new and rich mines
have been discovered on the White river, the
ore taken out paying from five to seven hun
dred dollars per tom Assays have been made
of the ore, yielding from ten to fifteen thous
and dollars per ton. An ore crushing mill is
already in operation, and large quantities of
ore are being shipped daily to Austin for re-
duction.
The General Government has purchased two
hundred and fifty feet front of the Battery ex-
tension, New York, adjoining the Staten Island
ferry, upon which to erect barge office and to
construct a basin for the reception of United
States revenue and naval vessels, and Is nego-
tiating for the purchase OF tie whole or large
part of the remainder Tor other public purposes.
The Nevada Enterprise has the following
Parties from White Pine tell that In the
towns in that region Jumps of silver ore are
used as a circulating medium, and are found to
answer very well In the absence of suficlency
of coin. Even at the gaming tables ore goes.
The kind of ore used is the pure chloride,
which is so rich as to be quite malleable.
Senator Edmunds, chairman of the Joint
Retrenchment Committee, has been engaged
at the Treasury Department for several days
past in examining the affairs OF the Printing
Division while it was under the charge of MIR.
S. NJ Clark. A thorough investigation will be
made Of all matters pertaining to that Bureau
since It's organization.
Max Klinger, the boy who killed his uncle,
and was sentenced to be hanged in st. Louis
recently, took an appeal to the Supreme Court.
That Court reversed the decision of the lower
Court, on the ground that the prisoner should
have been allowed further time to obtain testi
mony from Europe to prove his insanity.
The amount of fractional currency daily
printed at the Treasury Department is between
ninety and one hundred thousand dollars which
is rapidly forwarded to the various assistant
treasurers and Government repositories to fill
acquisitions made by them on the various de-
partments.
A barn and nineteen thousand pounds Of to-
bacco were totally destroyed by fire last week in
North Carolina. The property belonged to Mr..
Thomas Barksdale, and was situated in the vi
cinity of Milton. The tobacco had but recently
been gathered, and stored for safe keeping in
the barn.
Angelina Martin, alias Jennie Perrie the
Washington lobbyist, was one Of the parties ar
rested in descent upon an assignation house
in Wooster street, New York last night and
was fined ten dollars.
An Omaha dispatch says, Red Cloud, the
famous chief Of the Sioux Indians, and several
other chiefs heretofore hostile, have signed a
treaty of peace, and promised to behave them
selves.
The American street railway in Rio Janeiro
was opened to traffic on the 9th of October in
the presence Of the Emperor and an immense
concourse of citizens The average daily re-
eeipts were twice the estimated amounts.
Nearly all the brewers of Troy, New York,
have combined to put up the price of ale
They Justify their action by saying that the in
creased cost of materials renders necessary the
advance.
Several cases are reported Of persons being
nearly sufocated by gas, at hotels, in conse-
dueuce of blowing out" the gas lights in their
rooms, instead Of turning the gas off.
A black man has been arrested in Hartford
county, Md, for committing an outrage on the
person of most estimable married lady in that
county.
Gen. Grant as entertained yesterday by the
Union League of Philadelphia, and was called
upon by large number of citizens
Secretary McCulloch in his annual report
will renew his recommendation of an early re-
turn to specie payment
Two hundred persons from Pennsylvania are
to settle in Caroline county, Md, during the
present year.
A snow heavy storm is reported on the plains
in the vicinity of Fort Dodge. The snow is said
to be two feet deep.
A physician in New Haven has been arrested
charged with committing an outrage on the
person of lady who was his patient.
Gen Grant is said to be very rich man,
owning much valuable property in st. Louis,
Washington, and other places.