Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-17

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ALEXANDRIA.
The sea monster" lately captured near East
port, Maine, of which an account was given in
the newspapers, and which has been exhibited
in several places, as a remarkable curiosity, is
stated by Professor Baird of the Smithsonian
Institution to be fish perfectly well known to
naturalists, and to fishermen on the Eastern
coast, (where it is abundant,) as the basking
or bone shark; and that it differs in nothing, as
far as its general appearance goes, from any
shark, except in attaining very large size.
Several of the Northern capitalists interested
in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, have,
through Mr. Orten, of New York, stated to
Gen. Stoneman their desire that no change
should be made, at this time, in the manage
ment of the road, and that the present status
may be continued. They add that important
negotiations for capital to extend and improve
the road are now pending, and which would
undoubtedly be seriously embarrassed, if not
defeated, by changes in the administration. :"
The Baltimore American says;-"Gen.
Grant has already, in private conversation, ex-
pressed the hope that the adoption of an
amendment to the Constitution, proclaimiug
universal suffrage, without distinction of race
or color, will be one of the first acts of the ap-
preaching session of Congress. Colored stuff
rage having been forced upon the Southern
States by Congressional enactments, he deems
it no more than right that the North should
also adopt the same kind of suffrage
The New York Tribune says it has been asked
to publish call for national convention of
Union men, to meet in Washington city De-
cember 9th, then and there to consider what
legislative or other action is needed to protect
the lives, liberty and property of loyal citizens
in the late ''rebel" States The Tribune then
adds ave decline to print the call, because it
is not responsibility signed, and because we trust
no such convention is required"
To read the laudations of some of the Radi-
cal journals upon Gen. Grants words &c Let
us have peace and then, to read the exposi,
ton of what they consider as peace-puts US in
mind of what some of the politicians OF Queen
Annes times said very wittily, but too irrever
emily, of treaty made by Lord Oxtord-that
it was peace to be sure-"but it was one which
passed all human understanding.
1t is said that the testimony brought before
the Congressional Committee now sitting in
New York, to investigate frauds, shows that
distillers are as successful In evading pay
|, ment of the tax now as they were under the
old law and that from onethird to one-half
of the whiskey that is manufactured escapes
taxation.
The newspapers are publishing whole
chapter on Visiting Cards, Wedding Cards,
&c.-ther size, shape, and color-kow they
ought to be engraved, and how they ought to
be folded-and how they ought to read.
Some of the Radical papers have suddenly
opened their batteries in the way of rdicule,
upon General Halleck. They say he will have
to ''retire." What has he done, recently, to
incur their displeasure9
1t is proposed to locate o University for
the blind, in Washington, and an appeal will
be made to Congress for means to purchase the
necessary site and erect the requisite buildings.
1t is said that the estate of the late Mr..
Thaddeus Stevens will prove to be much more
valuable, than it was represented it would be,
by the newspapers, a few weeks ago.
The Democratic State Central Committee of
South Carolina, 10 an address, advices that the
Conservatives keep up their organization, and
their ranks undivided
The reported insanity of Mr. Hembold, the
patent medicine advertising man, in New
York, is denied in some of the New York
papers
Our New Orleans exchanges continue to
come, as in the old times, 'three and four in
bunch" as single spies, but in battalions."
Large numbers of fine, fat cattle are being
brought on by railroad from South Western
Virginia, for the Northern markets.
PRICE OF CoAL-The Baltimore Gazette
says that it is advised by the coal dealers in
that city, that the whole trouble about the high
price of cool-which is causing such an cutlery
al over the country-'really rests with two
parties, the proprietors of coal mines and the
transportation companies. The freight charged
per ton, constitutes nearly one half the market
price, and, as compared with English rates for
the transportation of coals are so high, that
coal brought from Wales is actually selling at
this time in Londonsfor exactly the same price