Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-07
NEWS OF THE DA 7.
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Gen. Candy. formerly in command of the
Second Military District, but recently appoint
ed to the command of the Department of Wash
ington, is expected to arrive in few days and
enter upon the discharge OF his duties. Gen
Meade, appointed to the command of the De-
partment Of the South, has already entered
upon the discharge Of his duties, and had q
consultation in Charleston with Gen. CANDY as
to matters in North and South Carolina.
The Treasury regulations for allowance OF
drawback on alcohol and rum have been issued
The law is construed to limit the drawback to
alcohol of full proof eighty degrees by hydro
meter and TO pure rum, termented from su-
gar, molasses, or other product OF sugar cane.
Rum and alcohol can only be exported with
privilege of drawback in quantities OF not less
than two thousand gallons.
Rev DR.. Benedict J. Spalding, brother Of
Archbishop Spading, and administrator Of
the Diocese of Louisville, died on Tuesday at-
ternoon at the Episcopal residence, in that
city, from the effects of injuries received by
the accidental burning of q mosquito net on
his bed DR.. SpaIdiug was advanced in years.
The Charlottetown (P E. ~ Star of the
2Sth ult., says that thus far this season the
catch of mackerel along the shores of Prince
Edwards Island and in the Bay of St. Law
renee generally, has been unusually small
JThis IS the ''annual' statement about the
mackerel fishery.
The o. S. Arsenal on the Schuylkill, through
which employment was given to thousands Of
men and women during the war, is now used
simply as military storehouse. The surplus
clothing, caps, shoes and equipage made in the
last year of the war, will supply the demands
made upon it for long time.
Information has been received at Washing
ton that General Sherman will at once convene
the Indian Peace Commission, authorized by
the recent act of Congress, and confer with the
various tribes, with view to preventing fur
Their disturbances.
The international Commercial Convention in
Portland, Me-, on Thursday, adopted rcsolu-
tons favoring freer intercourse with Canada
congressional aid to the trans-continental rail
roads and an enlargement Of the canals and
channels of the st. Lawrence.
George Zimmerman committed suicide in
Philadelphia yesterday; and an unknown wo-
man was killed at Camden by the Cape May
train.
A colored man, native of Virginia, was brought
last evening to Hudson, N. j., and lodged in
jail, for having violated the person Of q child
only IL years OF age.
At Atlantic City on Monday, three men got
beyond their depth while bathing near the
scene of the late disaster, and would have been
b,,t 10 flo4 al lrfo hoo
One or two cases of yellow fever are reported
on board the steamship Ocean Queen, at New
York from Panama and one death on board
the brig Haviland, from Havana.
1t is understood that the State OF New York
is to be divided into two Supervisory Districts
under the new Internal Revenue laws.
Highwaymen recently robbed the Boise City
(Idaho) stage and obtained $40, 600 from regis
tered letters Of Wells, Fargo & Co.
Four steamboats, were destroyed by fire at
Cincinnati yesterday. The loss is put down at
100000.
Two more Democratic Senators have been
ousted from the Louisiana Legislature, and
Radicals seated.
An insurance office in New York was robbed
yesterday of forty thousand dollars in u. S.
500 bonds.
Willis Rollins, the colored Democratic ora
tor, is attracting immense crowds in New Or
leans.
The cattle disease panic in Pittsburg, Penn,
has measurably subsidized.
The Coroner's jury has rendered verdict of
accidental death in the case of Gen. Halpine.
In Georgia the entire Radical ticketfor State
officers has been elected.