Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-25
NEWS OF The DAP.
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GERS at rOrtress Monroe on Friday, caused Dy
the receipt Of an order from the War Depart
ment which relieves nearly every officer now
on duty with the Artillery School, aud assigns
others in their places The change will not
take place until the lst of May next, but when
it does it will scatter the officers of the school
from Alaska to Florida. Gen. Barry remains
in command, and the entire staff will remain
unchanged with the exception OF Genera |
Hays.
An order has been issued for the arrest Mr.
jenkins, the pilot of the America at the time
of the collision of that steamer with the United
States in the Ohio river Mr.. jenkins is
charged with negligence and cupabihty as pi-
lot at the time of the disaster, and has been
required to give bond in the sum of SIS, 600
for his appearance at the next term OF the U.
S. Court at Louisville.
On Friday night, while Mr.. Charles Cremer
butcher, York, Pa, was dancing with Miss
Mary Schlegel, in the ballroom OF Mr.. Au-
gustus Webers Park, in the southern part OF
town, he suddenly tell dead. His health up
to the last moment was perfectly sound, and he
was stout we'll built man. Death was pro
duced from a rush Of blood to the head or
heart.
On Saturday morning, in New York, a
thief walked into the Park Bank, dashlng a
kind of shield which be held in his hand
through the glass panel protecting the counter
and seized package containing $4,000. Pass
ing out he transferred the package to a con-
federate. The first succeeded in making his
escape, but his pal was captured and the money
recovered.
A private letter has been received by citi
zen of Georgetown from John II. Surratt, at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He states that he
made the trip for the benefit of his health land
expects to be in Baltimore by the middle OF
March He had heard that the court 10 w ash
ington had discharged his case, and expresses
the hope that the authorities are now con-
tent.
In New York, on Saturday evening, 4 party
of thieves made daring att empt to rob Mr.
and Mrs. Lynch, who keep jewelry store IN
Broadway, Of box Of valuable laces, and a
satchel containing $50, 900 worth of diamonds
They were on their way home IN company With
clerk One of the thieves was arrested.
The New Zealand papers give detailed &C
counts of the late dreadful massacre OF settlers,
including men, women and children, and a
number Of friendly natives, in night attack
on the settlement of Matawhero, Poverty Bay,
by party OF Hau Haus, who recently made
their escape from the Chatham Islands
The ship canal around the lower rapids of
the Mississippi river, at Keokuk, Iowa, now
in the course of construction, with the aid Of
government appropriation, is to be seven and
a-half miles long and from three to four hun.
dred feet wide.
The work of locking and damming the Little
Kanawha river seems by the late action of the
old board and the commissioners of the city OF
Parkersburg and Writ county, with the oil in
terests of Burning Springs, to be now settled
as work to be in immediate progress
Menard, the colored congressman from Louis
lana, appeared before the COMMITTEES on cleo
tons on Friday and made an elaborate argu-
ment in his own behalf lie spoke without
any embarrassment and seemed to be thorough
ly posted about the whole matter
The Navy Department is in receipt OF dis
patches in detail relative to the surrender OF
Messrs Bliss and Masterman by the Paraguay
an authorities on the 81 OF December Lopez
in his interview with Admiral Davis was very
coneiiatory and courteous.
A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia shows
that case has been made up which will bring
the question of negro eligibility to office be,
fore the courts, in accordance with the resou-
ton passed by the Legislature OF that State.
Several soldiers belonging to the volunteers
and regular forces were assassinated in Cuba
yesterday. These transactions, together with
the unsettled state of affairs, cause much anxi-
ETY. among the people.
At the Advent Conference held in Spring
field, Mass, last week, resolution was adopt
ed misunderstanding the preaching of distictive
doctrines, especially against teaching the ex-
act date of the final end of all things.
About one half of the business portion OF
Troy, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, was de-
stroyed by ire on Saturday night.
Bogent, the absconding paymaster's clerk
of the United States war vessel Vermont has
been rearrested near Montreal.
Removal Of Civil Officers in Virginia.