Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-06
NEWS OF The DAY.
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The delegation Of ex- Confederate Generals
who visited Governor BrowDlow, OF Tennes-
see, obtained no promise that he would urge
the removal of disabilities from disiranchised
whites. A message will be forwarded to the
Legislature which will give them the power to
sgsate o? the sbG in ,s extra "a session. nasesi Laws
Considerable excitement was created at Pitts
burg on Sunday by the arrival there from Chi
cago of large number of cattle, all more or
less affected with the Spanish Or "Texas
fever" Sizty-four animals we're found to
have died on the way, and after arrival there,
a large number apparently in good condition,
were stricken with the disease and died.
The Border State Convention OF Colored
Radicals at Baltimore, yesterday, adopted a res
oluticn recommending the holding Of Nation
al Convention at Washington on the third
Wednesday of December next. Resolutions
opposing the deportation of colored people to
Liberia or elsewhere, were passed.
Gen. Grant recommends the remission Of the
unfinished sentences, and release from imprls-
onment, of all persons now in confinement IN.
der sentence of military commissions organized
under the Reconstruction acts, In States IN
which said acts have ceased to operate.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says The fires
are doing great amount Of damage 10 the
timbers in the Michigan pineries. Judges es-
innate that ten thousand acres of pine timber
have been already burned and the fires are
still raging.
Both bituminous and anthracite coal have
been found in the Rocky Mountains, on the
line of the Pacific railroad, close to the track.
The best coal field is near Benton, in the vicn-
ity of the crossing of the North Platte.
The President has appointed Benjamin f.
James, of Illinois, heretofore one of the prln-
cipal examiners in the Patent Office to be Ex-
amner in Chief, in place of Elisha Foote, ap
pointed Commissioner of Patents.
Last evening the President transmitted to
the Secretary of the Treasury his acceptance OF
the resignation Of Commissioner Rollins with
out reference to the conditions named in the let
ter OF resignation.
The President has directed that Gen. j. @.
Grierson, A. @. NJ. Vols. be mustered out Of
the service, and receive no final pay Or allow
auces until he has satisfied the pay department
that he is not indebted to the Government.
The wheat harvest throughout Illinois and
adjoining States progressed with vigor last
week. The crop is promising to be a large
one The corn and potato crops promise unu
sual abundance.
Two physicians lave been arrested in Hart,
ford, Conn, charged with tumpering with the
lie, and eventually causing the death OF mar
rcd woman Of that city who was cnclentc.
The Chinese Embassy have visited the prison
at Auburn, New York, and arc said to have
received Favorable impression of the Amerl-
can mode of Furnishing criminals. y ........ .
John Brown e. Sons cotton mill in Philadcl-
phia was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The loss
amounted to $4,000, on which there is an
insurance of 49, 900.
Long Island is ovcrrun with mosquitoes
They swarm by the million, and human flesh, AS
well as horse flesh, suffers from the attacks of
the piping warriors.
The shoe business at Haverhill, Massachu-
sets, has revived during the present month.
Every man is now employed, and the price OF
work has advanced twenty per cent.
The Printing Bureau Of the Treasury de-
partmcnti is now actively engaged in printing
the tax-pad stamps for distilled spirits, in ac-
cordance with the new Revenue law.
The y. S. Consul at Porto Rico writes that
the requirement of passports has again been
established there.
The Alabama Senate has passed 4 bill re-
moving all political disabilities.
There,were two deaths from yellow fever at
New York yesterday.
J. II. jenkins & Co., dry goods dealers,
Worcester, Mass, failed yesterday.