Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-04
NEWS OF The DAY.
"To atoeo the ve1y age and body ofthe Times

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The indications are that the prosecution
against Commissioner Rollins, will be suppress
ed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Nc
Culloch Yesterday directed the u. S. District
Attorney at New York to take charge OF the
case, thus taking it out of the control OF Blnck-
ley. No warrant of arrest has been served
upon Mr.. Rollins. -.
The proceedings against the persons impllcat-
ed in the Buffalo frauds upon the Postofice
Departm ent, have not been suspended, but the
indictments will be amended and the prosecu-
tons pushed. One Of the employees Of the
Buffalo contractors has come on with important
information, which was communicated to the
proper authorities. .rs-.y =. .,.s-e
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial,
(Radical,) dated the LIST, says: '"The Dem
ocratic mass meeting at Jacksonville to-day,
is said to have been the grandest affair which
has ever taken pace in Southern Indiana. The
meeting was addressed by. Senator Hendricks
and others. About fifteen thousand people
were on the grouud. -e r..
The Lower House Of the Georgia Legi sla-
ture, yesterday, by a vote of eighty to twenty
three, passed resolution declaring colorcd
men ineligible, under the State Constitution,
to election as members of the Legislature
The decision unseats twenty-five coored men,
who had been elected.
The New York State Democratic Convention
has unanimously nominated john T. Hoffman
for Governor and Allen G. Beach for Lieutenant
Governor. The resolutions adopted by the
Convention declare against the payment of the
public debt in gold, and in favor Of the taxa
ton of the bonds. .EA .
The preparation Of dessicated Goldfish is a
new business in Massachusetts,. The sailed
fish are skinned, the bones removed and the
meat torn into fibres and packed in close boxes
OF one pound each. The preparation will
keep uninjured Tor years, can be easily trans
ported, and is inodorous in it's preparation for
the table. ...r.r,.,..
Billy Edwards, the champion Of the light
weights, says that prior to the late fight he
promised his parents that he would never again
enter the ring, and that all challenges directed
to him will be useless, while anybody putting
up money on his behalf for match will be
liable to forfeit the same.
The Navy Department has, il accordance
with the reduced amount Of appropriations, re-
duced the personnel of the navy to what it was
before the war, viz $500 men. The Secrc-
tary has dispensed with the services Of almost
all the masters at each Of the navy yards.
Two officers Of high rank in the Japanese
army. who attended Monson Academy, in
Massachusetts, the past two years, have been
ordered home in consequence OF the civil war
in japan. Three of their countrymcn VII re-
main at Monson. r r4@.w --@
George Hall, formerly Of Savannah, but a
native ofHartford, Conn; died at Norwich yes
terday, aged so. In his will be bequeathed $780,
900 for charitable purposes IN Hartford, and
like sum for the same purpose in Savannah.
It is stated that the project of uniting Lake
Huron and Lake Ontario bids fair to be reality.
Able engineers have decided that the work is
feasible and that it will not cost more than
$4,000, 000
A fellow has been parading the streets Of
Dubuque, claiming to have been scalpcd by
the Indi ans. A physician who examined the
head says the scalping was done by the old
fellow with the scythe and hour-gass T..
Senator Fowler reached Nashville, Tcnnes-
sec, on Thursday. A special telegram from
that city says that in conversation with his
friends he avows, his purpose to canvass the
State for Grant and Colfax.
We learn from the Chicago Tribune that
the French velocipede has been introduced into
that city, and is likely to become common. It
is asked, if the people there are not, generally,
'fast" enough already. ~ ssa-.
Dispatches from Chicago state that General
Grant and family reached their home in Galena
on Tuesday. The General proposes to stay in
Galena until some time in October .
The Washington Star learns that Mr.. Sec
rotary McCulloch, Though he opposes the inan
cial plank in the Democratic platform, has yet
determined to support Seymour and Blair
Westheime & Eppstein, wholesale grocers at
St. Josephs, Missouri have failed; liabilities
100000; assets $4,000.
Gen. Mcclellan expects to return TO this
country in the steamer Cuba; which viii sail
from Liverpool on the 10Th inst. ..