Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-20
NEWS OF THE .DA Y.
ITO sho1o thevay age and body of the Times.

A dispatch from Memphis says: Three
men in disguise, supposed to be members o.
the Ku Klux Khan, went last night to the
house of black man, about four and hal
miles from Nashville, on the Lebanon road,
and demanded admission. The man fired ano
killed one of them, who, upon examination.
proved to be Henry G. Blair of McWhitcs-
Vile, in the neighborhood. The affair has
created considerable feeling, but is not likely
to lead to further trouble
Early on Tuesday morning twenty-four pris
oncrs broke out of the penitentiary of West
Virginia, at Moundsvile. They were pur
sued by large body of armed men. One o.
the escaped convicts, named Crews, was sho
dead, and another, named Marks, badly
wounded. All but four were retaken
The President has directed that the Terrific
ry of Alaska, heretofore under Gen. Hallcck
in the Department of the Pacific, be made &
separate military department, to be known as
the Department Of Alaska, and Gen. Jeff. C.
| Davis has been assigned to the command OF
| t same. ...5=
The Ohio Senate has passed resolutions
ejecting Thomas G. Jones, Senator from the
Eighth District, on the ground that he was
elected by illegal negro votes. The seat was
awarded to Henry M. Onderdonk, his Demo
cratic competitor, who was Immediately sworn
in
Col. J. 0. P. Burnside, it is rumored, is
shortly to be appointed Second Auditor Of the
Treasury in the place Of Mr.. e. B. French,
the present incumbent. Burnside was con-
nected with the Provost Marshars Bureau in
Maryland during the war, under Gen. Jetfrles.
Destructive fires yesterday at Springfield,
Mass. (forty tons hay and twenty COWS burned);
Rock land, Me-, where q wooden factory was
destroyed; Burlington, Vermont, where wool
en- mills were destroyed; and at Chester, VT,
and Minneapolis.
A large trade in the importation OF wheat
[ from California is going on at New York. Eigh-
tv-nne vessels are said to be on their way from
San Francisco to that city at present. loaded
with cargoes of wheat, aggregating about five
millions of bushels. = ~,
Futher particulars Of the explosion Of the
steamer Magnolia on Wednesday, say that at
least eighty lives were lost A list of the names
cannot be given, as the books were destroyed
with the boat. a@4 x
+ The Erie railroad having reduced the fare to
Buffalo to five dollars, commencing next week,
will start a steamboat line to Albany, at fifty
cents on Sunday, to carry on war with the
Central railroad. @a..
The mansion belonging to the estate of the
late Gen. Winfield Scott, at Elizabeth, N. j.,
was sold at auction, on Wednesday, for
$1,000
Gen. Reynolds yesterday issued an order
announcing his assumption of command Of the
Fifth Military District, in the place Of Gen
Hancock.
Various shooting affairs occurred at Nash
vile Tenn, yesterday. Judge Breen was shot
at Col Lawless was MORALLY wounded.
Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, it is said, is urged by
some Of his friends to return to the President
his commission as Secretary Of War
The libel suit against Moses s. Beach, Of
the New York Sun, by Mrs. Dean, has ended
by verdict for the defendant.