Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-11
NEWS OF The DAT.
NO shoe the rery age and body ofthe Times.

Pratt, the alleged rioter, whose ares IN
| New York upon the charge Of having commit
ted outrages in Texas has created some excite
ment 10 that city, was on Monday nigns, enuei
escort of squad Of II. s. soldiers, transferred
| from the Jail in New York city to Fort ochuy-
Ter, and delivered into the charge OF the com
mandans of that fort. This was done TO pre-
vent habeas corpus
The refusal of Hldebrand, the Missouri
outlaw. to surrender to the authorities has
finally eliminated in organized resistance to
the sheriff and his posse. A late dispatch from
| st. Louis says the forces sent out to capture
Hildebrand were fired upon some of the posse
being wounded, and the commanding officer
having his horse shot under him.
The steamship Cleopatra, Capt. Donald,
from Montreal bound to London, was totally
lost near Trepassey, N f.. on Sunday evening.
| Her passengers and crew were all saved. The
Germauia and Cleopatra we're both lost at
| about the same place, the former on Saturday
| and the latter on Sunday.
The Susquehanna Railroad troubles may re-
suit in bloodshed Both sides have mustered
their employees near tunnel thirty miles from
| Blnghampton, and il is reported collision has
occurred in which one man was slightly wound.
| cd The military have been called out to pre-
| serve the peace.
Rev. DR.. Kramer, brother OF the Rev.
George Kramer Of Staunton. Va, and Rector
of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Summit
New York, while preaching in s. Ii. lying
church, was suddenly struck with blindness.
Physicians consider his eyes in very critical
state.
Chas. G. Little died at his late residence in
Cambridge, Mass, on Monday, in the list
year of his age. Mr.. Little was for many years
the head Of the publishing house of Little,
Brown Il Co., in Boston. He was widely re-
spected for his business ability and integrity.
The London Pail Mall Gazette estimates the
amount of United States bonds held abroad to
be about 81 POO, O00, 900, which, if the estimate
be correct, would cause 4 drain of 100000, 600
year from this country to pay the interest on
them.
Another remarkably quick trans, Atlantic
passage has been made, this time by the schoon-
er yacht "Sappho," of the N. y. y acht Club,
The voyage was made in twelve days, nine
hours, and thlrty-slx minutes.
The Secretary Of the Navy, with Admiral
Porter, Commodore Alden and others, have
set out on voyage of inspection along the
coast, and will spend two weeks at 1t. The
''rallapoosa" bears away the voyagers.
Yesterday morning at 4 coal bank near Mas
slon, Ohio, an iron cage containing eight men
fell forty tct to the bottom of the shaft, dread.
fully mangnr, but Got killing any of the UNI
tortunates
The Central Pacific Railroad Company earn
ell 500, 900 during the month of July. The
rate ri the COM any 5 earnings is seven millions
per annum, OF which three millions are net
earnings.
The citizens of ST. Louis held an en,husias
| tic meeting last night and passed n resolution
| looking to shc organization of a national con-
ventiou to consider the question oil removing
the national capital to that city.
| The British vessels i'll Chinese waters have
been ordered to cooperate with the L. :.
Squadron there, in laying and protecting the
| proposed Geographic cable along the coast Of
China.
The Emigratou of French Canadians to the
| United States causes much concern in Quebec,
and public meeting has been called il that
city to consider the best means Of remcdyng
| the evil.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce COM
plains of the manner in which American cotton
is packcd-that there is an unnecessary amount
Of covering and iron bands OF excessive weight.
woman died suddenly i'll Dr.. Nathan Bing-
hams office, New York, yesterday, while, it IS
alleged, he was attempting to produce an abor-
ton upon her. He has been arrested.
Gen. Longstrect, the new Surveyor Of the
Port Of New Orleans, has appointed several
colored men to positions in his department.
A Board of officers mas been appointed to
make a general review Of army affairs in the
| L. s. and to reform and improve them.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is now making a tour
| through Scotland accompanied by DR.. Charles
Mackay.
Several of the party who escaped from the
| Baltimore City jail were rccaptured during
yesterday.
Mr. Gladstone is agaip quite i'll, and a Lon
| don dispatch says his condition causes anxiety
among his friends.
The Lower House of the Kentucky Le2lsla-
ture stands 81 Democrats to Republicans.
The President is expected to return to New
| York to-day.
| Archbishop Spallng returned to Baltimore
yesterday from trip to the North
The monitor Dictator went TO sen from the
| Delaware Breakwater on the Sth inst.
Mr. John Bell. of Tennessee, is rapidly tail
ing, with no opes OF recovery.