Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"1asshos0 the ysry age and body Of the Times.

stitutionalityof the Reconstruction acts, Will II
is expected, come up IN the Supreme Court
asain on Friday, On amotion by Mr.. Trumbull,
counsel for Gen. Grant, to dismiss it tor want
ofiurisdiction. If the Court is ready, argu-
ment on this motion, will be made on that
day. 49,
The political campaign is now fairly opened
,inNew Hampshire. D. W. Voorhees,, Mont
gomery Blair, and j. s. Black, 60 to that
State to stump for the Democrats. GOV. Har-
riman is already on the stump, and large
number of Radical orators will soon take the
field.
Mr.. Eliot, of Mass, will shortly introduce
in the House of Representatives, a. joint resolu-
ton directing that the order of Gen. Grant,
disoontinuing the Freedmens Bureau IN GER
tain States from and after February lst, be I'M
mediately rescinded.
Sad tidings come from every part of France.
The Lyons manufactures are paralyzed. The
uncertainty OF the political future is the chief
cause Hunger and restitution are making
terrible havoc among the operatives at Nantes,
Rouen, Bordeux and other places.
The distress 10 the east end of London is
very great, The number of persons Deepen
dent on the Government for relief is 10000,
but tho measures adopted fail to meet the need
and the increasing amount of rauperism.
Dr. Jackson was shot and killed by his son
last Saturday at his home near Macon, Geor-
gia 4 He was brother of the Jackson who
killed Col, Ellsworth, at Alexandria. "A DO
nestle quarrel vas the cause of the parricide.
The naked Spiritualists have been on trial at
Newark, N j., for lewdness for some days.
Some Of the testimony is unfit for publica-
ton. The jury yesterday In the case OF Nc.
Even, the leader, returned verdict OF guilty.
Charleston gives sad evidence of the mis-.
fortune caused in the South by the war In
1860 Charleston contained forty thousand peo-
pie, whilst now its numbers barely reach fifteen
thousand. @E *S@zE
The Improved Order or Red Mem have
Just completed and opened asplendid new hall
in Philadelphia. The building cost nearly
100000.
One large dry goods house in New York
discharged all the single men in its employ on
the 1st instant, and reduced the salaries of the
remainder. 80
The Houston Texas Telegraph exchanges
with South Carolina paper, which reaches it
through the postofice, wrapped in thousand
dollar Confederate bonds.
On Tuesday the Radical Republican Com
mttee Of New York rejected proposition from
the Conservative Committee proposing fusion
Of the two parties
In the Tennessee Legislature bill has been
passed allowing colored citizens to hold Office
and serve as jurors. f
W. D., Bishop nomination as Commissioner
of Patents is likely to be rejected by the Sen
ate. He held that position under Buchanan.
President Johnsonis solicited by some per-
sons to pardon the notorious Conover. He re-
fuses. s
The snow storm yesterday extended from
New York as far South as Atlanta so
Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, was in
Washington yesterday. s. -, 3, .,.-
The nomination of S. S. Cox, as Minister to
Austria was rejected by the Senate on Tuesday.
GAS L1GHr-V IRGINIA OXIDES OF MANGA
NEsE.-They have splendid lights in Paris.
There they add one third oxygen to the Parish
an gas, which is far more brilliant than that
used in the cities of the U. s. By the use of
the oxygen the Illuminating power is said to be
increased eight times. Our gas in the U. S..
is not only inferior, but more expensive than
the Parisian5 article ~ : =, y
The question is, where do they obtain oxy-
gen in sufficient quantity to supply so vast a
city as Paris? 1t can be obtained from the
filings, rusted iron shavings and clippings of
the factories. This source, however, is made
quate, we presume, for the immense quanti-
ties of oxygen .needed-moreover, the process
is very expensive on large scale. The gas is
most probably obtained from the oxides of
manganese, Of which there exist considerable
deposits in Spain, discovered within the last
twenty-five years. Up to this time these OK
ides were comparatively dear, costing on an
average thirty dollars a ton, as we have been
told. Since the mines of Spain have been
worked they have fallen much lower =;
lu Virginia We have in many places enor
nous masses Of the oxides of manganese. =
Among others which we can recall, several hills,
composed mainly of both oxides, are to be found
a quarter of mile from the village Of Buch
anan, Botetourt county, on the south side OF
y ames river Like so many deposits of bound
less wealth in our State, these were unworked
indeed, unknown-til few years before the
war, when a scientific gentleman made the
discovery. s.s
We wish We could bring these hills of man
ganese to the notice of capitalists. They are
situated right at the head of the James River
and KanaWha canal, two hundred miles above
Richmond, by which means the transportation
for market is very cheap. Moreover, the OK
ides lie near the surface of the hills, and do
not require to be mined, but merely to be
S10VnIp6 II nd ho rol hoo tc
not fifty yards off,
1t seems to US that even at present prices,
the man who would work these hills would
make money much more rapidly than he could
do in Californ MIA for the oxides always meet
with a fair and ready sale, being used not only
to obtain oxygen, but in the manufacture of
glass, and in many of the arts.-NoJoM
Journal