Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-25
NEWS THE DAP.
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Yesterday morning it was discovered that
roll of ten. forty bonds, twenty.seven being tor
$1,000 each and twelve for $500 each, making
a total invalue Of s33, 900, the property of Tan
ner Il Co., No. so Wall street, New York, had
disappeared from the private boxot the flrm
where they had been kept. ~
The fruit crop at the West, so far, is said to
be substantially safe. The late furry OF snow
and frost was supposed to have destroyed the
germs, but as a general thing they escaped,
because not far enough advanced to be nlpped
in the bad.
The Parisans are eating frozen fowl. They
are importing Russian game in France. 1t ar
rives twice week, and is esteemed great
luxury. The birds, many of which are from
the Polar regions, arc packed in oats, which
keeps them in perfect state OF preservation.
Mr. Chaleyne, of Titusvlle, PennsylVan ia,
whose wife and daughter were seriously in,
jured by the fearful accident at Angola, has eff
fected settlement with the railroad company,
by which he has received the sum OF O,OOO.
DR.. E. Fl. FPeters writes to the Utica Her
aid that new planet belonging to the group OF
the asteroids, and the ninety. eighth OF them,
was discovered at the Litcbfied Observatory
of Hamilton College, on Saturday night last.
We read Of new and dreadful cases OF accl-
dents from Kerosene-ope in Norfolk, an
other in St. Louis, by which mother sustain
ed frighttul injuries which will probably prove
fatal, and her daughter was killed.
Iron curling is now being laid in Pittsburg.
The curb consists of an inch plate, eighteen
inches broad, pierced with holes, and having a
corrugated hange at the top.
Gen. Candy telegraphcd Gen. Grant yester,
day that the total vote in South Carolina, as
far as reported is S5,S43, and the majority foI
the Constitution 43, l6l. -..... e..
Gen. Meade has issued orders for the sup
preston of the Savannah Daily Advertiser un
less it ceases publishing incendiary and ln1am-
matory articles.
A colored man who was bayoneted by sol
dier during row at Augusta on Thursday was
buried yesterday.
Two soldiers were wounded, one killed, and
negro severely wounded at negro ball in
Jackson, Mississippi on Thursday night.
A gland procession took place at New Or
leans yesterday on the occasion of the conse'
Grafton Of the Masonic cemetery. ss-
A movement is on foot to secure the adjourn
ment of Congress Immediately after the Chi
cago Convention. 1t will not succeed.
Typhus fever has appeared on the coast OF
Africa.
Elk Gov. PEIRpo1Nr. the farewell
address of Gov. Peirpoint to the Radicals IN
Richmond, we extract the following showing
the feeling that exists After approving OF,
and endorsing the proposed constitution, ne
went on: -
He had come into the gubernatorial office
with malice toward none, but with charity
for all - sincere Union man, earnestly deselr-
ing the good of the "Od Dominion. All his
acts as the Executive of the State had been
tempered with cemency he always tried to do
his duty For seven years he had labored in
| the cause Of reconstruction without dollar S
profit to himself. On the contrary, he was
! not so we'll off now as he was when he was cleo
ted to his late exalted position. Thank Hea
ven, however, he had invested five or six thous-
| and dollars down here at CoaIfeds, and had
besides homo in West Virginia to which he
could retire with comfortable support aud a
clear conscience He then referred to the cir
cumstances of his removal. His status had
been settled by the Court of Appeals in the
decision of a case brought up to test his right
to the gubernatoria chair. Gen. Scho6eld had
repeatedly acknowledged him as Governor, and
even up to the day the order was issued he
had not intimatcd his intention to GUST him.
But there were enemies at work, and looking
for chance to forward their own designs.
While he was at Washington on visit of a
few days with his wife and child the plan was
concocted at the custom house subscription
papers we're handed around !; grand-jurors were
asked to sign 4 petition; his army friends
proved recreaut, and now behold the conse-
quences lie must say that the whole thing
appeared to him most contemplate. The
gentleman from Detroit had been given lift
for the Governorship over the heads Of the
other Republican candidates. =.
In conclusion, Mr.. Peirpoint said he desired
to say, before leaving the capital, that he had
never been treated otherwise than with kind
ness and consideration by the people of East
ern Virginia, and should always look back
with pleasure upon the period Of his sojourn
in this section. -Rlc7tnaoud Dispatch.
Elk Gov. PEIRPoINT AND GEN. ScHoFIELD
We learn that Ex-"Governor" Peirpoint
while in Washington, few days since, prefer
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