Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-06-02
NEWS or TIE DAI.

$40 sho,o Mc rely age and body Of the Times. y
r.;u,.on hu,a-.a .,Irapanoes and party of
r.., enne Indians have arrived at Fort LeaVen-
worth on their way to their reservations. The
cavalry are actively pursuing the Indians who
have lately committed depredations, and it is
supposed that quite number OF them are ren-
eeade white meu. The Indians along the
Union Pacific Railroad remain quiet. Leaveu
worth dispatches report numerous cases Of out
RACES by the Indians in Kansas.
A Convention Of Colored Radicals of Mary
land assembled in Baltimore yesterday Sever
al of the counties were not at all represented.
A number of speeches were made and some
forty odd re solutions adopted, one going so far
as to nominate a candidate for Governor,
which the Baltimore American considers very
''inludlcious movement.
The dispatches received from the Spanish
authorities in Cuba do not confirm the reports
which, it il said, come through insurgent
channels. The former say that but very few
tillibusters have thus far landed, and but 4
small quantity OF arms--not enough TO make, 1t
is alleged, formidable force.
A Boston artist has chartered steamship
of $50 tons burden for summer trip to the Are
tic region. Two photographers and five COM
panions will be taken on the voyage, which
will last for three months. All the points Of
sail on June 9th.
The Secretary OF War communicates to the
President oil the New Orleans Chamber Of
Commerce, the perfect harmony of the Gov
ernment with the wishes Of the Commercial
Convention respecting the Improvement OF the
Mississippi,
The cornerstone OF university for colored
people, on the plan of the Oberlin and How
ard University, was laid yesterday at Atlanta,
Ca, under the auspices OF the frecdmen's hu
reau. John NJ. Laupston delivered the ad
dress.
The State Department has received intor-
nation to the effect that the Brazilian ard
Argentine authorities, who control the La
Platte below Asunci0n, have intercepted Min
lister McNlahOn's dispatches to this Govern
ment.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
the manufacture of one hundred and fifty seals
for the use OF the collectors, surveyors and
naval officers in custom houses throughout the
United States.
An officer occupying very high rank in tho
Turkish army is now in this city for the pur-
pose of purchasing arms. lie has already
bought large amount OF machinery intended
for his government Tor manufacturing purposes.
a proclamation has just been signed, and
will be duly promulgated, for public sale Of
lands, embracing about -, j0O,0 600 acres, to take
place at Denver City, Colorado, commencing
on Monday, the 18th of September, 1869.
The annual examination OF cadets of the u.
S Military Academy, commences at West
Point to. day. The Graduating Class OF 1860,
is UNUSUALLY small, consisting OF but thirty nine
members.
Some iwcuty or thirty persons have been
murdered, and hal! as many women and child
rcn have been carried off, IN Western Kansas,
during the past week, by Indian guerilla bands,
Mr. Kcverdy Johnson, late Minister 10
Great Britain, will, it Is expected, arrive 10
Baltimore at the end Of this week, A public
dinner will, probably, be rendered 20 him,
upon his arrival
Small pCS prevails to considerable extent
among the poor OF New York city. There are
now ninety eases at the hospital on BlackwelPs
Island.
Eourtccn ships which have sailed on voyages
across the Atlantic, since last October, have
not been heard OF since.
Many Mexican States have refused to exc
cute the law of their Congress for the suppress
sion OF party demonstrations.
The first divorce ever granted in the State
4 - IL IL
on the DIST ult
Villages and populous districts adjacent to
Boston arc clamoring for annexation to that
city.
OPEN GAMBLING is now permitted 10 New
Orleans. The crowds that throng the places
devoted to faro, keno, roulette, etc., are DIES.
cribed as being highly Heterogeneous, compris-
ing respectable men and iuffans, old aud
young, lawyers, soldiers sailors, clerks, me-
chanlcS, day laborers-men OF all nationalIties.
The bankers and dealers OF these gambling
helIs are study. They nearly all have an i'm
penetrabe ook-a look OF wearied aud furtive
A correspondent OF the New
York Express says he was puzzled for long
face. Finally it flashed upon him that the out
side gold board in New York matched them
man for man.
A FUNGOD SToRY.-On pretty good au.
thority the statement is made in the Ediu- !
burgh Review that, 'once upon time, Sir |
Joseph Banks, once Governor of the Zoologi |
cal Gardens OF London, and we'll known to the
scientific world had cssk of wine which had
been deposited in his cellar for the space of
three years. At the termination of that period
1.-THE wine was found to have leaked from the
,ask and vegetated in the form of immense
fungi, which had filled the cellar and borne
upwards the empty wine cask to the roof.