Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-07-17
NEWS OF The DAY.
"7o ,ho,r the rsrp age and body Of the Times.

| Virginia. again claimed that his election was
the triumph Of the policy Of President Grant
| How or in what way Gen. Grants policy
is involved, except to allow vote on TWO
| clauses of the constitution, has never heeh ca
! planned to cur satisfaction
4 report "on the resources OF Iceland anu
Greenland" is said to have been drawn mp late
" for the Use of the United States government
with the view, it ia thought. Of their ultimate
purchase At this season Of the year, Iceland
and Greenland, if they could be towed from
their present moorings and anchored on the
coast, would be popular acquisitions.
Another war between railroad men Of New
York has broken out in court before Judge
Barnard, the plaintiffs being Jay Gould and
James Fisk, ir. Gould charges that the To-
ledo, Wabash and Western Railroad have is
sued an illegal and fraudulent surplus OF Stock
| and a similar complaint is made IN another
suit by Fisk.
The New \ ork papers OF yesterday give lui'
| details Of the sckening massacre by crushing
and burning on the Erie Railroad on Thursday
| The disaster was caused BY the eng ineer OF the
freight train, John Griffin, being asleep upon
his post, and it is stated that he was an habl-
| tual drinker Of Intoxicating liquors.
| Railroad accidents appear to come IN close
connection, as we have also reports this morn
ing of the running over and killing of Melville
Shears and John Dwyer at Rodney Station, on
the Union Pacific Road, and of a COLLISION on
the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad at
| which, fortunately, no person was hurt.
A dispatch from Lexington, Mo-, 10th, says
| 4 terrible tornado has Just swept over Lexing'
ton. Trees and fences were blown down in
every direction. and the streets blocked with
| wrecks. Many houses were unrooied and
otherwise damaged; some OF the roofs were
carried one hundred yards.
The colored u. S. Minister to ilay' ar
rived at Port all Prince on the 18th OF June,
and was received in fattering manner lie
is the guest of Mr. HOLSTER, his white prede-
cessor, until President Salnave returns, when
he will present his credentials.
The Legislature of New Hampshire has
adopted some vigorous resolutions against Mr..
Borie's giving American vessels names from
the British Navy List instead Of the beautiful
Indian names by which they have become dis
tinguished.
The bark Aloers, from Bremen, arrived at
the Baltimore Quarantine yesterday with black
measles on board, seventeen children having
died Of the disease during the passage. There
are nearly four hundred emigrantS on the YES
sci.
From present Indications at the Treasury
Department there is every reason to believe
that the first of August will show another , large
reduction OF the public indebtedness, though
nor near as large as was shown on the first OF
the current month.
The silk culture in California is threatened
with serious interruption by the ravages OF
strange disease among the silk worms. la the
Sacramento valley the disease is said to be car
rying off myriads of the worms.
Mr.. William S. Conant has succeeded the
late Henry j. Raymond in the editorial man.
agement of the New York Times. Mr.. Conant
has long been connected with the editorial tie
parmcnt Of the Times.
Still another gift from Peabody This time
he has presented the sum OF $45,000 to the
Peabody Institute, at Peabody, Massachusetts,
making the total gift to that institution $Ioo,-
900,
Ii Is mentioned as Il Singular coincidence
that the opposing candidates Tor Governor OF
Ohio we're both in one regiment at the begin
ming of the late war.
The wheat crop ia the Northwest is good
The recent rains have effected some damage IN
localities, but the general yield will, It is stat
co, be excellent.
Rev. Thomas s. Burnoll and wife, formerly
Of Northampton, Mass, who have been mis-
sionaries in India for the last twenty. one years,
returned homo to Northampton on Friday
California papers of the 9th of July, reached
Washington on the l4th, eight days from the
Capitol to the Pacific Eight days to cross
5000 miles
President Grant arrived at Fortress Monroe
Yesterday, aud after remaining there lew
hours started for Long Branch.
The Brcst cable, by it's satisfactory response
to all tests, is thought to be the hest cable yet
laid
THE JEFFERSON DAVIS MANSION IN Rich
MoND.-The Richmond lettsr of the Petersburg
index says
The title to the ownership of the jeff. Davis
mansion is likely soon to be brought into litlga-
ton. The city of Richmond claims the build
ing, and a committee appointed to investigate
| the matter reports that it is undoubtedly ours.
| On the other hand the United States Govern
| ment claims it as captured property OF the
| Confederate States. The house was purchased
in 1861, for SAT ,O00, by the city council with
the view OF making the Confederacy present
of it, and it was offered to Congress, but by
them politely declined the Government then
being flush" and having determined to ac-
cept of no such gratuities from individuals or
corporations, but agreed to rent it for Presi-
dent Davis's term Of office. 1t did rent it, but
whether any money was really collected TOR it
we are not informed. la 1867, upon the organ.
ization OF Gen. Rosser's Southern Orphan AS
ISOLATION, an offer was made to the council to
purchase tho mansion with view of rafting it
off in the scheme. The council agreed to sell,
but all proceedings further than this were alb
ruptly terminated By the Government declining
to surrender the property aud asserting its legal
claim to it as abandoned property OF the So
called Confederate States" Thus the matter
has stood for some time. 1t has been deter
mined to serve bill for rent upon the Govern;
ment and if payment is refused motion for q
writ of eiectment will doubtless DO made, when