Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-27
NEWS or THE DAY.
ss7o ssos1 the very age and body oftbe Tines

's7o sho,0 the very age and body oftSe Tines
Among the nominations confirmed by the
Senate are those of G. G. Cox, to be Commits
sioner of Pensions; Henry W. Watts, Minister
to Austria: Alvin Hawkins, Consul General to
Havana; VIM. B. Storm, Consul at Leeds,
Sam'l Mulligan, to be Judge OF the Court OF
Claims; and j. Hubley Ashton, to be Assist,
ant Attorney General. Among those reject l
were n L. Jefries to be Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue; Nelson Poe, to be Collector
of Revenue; John L. Dawson, to be Minister
to Russia; J. A. McCernand, to be Minister
to Mexico; E. O. Perrin, to be Chief Justice
of the Territory OF Utah; and Charlc Peters,
to be Naval Officer at New York. ii; Z.
Worthington, formerly Of Maryland, has been
The Belair (Nd) Egis, referring to the
hanging by the inturiated populace of Isaac
Moore, the negro who robbed and attempted
an outrage on the person of young white
woman near that place on Wednesday last,
says-''This is not the first or second offence
Of the kind of which said Moore has been gull
ty in this neignborhood. In March, 1861, he
was convicted in our court OF rape, and, un,
der the humane law then in force, he was sold
out of the State for a term Of ten years; but
during the war he was enabled to return, and
in 1866 was again indicted for several similar
offences, but was enabled to escape by reason
Of the very natural unwilinguess of the wit
nesses to appear in Court.
The Democrats of Cincinnati held ratifca-
ton meeting on Saturday. About ten thou
sand people were present, and great enthusl.
asm prevailed. George II. Pendleton, George
E. Pugh, and other speakers addressed the
meeting. Mr.. Pendleton spoke at length on
his financial theory, stating that Seymour aud
Blair are pledged to it. He endorsed Seymour
in very strong language. Mr.. Pugh said the
Democratic party demanded that the national
banks be abolished, and the national debt be
paid in greenbacks He declared that there
could be no peace in the country until Radical
rule is over
Galveston papers of the 18th announce that
the riot at Mican has been quelled The la
test advices confirm the reports previously re-
ceived by telegraph, but there is some doubt
as to what became of Brooks the white school
teacher who led the negro mob One account
states that he had gone to Austin under an es
cort of his comrades; another that he had been
hung. .:r-,l. .:,a sr 10 T..
A letter from an officer of the y. S. steamer
Ossippee, dated Acapulco, July Is, states the
officers and crew are suffering from malarious
fever contracted while at Comito, Nicaragua.
Dr.. j. Nj. Rice, P. S. Vcnder. paymasters
clerk, Baynard, landsman, and others have
died.
There is herd of thirty thousand head Of
Texas cattle in pasture at the junction Of the
Chicago branch of the Illinois Central and the
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroads.
When in proper trim they will be shipped to
an Eastern market. "
The Provisional Government continues In
possession of Panama. Ex-Presidaut Dlaz
was to be banished to San Francisco. Yellow
fever has broken out in Nicaragua. Costa
Rico has abolished the export duty on coffee.
Two more men, said to be complicated in the
recent Express robbery near Seymour, Ind,
were hanged by mob in the vicinity of that
place yesterday. 1t is time the authorities or
Indiana were putting stop to these murders.
Montana papers report that the steamer
Guidon is to be taken overland around the
great falls above Benton, aud hereafter ply as
regular pscketin waters till now undistur5cd
by steamers wheel
The patent on Hoes rotary presses expired
on Friday. An application for its extension
for seven years was not acted upon by Congress
owing to the Iateness of the time at which it
was introduced.
A land suit lately instituted in Harrison
county, Texas, by the heirs Of Gen. Albert
Sidney johnson, for thirty leagues Of valuable
land in that county, has resulted in a verdict
in their favor.
The great crater OF Kilanea, Sandwich Is
lands, for many years inactive, has again be.
come thing of life. The glares of its fires
can be distinctly seen from Hilo, distance Of
forty miles.
Alex. H. Stephens it is said, urged the Geor
gia Legislature, or at least his Democratic
friends thcreio, to vote for the ratification Of
the Fourteenth Amendment, and they did SO.
Smal-nos is raging at San Francisco ~"