Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"Yn sho,o the vtvy age and holly of tie Times

SmidZ Saburs. a recalcitrant against clvlllza-
ton. has written strong letter to the Mlkado
predicting that Japan will become Republic
and dependency OF the Western barbarlans.
\ life boat, supposed to be the missing boat
from the BenviIlc was picked up by the British
brig Hunter near Abaco, on the Goth ultlmo.
.Abaco is the largest Of the Bahama Islands,
II the surmSe be true it settles the fate OF the
unfortuuatcs who put off in the first boat from
the burning steamer.
Among the fires reported by telegraph this
morning are the following: Several manutac-
tories in Newark, n j., loss nearly 100000;
L. Fa1usworth's coal oil works, Philadelphia;
Gallatin cotton mill in Sumner county, Icunes-
see loss $500, 900; oil works East Cambridge,
Mass, loss 100000.
\ telegram from Geneva says that Sir Alex
andcr Cockburn, British member Of the Board
of Arbitration, will deliver an elaborate opin-
ion on the points wherein he differed from the
decision Of the court His secretaries were
yesterday engaged in copying It,
The attendance at the Pittsburg Soldiers and
Sailors Convention, it is said will be so great
that it is impossible to secure quarters for them
all and some of the delegations will have to
take shelter under canvas.
Gen. 4. r. Wright, editor Of the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel, Major General 10 the
Confederate service, has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats OF the Eighth
Georgia District.
The Liberal Republican and Democratic
Conventions of Kansas closed their sessions at
Topeka yesterday. Each convention ratified
the nominations made by the other, and each
appointed State central committee.
The United States frigate Constellation, Capt.
.Jctfrics, with the Annapolis Academy Mid
>hlpmen on board, has arrived from Newport,
and is anchored at Fortress Monroe.
The Right Reverend Manton Eastburn,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese OF
Massachusetts died at his residence, IN BJs,
ton, yesterday morning.
Official rcturns of the Maine election have
been received in Augusta from 39i towns,
which give Pcrham, Radical, for Governor,
5000 majority.
The pugiliSts Edwards and Chambers have
arranged for fight, to take place in six
months. The betting on the former is - ,OUU
to : 900.
Chas. 4. Dana, editor of the New York Sun,
was chairman of meeting in Tammany Hall
last night called to ratlty the Syracuse fusion
nominations.
Affairs are "mixed' along the Rio Grandc;
the settlers on the Texan side looking to an
early action Of Congress as their sole hope OF
relief.
1t was rumored in Philadelph yesterday
that the Democrats intend to withdraw all
their candidates for city offices, except those
nominated by the municipal reformerS.
The British corvette Cossack has recently
captured several vessels engaged in kidnap-
ping natives Of the Navigators Island to be
sent to Sidney, New South Wales.
Matters 10 Alaska are looking gloomy the
Indians are begerent and there is said to be
nothing like government there except in aud
around Sitka.
The French Minister to Prussia, Biron, will
20 to Tourville to report to Theirs the result of
his conference with the Emperors at Berlin.
A lady named Lowenstein and real estate
operator named Lichtenstein cut their respec.
tive threats in Few York yesterday.
The Arbitrators are at Berne the Presi-
dent of the Republic of Switzerland is doing
the honors Of the occasion.
James NJ Turner, u. S. Minister to Liberia,
is in England he will come to America before
returning to his mission.
Heavy rains have prevailed throughout the
Northwest country for the past week or ten
days Injury to grain is reported
The force Of clerks 10 the Internal Revenue
Bureau will gradually be reduced and no va
cancies will be filed
There are three thousand three hundred en-
ployees in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington, of whom one, third are females.
Mrs Mary A. Livermore, of Chicago, spoke
in Philadelphia last evening in the interest Of
the Radical party.
Bullion in the Bank of England decreased
:t4S4 900 during the past week.
French collieries in the Department of Pas
de Calais are shipping coal to England.
Edmund Yates, the celebrated English nov
clist, is 10 New York.
The volcano of Mauna Loa, on the Island of
Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, is again active.
The habeas corpus for FORESTER was not ap-
piled for yesterday by his counsel.
Justice Hogeboom, of the New York Su.
preme Court, died yesterday at Hudson
The English gentlemen cricketers will play
in Philadel phia on the Germantown ground.
Mr.. Greeley spoke at the Vermont State,
Fair convened at St. Johusburry, yesterday.
AMONG the many artistic objects that will
figure at the forthcoming International Exhi-
bition at Vienna, one of the most interesting
will be model of Solomon's Temple, carved
in lime-tree wood, from the description of Fla
vius Josephus. Some idea may be formed of
the size Of the model when it is stated that it
occupies space of two hundred and twenty
five square feet, and tina, twenty three cases
will be required TO transport it to its destina-
ton.