Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-19
NEWS OF THE DAP.
"7o sho;o tie very age and body Of the Times.

Memphis, has adjourned that tribunal, in com
sequence Of the pressure by libelous articles,
which rendered it impossible for the judgment
of the court to be enforced and that one Of
the offenders, who had been committed, was
illegally discharged in company with other des
perate men who had sought his life There
tore the court stands djourned until such OBJ
stacles to it's administration of justice are re-
moved"
The strike of workmen in the Albany SYRIA
cuse and Rochester workshops of the New
York Central Railroad is terminated, the Com:
pany establishing the rates of wages which
were in force previous to the attempt to intro
duce the eight hour system. Ten hours work
will be required, for which the old rates., will
be paid All that the strikers gained was
loss of confidence by their employers and
de sire to obtain other workmen.
Much excitement was caused in Topeka,
Kansas, yesterday, on the discovery OF the
store of E. Levi being set on fire. 1t contain
ed only nine hundred dollars worth of goods,
and was insured for $4,000. The store was
under the State and u. S. court rooms, and,
had not the fire been speedily extinguished,
the loss to the State would have been irrepara-
BILE. s.
The Hudson river railroad was inundated
yesterday morning, so that the trains could not
pass, and the passengers and trains, for the
West were transferred over the Harlem road.
Travel on the Hudson river road was resumed
last evening. The breaking up of the ice
along the Hudson river is causing some con-
sternation among the villa ges upon its banks
It is said that the effect of the decision in
the Supreme Court, on the illegality Of the
per capita passenger tax on railroads will have
the effect of cheapening the fare between Wash
ington and New York Both the Camden and
Amboy, and Baltimore and Ohio Companies pay
heavy tax on their passenger tariff in their re-
spective State Governments.
From Kansas City we learn that Andrew
Mcclure, who is styled a noted guerilla and is
alleged to have been concerned in the late
Bank robbery at Richmond, Missouri, was
taken from the Jail, at the latter place, on
Tuesday night by six persons in disguise, call
ing themselves a Vigilant Committee, and
hanged.
A committee of the House of Representa-
tives has now before it a proposition from Sam
uel Gardner, electrician, proposing to light the
House of Representatives by electricity, as the
cost for fixtures &C. at 81, 800, and that the cost
per year of lighting by this system would not
exceed 500.
A gentleman who has just arrived at st.
Paul from Fort Ransom, Dakotah Territory,
reports that the Indians about Fort Totten are
starving, and that the garrison itself is on half
rations. Thirty-six Indians are reported to
have died Of starvation in the immediate vcin
ity of the fort. This statement is contra.
dcted.
The trial of the suit brought against Mr..
Moses S. Beach by Mrs. Mary Anpe Dean (nee
Boxer, in which the lady claims $50, 900 dam
ages for an alleged libel published in the New
York Sun, was commenced IN the Brooklyn
Civ Court on tuesday. Much interest was
manifested 10 the proceedings. +.
The Ways and Means Committee have for
two or three days been giving audience to rep
resentatives of the tobacco interest, who want
the tax reduced from it's present rate of forty
cts. to twenty cts. per pound. The committee
some time ago indicated that the rate might
be fixed at thirty-two cts.
Dispatches from different parts Of the coun-
try represent the breaking up of the ice in the
rivers as very general Considerable damage
has been done by the sudden giving way of the
ice gorges, and in some instances railroad ira
vel has been suspended or seriously lmpeded.
The recent attempt to assassnate Juarez In
Mexico, was more serious affair than at first
appeared. A number of leading men were
concerned in the plot, and they had secured as
accomplices the very body-guard Of the Presi-
dent and officers of the palace ss
Eight stills and small quantity of whiskey
were seized by the Marshal's officers yester-
day at Port Richmond near Philadelphia
One barrel of whiskey, after being captured,
disappeared mysteriousy, and could not be
found.
An important cotton case came up in the U.
S. Supreme Court yesterday, involving nine
hundred and thirty-fve bales OF cotton, libel
led as prize of war at Springfield, ILL.,, and
brought up to the Supreme Court on appeal.
J. Eoubert, colored, has brought suit for
$4,000 damages against the Convent Of the
Sacred Heart, an educational institution, IN
New Orleans, for denying a member OF his
family admission to its privileges.
Senator Ben Wade has already received
about hundred applications for appointment
to office under him when he shall have become
President One of them refers to his future
tenure of Office as lad anterl0o. ""
Sergeant Bates, with his flag unfurled, ar
rived at Columbia, S. G., yesterday Hun
dreds awaited his arrival on the banks of the
Cougaree river. He was welcomed by Major
Melton on behalf of the citizens.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
are quite divided on the question Of approving
the bill appropriating money for the Alaska
purchase. The matter has been laid over in
the committee until the first Tuesday in May
next. ~
On Monday a train approaching Louisville,