Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-06-19
NEWS OF The DAY.
no shoo the rery age and body of the Times.


At the Boston Musical Jubilee. yesterday,
Mayor Shurtlef introduced Mr.. George Pea
body, who spoke as follows: -" My friends your
mayor has indeed said we'll that l am your
friend, and has kindly announced me as triend
of the whole world. However true TINS assel-
ton may be. and think be has praised me 100
highly, yet assure you whatever may 90 salu
In regard to my friendship for mankind, my
loyo for the Oid World eau never exceed that
which have for the New He sat down
amid continuous cheering.
TIE last number Of the New York Shipping
List mentions the arrival at 81. Louis of 8
three-masted schooner. which was built in
Lake Winnebaeo Wisconsin, brought thence
to Dubuque cargo Of lumber, and from Da.
buque to ST. Louis six thousand bushels OF
oats. At St. Louis she was to take on board
cargo of wheat, and Then depart tor New
Orleans, to be employed atterward IN the
coastiny trade between that port and other
ports on the Gulf Of Mexico.
The Bealmear tragedy in Prince George 5
county Md, although now some two weeks old
is still cloaked iu the same mystery which has
enveloped it from the first. Frequent rumors
have circulated OF captures and CONCESSIONS
and one or two arrests have really been made'
but so far nothing definite is known OF the
perpetrators OF crime not eXcelled, It equal
led, by any that has occurred in Car count ry
in many years past. a
Senator Ramsey, Chairman ci the u. >.
Senate Committee on Postal Affairs, has been
appointed by Mr. Creswel Special Com
missioner on the part OF the H.. S. to negotiate
with the POstof6ce Department OF France the
basis OF new postal convention between the
two countries.
Some of the Pennsylvania coal miners are
growing fractions again. Seven hundred at
Hyde Park have determined on standing ten
years siege before they will surrender to any
thing short of their demands. We shaI! see
in ten days no. ten years.
John Moriarty, President Of the Irish Re-
publican Association Of Pennsylvania, in an
address lust issued, says the Irish Republican
Convention which meets at Chicago on the
4,h of July, will come out in favor OF universal
suffrage.
The steamer Delrhiue sailed from Boston
on Wednesday night somewhat suddenly, and
it is supposed that her destination is Hayt,
and that she has cargo OF arms ana ammunl'
ton for the rebels.
The Hager5town Herald estimates that the
farmersol Washington county, Md, lost hall a
million OF dollars by withholding their crop Of
last year from the market last fall.
The steamship Ba ltimore, OF the Baltimore
and Bremen line, with nearly FIVE hundred pas
seugers and full and valuable cargo Of freight
arrived at Baltimore yesterday.
The Nova Scotia repeal League has passed
resolutions in favor OF attaching that Province
to the United States
President Grant sprrt Yesterday "a New
YORK, and Vice Presiiani Ioliay Wa at Pitts
field, Massachusetts,.
Secretary Boutwell, IS expected /, return to
Washington on Tuesday nezt.
Es-Prcsiicot Johnson visits Washington
about the first OF July.
John F. Darby j. Co., bankers at II Louis
suspended payment yesterday.