Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-18
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
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According to the circular Of leading silk
house in Lyons, the outbreak of war has near.
" stopped all transactions in the silk marts OF
that CITY, Large orders of goods for Germany
and Paris have been withdrawn, but on the
other hand, in consequence OF the suspension
of the silk factories in Switzerland and in the
Rhenish provinces of Prussia, several large
sales of reduced prices have been made to Eng-
lish and Russian purchasers.
At San Francisco. the Chinese are holding
convention, composed Of delegates from all
parts of the Pacific coast, to take into consld
Grafton the treatment received at the hands OF
q norton of the citizens of the United States,
and the threats made against them, and adopt
an address to the Government OF the United
States, asking for protection and the rights
guaranteed to them by treaty between tho two
countries.
Capt. Gen. DeRodas. according to cor
RESPONDENT of the New York Tribune, has vlr-
tual!y been a Spanish dictator in Cuba tor
months past. The Regency has not attempted
to control or restrain him, and it is now thought
to be his intention to deny the authority OF
Spaia and establish the independence OF Cuba
in the interests of the volunteers and himself
The proofs cited are not at all convincing.
The New York market for domestic dried
fruits is reported "qulet and without change;
A few small lots of new Southern apples, pitted
cherries and blackbcrries have come forward
and meet with fair sale; the demand fol. ali
kinds is limited and confined to the immediate
wants of iobbers. There is little better en-
auiry for blackberrie which arc firm
About s150OO,OO0 will be required this
month to pay pension warrants, and conse'
ouenty the reduction of the public debt tor the
month of August will not be as great as tor the
preceding month. Yesterday Sl,GOO,UO was
paid out for the payment of pensions. Fen,
sion accounts up to the 1st of January next Will
be paid quarterly instead of semi annually
Congress having authorized that an cques
trian statue Of the lato John A. RawIins, Sec
| rotary OF War, be erected IN one or inc
public parks in Washington, and placed at the
DISPOSAL of the President certain bronze ORD
nance of which to mako the statue, the work
will be commenced as soon as the necessary
| amount Of money can be raised.
People of Somerset county, Maryland co
gagged or interested in tho oyster fisheries, are
taking measures to contest the right OF Flrgl
MIA to prevent their carrying on their business
in waters between Virginia and Maryland. II
! is said that treaty entered into between the
commanders Of the Maryland and Virginia oys
ter navies has given rise to hardshlps.
Advices from Mexico say that the Govern
mept is completely bankrupt and its employ
| mopt deserted, the salaries of the officers being
unpaid. The trial of Negrete is slowly pro
crossing, Several rcvolutionists have been
captured aud executed. Strong opposition to
| the Tehuantepcc concession is forming &c.,&
Unfortunate Mexico
Shanghai advices Of July 18th state that
| fine black teas have advanced, but common and
medium grades have downward tendency.
Tho stock is 10000 chests. The demand tol
| the American market was improving. The
rates are 1920 per ct. above last years open
| ing prices, quality considered.
The Republicans OF the first congressional
| district of South Carolina have put in nomlna'
ton Rainey, colorcd, to ill Whittenore' un
expired term 10 the Forty first and also for the
| full term in the Forty.second Congress. Whit
| temore's candidate got only 9 out OF 80 votes
| of the informal ballot.
| The u. S. Government has been officially
| informed that there has been DO general remov
| al OF Germans from Paris. About ono hundred
and fifty were required TO leave the city be-
cause they violated the privilege Of domlci
by unfriendly demonstrations against the
French.
The United States steamer Shenandoah
carving eleven guns, recently fitted out at Bos
ton, was put 10 commission On Monday last
and will sail from that port soon to reinforce
the fleet in European waters.
The Knoxville Wing says East Tennessee
has raised this year 5, 600, 900 bushels of wheat
and will have surplus OF 3 1000, 900 bushels fol
sale. More than has bsen raised in that sec
| ton for twenty years.
Brevet Brig, Gen. W. D. Whpple, a. a.
G., who was under General Schotield, in Cali
| fornis, assumed his duties at the War Office
yesterday as A. A. G., in place of Genera
Robert Williams.
The Secretary of War has issued a general
order embodying paragraph from the army
regulations prohibiting dlsbursing officers from
gambling. 1t would be well to issue general
order" on the subject.
Colonel Hay, Secretary Of the American Le'
CATION at Madrid, is on his way to Washing
ton to adjust the difficulty arising between
Spain and the United States on the Cuban
question.
The u. S. State Department has instructed
its representatives abroad that while the cur.
rency OF European countries is deprecated by
the war; Consular fees must be paid In coin.
The bark Eagle, from New York for Gal
weston, was struck by lightning off the Bahia
mas, and the vessel and cargo were lost. The
crew were saved,
There is trouble among the the New York
stock b1okers-one party claiming that the
others desire to defraud them in tho purchas
ing of new building.
General Sheridan has been accorded per-
mission by the military authorities at Berlin to
travel with the headquarters of the Prusslan
army.
The attempt in Berlin to raise national loan
OF 12O, 600, 600 thalcrs has broken down. Up
to Tuesday the subscriptions reached only
5000, 900.
King William has appointed two of his Gen.
erals Governors of the French Provinces Of
Lorraine and Alsacc.
John A. Bingham was, yesterday, renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of the
Sixteenth District of Ohio.