Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-05-19
NEWS or TIE DAY,
. 10 shov the ve,y age and body of the Times.

President Sanave has escaped from Cape
Haytien and arrived in Port au Prince. Here
he used violent threats on the j. S. and other
foreign Consuls aud many Americans were
shot at and robbed, being finally compelled to
seek shelter at the American Consulate. Some
of the citizens were arrested and ordered to be
shot The =. S. Consul sent to Havana for
an American man of-War and 70 Jamaica for a
British war vessel. The steam gunboat
Phoebe, belonging to the British Government,
Immediately sailed from Jamaica to his assist
ance.
1t is suggested that one cause Of the great
increase of cholera and other diseases 10 India
during thu present century is to be found in
the destruction OF the crOcodlles by Eaglish-
men, It is tenet of the Hindoo religion to
throw all corpses into the sacred Gauges,
where they formerly were at once eaten up by
the crocodiies. LatterIy, however, there have
not been enough OF these animals tor the pur-
pose, and both the waters and the air have
been poisoned by the bodies continually thrown
into the river. III
. Advices from Venezuela to the 22d Of April
are received. Congress assembled on the 18th,
but there was no Governor present, and no
session had been had since, owing to the dis.
ruption between the two Houses. The truce
with the rebels expired on the Goth. !" The re-,
suit was still unknown, but private property
was being seized on every hand and stored IN
the custom house to pay the debt OF the Gov
ernment. IL 1aEa I'D
The Managers OF Impeachment on the part
of the House Of Representatives had meeting
yesterday, under the resolution adopted on Sat-
urday authorizing an investigation into the
charges of corruption in connection with the
efforts of the Presidents friends to secure his
acquittal. A number Of witnesses have been
summoned to appear before the committee.
The suit between the heirs of James II.
Shepherd and the heirs Of r. D. Shepherd.
Mrs. Peter c. Brooks and sons) of Boston,
which has been in litigation at New Orleans,
for some time past involving over q half mil
lion of dollars, was decided q the 9th instant,
in favor of Mrs Brooks and sons, heirs Of r.
D. Shepherd.
In the General Conference Of the NJ. E.
church at Chicago, Rev. John Lanaban, Of
Baltimore, yesterday offered resolution ''pro-
testing against the selection Of large MAORI
ty of army and navy Chaplains from one OF the
smallest denominations in the country-the
Protestant Episcopal" 1t went over under
the rules of the Conference.
The Republican National Convention assem-
hes at Chicago tomorrow. The delegates are
already assembled in considerable numbers, and
the canvass for the Vice Presidency nomination
is very active, though nothing definite can yet be
known as to the result. Gen. Grants nomlna-
ton will be made by acclamatiOn
Mr.. John A. Gilmer, of North Carolina,
once representative in the Congress Of tn G
United States, and subsequently in that of the
Confederate States, died at his residence in
Greensboro, last Thursday. after protracted
sickness.
The famine and pestilence in Algeria has, it
is stated, destroyed one hundred thousand
Arabs within the last six months The suffer
ings Of the people arc as horrible as those of
the inhabitants of the Italian cities In the mid
die ages.
Forty five prisoners have escaped from the
Fort Point military prison, in California, by let
ting themselves down out Of a portfolio, many
OF them being heavily ironed.
Ex- Collector Callicott, who is charged with
being concerned in New York whiskey frauds,
has not been able to give bail, and has been
committed to prison
Secretary Stanton still occupies the War De
partment, and will stay there until some more
definite action is taken on the articles of i'm
parchment.
tits believed that quorum of members of
Congress will be present at the Capitol during
the week, Notwithstanding large number have
gone to Chicago.
Josiah Z. Pike, arraigned in Exeter, New
Hampshire, for the murder of MIR. and Mrs.
Thomas Brown, has pleaded guilty to both
charges. ,4@s /