Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-31
NEWS OF4HE DAY.
80 sAoso the very age and body ofthe Times,

consequence Of the neglect of the authorities,
1t appears that citizen had been engaged
several DAYS in tho dangerous occupation Of
opening bomb:shells on the sidewalk. Finally
one Of them exploded, killing a son Of Mrs.
Walsh. Mrs. Walsh claims that it was the
duty of the authorities to- prevent such work
being done on the sidewalk:
E. B. Olmstead, the defaulting clerk of the
Postofice Department, now, tits reported,
threatens to make exposures about certain
officials in the Postofice Department.
He claims that the amount of money which he
was short was merely taken from one appropri-
alton and used toward the completion OF the
Postofiee building upon the verbal order Of
high official, and, as vouchers were furnished
him for the amounts. his friends claim that he
tleft the city in order to save the exposure OF
the high officials in collision with him. Il :
Wells, Fargo & Company having thrown up
their recent contract for the transportation OF
| the overland mails, o new arrangement vas
| yesterday made allowing them over halt mil:
! lion dollars more for the same service. This Is
the contract which was at first awarded to MIR.
Spades for three hundred thousand dollars,
then to Wells, Fargo Il Company for twelve
hundred thousand, and now, all other bidders
being out of the way, it is given them at the
rate OF seventeen hundred and fifty; thousand
| dollars per annum. - H. @@z2 W. -!
! Attorney General :EVarts has published an
opinion on the whiskey distillation controversy
adverse to Commissioner Rollins view hitherto.
/ He holds that the law intends to attach a tax
to the whiskey when it goes to the receiving
! room for sale, and that no separate tax accrues
upon rehabilitation. This opinion, 1t is thought,
! will open to business multitude Of stills that
had ceased operation ~on account OF the con-
struction placed upon the law by the Com
missioner.
Mail advices from Havana are 70 October
twenty eighth The supineness OF Captain
/ General Lersundi is supposed to be the ,occa-
| sion of the rsvolts in the interior. The people
generally are strongly in favor OF the new home
I Governm ent, and have become. restless under
! Lersundi's apparent Indifference He has final
| " been induced to proclaim in favor Of the new
| Government, however, and is making vigorous
efforts to quell the rebeions in the Island.
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr.r whose recent
preaching 10 New Jersey resulted in his trial
| by an ecclesiastical court and admonltion by
| the Bishop, is announced to preach on Sunday
| in the Wigwam at Jersey City. This an-
po11ncement has called forth protest from Rev.
| S. NJ, Rice, Rector of Grace Church of that
city, who thinks that Mr.. Tying would be bet,
ter employed in his own parish. ~.
Rev. Octavius Perinchief, Rector of St.
Johns Church, Georgetown, d. G., is said to
be one of the most gifted preachers in this
country Mr. Jay Cook recently saw one Of
| his sermons, and was so pleased with it that
| he ordered an edition Of one thousand copies
printed for circulation among his friends.
| Madame Baudinaud, of Limoges in France,
| who stranged her husband, and to conceal the
crime cut the corpse into one hundred small
| pieces, has been. sentenced to transportation
| lor life. She was petitioned the Emperor to
| be sent to Cayenne, where she has offered to
| marry convict: :, 49,, ~..'. 60
+ Col. VIM. Braedon assessor Of internal reVc-
nue., New Mexico, indicted and tried at Albu
Guerque on a charge Of retaining pension money
was acquitted on the nth instant. This makes
! the third acquittal on three indictments grow
! ing out OF the Same transaction. I = .-
| It is reported in Washington that the Presi-
dent is determined to remove Gen. Reynolds,
commanding in Texas, and an order relieving
him may be expected daily. Gen. Buchanan,
commanding in New Orleans, is expected to
succeed Gen. Reynolds. -. t., .. .s ..s-..-.
A freight locomotive, working q gravel pit
on the Ohio and Manchester railroad, fifteen
miles from Cincinnati, ~exploded~-iiast- night,
| killing the conductor, fireman, and three boys
| standing near, and woundDg the engineer and
! brakesman.
From the City of Mexico we have mail ad-
vices to October TO- The concession to the
! Mexico and Vera Cruz Railroad had been
Withdrawn by vote Of seventy three to sixty
! five. The vote is interpreted as defeat of the
! Government party. :. ~, 49,. ..,a./
| The New Orleans Crescent Of the 9th inst.
says IA friend of ours, recently returned
from trip through St. Charles parish, tells us
| that he rode thirty-iour miles through the
parish and in that time did not see woman
or child. -. - -..:
The case of Bevery Clarke, indicted IN
Michigan for being concerned in recent
frauds in the PostoGce Department at
Washington, was before the u. S. Circuit
Court in New York yesterday on q writ OF ha
beas corpus.
A meeting OF colored Democrats was held in
Savannah, Georgia, yesterday The speeches
were moderate in tone and the assemblage or
derry. Much enthusiasm. was exhibited tor
| Seymour and Blair. s. ~ 1,-- sa-.,
A locomotive set Ere to the grass on the
praries, near Altoona, Iowa: Famed by the
high wind, the flames dashed into the neigh
boring farms, leaving a sWath of ruin behind.
Ex-Miniater Romero writes from Mexico to q
friend in Washington, that the political condi-
ton of affairs in thatreountry continue to I'M
prove. He Away writes to the same effect
The explosion yesterday, of two boilers at
Plane No. will entirely stop coal transporta-
tion on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany's railroad for four or FIVE days.
Advices from Alaska state that a FIRE at
Stitks destroyed considerable property. a
silver lode had been discovered on Wrang.e