Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-14
MNERSNOF The DAY
'sggo sAo,v the uesy age and body othe Tines 2


Peru is establishing telegraph lines; and ex-
tending its railroads. The line of telegraph
from Lima to Pisca has already some miles
completed, and the one between Lima and the
Cerro advances rapidly. A railway, to cost
$4,000, 900, on which the Government guaraIn-
tees seven per Ct, is to be constructed to the
saltpeter mines Of the North. - ' -
Fifty additional miles Of the Union Pacific
Railroad are completed, making seven hun
dred and fifty miles from Omaha. 1t now
seems probable that nearly one thousand miles
will be in running order before the close OF the
year, and the whole line to the Pacific will be
open for business during 1859. 60
"a meeting Of gentlemen connected with The
New Jersey, Camden and .Amboy, Philadel-
phia and Trenton, and Baltimore and Wash
ington lines took place at Wilmington, Del,
last Thursday, where contracts were sign
ed for the construction and equipment OF new
cars for the through route. .s:1g &oaa7- "a
+ A dispatch from Albany n Y, says twenty
or thirty Illinois cattle, out of three or tour
thousand head, have died at the East Albany
yards, of the Texas disease. The mortality
seems to be confined thus far to Illinois stock,
and droyes from that State are very generally
shunned.. azssTa11 -1TGs1 ~ L.-1&t~7 "
+ The distance between New York and Que.
bee is to be reduced at least sixty-eight miles
by the extension of the Passumpsic River Rail
road from the Derby Line, Vermont, to Wa
,ter7ille, in Canada East, distance OF twenty
miles. Contracts for the work have been
made. g-5 IDS so 45Uc2 G. ID 2.o'Ga..
|
I; Gov. Fenton has appointed Gen. Patrick B.
Jones as Register of New York city. It is IN
derstood that the fees of the Office until the
first of January next will be devoted to the
benefit of the family of the late Register, Gen.
@Halpine., So, Dir. Greeley was not the man.
At the request of Gov Yarmouth the Lou
,isiana Senate has appointed committee to in;
vestigate the evidence and information in the
Governors possession in relation to the nu-
merous outrages and murders reported" IN
that State on freedmen and Union men. r. .,-
q The measures taken in Chicago, Pittsburg,
and New York in relation to the new cattle
disease, are likely very soon to remove all dan
ger from it, as the cattle coming east are at
once Withdrawn and slain when found to be
affected !" - -. r. --.E n
The strike of the miners In the Mahoning
valley is now entering on its fourth month,
with no prospect of reconciliation. The work
men prefer to lie idle rather than accept the
present wages, and the mills prefer to lie idle
rather than add to their losses by raising wages.
" Gen. Buchanan has issued an order to en-
force the consignment to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau factors of all crops made by planters who
have received supplies from the bureau, and
given their bonds therefor. -s ~
: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is now free
from all distractions caused by the recent dis
astrous foods. The through freight and pas
senger trains arc running regularly, and with
out interruption. oH srs1z
u Bishop Stevens has appointed committee
to bring the subject OF the division Of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Pennsylvania before the clergy
and parishes, and to secure pledges toward the
support Of the Episcopate. = IKE s,~.. --...
The negro Bradley, latea senator in Georgia,
intends tc run for Congress from the same dis
ytrict. He resigned his Senatorship rather
than undergo an Investigation on charge of
felony " 3.a5@.-o 81 -a. 1" go
Z, A Democratic ratification meeting was held
in Faneul Hall, Boston, last evening. The
hall was filled to repletion. --a- ~
g The court at Hudson, New York, has reius-
ed to admit Cole, charged with the murder of
Hiscock to bail. >Grn@9 @