Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-06
NEWS OF1HE DAP.
80 sho.o The rery age and body ofhe Times.

A bold attempt was made on Monday to rob
the George Washington Bank at Corning,
New York. While a boy was alone in the
bank, man entered aud said he was q U. s.
Marshal, and was about to take possession OF
the bank for issuing counterfeit notes. he
took pair of handouts from his pocket and
nut them upon the wrists of the boy, who was
nearly paraiyxed by fear The boy began to
scream for help, which frightened the thief,
and he released him. He then told the boy to
90 with him and find the Cashier, and while
they were looking for him at the depot, the
thief escaped.
A dispatch from Savannah, dated yesterday,
says, ''the blacks disbanded last night, but are
again assembling at Teltairs plantation. They
are said to have U. 5. arms, evidently newly
furnished. Excitement in the city continues,
and the citizens are on the alert for any alarm.
Hopes are entertained that no collision will
occur, every precaution being taken by the civil
and military authorities to prevent It, Young
Law, killed by the blacks on tho night Of the
election, was buried to day. His funeral was
very largely attended. Another policeman
died this evening, who was shot IN the riot.
Four murders are reported as having been
committed in Kentucky last week. On We'd
nesday night William johnson, resident OF
Jassamine county, while on his way home was
shot dead by concealed assassin. On Thurs
day night Miss Hill young school teacher at
Bryantsville, was shot and instantly killed by a
young man named Grimes, sutton whom she
had rejected. On the same night two horse
thieves, confined in.jail at Nicholasville, were
taken from jail by Regulators" aud hanged.
One of them had served term In the Peni
Tertiary for previous offences.
Late California papers give further accounts
of the newly discovered silver mines in the
"White Pine" district in Nevada, concerning
which some brief but fabulous statements have
been published. These mines were discovered
in April last, and though the process of their
development has been slow, probably owing to
the difficulty of Transporting machinery In
such rugged country, late accounts, which
may be received as approximatng the truth,
give promise Of important results IRON the
working of the mines.
The New Jersey cranberry crop is now be-
ing prepared for market They are put into
boxes holding bushel, and in that state are
sent to New York The crop is small. One
man who had six thousand bushels last year,
and expected eight thousand this, if thu sea-
son had been good, had only six hundred BUSH
eIs. Others also. he says, have not more than
half crop. Notwithstanding the partial
failure, large quantity will find its way to the
market.
Gen. Butler has made two speeches since his
election In his first he asserted his intention
to give an earnest support TO the admniStra-
ton of President Grant. In his second he
said 1T would be the duty of Congress to take
prompt action in reference to the Southern
States, in which murder and intimidation in
the late elections have set the Reconstruction
laws at defiance. GU
Minnesota is just been having its customary
Indian summer storm. A st. Paul paper says
that for three hours it rained, Numbered,
| lightened and blew without the slightest inter
mission, and then as slight variation, it
showed, "blowed, frightened and rained.-
Land slides occurred upon some OF the rail
roads, and some Of. the trains were considera-
bly, delayed.
The catch of herring in Massachusetts Bay
this season has never been eQualed. One
boat, with crew of two men and five nets,
caught in one night go 900 behring's, aud were
obliged to call other boats to their assistance to
get them ashore. The catch OF haIbut is also
very large all along the coast.
The construction of three lines Of railways,
traversing Greece in three different directions,
has just been conceded to Belgian company.
The work is to be Immediately commenced
The railway to the Pier@us is now nearly COM
pleted.
Gen. Reynolds, on being relieved by General
Candy of the command of the military district
and department of Texas, will resume COM
mand Of his regiment-the twenty-sixth In
tantry, now stationed at Austin, his headquar
ters a
A topograp h;cal survey of the battle field Of
Gettysburg is now being made by Lieutenant
w. II. Chase of the Engineer Corps, under
or ders from the War Department.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, has subscribed $4,000
TO the Red River relief fund The q. S. Gov
eminent has granted 81 600 to the same object.
Mrs, Lincoln arrived in Paris on Wednesday.
One of the Presidential electors in Florida
is colored man.
A plantation in Mississippi, which cost $780,
900 ten years ago, was sold lately for 1869.