Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-02
NEWS of EssE DAY
40 shc.o the uc'y age and to,iy Of "a" Tina


violated the law, raised the issue that it is I'M
constitutional, but Oh Saturday Judge Benedict
decided that it is strictly constitutional, and
that it applies to foreign as well as American
vessels.
The German Government has authorized an
emphatic contradiction Of the report, tee-
graphed from Paris to the London Telegraph,
that General Manteufe, commander Of the
German forces in France, had received orders
to concentrate his troops in case OF certain con-
tlngcncles.
The House committee on appropriations,
which has been in session two weeks, has per-
fected the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, Indian appropriation bill,
Consular and diplomatic bill, pension aud post
Office bills, Which will be reported TO the House
early this week.
The voting for United States Senator, in the
North Carolina Legislature, was again exciting
on Saturday. The first ballot was nearly the
same as that Of Friday GA the second, Vance
received ~ votes Mcrrinon 81, and Poole IS.
Ten Radicals voted for NIcrrimon. The inter-
est in the result is still increasing.
Sergeant Bates, the "Aag-bcarcr, " arrived
at Guildhall, London, on Saturday afternoon.
He was we'll received as he passed along the
Strand, Fleet street, and Ludgate Iii. He
made an address after he had reached Guild
hail.
The funeral of Mr.. Greeley will take place on
Wednesday, at II O'clock from the Church of
the Divine Paternity, on 9Th avenue, Rev. DIR.
Chaplin pastor. y number OF different organ
izations are taking steps for attending ID
body.
On Wednesday night Of last week Il negro
woman and her daughter, aged fourteen, and
negro man had drunken carousal in shanty
on the Missouri river, opposite st. Charles,
ending in the burning of the slianty and the
three inmates.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has authorized
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to pur-
chase one million dollars in bonds each We'd
nesday, and to sell one million gold each Thurs
ing during the month Of December.
Five hundred men were discharged from the
Charlcstown Mass Navy Yark on Saturday,
and eight hundred more were discharged from
the Brooklyn On. " Navy Yard on the same
day.
The United States District Court at Jcfier-
son City, Missouri, has given decision in
favor of the Government for $40, 900 against
George Dorner, late Collector of Internal Rev
enue for the Fifth Missouri District.
The health of the Crown Prince of Germany
is reported to be improving daily. He suffers,
it appears, from dyspepsia, which rctards his
complete recovery.
n,op,;l lie ,.>-tnnc;,Sl,, nd
around Galveston that it greatly intcrfcres
with the movement Of cotton and other mcr-
chandlse.
The leather betting manufacturers Of New
York city have adopted a resolution advancing
the price OF betting 10 per cent.
The Emperor of Germany has created TWEEN
ty-6ve peers out of the ranks of Government
officials, generals and land owners
A dispatch from Khira to St. Petersburg
reports that the cholera is still! raging there.
The Office of Surveyor of the Port of New
York, now vacant, will be filled under the civil
service rules.
Commodore John Calhoun died at New
York on Saturday, aged seventy years.
TIE FARMERS CONVENTION which has been
in session in Petersburg, adjourned on Friday
night until October next
A resolution was adopted and committee
appointed to communicate with the authorities
Of the several railroad companies IN the State,
and if possible induce them to so adjust the
tariff of freights on their respective roads. as
not to charge more per mile for transporting
the productions Of Virginia than they do on
like productions of other States.
The question Of fertilizers was laid on the
table.
A communication was read from the Super
intendent of the Commissioners of Emigration
of New York, containing the information that
that society have now under their charge large
number Of emigrants (slngle and families de-
sirous of obtaining employment Some OF these
emigrants are mechanics and tradesmen, and
others are farmers and farm hands aud labOrers.
A report on tobacco was read, containing
much valuable statistical and practical lntOrlna-
ton, and demonstrating that as paying crop
none exces tobacco 10 the region OF country
adapted to it's growth and full development.
The report recommends the sending OF a com
mittee to the Legislature to ask the repeal OF
the law, which requires the withholding from
the producer of eight pounds from each pack
age Of tobacco inspected and sold in our mar
kcts. The report further recommends the for
nation of township and county agricultural
clubs throughout the State. ...
The following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Rsozrcd, That the sense of this Council is
that the late amended law, making the tax on
manufactured tobacco uniform, and reducing
the same to 20 cts, is step in the right direc:
ton, and that the planters of Virginia will hail
with pleasure the day when the whole Internal
Revenue on tobacco will be abolished.
In commenting upon the proceedings of the
Convention the Petersburg Index 1.-THE
proceedings were characterized by more than
usual dcfniteness of aim and desire to act rath.
er than to make orations. 1t can hardly be
but that good will come of the asscmblage and
the council held by its means. =
Per contra, the Richmond Dispatch says:
1.-THE Convention of farmers in Petersburg
seems to have resulted in nothing decisive or
practical There was a great deal Of discus
sion, some personal wraDgling, and there we're
debates over subjects that ought not to have
hoon introduced Rut nonnnt coo hat ony-