Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-02-23
NEW.S OF The DAY.
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Columbia will not press further inquiries as to
the alleged conversation of Mr.. Corcoran and
Mr.. Bayard upon the assassination OF Mr.
Lincoln at Baron Stoeckels house, in 1861.
The committee do not regard the testimony or
the butler of any value, and Mr.. Sumner does
not think it would be proper to require Mr..
Doebner to testify. as there is no precedent IN
which an attache of foreign legation has been
required to testify in court as to what had
transpred 10 that legation, and there Is not
enough importance attached to the present
case to warrant making it a test.
The Port Tobacco Times Of last week says
"Mr. j. T.. Mudd, the commissioner for
Charles county to receive subscriptions to the
capital stock OF the Southern Maryland railroad,
opened his books for the first time on Monday
last, in Bryantown district His list was headed
by Daniel 2. Haviland, with fifteen shares,
81 800; B. f. Browing, NJ l.. McPhersop,
j. Il. Mudd, and others, 81 900 each. This
evinces public spirit and enterprise highly
creditable to our county, and we'll worthy OF
imitation.
Havana dispatches say that commercial IN
terests there are depressed through the alarm
created by the proceedings of the volunteers in
the cause of Spain, and yesterday business
was at stand still-parayzed by the Tears
which agitate the city" A delegation OF vol,
unteers" had waited upon Captain General
Dnlce and demanded the immediat execution
of the revolutionists arrested during the recent
riot, but he replied that the courts must first
try them.
Mr.. Charles Brace read a paper on model
lodging houses before the Social Science Asso.
citation at Albany on Wednesday, in which he
said that nowhere on the earth is there such a
massiug OF human beings as in the city Of New
York, and in no city of the size is there so much
poverty and wretchedneSs. In the tenement
houses The people are much more crowded
than they are in either of the cities of England
or France.
The actoa OF the committee on foreign re-
ations, who Lave resolved t o recommend the
rejection of the Alabama claims treaty. has not
met with Il corresponding unanimitv from the
other Senators. The report has not been made
to the Senate in executive session, and hence
the members OF that body ere not officially ad
vised of the grounds upon which the commit
ice base their conclusions.
A letter from A w. Clark, .. S. consul at
Valparaiso, dated January 10th, states that
the yellow fever had again made its appear
ance in most malignant form at the ports
south of CalIao The disease was reported as
more virulent and fatal than last year when at
its height. Vessels arriving at Valparaiso from
the affected ports were strictly Quarantlnod.
Gen. Butler stated in his recent speech on
the army bill that the adoption of his amend
ments would save the country 81, 900 900, upon
officers pay alone, next year. The estimates
of the Paymaster General for the same time
loot up ouly Sc, l57, 000 1t will, therefore, be
a shrewd piece of fnanciering that will save
G7,000 900 out OF Sc, 1877 900.
It's reported from the Michigan State Luna
tic Asylum that some of the severest cases Of
insanity in men brought to the Institution in
rons and manifesting the most violent symp-
TOMS have been suddenly Gained down to Il
condition bordering on sanity by the presen-
tation of a bouquet gathered from the green
house
A meeting OF the officers Of the Army OF the
Potomac took place in New York yesterday
General Mcclellan was chosen temporary chair
man. Committees on permanent organization,
constitution, etc, were appointed, The filth
of July was agreed upon as the time Tor grand
reunion at New York
A new law in Cincinnati prohibits the opera
ton of commercial agents or ''drummers' in
that city A travelling agent of New York
hat and cap establishment has Just been fined
$50 and costs, and another agent double that
amount.
A large and cnthu .iastic Fenian meeting was
held in the Maryland Institute in Baltimore
last night, which was addressed by Gen. John
O'Nell, President of the Brotherhood, and by
James Gibbons, of Philadel pha, Vice Presi
dent
Hon. John n. Washington died in Newbern,
n. c., last week lie was graduate of Yale
College in the class of lS4l His father was
grandson OF Lewis, uncle OF George Washing
ton.
The proprietor of an illustrated paper i New
York is threatened with libel suit with DANA
geS laid at $4,000 for to- good portrait Of
young lady in u fancy costume at masque-
rade.
The Germao Republicans of New York have
pledged themselves to the support OF any re-
forms in the Naturalization laws required "to
preserve the purity of the taIlot,
The Jefards Burdell Cuaningha story,
about the confession OF Jtffards that he killed
DR.. Burdell &e. &c. Is pronounced to he mere
sensation canard.
The Newport correspondent Of the Provi
dence Press states that firm in Newport will
make profit of $l5000O by the recent rise 10
sugar and mo asses.
The birth day of Mr.. Peabody was applopria-
tely celebrated on the 18th instant in the town
of Peabody, formerly South DanvorS, Massa-
chusetts.
A defacaton to the amount of $50 900 is re-
ported to have been committed on the James
Steam Mills, OF Newburyport, Mass, by one
of its officers.
An English girl has obtained { 5 damages
from sweetheart who while counting her,
Squet zed her hand so hard as to break finger
Alvin Adams, the ex. express man of Boston,
has just paid Berstadt, in Paris, $4,000 in
gold for one OF his latest and largest paintings.