Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-28
NEWS or The DAl.
10 sIo,r H. yoy aqe and lojgofh' Times

Tie Association OF the Amy aud Navy
Linton Prisoners, 1t Washington, nave adopted
resolutions that immediate measures bc laStn
by the Association toward tlie building OF 4
grand national monument to the memory OF
the tlirty.iiyc thousand prisoners who died IN
Southern prisons Committees were APP
pointed to carry out those Intentions, and 1t
was also resolved to petition Congress Tor the
grant Of public square on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. on which 10 erect the proposed monu-
ment.
! The Labor 4, loim League, OF New England,
assembled in Boston On Tuesday. The chair
man declared the objects and creed OF the league
| to be free trade, free money, Tree travel Tree
| TRANSFORMATION and free land. The resolutions
favor radical changes in the financial system,
the abolition Of national banks, the substltu-
| ton of certificates OF service tor the present
| Government currency, q reduction OF rates OF
| interest and OF hours OF labor, anu the cstao-
lishment OF free public markets.
The commercial community in New York,
was considerably agitated yesterday by the re-
port that lace and daring fraud had been
perpetrated by the firm OF Scott < Munson,
storage merchants, of No. 81 Wall street. IN
yolying loss to several grain merchants. II Is
said TINT they disappeared on Saturday last
| with sea, 900 in their possession, the prohts
| from the fraudulent sale of $1,000 bushels OF
oats entrusted to the care OF the firm.
The prosecution in the trial OF DIR. Schoeppe.
of Carlisle, Tor the poisoning Of Miss Stinecke,
of Baltimore, has occupied three days in prov
| jpr that her death was caused by prussic acid.
The testimony is very strong against DIR.
Schoeppe. the existence Of will made by the
deceased few days before her sudden death,
by which she bequeaths all hel large property
TO the prisoner, being in itselfa point against
him.
| Three barrels OF choice California wine were
received at Omaha by the FIRST through freight
train over the Pacific Road, one Of which Is dl-
rected to President Grant another to an OK
Senator of California and the third to wee
President Huntington, OF the Central Iacilc
Road The wine is present from the owner
of the National Vineyard, located on the Pa
clc railroad lands.
The Nova Scotian House Of Assembly, in
: session at Halifax, yesterday adopted 4 pre-
/ amble and resolutions recting the grievances
under which they suffer by being forced INTO
connection with the new Dominion, and ask
ing that either their former political msltu
| lions may be restored to them or that they
NAV J., absoytd from all allegiance to the
British Cr0wa.
l The Episcopal Convent ON OF the Diocese OF
MARYLAND decided Yesterday, TO allow Of rep
, reseulation OF the laity upon the STANDING
=, COMMITTEE By appointing upon II three lay
members. 4 resolution proposing that an As
| L.. L., oi,n{n L., al In Al
of the Convention, was introduced and ali"l
considerable debate was adopted
The political excitement in Tcnncs,ce l. be
in,, worked up to lever heat. Hrownlow ii eli
ia newspaper card iavoring Senter Tor Gov
ernor, in opposition to Stokes Both nom
mca are Radicals, and the party IS DIVIDED
up0n them, the Democrats nos heinz expected
to put any one i'll the field
The great question Of lay DELEGATION /" ih'
Methodist Episcopal Church will probably bC
At rest for ever next month. The contest vii
be- one OF the most important III the history o.
| tl. denomination and 1t will br marked by :
| pcrrliar feature The sister, ol every chu!ci
have been empowered to vote on The subject
a New York paper announces that a. j
Stewart has become Il convert TO the EolhaI
Catholic religion, and will be in open com
munion with that church in week. II l.
also said that Mr.. Stewart has given largo
donation to the Sisters of Charity recently.
The Denton, Md, Union says that two ex
tensive capitalists Of Pennsylvania have I'm
dcrtaL,n 10 construct the Queenstown ant
HARRINGTON Railroad, running through Caro-
linl and other counties of the Eastern Shore o
MARYLAND and Delaware.
SillS, recently acquitted Of the charge oil
murlerire colored man at Cumberland, ha
been again tying his hand at shooting. Or
Thu SHAY last he shot man named Ryan, ant
, it il thought there that the wound may prove
fatal.
The bank at Clcariield, Pennsylvania, wa
robbed last week OF $4,000. The following
day two vi the robbers were arrested near Cum
berland Maryland and $50, 900 in bonds re
covered.
The PRESBYTERIAN Church South, in Genera
Assembly, at Mobile, has agreed to ask redres
of the Central Presbytery of Philadelphia, TO-
the seizure of the Jacksonville, Fla; Church
by Northern ministers
The Commercial Conventions in session a
New Orleans, has adopted report asking fur
; thcr aid from the General Government for re
moving distractions from the Mississippi
A boy OF sixteen was sentenced tc five years
in the Massachusetts, pcnit ,ntiary yesterday
ior having committed rape on woman sixty
years o! aye.
Dispatches received from Minister Webb
state that General McAlahon was at Asun-
cicn about the lst Of April, under the pro-
lection Of the Allies
There is \ scheme on hand in Rhode Island
to have the next Legislature pass resolution:
req uesting Senator Sprague 20 resign his sea-
10 the Senate
Gov. Yarmouth oil Louisiana, has pro
claimed quarantine of not less than ten day!
against West India and Central American ports
The New England Womans Suffrage So
ciety is going to spread itself into Nationa
| Association, and has resolved accordingly
Two banks in New York were broken into
Tuesday night, but the burglars left without
being able to make raise.
| tx President johnson will attend fair al