Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-06
NEWS F1HE DAP.
$50 sho,0 the very age and body ofthc Times.

The Democrats held an immense mass meet
ing in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania yesterday. A
procession of the county delegation was two
hours and ten minutes in passing given
point. The stores and dwellings along the
route Of the procession were decorated with
flags, Chinese lanterns, etc. Among the speak
ers who addressed the meeting were Hons:
George Fl. Pendeton, Hester Cymer and
Edgar Cowan.
Considerable damage has been done along
the lake and in the rear part Of New Orleans
but the extent cannot yet be asccrtaned. The
storm abated Sunday night, and the water is
slowly receding from the submerged districts.
All of the overdue steamers, for whose safety
fears were entertained, are safe, and no marine
disasters or losses of life by the deluge have yet
been reported.
a Government detective who has worked up
several heavy tobacco cases duplicating wealthy
citizens in St. Louis, Hannibal and other places,
has created hutter among tobacco dealers in
Cincinnati by his appearance in that city. A
large mandatory in Covington, KY, just OPP
posite, has been seized by his directions and
also another in indianapolis.
All the Judges in the Courts of Chicago, in
Guiding Judge Drummond, Of the y. S. Dis
trict Court, have signed an agreement that the
Naturalization laws shall be carried out in the
letter, and that no naturalization papers shall
be issued except in open Court.
A newspaper report is that Queen Isabella,
of Spain, has recently invested an immense
sum of money in profitable stocks in this coun-
try. 1t is rumored that a part of this invest
ment was made in the stock Of the German
town Water Works. (?)
Tho new Collector Of Customs, at New Or
leans, is making general removal Of the Radi
Gals employed in the Custom House. About
sixty were discharged on the 30th of last
month, and on the lst inst, about one hundred
more.
A pisciculturist in Nashua, N. H., has II
his artificial pond at least five hundred trout
| which will weigh from onc-half to two and 8
half pounds each OF ten thousand eggs dc
posted last March, only one thousand failed tt
hatch
The marine losses for the nine months end
ing September 80, 1868, have amounted ii
value to ST., COS, $780, and include 257 vessels
So far the year 1868 has not been 50 fatal tc
the shipping as Its predecessor. .-
It will no doubt be amatter of regret to many
that Charles Dickens has determined 10 issue
no smore Christmas tales. The limitations
Of those he has written cause him to stop THEN
publication.
1t is not true as recently published, that the
transportation Of mails between the termini Of
the Union and Central Pacific Railroads has
been suspended.
The Pennsylvania railroads have promptly
lowered their rates to all points West to meet
the reduction inaugurated by the Erie anC
Central Roads in New York.
Mr. Edwin Forrest is about to commence al
engagement at Niblo's Theatre, New York
He will probable appear in several new char
acters.
1t is said that John Allen, the ''wickedcst
man. in New York, has been suffered t
''slide" by his late patrons 1t was full time
Wilton, Maine, has dwelling house inhab
tied by four families with forty eight children
Things get mixed there sometimes,
In some of the fashionable churches in Lon
don, programmes of the music are printed anC
distributed in the pews.
Punch hints that magistrates might give at
tention to light weight dealers as we'll as heavy
weight prize fighters.
| Bishop Quintard of the Protestant Episco
pal Church in Tennessee, has interdictcd ritual
ism in his diocese.
Gen. Grant has again postponed his return
to Washington, this time until the last Of thu
| present month.
Queen Victoria is in her fifticth year, AM
has nine children and thirteen grandchildren
General f. A. Hitchcock is dangerously
in Georgetown.