Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-20
NEWS or THE DAY.
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New York banks. The COMPTROLLER of the
received complaints that the capital Of certain
National banks was being used in stock specu-
lations 10 violation Of the National Currency
act. 1t is alleged that officers Of the banks
are involving their stability by loahing great
sums on fancy railroad stocks at inflated prices
The, Secretary has ordered an Immediate In
vestigation to be made by the examiners.
A young woman named Elisabeth Stang,
was arrested in Chicago last week, for attempt
Ing to poison her father, mother, brother and
sister, by putting strychnine 10 their cofee. =
They were all in a dangerous condition, but
ARE now recovering. The girl acknowledged
having purchased the poison, but asserted 1T
was at the instance Of her mother, who she
charges put it In the coffee. ,.s..,
The sale of Season Tickets for the Dickens
Readings, in Batim IRE, which took2plaee on
Saturday, was most successful A large num-
Der of persons gathered in front of the Concor
dia at an early hour, and the Office, which was
opened at nine, was not closed till after one
O clock. About $1,000, We learn, were taken
| in, over eleven hundred tickets having been
| sold for the series. ,s.fsS .a5E
Gen. j. B. Magruder, late Of tho Con feder.
ate army, voluntarily presented himself in the
Clerks Office of the,U. 8. Circuit Court, in
New York, on Saturday, and proposed to take
the oath of allegiance to the Government OF
the us. The oath was then administered
by Commissioner White in the usual manner
Gen. Magruder promptly subscribing TO the
same. ~ ~ 80 gsE5 a4G T. So
At the request ot Senator Morgan, Hon.
Freeman Clarke, late Comptroller Of the Cur
rency, has written a letter giving his opinion
of the bill recently introduced by Senator
Sherman, condemning that measure entirely !;
he argues against any further contraction Of the
currency, and contends that che consolidation
of the national indebtedness into fye-thirty
bonds would be tor the best interests OF the
country.
A serious explosion Of fireworks occurred at
Pittsburg, on Saturday, in the confectionery
of Kuable & Schrock, oecasioned by the fric-
ton OF falling box Of fireworks. A son Of
one of the proprietors, was fatally injured, and
two other persons were killed by suffocation.
TIE loss is about $4,000, which is covered by
insurance. rss. .452
John Jacob Aston, the second son of John
Jacob Aston, the millionaire, died in New York,
last week, in the 65th year of bis age In
early youth, Mr.. Aston gave much intellectual
promise, but, at shout the age Of seventeen,
he accidentally fell, striking on his head, and
thus his mental faculties were impaired.
The late campaign in Kansas in favor Of
woman's rights has not been without tangible
results as we notice that on Wednesday last,
Miss Emma Hunt was elected enrolling clerk
of the lower House of the Legislature of. that
State. This is we believe, the first case ofthe
kind on record. =,
The House Of Representatives Pacific Rail-
road Committee have authorized their Chair
man to report bill iustructing the Secretary
of the Interior to allow the public lands along
the lines of the various railroads, which have
been withdrawn from market, to be opened
for settlement. >
Advicas from Jamaica to the llth, atate
that the Governor of Jamaica had received
instructions from the British Colonial Office
that the responsible Offices on that island
should be filed by appointment from England,
so as to avoid political prejudiess and party
influence.
It's said that the Democratic members Of
the Ohio Legislature have determined to re-.
district the State, and it is also said that this
redistrctng will give the Conservatives thir-
teen out Of the nineteen members of Congress,
and defeat Schenck, Ashley, and that set.
Senator Guthrie, though still in feeble
health, is expected to take his seat in the Sen
ate, for the first time this session, tomorrow,
having left his home at Louisville for Wash
ington. -
Mr.. A. Baldwin Norton. Superintendent of
Indian Affairs for New Mexico, died at Santa
Fe, on the 10Th instant. He vas brother Of
Senator Norton, of Minnesota
Four colored men recently broke into store
in Darlington district, s. c., robbed it, killed
the clerk, and severely wounded two other
persons who had resisted.
The journal of Professor Agassiz Of his tour
in Brazil, has just been published by Messrs.
Ticknor & Fields, in q most attractive form.
The newspapers complain of the large circu-
laton of grossly indecent weekly sheets in
New York.
Rev. Co., Chivington, the perpetrator Of
the Indian massacre in Colorado, has returned
| to preaching.
Six hundred starving negroes arrived in
Mobile, on the 10th instant, from the Bigbee
/ and Alabama rivers. IEE I
* Nassau dates to the l4th instant, say com
plants were made that American steamers nc
longer enter that harbor.
Shad fishing has commenced on the Savan.
nah river.
No REDUCTION IN THE ARMY. Mill
tary Committee of the House have agreed
to report against any further reduction Of The
army at present, beyond what is being gradual
] " brought about by Gen. Grant order The
| Generalin. Chief. was consulted in the matter
| b.. -aauo.aI naanh of the committea an6