Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-03
NEWS or TIT DAX.
"1os7toy the gerry age and body Of the Times "

TO stow the gerry age and body Of the Times
On Monday the June clause in the Bank
ruptcy law, by which debtors are prevented
from taking the benefit of the act voluntarily
unless by paying into court fifty cents on every
dollar of ths indebtedness, came into opera,
ton. Notwithstanding this, petitions are Still
filed in the usual way, the parties running the
risk OF the costs and the opinion OF the court
as to the legality of the proceedings.
There has recently been thrown into clrcula-
ton a counterfeit BILL Of the denomination OF
ten dollars, purporting to have been issued by
the Saratoga County National Bank OF
Waterford. :" The monogram in each corner
(U S. is badly executed and the items 10 let
tiers and figures on the margins, are wanting IN
artistic flush The paper itself is thick and
soft, as if made of cotton.
Adviccs received per Atlantic Cable report
the arrival at Liverpool, on the morning Of yes,
terdsy, of the steamship Worcester, Captain
Graham, of the Baltimore and Ohio r. r. Line,
from Baltimore The Worcester stopped at
Norfolk on her outward voyage, and sailed
from Hampton Roads on Goth OF May. She
has, therefore, made the passage IL less than
thirteen days.
Gen. Grant has written a letter to the House
Committee on Military Affairs, recommending
renewal of the increase OF thirty. three and
one-third per centum in the pay of officers Of
the army The law which gives this increase
now expires by limitation on the 3Oth instant.
: On Saturday afternoon last, work was sus-
pended indefinitely in the Rensselaer, Iron
Works, the Albany Iron Works and the Bur
denis Works, in the south part OF Troy, New
York, in consequence Of demands made by the
operatives for an increase OF wages 49,.
In Memphis, yesterday, two men had fight
in BARRIERS shop. They attacked each other
with knives, when the person assailed drew
revolver and shot his assailant through the
arm The ball then struck negro man III the
forehead, killing him instantly. ~
That ''institution" the freedmen's bureau,
with its attendant train is to be fastened on the
country for another year. The leaders of the
radical party count on this bureau as a most
potent ally in the coming presidential election.
Anincrease on the tariff on iron, steel, copper,
and cotton will probably be recommended by
the Ways and Means Committee, their sub
committee having decided SO to report. NO
Increase on woollcn goods will be advised.
A negro girl in Memphis tried to kill her
fathers family by putting powdered glass in
pot of vegetables, because she was not allowed
to join the Methodist Church, her father be-
ing a Baptist. ..-. ....... -.
Great excitement existed in Honduras and
Nicaragua, according to dispatches dated May
IS, on account Of the renewal Of British pre-
tensions to the ownership Of the Mosquito ter
rltory. = .,-
Gen. Hooker is expected homo from Europe
in the St. Laurent, now due at New York. =
1t is reported that while his own health is not
improved, that or his devoted wife has broken
down. "@ '"...
Gen. Schoield has ordered the removal OF
the guards that have been parading up and
down in front Of the doors Of the War Depart
mcnt from the time Mr. Stanton determined
to ''stick.'
The Canadian authorities appear to be tho
roughly assured that another Fenian invasion
is to take place, and are making extensive mill
tary and naval arrangements to meet 1t.
One Of the last requests of the late Mr..
Buchanan was that Ex-Presidents Pierce and
Fillmore, and President Johnson should be In
Yited to attend his funeral.
Mr. Isaac e. Stewart Of Baltimore, con-
fined for some time in an insane asylum in
Philadelphia, has been, by an order Of court,
ordered to be released.
The steamer Ben. McCulloch was burned on
Monday nightin Ouchta river, Louisiana, and
three lives lost, including two Alabama ladies.
The blacks in Washington were excessively
jubilaut over the election Of Mr.. Bowen, as
Mayor Of that city.
The Sandwich Islands arc considerably agi-
tated by movement in favor Of annexation to
the United States. ...-..
Two priests are in Toronto, Canada, from Al
giers, seeking relief for the famine stricken
Arabs.