Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-20
NEWS OF TIE DAP.
40 show the very age and body ofthe 7'n's''

AT the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday Attor-
ney General Alderman made statement Will
regard to the operations Of the law enactea at
The last session Of Congress to prevent lllega!
voting. He stated that be had given very ful
instructions to the United States Marshas and
District Attorneys throughout the country,
cautioning them to carry out fully the letter
and the spirit OF the law.
The Washington correspondent of the N. I.
Post (who is said to be tho private Secretary
of MIR. BoutweIi,) telegraphs that journal as
follows: There Is pretty good prospect tor
more Cabinet changes, unless the President
takes more decided stand and refuses to yield
to the demand of the politicians.
The clection in South Carolina yesterday
passed off quietly, says Charleston dispatch.
Ii is feared that the Radicals have trlumphed
on the State and Congressional ticket, as under
the Reconstruction" the State was placed
almost entirely under the control of the coIored
people
Daniel Mcfarland prominent some months
ago in the shooting of A. D. Richardson, was
arrested in New York on Tuesday, overcome
with drink, and committed for ten days to
Jail. lie alleged that his wife, conduct and his
connection with the shooting of Richardson
had driven him 10 distraction.
The North German steamship Berlin, Cap
tain Undutscb, which reached Bremen safely
on the 18th instant is expected to start on bel
return trip to Baltimore on next Wednesday,
Goth iostant, the same day the Leipzig leaves
Baltimore Tor Bremen.
The paying teller Of Messrs. Wipslow, La
nier & Co., prominent Wall street banking
house. has absconded, defaulter to the amount
of $50, 900, lost in stock speculations. The
firm refuse 10 give the name OF the criminal,
and make no efforts for his arrest.
The second annual Convention of the Irish
Catholic Benevolent Union convened in Gin
cinna,i yesterday. Delegates were presen
trom Virginia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Indiana
West Virginia, Illinois, Vermont and Ohio
President Dryer, of Dayton, Ohio, presided.
In Massachusetts, notorious prize fighter i;
now in the Penitentiary, making shoes to pay
the expenses Of the fare furnished him therein
Being man Of mark among the fancy" his
Imprisonment has excited much pity in the
hearts OF these gentry.
In the Supreme Court at Boston Jury or
Monday awarded sl2, 900 to Addison Goodhue
in suit against the city. for personal Injuries
occasioned by being thrown from his wagon il
driving through detective street.
Later advices from the French Island of Mar
Unique show that the result OF the negro insur
rectlon there on the 22d ult. was the burning
OF about twenty sugar estates and the killing OIL
several respectable planters
w. W. McKaig, who was shos and killed
at Cumberland on Monday, was son of w
W. Mckaig, and not OF Thomas j. Mckaig, a:
has been stated.
DARING tho storm of Monday night the Dro
pelIer Towauda went down about eight miles
from Buffalo. 1t is not known how many lives
were lost.
Generals Butler and Banks were yesterday re
nominated for Congress by the Radicals Of TIT
Fifth and Sixth Massachusetts, Districts.
The New York Post in reviewing the fal
trade OF the country comes to the conclusion
that it will be unusually large and prosperous
Jefferson Davis was among the passenger!
at New York yesterday on the steamer Cuba