Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-27
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
We slo,o the urJy age and body al The 7,n,ss

"q9 ,lo,o the very age and body al The 7tn,ss.
On Monday night, man named John
McGuinness was run over By an engine in the
railroad depot yard in Washington, and his
head cut nearly entirely of, killing him instant
". One hin was also broken and his tight
side terribly Iaceratcd. The deceased had been
drinking with friend. who had pawncd bis
artificial arm to raise money, and he probably
rot between the engine and the train before
they were connected, and while on the track Wa
caught under the tender and killed.
AT Philadelphia tho extensive woollen ln'l
Of John Dearie, at Paramount. waa yesterday
consumed, and two hundred employees throWn
out of employment Several large business
establishments were destroyed at South Der.
wick, Me. Late last night the sugar refinery
of Newha Boric 4 Co., Philadelphia, was des-
troyed, together with its contents, and nine
firemen we're buried in the ruins, all Of whom
arc supposed to have been killed.
The stockholders Of the Boston and Wash
iuptou Steamship Company have elected the
following board OF directors: S. ". Suit, +. y.
HURLEY, II. w. Browning, VIM. i. Wall, A.
W. Miller, W. NJ. Morrison, y. II. Kerr, r.
A. Rythcr and G. W. Miller The company
is now negotiating for two first class sea solns
making weekly trips, and hope to get the line
| in operation in two or three weeks.
Applications continue to be made from the
South and West for authority TO establish Ma
| lional banks under the recent act OF Congress,
giving additional facilities to these sections,
Probably tour or five hundred new banks will
before long 70 into operation. The Comptroi-
| Ter of tho Currency will not draw upon the
East for the s25,O000 900 until the amount
1856 900, 000J provided by the law for the South
and West shall have been taken by them.
The Paris Monitor du Soir says it learns from
| good source that Prince Leopold Of llohen
zollcrn and his father are in bad odor at Berlin
on account OF their remuneration OF the Spanish
throne. 1t adds that Count Bismarck had
reproached them for their precpltate action,
which enabled Spain to keep clear OF the quar-
rel, and permits France to place more troops
| on the Rhine, as there Is no need tn watch
Spain.
Mr.. RoesiuS, the North German Consul
General at New York, officially disavows the
receipt of any such orders, in regard TO the
enrolment and forwarding Of North German
subjects liable to military duty, as telegram
declared had been issued by the North German
Government to its foreign agcn!s-that their
| passage would be paid &c.
a dispatch from London, yesterday, says:
| Rain tell 10 torrents in many places through
| out England last night. and in most cases &C
compa6ied by vivid lightning. The weather
| has been dry and hot, but it is sc7sib'y cooler
TO day. The crops have been greatly benefited
| BY these copious showers.
Bids we're opened yesterday in the office of
the sergcant-at arms OF the House Ct Repre-
sentativcs for supplying twenty one monuments
in the Congressional cemetery to deceased
Senators and members. The contract was
awarded to Alexander Rutherford, for the
sum of $1,000.
The Governor OF North Carolina has refused
to obey the writ CT habcas corpus issued by
tho Chief Justice of the Supreme Court oil the
State, and, it is said, has ordered 4 militia
~ commission to try the persona arrested by
| Kirk.
On Saturday last Judge AaGrnder overrued
| the motion f,r q new trial previously filed 10
| the case OF John Rice, convicted OF an outrage
| upon Mrs. Sarah CraudaIl, in Calvert county,
Nd, and sentenced the accused to he hung.
Revenue districts are Icing consolidated
throughout the country, and number OF As
sistant Assessors DISCHARGED, in order tn reduce
the cost Of collecting the revenue.
The Cincinnati Gazette states that The de-
maud for cars on the Cincinnati and Baltimore
roads to move grain passing through that city
is greater than the supply.
Much activity il shown throughout Ohio 10
ASSISTING the proposed new line OF road he
tween Baltimore, Pittsburg and Chicago.
A number of the men recently engaged IN
the strike in the Pennsylvania coal regions have
resumed work.
The Texas Legislature has passed the South
ern Pacific railroad bill over the veto OF the
Governor.
England il forwarding relniorncmrGH OF
troop2 to Canada.
Germany and United States.
WASHINGTON, July 2b.--Raron Gerolt, the
Ambassador of Prussia to the United States,
to-day received the following important let.
ter from Secretary Fish
STATE DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, July -. lST0J
Sir--I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, COM
municating to this Government the teZt OF q
dispatch from Count Bismarck to the effect
that private property on the high seas will be
exempt from seizure BY the ships "t lis Ma
jesty the King Of Prussia, without regard 10
reciprocity.
Ia compliance With the request contained in
your note, the communication has been official
Iy ma dc public from this Department.
1t is now nearly century since the United
States through Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin
Franklin and John Adams then PlenipotcI-
,iaries, and, under the guidance Of the Great