Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-23
NEWS OFIHE DAY.
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arrested at the suit Of District Attorney Court
ney, upon the charge of having filed malicious,
false, and libe!lous statements with the Presl-
dent of the u. S., and attempted to effect the
plaintiffs removal from Office by these means,
motion was made by the prisoner S counsel
Tor reduction of the amount OF bali, and an
affidavit Of the prisoner s read, that the state
ments made by him were untrue, and lnstlgat'
ed by Mr.. Buckley and Mrs. Ann S. Stephens,
the authoress The amount OF bail was re-
duced to $4,000 A writ Of inquiry was issued
to assess the amount of damage sustained by
the plaintiff. ~
In the county of Madison, North Carolina,
yesterday, the Conservatives were holding a
mass meeting and barbecue, when riot oc.
Cured between the whites and blacks. A black
man grossly insulted white man, and fight
ensued and became general-the watchWord OF
they did in considerable numbers, as did also
the whites, who drove them from the ground;
No lives were lost, but some received bruised
heads, &C. Whiskey and counterfeit money
were at the bottom of the row.
At a meeting of the corporation OF the Isthmus
of Darien Canal Company, held in New York,
the company was organized by the election of
Mr. Cooner as president, and Frederick A:
Gambling as Secretary. Secretary Seward and
Attorney General William NJ. EVarts, having
come from Washington to confer with the
leading capitalists and merchants of New
York upon the subject, were present, and laid
many important facts before the meeting. Els
Inmates from the highest sources state the cost
Of the work al $l00,OOO,0O0.
In the Episcopal Convention yesterday an
amendment to the twelfth canon lpermitting
clergymen to 90 into another parish to minister
70 his own Pensioners, but not to read pray
ers or preach to regular congregation was
lost. by vote of 1913 to l7S. Memorials from
six dioceses, in reference to the translation OF
the Nicene Greed, were referred to the COM
mittee on canons. The House Of Bishops ap-
proved report on the Italian reform move
ment, which was sent to the House and made
the special order for Saturday ~
A dispatch from Mobile, Alabama, says
"A white woman sixty years Of age,, was as
saulted and outraged by three negroes in the
outskirts of the city yesterday in broad day
light. Her life is in serious danger from the
injuries inflicted. The citizens are in parsuit
of the negroes. A market man was assaulted
by negroes yesterday morning, a short distance
from this city. He was MORALLY wounded by
q musket shot, and while insensble was robbed
of everything about his person, even his
shoes.
A public meeting was held at ST. John, New
Brunswick, yesterday, at which it was resolved
to present the winners in the boat race at
SPRINGFIELD on Wednesday last purse of two
- jill olSo
requested to confer upon the vlctors the tree
dom of the city and to have a medal struck
in commemoration of their having beaten the
champion oarsmen of the United States.
The New York Court Of Appeals, in the
case of Green against Shumway has made a very
important decision. The Court decides that
the test oath cannot, under the Constitution Of
the u. S., be required by legislation as coz
dition of the right of suffrage and that the
Legislature of the State of New York has no
power to establish by law any qualifications
whatever for electors in that State. -
A social reunion and reception of the differ
ent evangelical societies Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church was held in New York, yester-
day. Eleven bishops and about four hundred
clergymen were present, and all sat down to an
elegant dejeuner at one o'clock, previous to
which number Of addresses were made by
the clergymen present.
To protect themselves against the threatened
strike of cigar makers, the cigar manufacture
ers of New York have held large meeting,
and resolved to form q protective UNION. and
pledge themselves not to employ any strikers,
and refer all differences to a committee OF ar
bitration,
Mary Swingler, was on Saturday sentenced
at Rochester New York, to six months i'm
prisonment, for having few months since
cruelty burned the hands of her adopted
daughter, seven years Of age, by holding them
over the stove. .-"
A dispatch from Boston says In the gale
on Saturday six men, who were fishing in dories
belonging to the fishing vessels IN the harbor,
were drowned, and q seventh was knocked
overheard by the main boom.
Commodore G. H. Poor, i. S. navy, has
been promoted to the position OF Rear Ad-
miral, vice Rear Admiral Fl. K. Hotf, who
has been placed on the retired list.
DISPATCHES received in New York from San
Francisco represent that the loss by the recent
earthquake will not exceed 100000.
Secretary McCulloch has confirmed the nom
nation of Two more Revenue Supervisors and
rejected four.
Pennsylvania official vote shows Radical
majority Of 9,677 for Auditor General.
Captain Mitchell, y. S. Navy, was muir
dered last night in San Francisco.
Gen. Hancock has removed his headquarters
from Washington to New York. 1850
Snow fell at Buffalo, N. Y, yesterday.
SAFE RECOVERED safe containing
100000 belonging to the Adams Express
Company, which was lost in the Mississippi
river sometime since by the burning Of the
steamer Jacob Garter, having been recovered
by wreckers, it has been forwarded to the Treas
sury Department by the express company in
order to have the contents thereof examined,
and such notes as can be identified redeemed.
Gen. Spinner, Treasurer, received the safe
about one month since, and had the same