Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-09
NEWS OF The DAY.
$50 shoao the very age and body ofhe Times.

The Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
ton commenced its business sessions in Trinity
Church, New York, yesterday. Among the
the name Of the body from Convention to
Council Memorials were submitted In favor
Of changing the Canon in reference to the es-
tabishment of new dioceses. A motion to print
fifteen hundred copies of the sermon OF Bishop
Lee, delivered on the opening OF the Conyen-
ton, was carried after sharp debate. The
New York Tribune says that the sermon by
Bishop Lee was strongly anti-rituaistic.
''Bushwood," the property Of Edmund j.
Plowden, in St. Mary county, Nd, was sold at
trustees sale by Messrs. Combs & Downs, on
Tuesday last, for Sl4 ,025, which, together with
the liens subject to which it was sold and the
dover interest, will put up the price to about
agent for his daughter, Mrs Plowden.
The cotton crop of Egypt is said to be this
year uncommonly large. IF this prove true,
the effect on prices in this country must be telt
in some degree; for although the quality OF
Egyptian cotton is inferior to our own, and re-.
uuires peculiar process OF manufacture, still
it can enter into a large amount OF second class
fabrics.
At the Democratic meeting at Winona, Min
nesota, on the Goth, ult. Mr.. D. S. Norton,
u. S. Senator from Minnesota, who has here
tofore ranked among the Consergatlve Kepub-
licans, appeared on the stand and publicly re-
nounced bis party, and gave excellent reasons
tor supporting Seymour and Blair.
The New York board of health has directed
the sanitary superintendent and the analytical
chemist Of the board to investigate and report
to the board the quality of the various kinds OF
-four and other ingredients employed IN max
ing sale. bread, and the authorizations OF the
same in that city.
There were 1852 arrests for drunkenness
alone in Boston during the last quarter, to say
nothing of disturbances Of the peace, assaults,
etc., some 800 10 number, the greater part OF
which are attributed to drunkenness. They
have prohibtory law in that city.
The French Canadian Convention, III session
at Springfield Mass, has passed resolutions
condemning the British American confedera-
ton and the movements on foot to coerco Nova
Scotia. There was q strong feeling In favor
of annexation Of Canada to this country.
General Mcclellan arrived in Philadelphia
yesterday, and had public reception and large
procession. He made speech Of thanks adj
dressed exclusively to the soldiers or the Union
army, and INDUCED in no political illusions.
The Committee on Retrenchment, in session
at New York, had Buckley before them yes
terday He refused fora long time to be sworn,
and afterwards refused to answer some or the
questions put to him.
The Secretary Of War, has postponed the
meeting of the Dyer Court of Inquiry until the
10th of November. This will leave General
Thomas in command in Tennessee until after
the Presidential election.
The block in birmingham, Mass, in which
was located the postofice and q. S. Asses
sors' Office was burned yesterday. Most OF the
movable property was saved.
A small riot occurred in Hoboken yesterday,
growing out OF an attempt to rescue prlso-
ner Three of the rioters were arrested and
committed.
Dressmakers are now introducing reversible
dresses The idea is borrowed, the tailors hay
ing designed reversible overcoats several years
since
John Allen, the "wickedest man" in New
York, has recanted his recent religious PROBES
sions, and is about to reopen his dance house.
A Fort Laramie dispatch says that General
Slemmer, commanding the post, died there
suddenly, Of heart disease, yesterday.
The tugboat Vim exploded at New York
yesterday, causing the death Of two Of her
crew and badly scalding six others.
Gen Santa Anna has been ordered to leave
the Island of Cuba by the Captain General
The reason is not made public.
Generals Fitzpatrick and Fremont are MAX
ing political speeches in Indiana.
Laborers in California are pentier than work,
and restitution is feared the coming winter.
There is an American omnibus driver" crack
ing his whip in Jerusalem.
New MExICo.-Ex-Gov. Aroy, Of New
Mexico, is now here, with the basis Of a treaty
agreed upon in council with the Wcmenutehe
and Capote, Utah, and 1icarilla Apache ludi-
ans, OF New Mexico, on the 18th of August
last by the terms of which these tribes, which
arc closely allied by marriage, agree to give up
their country and lands, which comprise vast
area ofuuexplored domain in Mexico, Colorado,
Utah, and Arizona, and 60 npon reservation
4U niles square. Inc lanes WHICH lucSc tllpCS
propose to reserve lie west Of the San Juan
river, in the southeastern portion Of the new
Territory of Navajo. Gov. Army has recently
beer upon these lands to attend the council of
the Indians, and he describes it as splendid
count:y-full of minerals, gold, silver, copper,
&C., rich specimens of which he has with him
to deposit in the mineral cabinet of the u. S.
Agricultural Department..
The country is we'll watered, and the streams
are abundant with trout and other fish. On
his way out to the San Juan, Gov. Army dis
covered two new passes through the noun
tains, leading to the Navajo river, and thence
to the San Juan river. The first he calls Shcr-
mans pass. About eight miles from this is the
other, which is seven miles long, three miles
of which are soping to the east and four miles
to the west, the waters running on one side to
the Atlantic, on the other to the Pacific. This
PISS he called Grants pass. Beyond these
passes west the country is comparatively level.
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