Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-09-20
NEWS OF THE DAT.
"7s ,hoo the very age and body Of the Times

Judge Strong. Of the U. S. Circuit Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, has
decided that as the law stood before the pas,
sage OF the act of July, 1870, dividends and IN
terest paid by railroad companies on and alter
January /, 1870, were not liable to revenue
tax, and that the act of July, 1870, could not
be accepted as legislative exposition OF the
meaning OF the former law, so far as it applied
to the present case.
As mentioned 10 yesterdays Gazette. on
boar of a brig which arrived 10 New York
bay from Havana. few days ago, the putrld
CORPSE of the captain was found slowed away
among the cargo of sugar 10 the ships hold.
He had died OF Asiatc cholera, and his body
had been thus concealed to avoid discovery by
the Quarantine officers.
The anthracite coal trade in the Sctuylkill
region is disturbed and production checked by
reason of suspension at several large Mines
The difficulty does not arise in every instance
from differences as to the wages question, but
in some cases from want OF the necessary
supply OF water to the boilers.
The Point Of Rocks railroad is being pushed
rapidly forward to completion. The Baltl
more and Potomac railroad will follow next IN
order, and will probably be 10 operation by
1872. Other lines to connect with West and
South, now in contemplation, will also shortly
take definite shape.
Advices from Arizona, dated the 10th inst,
state that Governor Stafford at the head OF a
| party of volunteers has taken the field against
the Indians in Southern Arizona, and war
Of determination has commenced throughout
the entire Territory.
Gen. Burbridge has been appointed to a
lucrative position 10 Kentucky, with view OF
assisting the republican party in that State In
the election of Congressman. An effort is to
BIO made to carry four of the Congressional
districts.
Lste dispatches from China are unfavorabe
to peace. a Maxim despatch, dated August
%, states that the Governor OF that city was
assassinatcd by the netives on account of his
we'll known sympathy for foreigners.
A dispatch from Havana says children OF
all slaves captured since the year 1854, after
serving an apprenticeship of sixteen years, are
to be set free, by order ofthe Captain General,
De Rodas.
The Typographical Union Of the District of
! Columbia have admitted to membership le-
male compositor, Miss Mary 9. Green, oil
Ohio. now mployed at the Government Print.
ing Office
The shooting Of Thomas Doran by Henry
Briggs, both lads, in Bergen, New jersey
woods, on Saturday, proves to have been muir
der, and not accident, Briggs is now under
arrest.
The London Shipping Gazette anticipates
chat their will be too much cotton and too
little corn from the Southern States. Cot
ton prices are low, and there is much aetivi
ty in Lancashire,
| A Canadian writes to the Birmingham
| Gazette that the present Liberal Govern
ment of the Colony will drive Canada to
annexation to the United States or indepen.
dence of Great Britain within six years.
On Postofice rout 4,67S-H arrisonburg to
Waynesborougb, E. NJ. NuckolIs contractor,
| three additional trips are ordered between
Port Republic aud Mount Vernon Forge,
without change Of REPRESENTATION asserting.
| The Philadelphia protracted strike of the
| iron builders is ended. The builders return
| to work at the old rates, the managers making
no concessions.
General Sheridan, writing under date Of
September from RHEIMS, says that the
French were always beaten, and the resistance
| of Paris cannot save France.
| Batis H. Ksnnard has been appointed by
Collector Thomas, Deputy Collector OF Gus
toms at Baltimore, vice General Bowerman
removed.
| A dispatch says that while Napoleon was al
Namur, in Belgium, he culogized the disci
pine and courage of the Prussian soldiers, and
said nothing could keep them out of Paris.
1t is said that the village of Bazeilles, neal
Sedan, was destroyed by the Pruasans, be-
cause some wounded fugiti7es from the Ger
| man army we're massacred in its streets.
The Panama and West India telegraph ca
bio was opened for public business to Jamaica
yesterday. 1t will be completed to Aspinwal
as soon as the cable is received
At New York an attempt was made yester
day to deprive Vanderbilt OF his control Of the
Hudson and New York Central roads by Judi
cial process, but it was unsuccessful,
General FaiIley is not dead. as has been so
often reported. He and his staff occupy finely
furnished apartments at Mayence, and arc pro.
vded Tor by King William.
French captive officers are allowed their
choice of German towns as residences. They
| receive the same rations and pay as when they
| were at home.
A London despatch says that the stock mar
ket there is improving under reports OF peace
| negotiations, and discounts are much easier.
There were five hundred end sixty deaths in
Havana, and 6fty-two in New Orleans last
week from yellow fever.
The Russian Government has transferred
DO 100000 roubles lately on deposit in the
| Bank of France to London banks.
Five hundred Spanish soldiers have arrived
in Cuba, and rebel vessel has been captured
on the coast.
The taxes 10 New York city were fixed yes,
terday at So per 500; 90 cents less than
last year.
A fleet of steamers is removing merch andise
from Havre and other French ports to Eng
land.
Attorney General Alderman Is still quite sick
at Atlanta, Ca, and it is not known when he
will return to his official duties.
The steamers OF the North German Lloyd
line ore to resume their trips on the lst prozi-
mo.
H. D. Robertson, ex-mcmber of Congress
from New York died yesterday.
The Courts of Maryland are now busiIy en-