Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
"Io shoe the vepy age and body Of the Times.

10, says CQaC tHo noohS PAS'Aou9 VIZ AaoSo
severe snowstorm had prevailed that had been
known in that region in ten years. At Fort
Stevenson the troops had been obliged to burn
the warehouse and all their lumber to prevent
them from freezing. The cattle and mules
were buried in the snow, and large numbers
have been frozen to death. The Indians IN the
neighborhood of Fort Bertho!d we're in a starry
ing condition, being obliged to eat their horses
to sustain lite.
The latest advices from Mexico are via Ha-
vana. An order has been issued by the GoV-
eminent to extinguish the national debt by
auction sales Of confscated property. Presl-
dent Juarez has been permitted six months
leave of absence to visit Washington. Cana
les, Carvajal and Quiroga are IN Northern
Mexico in arms against the Goyernmen1; IL
was feared that these revolutionary Cnle1s
would seize the silver conducta expected a1
Matamoras from Monterey.
A very slight change in the value OF existing
gold pieces will enable America, England and
France to adopt uniform money system In
which five francs will make dollars, and five
dollars pound sterling. The American five
dollar piece will then pass all over the world
either as five dollar, or as pound sterling, or
as twenty-five francs and will be legal tender
as such in England, France. and all other
countries which fall in with the new system.
Nearly all the shoe manufacturing towns IN
Massachusetts, are doing fair business just
now, though the wages paid to workmen are
lower than usual. There is an unusual de-
mand at Lynn for serge goods, and buyers take
larger proportion Of cheap goods than in
former years Large sales OF brogans have
lately been made. ar ..E
Gen. George A. Mccall died yesterday at
West Chester, Pa, and will be inferred at
Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Saturday,,
The deceased served in the Mexican war, and
organized and commanded the Pennsylyanla
reserves during the5Peninsula campaign, and
was captured before Richmond.
The Georgia Convention adopted yesterday
the Bill of Rights. 1t exempts from execution
for debt all homesteads not exceeding ten
thousand dollars in value, and personal proper
ty to the value of thousand dollars In specie:
1t is proposed to remove the State Capital
from Milledgeville to Atlanta.
The latest advices from Brazil represent that
TIE war in Paraguay drags along in very I'M
satisfactory manner. The Brazilian Govern
ment is buying negroes, and offering them their
freedom on condition that they enter the army.
Cholera was raging tearfully in Buenos Ayress
and in the interior
The latest use to which paper has been put
is it's substitution for leather and vu!canlzed
rubber in belts for driving machinery. The
new belt consist of layers Of paper, cemented
together in such manner as to be little alice
ted by moisture or heat at ordinary tcmpcra-
lures.
Judge Shackleford, Of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee, has sent in his resignation to the
Secretary of State, to take effect on the Goth
inst The Judge, in his letter to the Governor,
states that his resignation is occasioned by the
pressure of long neglected private affairs
Some two weeks ago the postoficc at Co
lumbus, Indiana, was entered and robbed Of
large number of letters. Two boys, named
George Duty and Calvin Harry, aged respect
i've sixteen and nineteen years, have been az
rested for the crime, and have confessed.
It is said that Immediately alter the dis
charge Of Gen. Thomas, suit was commenced
in the District Court by him against Mr.. Stan
ton for false imprisonment and mlschlevous
Ill.
thousand dollars.
Yesterday Capt. T. j. Tucker, one of the
projectors of military organization in New
York, for the support of President johnson,
was arrested by the police, but released on his
parole to answer a charge that may be prefer
red against him.
VIM. Hannah, of Camden, New Jersey, the
son of an ex-postma3tec, was arrested on Sat
urday, charged with the forgery of innumerablc
bonds, mortgages, notes, checks, stock certl1l-
Gates, &C., amounting in value to some $780,
900 to $4,000. .s..
In New York prices of dry goods have stead
lily advanced ever since the first opening OF
trade at the commencement Of the year, and
there was more excitement among buyers dur
ing the past week than ut any time within tho
past year.
1t is stated that Mr.. j. H. Barrett, Commits
sioner Of Pensions, rendered his resignation
yesterday, to take effect at an early day. Mr..
Barrett has accepted the chief editorship OF the
Cincinnati Evening Chronicle.
Stanton continued in quiet possession of the
War Department yesterday, visited as usual
by large numbers of his friends. His requi-
sitions on the Treasury Department are still re-
cognized. a.
The London Telegraph suggests the intro
duction of the manufacture Of beet-root sugar
into Ireland in order to create new industry
and to promote the profitable cultivation of the
soil.
The reports of poverty in London are terri
ble Numerous Committees are at work re-
lievng distress in that city, besides the regular
officers of the poor law beard.
The Spanish government has invited tenders
for the construction of a submarine cable from
Spain to Porto Rico and Cuba, with an extern
sion to Panama and Nicaragua.
The Fcnians in San Francisco are said to
making raid on British Column
hia. Precautionary measures have been taken