Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-17
. NEWS or THE DAP.
10 70 shoe the ve1y age and body of the 1smes.'


authorizes the formation of volunteer COM
panies, and makes all persons, white and black,
between the ages OF eighteen and forty-hve,
liable to militia duty, subject to the authority
Of Congress An order was issued by General
Meade yesterdy, directing military officers to
cooperate with the civil authorities to repress
and punish crime bat to take cognlzance
themselves of cases where it is believed there
will otherwise be q failure ct impartial justice
Gen Meade also directs military officers to
obey Writs of habeas corpus so tar as TO make
respectful return, but not to surrender the
prisoner to the custody of the civil authorities.
A negro woman, who had no home, but has
been hanging around Weldon, N. c., for some
time, is reported to have given birth to a child
in the corner Of fence, out 10 the open dir,
on Thursday night last When found Friday
morning, she was nearly frozen. and the infant
was frozen to death. The child was buried,
and the mother removed to q negro house
near by, where she has been kindly tended,
and it is supposed she will recover. This IS
but one Of thousands of cases OF restitution
that are daily presenting themselves all over
the country.
In Philadelphia, yesterday, while Mrs. Lucy
Graham, aged %, was waiting on her mother
in-law, who is lying at the point of death,
Rodman Graham, her husband, entered the
room, and, without PROPAGATION, placed his
srm about the neck of his wife, drew her head
down and discharged pistol, the ball entering
her brain The husband then delivered him
self into custody He stated as motive for
the deed that his wife had two or three times
attempted topoison him, and that he was de-
mined to avenge himself,
The house of John Bennihoff, near Titus
viii, Pennsy lvania, was entered on Wednesday
night; by four men disguised by handkerchiefs
over their faces, and robbed of over 100000
$4,000 in bonds and the remainder in cur
rency. They presented revolvers to the heads
of the inmates, when they proceeded to tie John
Bennihof, his wife, two sons, a hired man and
girl Taking the keys from Mr.. Bennihof,
they opened the safe and took out the amount
above named, and cleared out. "o&
| young girl who attempted to cross the
Thames river at London, G. w., broke through
the ice, where, the water was about four or five
teet deep. and was unable to extricate herself:
She remained in this position, with head and
shoulders out of water, calling for help tor
three hours, in plain view of number OF
citizens and soldiers, and yet was. allowed to
perish, becoming chilled and dying
! The Conservatives of Alabama recommend
the observance of the 30th of January, as q
day of prayer to Almighty God, to preserve
the people of Alabama from the horrors of
negro domination. An address was also;
adopted setting forth the reasons that prompt
ed the white people of Alabama to ATTAIN from
voting. T
General Ord was at the Executive Mansion
yesterday, and had an interview with the
President The Gen. stated to the President,
meet with little success in the Fourth Mllltary,I
District ); that many Of the blacks, as we'll as
the whites, were becoming opposed to it, go
Judge P. G. Ward, of Selma, Alabama, has
decided that he could not comply with Gen.
Pope's negro jury order withouta violation of
his official oath, and yesterday the court as
suppressed by military authority. At a meet
ing Of the bar, of Dallas county, Judge Ward
was unanimously sustained -. .,-s. -
The North Carolina Convention has passed |
a resolution excluding from their hall any re;
porter for newspaper, who shallin his reports 7
1.-THE Convention or its members with dis I
The reporter Of Raleigh paper had |
designated the races in the Convention by I
negro and white. %
1t is reported" that Gen. Grant was on
the floor Of the House yesterday, tor the pur-
pose of urging his Radical friends not to press
the new Reconstruction bill, which clothes him |
with such dangerous powers, and which must
necessarily embarrass him. ,..ces tzr:.-.g
Things must be in bad way in Mississippi. |
The Reconstruction Convention is in session, |
but cannot get credit for gas The superin- |
tendent Of the gas works demands personal
security from individual members for tie pay |
ment of the bill. II s. ~. Sc 5es Us
a communication was received by the Senate |
yesterday from edwin M. Stanton, Secretary
Of War, lin answer to a resolution Of April |
9th, 1867, asking list of the names Of yolun |
teer officers in the military of service of the |
Government
The Legislature of Maryland, yesterday, in |
joint session. voted twice for u. s. Senator -
First-Swann, al; Hamilton, 40; Pratt, 10;
scattering, T. Second-Swann, AZ; Hamilton,
40; Pratt. l6; scattering, 3. "
There is considerable excitement in the min-
ing share market in California, caused by a
reported discovery of rich ore in the Hale and
Norcross mine which stock sold yesterday at
5000 per share. All descriptions advanced.
The Mississippi Republican says there is
neither meatnor breadstuffs in Wilkerson eounss
ty, to feed the whites and Blacks for three
months, and no money to buy more when that
is gone.
A sharp shock of an earthquake was felt at
St. Andrews, in Canada, at midnight on the
18th inst. The same shock was slightly felt
in Montreal, accompanied by an unusually loud
noise. i
Mr.. Stanton remains at the War Office seven
hours each day-from about nine o'clock a. m
to four p. m--and attends to business just as
though there had been no unpleasantuess to
mar the even current of affairs
Santa Anna and his companions are very
husilv ocnunied az Havana and some curions