Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-12
NEWS or TIE DA !.
$40 ,io,c the re,y oqc and Jody Qfdic Taacs.


Treasurer Spinner continues TO receive letters
from all parts of the country informing HIM OF
the circulation OF the new counterfeit ten-dol-
lar notes. \ letter has been received In W ash
ngton from North Carolina stating that the
various sections of that State are flooded with
the new counterfeit notes. Gen. Spinner mas
directed that all ten dollar notes coming into
the Treasury be held, and that no more be Is
sued. The design is to Withdraw the entire Is,
sue from circulation and destroy II, to guard
against the corruptions OF the newly discover
Ell countericits.
Frederick Douglass, ir., recently married
a daughter of \. Moyncux Hewlett, OF
Harvard University Some Of the papers have
stated that the brides father is white man
and Professor in the College This il not
the case. MoIyneux, says the New ork
sun, j, n colorcd man. lie was formerly 4
pr.ze-hshtcr in lncland, and is now Instructor
in gymnastics at Harvard.
Asiacllar method OF making butter has
lately come into quite extensive EN- France
based upon the observed fact taat cream Is
changed into butter by being simply buried in
the earth The theory OF this result IL not
very utclligiblc, though the fact is stated to be
beyond question; and in Normandy and other
parts OF France butter is actually prepared Oh
4 large scale in this way.
Emerson Etbcrilsc, with whom Governor
Hrownlow has been working hand in hand Tor
the defeat Of Stokes and the election OF Scntcr.
made speech yesterday iavorlng thc rcpudla
| ton of the State debt contracted under Gov.
| Brownlow's administration.
! Postmaster General CreswcIl's house, near
| EIkton, Md, was entered BY burglars on Tues
| dos. ovonins about 'olooh, aud q" quantity vi
| clothing stolen. One of the robbers was caught
| with n full suit of Mr.. CrcSwclIs clothes on
The other escaped.
At meeting of the Executive Committee
| of the Union League OF America, in Phadcl
phia, yesterday, resolutions were adopted
warmly advocating the removal oil Conserva
| tiyes and COppcrhcads from Office throughout
| the country.
Yesterday six mammoth ice houses belong
Ing to the Chicago Ice Company,aad located at
Crystal Lake, forty miles r9rIh OF Chicago were
entirely destroyed By fire. Il large quantity Of
| ice was stored in the builIngs,'anG Ito less IS
heavy.
The Peace Conference, which was soon tC
| have been held IN washington b9tWcch tue
| representatives Of the South American Reppb-
| lies and spain, will not it is understood, take
| place before the carly part Of next January
The Turn teachers and Turn worts atChcagC
have taken preliminary steps for Nationa
Convention, to fix upon uniform method o.
instruction for classes.
A Chicago dispatch OF last night chronicles
the murder oil two females By the bIunder Ola
| druggist filling prescription Incorrectly.
Forty-th thousand cigars were seized at
| Philadelphia yesterday for non payment OF tn
| revenue tax.
The Gov. of Alabama has refused to gran: a
petition asking that the city OF Mobile be placed
| under martial law.
Secretary Robson has restored to many u.
| s. war vessels the names they bore prior to Mr.
| RJric's action in reference to them.