Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-13
NEWS OF The DAI.
40 .ho,o the re,y age and Jody Of the Times


GA Wednesday gang OF robbers entered the
car of the Pacific Express Company, on the
New York Central Railroad between Albany
and Fonda, overrowerei the express messen-
ger and baggageman, broke open the sales,
appropriated the contents and escaped with
their booty unnoticed The amount stolen Is
unknown, but it IS believed to he very heavy.
The messenger and baggageman were seri-
ousy Injured, having been be aten with clubs
and chlorOtormed; when released they were
halt dead.
Judge McCunn, OF New York, has decided
to discharge Major Pratt, the alleged Texan
| murderer, on the ground, first, that murder IS
not L.. s. offence, unless committed where
| the Government has exclusive Jurisdictions ani
| secondly, because the prisoner had not been
| committed by u. s. Court. As Pratt is IN
Fort Lafayette, this decision will scarcely do
him any good.
Gov Palmer, Of Illinois, is reported as hav-
ing made speech, Monday, in the Republl-
can Convention at Springfield, which was State
Rights in politics lie had nothing to say
about the 10Th amendment and the suffrage
question, because, unlike his party, he Is op,
p0sed to the surrender of the State control
of suffrage to the Federal authority
The military commander of Mississippi re-
moved from office yesterday Judge Jetfards, OF
the Supreme Court; A. Warner, Secretary OF
State, Judge Speed of the Criminal Court oil
Warren county, and number OF minor officers,
for actively sympathizing with the Conserva-
tive move in that State
An Assistant Assessor OF Internal Revenue
in West Virginia writes Commissioner Delano
that he went to camp meeting last Sunday to
see il any one there was selling liquor without
an Internal Revenue license. lie iounu one
party in the act, and now has nm IN Jai'
The Commissioner Of the Internal Revenue
has decided that captains, or owners OF VcSSeE
and boats engaged in river trade are lncluueS
in the meaning of the term express carriers,
and as such are to be required to take out IL
censeS.
One thousand cigars, from San Francisc'
firm. hacked in glass boxes OF one hundred
each, with the monogram OF the presideht o'
each box, and the small end OF each cigar lll
isbed in gold leaf. have arrived IN washington
addressed to the President.
Samuel p. Reid, a prominent citizen o
Mobile who was accused OF firing the plsto
shot at the Radical meeting last THURSDAY
night gave himself up for trial yesterday. ii
was honorably aqucted by the Mayor.
Another of the celebrated ten dollar coun
ieits was received from Cincinnati at the Treas
ury Department on Wednesday. Accurate
photographs OF these spurious notes nave Deel
sent 10 different sections OF the country.
h.,lo fhaf
cause OF the insurgents is in highly encourag
ing condition The operations OF Generals
Jordan and Ques2da have been emlnently sue
cessiul.
The cargo Of African slaves recently lande'
IN the CncO Villas District, Cuba, were captured
and Immediately liberated by the insurgents :
| Their condition was represented as extremaI
| wretched -
A child of four years wand red from ITS HON
in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, aud was ioun
Yesterday morning cinging insensibly to raj
in the Delaware river. 1t was rescued an
restored.
TIE Ohio Radicals opened the Gubernatorl
| al campaign yesterday at Wilmington, IN tina
| State. Speeches were made By Senator Mol
! ton, Of Indiana, and Governor Hays.
| The total receipts from customs for the hrs
week Of the present month at the ports O
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimor
ard New Orleans amounted to s., 1905 $40. IS
Eighteen hundred CheyeInes, including,
| is believed, all of that tribe south OF the Ar
kansas river, arrived at Camp Supply on tn
9th ult, and are drawing ratlons
Dispatches from all parts OF the country
mention that the reunion OF officers OF bott
| armies at Gettysburg will be complete success
in point of numbers and distinction.
The Spanish III Cuba are not subj clentl.
provided for 10y the commissory to make
move at present. The insurgents are said t
be laboring under the same disadvantage.
| A select committee of the British Paria
ment IS now examining into the adulteration o
seeds by the seed dealers