Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-01-11
NEWS OF7HE DAP.
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and sent in his resignation as President OF the
! Senate, which was accepted. The Lieut.. GOV
being State officer, this proceeding Is deem
ed irregular and of no effect. 1t Is belleVeC
| that his resignation should have gone through
the Executive department to the Senate.
John Dixon, recently arrived from Australia
and formerly clerk of the Oriental Bank Corpo
ration at Melbourne, was arrested in San Fran
cisco on Saturday for forgery. He had on nj
person, when arrested, letters OF credit and Dill
of exchange amounting TO over S85, 600, al
written on genuine paper of the Oriental Bank
| Melbourne, purporting to be signed by th(
regular officers of the bank.
| The Treasury authorities at Washington
have Information that certain telegraph com
panies at New Orleans are in league with the
whiskey ring, official dispatches from the See
| rotary of the Treasury to the revenue otncla
in New Orleans having been submitted IN sew
eral instances to certain members OF the rms
before being forwarded to their right dlrec
| ton.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
are not committed to the support of the resolu
ton authorizing the President to establish
protectorate over Hayti and st. Domingo,
which Gen. Banks will submit to the House.
They have simply permitted him to report the
resolution for the action of the House, but 1t
does not have the sanction OF the committee.
Gen. Sherman has received information that
representatives from four hundred Comanche
lodges have arrived at Fort Bosom, New
Mexico, and offered to surrender. They were
notified that no surrender would be received ex-
~ ~ tna n
the tribes on the Plains within watching dis
lance OF General Sheridan.
Mrs. Bouney, Miss Douro and Miss Adams
sailed in the steamer Alaska, from New ork,
on Saturday, for China, by way Of California
and Japan accompanied by five other mission
aries who are accredited to the latter country,
and also to Annoy They depart under the
auspices of the Women's Union Missionary So
cety of America.
Mr.. A. Oakley Hall has sigualized his aces
sion to the mayoralty of New York by an at
tempt to bring the country back to republican
simplicity. He has officially announced that
he does not wish to be addressed as HIS Hon
or" We do not think the matter of vital I'M
portance, but we are quite OF Mayor Han S
mind.
A bloody affray occurred in Montgomery,
Texas, a few days ago, in which four men were
killed. 1t commenced by disturbance with a
man charged with being couhterfeiter, horse
thief and desperate. La the melee between
his friends and some citizens pistols were used,
aud hence the result.
The funeral of Gen. Lowell II. Rousseau was
largely attended in New Orleans on Saturday,
notwithstanding the unpleasantness OF the
weather. The services were conducted at
Christ Church by the Episcopal Bishop OF
Louisiana The pail bearers were Generals Of
the U. S. amy, and officers of the Masonic
lodges
Late advices from Alaska report that Sitka
is almost depopuated the Russian residents
having gone to ST. Petersburg. that portion
of the u. S. garrison buildings had been de-
stroyed by fire, and that Captain Kenuey, IT,.
S. A., had committed suicide This is a bad
beginning for Alaska.
VIM Greenleaf Webster, son OF Noah
Webster, author of Webstcr's Dictionary, died
at New York on the lst, at the age Of So
years. Mr.. Webster had himselt much to do
with the dictionary of his father aud edited
subsequent edition Of that work.
The cable adviceS from Cuba confirm the an
nouneement that the revolutionists have de
creed the abolition of slavery within their lines
The Cubans show no intention to accept the
compromise measures proposed by Captain
General Dulce.
The New York Tribune tells US that the sum
of SIS, 900 has been secured to the family Of
the late Gen. Haipine, from the income of the
city registrar office, through the intervention
of Gems. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and other
friends.
1t is stated that VIM. II. Carswell, the MUIR
derer of little girl, was hung at Utica, New
York, on Friday, that he made confession OF
his guilt, and that just previous to bis execu
ton chloroiorm was administered to him. !
The Florida orange trees have been partly
killed by the frost At Green Cove Springs
the lemon and lime trees appear to be killed
1t is too early yet, however, to tell the tu!i ex-
tent Of the damage done.
The Harrisburg (Pa.) papers state that an
association of gentlemen in that city have sent
an agent to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to purchase
1000 patridges, to stock Dapphln county
A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Co
lima and ManSella, Mexico, on the list u!tlmC.
Buildings were thrown down, and number OF
persons persisted.
Within the past few months over sixty cav
eats and large number of applications for
patents for velOcipedes have been filed at the
Patent Office
Bishop Lay has accepted the invitation OF
the Episcopal diocese Of Easton, Nd, to be-
come their Bishop.
Governor Hoffman is thirty nine, and the
Youngest Governor New York ever had except
Seward.
Gangs of counterfeiters have been arrested at
Cincinnati, and Newark \. j.
Foreign News.
The Conference of the Great Powers, on the
Eastern question, held its first meeting in Paris
on Saturday. The session was sever hours
long. The Greek and Turkish representatives