Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-12-20
NEWS OF THE A
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Letters from Ex-Governor Curtin, U. S.
minister at St. Petersburg, state that he recent
ly paid a h hurried visit to Sebastopol, and ex
smined the condition of the graves of Ameri-
cans who fell in the Russian service during
the Crimean war. He found that four pbysl
clans were buried in one tomb in the old ortho-
doX Church of the TRANSPORTATION. The tomb
is surmounted by monument Of red marble,
with appropriate inscriptions, to A. a. Mar
shall, OF California Henry Clark, Of New
York D. T. Jones, of Maryland, and e. a.
Deininser, Of Pennsylvania.
At tho New England Dinner given in the
Congregational Church at Washington, some
nights since, for the benefit of the church, at
which Senator Pomeroy presided, Frederick
Douglass, among others, made a speech, in
which he declared, as a historical TACT. that the
| May1owcr, which brought over the Purltans,
subsequently brought over a cargo OF slaves.
Yesterday at Cincinnati, a terrible explosion
occurred at the gas works. At the time of the
| explosian the holder contained 450: 600 cubic
feet Of gas. DULY one man was injured, and he
slightly by the fire, although forty men were at
work at the retorts. a few hundred feet away.
The loss to the company will DC about 500,
600.
The celebrated ex.Mexican General, Santa
Anna, formerly President OF Mexico, now resi-.
| ding at Nassau, has issued one of his usua,
high ialutin" manifestocs. The cause of his
present grief is that he was included by name
in the late general amnesty issued by President
Juarez.
There is said to be no truth in the report
that Commissioner PleasantoD is an advocate
| of an advance in the whiskey tax to ono dollar
per gallon, and the indications arc that
| here will be no change made either IL
| the whiskey or tobacco tax by the present Con
| gress.
The long military order just issued from the
War Department, assigning many OF the most
prominent officers in the service who have Io1
been on active duty fer several months to va.
rious regiments, has created a stir OF lndlgna-
ton among officers who find themselves letI
out in the cold.
The North Carolina House of Delegates.
yesterday, submitted eight articles OF iupeach
ment against Gov. Holden, which we're sent t
the Senate. The court Of impeachment vii
organize as soon as the chief justice is notified
and arrives in Raleigh.
The Supreme Court of the U. s. yesterday
made two decisions sustaining acts OF Congress
authorizing the erection Of bridges where they
have been declared post routes OF tho United
States.
The King of Greece received General Sheri
dan with the exhilarating remark that be wa!
glad to take by the hand a countryman Of
George Francis Train, Was this sar casm?
Recent advices from San Domingo state thai
the instruction against President Baez which
is headed by Cabral and sustained by the Hay
ten authorities, is gaining strength.
The report of the second enumeration ofthc
census Of Philadelphia shows an Increase OIL
but 29G over the figures first reported
G73, 726.
The Department Of Agriculture at Wash ing
ton estimates the cotton crop of the past year
at $500, 600 commercial bales.
Commodore William II. Gardner, u. S.
Navy, died at New York yesterday, aged Sc
| uanty CparE