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No. IL Commercial Place,
NEW ORLEANS
DEsT BANGOR PENRHYN, PORT d.
ID norwic and Port Madoc STATES, for
roofing-by cargo or small lots, to suit
purchasers.
SLATE SLAB CIsTERNs-made a, y
size to order.
Hearth Slabs, Urinals for Railway De-
pots, etc.
English Ridge Tiles, FIRE BRICKS in
quantities to suit.
N B.--SLATING contracted for at home
or abroad.
Repairs to Slate Roofs will receive
prompt attention.
Wharf-Corner Philip, Tchoupitoulas
aud Levee streets. P. 0. Box 1869. Mer-
chants Exchange, 1873.
w. +. ELLIOTT, Agent,
Pcactical Slater and Slate Mason.
April 3-2m.
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DIED I'm Alexandria, on Wednes-
day, March q, 1872, DAME r..
HAYWORTH, aged 81 years.
On Wednesday. March 9th, 1872,
Mrs. JULIUS GOODMAN, aged sc
years.
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Special!

Special!
HALL. SToNEwALL H. and L. Co. No. 1.
Alexandria. April 2, 1872
I'M MEMBERS OF STONEWALL HOOK
Ivl and Ladder Company No. I. are Or
dered to meet at their Truck House, on
THURSDAY, the 9TH day of APRIL,
at o'clock. BY order of
P. w. LINSKIE,
J. II. RlNGeoLD, President.
Secretary.
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Gea Agents, San trSneseo Cal and u Cor'rerre S MI
MILLIONS Iscnr Tc.si momy 10 their
Wonderful Curative Effects. q
Vinegar Biitcrs are not o vile Fancy
DRINK, Made Of Poor Rum, Wbislsey,
Proof Spirits and Refuse Liquors, doc
tored, spiced and sweetened TO please the taste,
called TONES" Appetizers." " Eessorers, &c,
tina. lead the tippicr on to drunkenness and ruin.
but are true Medicine, made from the Maze
Roots and Herbs of California, free from NIL
Alcoholic Stimainnts. They the
GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER mud A
LIFE GIVING: PRINCiPI.E, = perfect
Renovn.or and ,Invigorator OF the System. carry
ing of all poisonous matter and restoring the blood
to a healthy condition. No person can take these
Bitters 0Dnrding 70 directions and remain long
unwell. provided their bones are not destroyed
by mineral poison or other means, and The vital
organs wasted beyond the point of repair.
They nrc n Gentle Purgnilve ma well
nsa Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar uicrf,
OF acting powerful! agent in relieving Conses-
tion or Inflammation OF the Liver, and Of ali tho
Visceral Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether
in young old, married or SINGLE at the dawn Of
womanhood at the turn Of life. these Tonic Bit
tiers have no equal.
For Innnmmni DRY and Chronic I:hcr-
mntism md Cont, Dyspepsia In
digestion, Bilious, Kemitfcmt End
Jntermittcnt Fevers, Diseases Of tho
Blood, Liver, Kidneys md. Biaaaer,
these ISiticrs have been most successful. SBch
Diseases are caused by Initiated Blood,
which is generally produced by deransemert of
the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION,
Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tight
ness OF the Chest. Dizziness Sour Eructa.ions OF
the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Month. Bilious
Attacks. Tr.lpitation of the Heart Inflammation of
the Lungs, Pain in the regions of the Kidneys and
hundred other painful symptoms are the. Of
springs Of Dyspepsia. q
They inyigorate the Stomach and stimulate the
torpid Liver and Bowels. which render them OF
uncqui.ied efficacy in cleansing the blood OF all I'M
purirics, and imparting new life and vgor to the
whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, letter.
Salt R!lcnn. BIotchcs, Spots, Pimples. Pustulss,
Boils. Carhuncles. RingWorIns Sca,d Head. SO, Q
Eyes. Erysipeas Itch, Scurfs, Dsrolorations 1.-THE
Skin. Humors md Diseases OF the Skin. of what
ever name or Nature. are literally dug mp and car
rid out of the system IN short time by the Or
these Bitters. One bottle in such cases viii con-
vince the most increduous of their curative effect
Cleanse the Initiated Blood whenever you find IL.
impurities bursting through the skin in PinpcS,
Eruptions or Sores: Cleanse i when you fihi j.
INSTRUCTED and sluggish in the veins: cleanse IL
when 1t is FOUL and your feelings will tell you Which,
Keep the blood pure and the health OF the system
will follow.
PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, urking
destroyed and removed
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
J. WALKER, Proprietor. II. II. NCDONkIsD IS
CO.. Druggists and Gen. Agents Fan Frs;isass,'
Cal, ami 81 aud 81 Coinrnerce street.. New S"rs-
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Tax Sale.
U. s. Internal Revenue-United States VS..
Eli Hough.
DY VIRTUE of the authority vested in
ID me by section %, Act of Congress. da-
ted July -, 1866, have seized and will
sell in front ofmy Office, in the town Of
Alexandria, on
SATURDAY, the 9th day of APRIL,
1872,
at 12 o'clock M-the following described
property, to-wit:
One Sorrell Horse, eight years old, in
good condition.
Seized and sold for failure to pay the
income tax for the year 1866.
TERMs-Cash in United States Treasury
Notes. A. j. WHITTIER,
March N-2t. Dep. Collector
Printers Fees &c.
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RECOVERED.
Furniture Repaired and Upholster.
ing in General.

CALL ON JOSEPH PEARSON IF YOU
~ require anything of that kind done.
His charges are quite moderate. Work
well done and promptly.
Workshop at the building lately occu-
pied by G.. w. Glynn.
Refers by permission to the Rev. s. Bur
ford and FL. st. John.
Apl 3-3m.
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lectOr snail receive, on all taxes col
lected by him and paid into the treas
ury, a commission of ten per cent; in
the Sixth District the tax collector
shall receive. on all taxes collected by
him and paid into the treasury, a COM
mission of ten per cent. In addition
to the aforesaid compensation, each tax
collector shall be entitled to collect and
receive from each taxpayer, after the
publication of the notice required by
law, twenty-five cents for each notice
and two dollars for each seizure made
and suit brought.
That section seventy seven of the
act recited in the above mentioned I'll
tie, and approved March 3, 1871, be
so amended and re-enacted as to read
as follows:
That within the first five days of ev-
cry month it shall be the duty of the
tax collectors in and for the city OF
New Orleans to have their respective
accounts settled for all taxes collected
or moneys received on account of the
State during the preceding month, and
to pay the same over to the State
treasury, and for that purpose the said
tax collectors shall make and transmit
to the Auditor of Public Accounts q
statement whether they have or have
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and should be detected.
The resolution was lost.
Mr.. Cameron, of Kansas, said he was In
structed by his State to move that the
nomination Of President be postponed until
May. Not agreed to.
BaIloting for the Presidency.
The nomination of candidates for Presi-
dent ofthe United States being now in order,
the names John w. Geary, Of Pennsylva-
mia, Geo. w. Julian, of Indiana, John b..
Palmer, of Illinois, Thos. Ewing, Of Ohio,
David Davis, Of Illinois, Geo. Francis Train,
Of the world, Wendell Phillips, of MasSa-
chusetts, Horace Greeley, Of New York,
Joel Parker, Of New Jersey, Peter Cooper
and II. II. Day, of New York, and Richard
Treyalick, of Michigan, were presented as
candidates for this nomination.
The names of Greeley, Ewing, Cooper,
Day and Trevalick were withdrawn, and
an informal ballot taken, which resulted as
follows: Geary 55, Day 90, Davis AZ, Phil
lips is, Palmer 8, Julian 6, and Parker 7.
The Convention then went into the first
formal ballot, which resulted as follows:
Whole vote cast POI. Davis S8; Phillips
81; Geary 45; Day 8; Parker z; Julian ].
No choice.
Geary's name was then withdrawn.
Gratz Brown, of Missouri, and Horace
Greeley were nominated.
The second ballot was then taken and re-
suited, Davis 90; Day SO; Phillips II;
Brown IA; Greeley IL; Parker 7; Julian 8.
The names of Phillips, Greeley, Julian
and Brown were withdrawn.
The third ballot resulted: Davis 201;
Parker Z; Day 3.
The nomination Of David Davis, of
Illinois, was then made unanimous, and a
telegram sent to him asking him to accept
the nomination.
Candidates for Vice PFesident-An
EdseheIder Among Them.
The nomination for Vice President being
next in order the names of Joel Parker, OF
New jersey, Edwin NJ. Chamberlin, of
Connecticut, A. NJ. West, Of Mississippi,
Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, and William G..
BTien, Of Tennessee, we're presented.
The informal ballot resulted: Parker, 20;
ChamberliD, y; West, Is; Ewing, 81;
Brien, 10.
First formal ballot was then taken and re-
suited: Parker liz, Chamberlain 81, Ew-
ing %.
Parker's nomination was then made
unanimous.
After appointing committees to wait on
the nominees, and an executive COMMITTEES
Of one from each State, the Convention ad-
jOurned, subject to the call of the Nation
al Executive Committee.
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The new German gold sovereign are
making their appearance; 100000 pieces
per month are being coined till 100000
pounds Of fine silver, or about 70,0O0,0OO
thalers, have been issued. The new coins
are stamped with the images Of the SOver-
eigns Of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurt-
temborg, Baden, and Hesse, who have each
undertaken TO produce certain quantity
at their respective miGts. The rank held
by each potentate under the Federal Con
stitution may be seen as carefully noted on
the coin as in every other Federal arrange
ment. The superscriptiOn Of the Berlin
gold piece called William l, German EN-
peror and King of Prussia; but the product
of the Alsace Mint, where William reigns in
the name Of the Empire, styles him only
Emperor.
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 22.-An the
Offices of the general government are clos
ed. National flags are flying over all the
public places, and many private residences
are adorned with evergreens and miniature
flags. The day is generally observed as
holiday.
Income Tax.
The Internal Revenue Office has COM
menced sending out blanks for income tax
for the past year.
bridge over the Ohio at Evansville.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
have agreed to report bill for the construc-
ton of bridge over the Ohio at a point
between Evansville and Mount Vernon, Ind.
western Rivers,
Instructions have been issued by the
chief signal officer of the army to all OBJ
servers at stations upon Western rivers to
make special reports by telegraph Of any
sudden or unusual change in rivers. This
will enable steamboatmen 10 take proper
precautions against loss of property by the
breaking up Of ice.
The New York Central,
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has prepared his decision in the long moOted
New York Central railroad dividend case
and viii probably promulgate it tomorrow.
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TIE bon. S. S. Cox sometimes enlivens
his political discourses with telling anec-
dote. In his recent speech on the Syndi-
cate be uses with effect quotation from Si-
John MandeyiIle, which few, if any,persons
have ever rea d: "a satisfactory account of
this remarkable nondescript is given by Sir
John Mandeyille in his famous Travels in
Csthay. while passing many contrees,
both by and and sea, cherched on the
Chinese wall strange animal Of the liz
zard kind. He was known in ancient
books as a cameleon. When the sun did
shine be took various colors; sometimes it
wore agolden hue, and sometimes had a
green back. ILaughter.] 1 caught him by
means. Of steele mirror, which 50 bedaz-
Eled his eyne that he was easily caught. l
bring him home as a straunge beaste. 1t is
called by the natives scindicat.
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KANGAROO SKINs.--A consignment of
seven thousand salted kangaroo skins was
received in San Francisco several months
since, from Australia, and purchased by
parties who propose to convert them into
leather. The skins are being tanned at a
tannery located on the Yerba Buena Island,
on the northern outskirts Of Oak
land. The skin of the kangaroo is
quite thin, but exceedingly tough,
and when tanned into leather is
very pliable and soft, wearing long time
without cracking, and turning water better
than calf skin. Tanned alligator skins
from Mexico and Central America are a
common article in the San Francisco mark
ct, and are used to considerable extent in
manufacturing boots, where strength and
capacity TO resist water are more desired
than fancy fit or elegant appearance; but
kangaroo is emphatically new sensation In
the leather line.
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MISSISSIPPI.
Alcorn Explains About the Land scrI

AIcOrn Explains About the Land Scrip
JACKSON, Feb. 20.-Senator Alcorn has
addressed letter TO the Governor, answer
ing the House resolution of inquiry as to
what had been done with certain land scrip
drawn by him (AlcorD) from the General
Government Land Office. The letter says
he made contract with Cleveland, Ohio,
man for the sale of the scrip at ninety cents
on the acre, to be paid in three, six, and
nine months; but, by some infounality at
Washington, the matter was not settled till
September. The amount agreed upon would
realize for the Agricultural College nearly
100000, but SO far only $4,000 had been
issued. The scrip is deposited in New
York and Cleveland banks, and can only be
drawn by the Cleveland party on the pay
ment Of an amount of currency equal to the
amount of scrip drawn. The funds already
received are satisfactorily accounted for.
There was no session Of the United
States Court to-day. An additional hun
dred witnesses have been summoned by the
government from Meridian. -
A Federal soldier was shot last hight in
remote part of the city by unknown parties.
To-day Col. Allen, commander of the post,
notified the Mayor that unless the soldiers
we're protected by the police he would in
struct them to visit the city in squadrons
and well armed, 1t is believed that the
men who did the shooting were soldiers on
spree.
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A COMPANY incorporated in 1866, which
has since obtained all the permission and
sanction necessary, is now on the move,and
proposes to lay two telegraph cables-one
direct to the coast of England or Holland,
the other by way Of the Bermudas and
Azores to Portugal. There is also propo-
sition before the legislature Of California to
grant permission TO a company which In
cludes Cyrus w. Field among its corpora
tors, to lay a cable from the shores Of that
coast to some point on the coast Of China
OF Japan, or both. The time Is not far
hence when a commonplace telegraph op-
orator eau put girdie round about the
earth in less time thar, Puck's forty minutes
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A HARD WINTER ON TUE PLAINS
Heavy snowstorms are reported in the far
West, blockading the Pacific railway trains
on both sides the Rocky Mountains. The
winters experience on the Central Pacific
route will tend to hurry up not only the
Northern Pacific road, along which from
the depression in the Rocky Mountains in
that quarter, and in consequence of the
warm winds from the Pacific, there is less
danger of obstruction by snow, but also the
Southern Pacific road, which turns the
flank of the Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Neyadas, and along which there is
no likelihood of obstruction from snow.
All three OF these Pacific roads are needed,
and the sooner they are in practical work
ing order the better,
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The practical value Of the signal service
has been demonstrated by the result accom-
plished during the first year in the way of
protection to life and property at sea. The
last wear was noted for storms and gales
unusually severe and sudden: Nevertheless,
a comparison cf two months of November
and December of 1870 and 1871, shows
falling of of marine disasters from 366 In
1870 to 2S3 In 1871. The number of men
lost in the same time diminished from 81
to %. The gain is principally in the class
es of disaster AGAINST whish the Signal
Rnrpau offers protection
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COLUMBIA, TENN.
ABIOOdy Day in Maury County.

Two Men shot and n Third found Dying
Special to the Union and American.
COLUMBIA, TENN, Feb. 22.-Wlliam
P. Holcomb was shot and killed this after
noon by bis nephew, Hal. Holcomb, at the
house of the latter in this place. He was
removed TO his saloon, when his partner,
Ed. Khun, for firing into the crowd around
the door, was shot and killed by Frank
Aydlott, policeman. No blame is attached
to either Hal Holcomb or Aydlott, John
Thomas, son of Hon. James II. Thomas,
who started TO Pulaski yesterday was found
by the roadside in a dying condition this
morning and is supposed to have been thrown
from his horse.
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ROME.
Tho vatican Council Going 70

The Vatican Council Going 20 Trent.
ROME, Feb. 22.-Several Bishops of the
Roman Catholic Church are urging the
Pope to hold an Ecumenical Council at
Trent, in the Tyrol. The Austrian govern
ment, however, does not seem to be dis
posed to grant the permission asked by His
Holiness for assembling the council within
its dominions. Should the Pope be sue
cessful in his application, he will not attend
the sessions of the council in person, but
will remain in Rome, and be represented at
the meeting by a Cardinal.
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TEE Cincinnati Gazette (Radical) is not
pleased with Hoars education bill which
- was recently passed by the House Of Repre-
sentatives. Entertaining keen apprecia-
ton of the chief Characteristic of Radical
rule IN The South, the Gazette says;
sThe way this fund win go in the South
ern States, whose educational necessity is
the chief argument, we may judge By the
dispensation Of the Freedmen's Bureau
fund, and By the way reconstructed, regen-
Grated and diSenthralled State Governments
have managed their own funds. 1t viii be
sweet plunder pool. But as a larger amount
of plumber is required to support the patriot
ism which saves the country, this will con-
tribute to1he main end"
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The Japs started from Salt Lake yester
day. but are likely to get blocked, as it is
again stOrming furiously on the Union Pa
cific.
Arkadelphis, Ark, reports destructive
fire.
Topeka, KS, regards it as a good omen
that at noon yesterday bald eagle SCARED
over the city for an hour, in fall sight, and
then sailed away to the east.
Ex-senator Yates, Of Illinois, Is danger
ously Ill.
On Wednesday night a Chicagoan rose
from his bed, went to an clubhouse and cut
his throat from ear to ear.
A train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road run into a heavy fall of rocks and
leaped an embankment. Engineer killed
and passengers bruised.
A New York woman, so years old, burned
herself to death yesterday morning by
smoking in bed.
The National Catholic Temperance Un-
ion is in session at Baltimore.
FOREIGN.
Bismarck suggests an International Con-
gess to secure cheap and uniform postage
rates.
Spanish, English, German and Swede
men-of-war Joined the American vessels in
Havana in celebrating Washington's birth
day.
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GERMANY.


BERLIN, Feb. 22.-It is officially an
nounced that an apothecary from POSen, a
Pole, was arrested yesterday on suspicion
of contemplation Of the assassination of
Bismarck. The man is fanatic Catholic,
formerly in the Pspal Zouaves. He threat
ened TO take the life of the Prince upon his
arrival A pistol was found on the pris-
O0fr
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what Next?
GEOLOGIC.

Winged Snakes and ThFee-TOed
Horses.
New HAVEN, Conn.,, Feb. 22.-Prof.
Marsh last evening at a meeting at the
Sheffield School, describing his tour to the
West last summer, said that he found in
Kansas fossils of gigantic saurians ard
winged reptiles twenty feet spread. In the
Basaltic region he found vast quantities of
three-toed fossil horses.
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FOREIGN.
FRANCE.
The BOurbOns Plotting a ReeOnstrue-
ffOu of EurODe

Ine HOuFOOnS Plotting q Ree0nStrue-
tlOn of Europe.
LONDON, Feb. 22.-The gathering of the
legitimists at Antwerp is increasing daily
and is becoming formidable. 1t is confined
to no nationality, although the French pre-
dominates in numbers. The German and
Spanish legitimists will be represented. The
ex-King Of Hanover arrived yesterday with
large party of supporters. Leading
ultramontanists from Italy, Germany and
France are also focking to this city. It is
rumored that all are acting together har-
moniously, and that the chiefs are deliberat-
ing over plans for the restoration Of all the
depoSed soyereigns, ISpain, Naples, the
Sicilies, ETC., as well as France.l
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FOREIGN.
Attempted Burglary.

Between three and four o'clock yesterday
morning burglars bored through the side of
Mr.. Jno. Eberhard's brick grocery on Front
street, below Jefferson, but being heard by
the proprietor were frightened off. They
had made hole large enough to admit a
man and would have done considerable
damage to the good things on the shelf.