Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-05-03
Secretary Boutwell, WAS in Chicago ycStc
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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At Nashville, yesterday. on complaint OF
George Carpenter and wife Major Compton, 4
conductor on the Louisville and Nasty lie rail
road, and others were indicted in the federal
court, now sitting there, for iorcibly cjccting
them from the ladies' car on the 81 road.
The defendants counsel moved toquash the IN
dictment, and after argument Judge IWlgg
gave decision in favor Of the. defendants
The ground of the decision was that common
carriers have q right to regulate Their own al
fairs. He decided further that the palntlit
might sue for damages, the jury to determine
whether their rights had been intringed.
The President has appointed the following
as Commissioners under the fourth section OF
the act of Congress of March Sd to provide tor
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary OF
American independence in the city OF Phlla1
delphia: Asa Packer and Daniel }. Morrel, OF
PENNSYLVANIA: ID. NJ. Boyd. Jr., and John L.:
Campbell. of Indiana; Solomon i. Sphinx and
Geo. A. Batcheder, of Dakota J. L: Bernard
and J. S. Adams, Of Florida; +. ID. Holton
and DAY id Atwood Of Wisconsin.
\ meeting of merchants in Philadelphia was
held last Monday night. Its object was to
form company to secure Il perfect and ur'n-
North and South by means of canals and con-
meeting railroads. 1t was proposed to issue
stock and bonds, which would be secured by
the Delaware and Rarit;n, the Delaware and
Chesapeake and the Chesapeake Canal Com
panies.
Information was received yesterday by the
agent of the NcDonogh estate in Baltimore,
that the suit of Moses Fox, of New Orleans,
against the two cities, jointly, OF New Orleans
and Baltimore, has been terminated III the Sc
cond District Court, at New Orleans, by the
decision of Judge Duvigneaul, in favor Of the
two cities.
At Il late meeting to rcorganiZe the New
York Infant Asylum and Founding Hospital,
Dr. Willard Parker gave some startling stats
ties: Among $4,000 births annually in that
city 300, he said, were not in wedlock, and
about 1000 toundings die annually OF neglect.
The origin Of the rumor that Secretary Fish
will soon retire from the Cabinet is probably
the fact that he has notified the owners of his
house in Washington that he will not renew
his lease, which expires on the first day OF
june next.
The first meeting of the Maryland 1rotting
Association will take place at Herring Run
Park, Baltimore, on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. May Goth and Dist, and
June lst and ID. Premiums to the amount of
$4,000 are offered by the Association.
The survey Of the route for L ship canal
thirty miles long with an elevation of Gl2 feet
across the Isthmus Of Darien, to connect the
Atlantic with the Pacific, has been completed.
The cost of the work is estimated at eighty
millions Of dollars.
TIE coiored people i'll Chicate county, Ar
kansas. are upon the point of an open outbreak,
in consequence of certain appointments made
by the Governor, to offices in the county. which
are not in accordance with their wishes.
The report Of the l.chgh Coal and Naviga-
tion Company, showing the losses ii has sus-
tanned by the strikes, is published, and leads
to the reflection that capital has sGmc rights as
well as labor.
Black caterpillars have appeared in slrror nd
ing bottoms, near Memphis, in such dro, ,es ~
in one instance to stopa train of cars They
are destroying vegetation TO consid' .roblc OK
tent.
The cornerstone of the Marylar j AsvIum fur
the Deaf and Dumb, now in cou' 50 Of cop.ruc-
ton at Frederick, Md, will be laid ON the 21st
OF May.