Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-17
NEWS OF TIE d. 7.
$40 sho,y the rery age and body cft1s Tines.

Past Grand ChancelIors Rathbone and Bar
ton, of the District Of Columbia; Abbott, OF
Maryland; Hayes, ofDelaware; Reem. of Penn
sylvania, and French Of New Jersey; the COM
mittee recently appointed by the Supreme
Lodge of the knights of Pythias, to draft q
constitution for the Entree Order, completed
their labor at the Fountain Hotel, in Bau
more, last week, and will present the result OF
their labors to the Supreme Lodge at its next
session, 10 Wilmington, Delaware, On the 9th
of November.
Postmaster General Randall still declines to
sign the bonds of the New York Steam Navl-
CATION Company, under contract for the trans
portation OF all foreign mails. He Is awaiting
the opinion of Attorney General Eyarts on the
M andatory character Of the act OF Congress
granting the contract.
Mrs. Buchiguaui, formerly Mrs. Gen. Eaton,
has obtained warrant in New York from JUS
tice Dodge for the arrest of her husband on a
charge of abducting and scducing her grand
daughter Miss Randolph. Buchlgnanl has
not yet been arrested.
A grand Radical mass meeting, under the
auspices of the Radical State Executive Com
mittee. took place at Front street Theatre in
Baltimore, last night. Speeches were made by
John A. Creswell, Archibald Stirling, John e.
Smith, and others. .....
David Stuart, of Michigan, died on Friday.
He was educated at Yale College, and was adj
loitted to the bar at an early age. Ia 1852 he
was elected to Congress- When the war broke
out he entered the service. In the battle OF
Shiloh he commanded q brigade, and was
wounded. ~ . ....
Atmany places throughout the British Isles
women demand that their names be placed
upoo the lists Of voters for members OF Parla-
ment, On the ground that they possessed the
pre>crib d property qualification required 6y
the Reform biz.
The Auditor General Of Michigan sued Two
D.troit papers for libel, they haviog charged
hun with being incompetent. He claimed the
modest sum OF $50 900 from each. Yesterday
the Jury in the case awarded hin SIX cents
damages.
Commissioner Fo0tc has notified Gen. Stout
Of the acceptance of bis resignation as chic!
clerk of,he u. s. Patent Office, to take effect
on the so i in>t1nt. Judge Grinnel, OF Mass.
has received the appointment as Gen Stouts
| successor.
At africa the earthquake shock was preceded
by sound like that of distant tempest, and
then the grouud shook from south to north
4 palm tree remains standing untouched and
as green as ever in the midst OF the desolated
| city. -.-
Governor BroWnow has issued a proclamation
calling upon the militia of his State to organ
ize at once lie says he hopes there will be-
| no occasion to cal! the troops into active ser
vice. ....
Great preparations are making in New DIRK
b. the working men for the second annual con-
vention of the National Labor Union, on Mon
day next, at the Germania Assembly Rooms
The prevailing fashion of wearing false hair
causes an active demand, which, it appears, Is
partly supplied from the dead in the European
hospitals.
Rear Admiral William Mervine died in
Utica, New York, last night, aged seventy
eight He entered the navy when lad.
The loss of stores on the Fredonia is estlma-
ted at Sl25,O0O.
Whalen, convicted OF the murder of D Arcy
McGee, is to apply for new a trial.
| The VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY.-The Super
inteudent Of the Penitentiary has hired to Jesse
Undcrhll twenty shoemakers, to Col. Egbert
twenty-five shoemakers, to LerVy Crenshaw
twenty coopers, to Mr.. Balm ten broom max
ers. All of these prisoners are to work inside
of the Penitentiary walls. The contractors are
to pay fifty cts. per day for their servlces-the
! State furnishes guards, rations, clothing and
| quarters So crowded is the Pcntcntlary,
| with over a hundred men On the pubIc works.
too, that four men arc now put in cells which
were originally built and intended for but one.
In the winter, most of these men now at work
on the uuarres, railroads and canal, will be re-
| turned AID it will then become question OF
Importance as to where they can be put. 1t
will be impossible to quarter them inside OF the
walls of the institution without building new
cells, and even then workshops will have to be
! torn down to make the necessary room. The
question Of what to do with the convicts will
assume proportions of great importance III
year or two unless some great change soon
comes over the morals of our coored popula-
| ton, for there are five negroes (nearIy) to
every one white man, now undergoing sentence
within the walls of the Virginia State Penltcn-
tiary Richmond correspondent Of Petcrs6urg
| Lndcr.
4 New OYSTER BED DISCOVERED Many
of the oyster lovers of New York, says the New
York Commercial seem of late to entertain
the idea that the supply Of seed oysters will be-
fore long give out. TO ease the minds OF that
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