Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-01-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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A public meeting was heldin England LATELY,
presided over by the president OF the s, hoyai
Society, Lord Vernon. Inc rn oT
iect was to raise collectlon"to purchase g,nn
and other seeds for French peasants ~ haS.e
lands have been disolated and whose crops luz
been consumed and destroyed by the uelm a.h
armies, to enable them to SOW anu pa''av t'
od an the snot. Without such assistance Ia
mine must follow war in France.
The Philadelphia Ledger says: The stock
and money markets are considerably depressed
and unsettled by the continued default In the
North Carolina and Tennessee State interest.
Tbe profusion and iberality with which State
bonds were given under the administration OF
Governor Brownlow in Tennessee and Cover
nor Holden in North Carolina are shame to
the fair name of any sovereign State.
The notorious immigrant swindlers in New
York are now being justly punished On
Wednesday Samuel Written pleaded guilty of
having swindled Patrick Daily, an aged lmm-
grant, out of twenty-five sovereigns, Judge
Bedford sentenced the prisoner to the State
prison for five years
An establishment for tanning alligators' hides
at Roxbury, Mass, takes all the green hides
Of these reptiles captured at New Orleans and
along the cost of Florida, They arc tanned
into an exceedingly tough and elastic leather,
said to be impeTious to water
Yesterday the Court-martial at the West
Point Military Academy finished the trial of
Smith, the colored Cadet, and forwarded the
papers to Washington. Throughout the pro,
ceedings he conducted his own deionoo and
displayed considerable shrewdness.
Ex-senator Wade and President White have
accepted the appointments on the San Domln-
90 Commission but Bishop Simpson has de-
cEnad, General Franz Sigel has been appoint
ed Secretary to the Commission, and the re-
naming member will be named to-day.
1t is said that valuable deposits Of coal have
been discovered about six miles up the river
from Selbysport, Allegany county Md, An
examination has disclosed the fact that there
is also an abundance of iron ore in the same
ncighborhood.
There was recently heavy snow storm in
the neighborhood of London, Canada, some OF
the drifts being twenty feet deep, The storm
impeded travel for three days.
benjamin. Franklin Niles, son Of the late
Hezckiah Niles, of Baltimore, died at Media,
Pa, on the Sth inst. His father was editor
of Niles Register, very valuable record OF
public news
A letter from the Interpreter of the Bannock
Indians, dated Fort Parkar the 9th instant,
announces the recovery Off white girl named
Mcintyre, captured by Bannocks on Roft river
in 1862.
The trial of the Rev. John Lanahan, for OK.
posing alleged mismanagement of the Methodist
Book Concern, commenced at New York yes
tcrday The Ecclesiastical Court refuses to
allow its proceedings to be made public.
The Board of Trade of Hamilton, Canada,
suggest the improvement Of the Welland, st,
Lawrence and Lachine Canals, and that the
people of the u. S. be allowed the same terms
as the Canadians thereon.
In the Senate yesterday bill was reported
appropriating s5OO,00O yearly to steamship
line to carry the mails monthly from San Fran.
cisco to Australia.
Secretary Delano has accepted Miss Winnie
Ream's statue of President Lincoln, in accor-
dance with the terms of the resolution of Con
gress.
The nomination of Vice Admiral Porter 10
be Admiral was before the Executive session of
the Senate yesterday, but no conclusion was
reached and it will be resumed to-day.
The brig Sterling, which sailed from Balti-
more on September 5th for Cork or Falmouth,
has not since been heard from, and it is feared
that she has been lost at sea
\ representative Of the Messrs Baker Broth
ers, wreckers Of Norfolk, is now in Baltimore,
negotiating for the raising of the hull and ma
chinery of the iceboat Chesapeake.
Mr. Godlove S. Orth, member of Congress
from Indiana, will pretty certainly succeed Mr..
Bancroft as Minister to Berlin.
There has been of late succession Of fires in
St. Mary's county, Nd, dwelling houses, barns,
stables &c.
The Board of Supervising Inspectors Of steam
vessels is now in session at Washington.