Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-07-20
NEWS OF TIE DA J.
$40 shoe the rery age and todv Of tie Times

OF violating the usury laws We're arrdigned he
fore Judge Cardozo. in the Court Ct Oyer and
Terminer of New York yesterday Edward r.
Jones, George Phipps, and David NJ. Mori-
son pleaded guilty Van Buskirk' counsel
withdrew his informal plea OF guilty. The
Judge announced that he would not sentence
those who pleaded guilty until alter the trials
of the others.
The New York paners OF yesterday evening
report that a nea Cuban camp has been estab'
lisbed at West Iloboken, New jersey. There
is said to have been six hundred men in the
Gardiner Island camp, three OF whom succeed
cd in eluding the United States marshall
The Cuban fiibusters arrested on Gardiner s
island have not been released, as was reported,
but are still detained at Fort Lafayette.
Representatives Stevenson. Burdette, aud
Kerr, the Sub Committee on Elections, have
returned from Louisiana, where they have been
engaged during the past two months In lnves-
tigsting five contested citation cases IN that
State. Upwards Of five thousand folio pages
| of testimony were taken. The committee will
not prepare their report until Just before the
assembling of Congress.
On Saturday Colonel Whitley and detec
tive found, in tine second story OF the "County
road House, at Snake Hill, n. j., the press
/ Autograph, stones, and all the appnrtenaneea
of we'll Observation-Disclosures Tor counter
! feiting United States tobacco stamps. 4hcy
seized large lot oi well executed stamps and
all the tools, except the press AAirh they
broke up with an axe, .s.+sm,+.-
4 Mr. Doug LAYS, the acting Commissioner OF
the Revenue, has decided that ship lnillers or
fparties engaged inbuilding vessels are liable
| Under section 4sof act Of March 81, 1868, totax
on their sales inexeess of 81 go per quarter.
This reyerses decision on the same subject
| made by Mr.. Rollins when Commissioner OIL
Internal Revenue. t..
Commander VIM. =. Buckner,' well known
officer Of the navy, died at his residence In
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sunday. He was born in
! Kentucky, and belonged to the widely known
Buckner family Of tnat State. la 1927 h,
was appointed to the navy iiom Arka 1sas, and
was commissioned commander in 1852, ami
placed on the retired list. FF ,-1..
| Amcetug of colored mechanics and laborets
of Baltimore city took place last evening at. the
Douglass Institute, for the purpose OF iormins
I a Trades Union organization throughout the
State. Several addresses were made and COM
mittees appointed looking to the iurtheranec
of the object Of the meeting. l.
The Treasury oficialsin New Orleans report
continued discoveries of auds on the reycnnc
Collector Stockdale last week seized q dstillery
valued at e., 900, and store, well stocked with
cigars and tobacco, valued at ION $l3,0O0 to
$4,000. The appraised valuo OF the recent
seizures ofsugar is $lS0,00o.
A cigar dealer in Jersey City, N. D., was
arrested yesterday by United States detective
on the charge of being engaged in making and
passing counterfeit money. 1t Is stated that
500 counterfeit bill was found in his posses
sion when arrested. He was held 10 the sun
of $500 bail. f..t .i'
Secretary Boutwell, purposes, if the law
shall Justify such an announcement, to declare
the paper used in printing the fractional cur
rency Government paper, and this Will make
it penal offence for any except the Govern
mcnt TO use or manufacture such paper.
I Governor Walker and wife and Gen. Stone
man wife were on the train which was burned
mo on the Erie railroad the other day. Mrs.
Stoneman lost some trunks. 1t is not stated
| in the New York papers that Governor Walker
lost anything. -..o
Gen. Gordon Granger, u, $. Army. was
married 10 st. Paul ) Church, Evansville, Ind,
on Wednesday night, to Miss Maria l.etcher,
daughter Of Dr. Joseph Lelchrr OF Lexing,
ton. Ky,
The kerosino oil works Of Dinsmore, Jere-
miah 4 Co., Newly ork, We're burned Sunday
night Ali the stock was destroyed. Loss,
over $40 900
Julian +. Leach, son OF the Hon. James
Nj. Leach, of North Carolina, was drowned at
Topsai sound, while bathing in the surf, on
| Saturday.
| President Grant and family, and Postmaster
| General Creswe and family arrived at Long
Branch yesterday.
SAMUEL NJ JANNEY, minister of the Society