Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-23
NEWS OF The DA ?.
"7o sto,o the Gerry age and body Of the Times

"Io s}to,o the re1y age and body Of the Times.
1t is reported that the coal miners employed
on the lines of the Pan Handle and Allegheny
Val,eyRaroads are on strike for higher wages
They demand an advance of one ct. per bush. 1t
is also stated that the miners OF the Pennsy-
vania Railroad, though at present at work, are
daily expected to strike And the laboripg peo-
pleof the country will have to pay Tor this, as
they do tor all other strikes.
COL Wood, g. S. detective, made descent
in New York, yesterday, on alden of counter
letters, at barber shop, and arrested several
men. all Italians. About $27, 900 in counter
| felt ereenback currency, notes and hlty ct.
stamps. &c, were found on the premises, lneud-
ing sic, 900 ia two-dollar bills OF the Rhode Is
| land National Bank.
The Spanish officials in Cuba are enforcing
| the regulations concerning passports with great
stringency. Passengers without passports are
prohibited from embarking or landing. Tray
| ellers by the steamers from the u. 5. ports are
| much annoyed by the delay caused by these
precautions.
Ex-Secretary Stanton authorizes the denial
of the story concerning an alleged issue of an
order for the supersedure Of Gen. Grant be-
fore Vicksburg by Gen. Banks. He says he
| never issued such an order, and he does not be-
lieve that anybody else did.
T. W. Upton was on Wednesday re- elected
| u. S. Senator from Nebraska In Indiana the
s'bolting' Radicals succeeded in defeating
Mr.. Cumback. He withdrew from the con-
test, and Daniel D. Pratt received the RAD
m nomination. and was elected, .'- f.-
Secretary Seward is arranging an extended
tour of travel which he purposes beginning
at the expiration OF his term of office, The
tour will be across the continent to California,
and from thence through the Republics OF
South America.
Young Sears, the richest boy in America,
who has been attending school at South Will
Jamestown, was, sit is said, killed on Satur-
day, while coasting, having slid against rock,
by which his brains were dashed out. rad /
A petition has been circulated in the House
of Representatives asking, the Senate not 10
confirm any more of President Johnson's nom
nations this session. 1t Is said that this move
ment has the sanction Of Gen. Grant
The Baltimore schooner William Severe,
which sailed from New York on the 10th inst.
went down on the 10th, off Care Charles. -
The captain and crew arrived at New York Oh
Thursday.
An arrival at New York from Rio Janeiro,
confirms our dispatches by Atlantic cable OF
the defeat of the Paraguayans at Villetta. The
Allies suffered severely in obtaining their vic
tory.
Joseph j. Stewart, of Baltimore, was yester-
daynominaed to be Minister to Constantinople.
Mr. E. Joy Morris is at present our represen-
tative there.
The incorporators of the Point Lookout
(Md.) Railroad Company have appointed a
committee to visit Baltimore to procure sub
scriptions to the capital stock Of the Company.
At Annapolis yesterday, the gas-works be-
longing to the city were blown up, and the
buildings almost entirely destroyed. ~.
A tenement house, in Villa msburg, n. y.
was burned down on Thursday last, and three
children were burned to death. ~.
The Banco del Commerce., at Havana, has
resumed payments.