Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-29
. NEWS OF THE DAY.
80 s7ow The ve,y age and body of the Times"

8 Gen. Grant has issued an order to Gen.
Buchanan commanding in Louisiana, directing
the removal Of Gov. Baker and Lieut.. Gov.
VOORHEES,, and the installation of the Radical
Governor and Lieut.. Gov. elected at the recent
election. Gen. Buchanan has issued the neces-
sary order, and these officers will take posses
sion to-day, when the Legislature also convenes
The new Lieut. Governor is black man. Gen
eral Grant has also directed that the munich
pal and parish officers recently elected shall be
placed in Office upon taking the oath prescribed
by the new Constitution.
The Hawaiian newspapers contain accounts
Of a charitable visit made by Kamehameha
through the districts recently ravaged by the
great volcanic eruption. Eight hundred per-
sons, some Of whom had lost everything they
possessed by the tidal wave, and others by the
mud eruption, were relieved from the Govern
ment stores, and His Majesty displayed the
greatest kindness.
The extensive nail works and nail plate mill
belonging to the Pottstown Iron Company at
PottsvilIe. was totally destroyed by fire yester-
day, the fire originating from one OF the heat
ing furnaces. The loss is estimated, from out
side sources, to be from one hundred to a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, nearly all
of which, it is understood, will be covered by
insurance.
The judgment recently procured by default,
by Ross, Steel & Coaganst the Kansas Pacific
railroad for four million six hundred thousand
dollars, has been stayed The value of the
services of Ross, Steele & Co. has been apprai-
sed by engineers in Kansas at less than twenty
five thousand dollars. The whole proceedings
will doubtless be set aside.
Gen. Mcdowell, on the Goth instant, pro-
mulgated an order providing for the continu-
ance of the election in Mississippi, an addition
al day, at the country seat or other place where
the revision of the registration may have been
held, exclusively for the benefit Of those regis
tered voters who have lost their certificates of
registration.
The Senate Finance Committee have already
the new Tax bill under consideration. The
committee will report the main principles of
modify much of the machinery for collecting
the Tax on whiskey and tobacco. The com
mittee expect to be able to report the bill by
Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
Bishop McIlvaine. Of Ohio, in his address
to the late Episcopal Diocesan Convention in
that State, takes strong ground against the
practice, quite familiar elsewhere, but as it
seems, something of novelty in Ohio, of open
ing and closing public worship by a procession
Of supplied choristers entering the church sing
ing hymns.
Both Houses of Congress are disposed to
press business as rapidly as possible, SO as to
be able to adjourn the session about the Goth
of July. Severa important pending measures
besides those already postponed will be defer
red until next winter.
California has long since established good
reputation as wine producing State, end
some of her entsrprising citizens now propose
to 60 into another field of industry, heretofore
peculiar to foreign countries, that OF raising
silk.
Mr. Jefferson Davis, on Saturday, while COM
ing down stairs with one of his children in his
arms, in the hotel at Lenoxyille, in Canada,
fell, and somewhat injured bis back. He was
unable to attend the convocaton ofthe Bishops
College.
A Senatorial delegation will leave Washing
ton Immediately on the adjournment of Con-
gress, for an excursion on the Pacific railroad.
At the Western terminus of the road hunters
have been engaged to furnish fresh buffalo for
the party.
Warren, Hale, & Co.'S piano leg manulao
tory and saw mills, at North Dover, Massachu-
sets, were burned Friday last. Loss S27, 900;
insured $1,000 Hubbard Woodward, an en-
ployee, was fatally burned, and many others
were seriously injured.
Miss Caroline F. Sturgeoo, highly rcspec-
ted and estimable young lady. aged twenty-five,
was so badly burned in Baltimore yesterday
from the contact of her clothes with stove,
that she died at P. NJ
The military commission for the trial Of per-
sons accused of being implicated in the Ash
burn murder at Columbus, Georgia, will COM
mence its session at Atlanta in that State to,
morrow.
A grand demonstration was made at St.
Louis yesterday to welcome the return from
Europe of the Roman Catholic Arch bishop
Kendrick Eight thousand people marched
in procession, with music banners, &C.
The report Of the Impeachment Managers
will not probably be presented to the House
before Wednesday. Several more witnesses are
to be examined.
The rumors about the resignation or removal
Of Secretary McCulloch have subsidized. though
certain parties are still endeavoring to effect
change in the Treasury Department.
General Sherman has adopted the son Of
the late Kit Carson, and will provide for his
education at Notre Dame University, in In
diana.
Two car loads Of Feniau arms and equip
ments, in a storehouse at St. Adams, were
quietly removed by the Fenians with teams in
to the back country, on Thursday night last
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The Richmond News says:-"Ju dgc Under
woods court adjourned over on Friday until
the 18th of November, at which time and
place the Davis trialWil be resumed. The same