Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-19

| saws the Turkish Government has Withdrawn
its troops from the scene Of the recent conflict
in Arabia, and peace has been restored.
A cotton mill near Manchester, England, vas
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $30O,OOO.
Five hundred thousand dollars i'll gold were
bought in open marker in London, on Monday,
for shipment to New York.
The Storm.
BosToN, Nov. lS.---The gale Was very severe
n this vicinity last night, but the shipping in
the harbor received no serious damage. Ac-
cuunts from the coast say fragments of a wreck
ed vessel, supposed to be the fishing schooner
| Robert RaikcS Of Priucatown came ashore on
the beach at Nahant and it is feared that her
crew have been lost The schooner Excelsior,
from Gloucester was sunk at MarbIehead, and
the schooner Rainbow is stranded on the beach
Dispatches from the eastern portion OF New
| England report heavy fall Of snow during the
night, with rain TO day. Al Lowell 1--we inches
of snow fell, and ar Portsmouth, n. H., seven
inches, which is badly drittcd.
NEWBURG, y. y. Nov lS.---Twelve loaded
cauaI-boats sunk at the wharvcs IN this city
during the storm last night. Of these ten,
| loaded with Goa, we're sunk at the works OF the
| Pennsylvania Coal Company. No lives were
| lost.
FORTRESS MONROE, VA, Nov. Is The
| tug Comet, towing On the James river, eucOun-
tered gale off Newport News last night, aud
shipped so much water that they had to beach
her. She lies high and dry mile north Of
that point She is owned by Samuel E1glish
| of Alexandria.
BosToN, Nov 18th" brig Josie \. Devc-
rcaux, from Alexandria for Portland, was tow
ed into Gloucester to-day, having been disman-
tied in the gale Monday night The bark
Andes, from Baltimore for Portland, is ashore
inside of West chop Vineyard sound.
| The gale caused some damage to buildings
The spirc of The Baptist church, in Randolph
street, was blown down. Meadows and marsh
cs on the Old Colony railroad were submerged,
and causcWays, wharyes and lumber yards
covered by the food
The storm on Cape Cod was the most scvere
| fany which has occurred for years.
HALIFAX, Nov. lS-.-A violent southeast
gale prevailed here to-day. Serious damage to
the shipping off the coast is feared.
A COLLECTION OF DIGNITARIES. The Neue
Frcic Prcsse Of Vienna publishes some truly
royal" statistics in the shape Of a complete
list of sovercigns aud princes who have visited
the Exhibition in the PIater this year. They
arc as follows:
The Emperor Of Russia and the Emperor
and Empress of Germany; the Kings Of Bel
GUM Wurtemberg and Italy; the Queens Of
Wurtemberg, Greece, Netherlands, Saxpny
and Spain; the rcigning Grand Dukes Of Sax
ouy, Odeuburg, Mecklenburg aud Baden; the
Dukes Of Anhalt, SAKE. Coburg, Brunswick,
Parma and SAKE Alteuburg the Duchesses of
Parma and Anhalt- Dcssau; the Princes of Mon
tenegro, Roumania, Servia and the two Reuss;
the Processes of Montenegro and Roumanla;
the hereditary Princes Of England, Germany,
Denmark, Saxe-Weiuar, Mccklenburg, Rus
STA, the Netherlands. Brazil Sweden, Belgium,
Saxony, Greece, Oldenburg, and the Grown
PrinceSses Of Germany, Russia, Brazil, Belgium
and Saxony. Among the other princely visi-
tors there were twenty princes and fourteen
prncesses of the bIood-the Shah being the
only non, European sovereign
The reigning soyereigns of Europe, Who have
not visited the great show at Vienna, are The
Sultan, the King of Greece, the King of Por-
tugal, the King of Sweden, the King OF Den
mark, the King of Bavaria, the King OF Sax.
ony, the Queen Of England, and the Prince of
Hesse, the courts of Turkey, Portugal and
Hesse being at no time represented since the
lst of May.
THE MARKETS. Money is scarce, that is, it
is being boarded up. Ii it be scarccr, then it
is the more valuable, and if that be SO, dol
lar DOW ought to buy more food than dollar
would buy before The panic; but 1t does not
in some instances at least. Let us walk
through the First Market. The stalls are filled,
better filled than we have seen them tor some
time past with beef and other meats, and butch
ers demand ante panic prices, and hucksters
banker after high rates.
Among the things uncommony dear IN the
present crisis is -four On Inquiry to-day, we
iud that prime white wheat on the 18th of No
vember, 1872, was S2.05 per bushel, and Va.
country -four Was $3.50 for supcrhue and IS
for extra. Yesterday, according to our cOtn-
mercia report, prime white wheat sold in this
market at 81 GO, which is As cents a bushel
less than the price on the l4th Of November,
1872, and yet the price of Virginia country
-four 10 this market to-day is, Supcrhnc, 1.25a
81. 80; extra Sass %. OF course the farmer
will try and get all he can for his produce, but
it takes two to make bargain, and the CON-
sumer has some interest in the matter. There
are many other articles of consumption which
also rule higher than tue stringency of the
money market warrants. and if prices be kept
up as they now are, consumers will do with as
little as they can, and the business done by sell
ers will be proportouately SMALL -Rtctmond
Enquirer.
"a PrrY. - John Is. Cough deliver, d a lee.
ture, entitled Nov and Then in New York
a few nights ago. in which he said:
1.-The pur>e-beariug scoundrel was often hon.
orcd, but the N onryicss Scoundrcl was always
dcspiSed, In some of our cities it was scarcely
possible to convict man with money OF crime.
He did not believe in hanging man, but he
asked did they ever hear Of a poor man who
had three trials for murder? The question was
not one of right or wrong, guilt or innocence
but Of wealth or poverty. They could point
out men whose lives We're gross, with no re-
deemiug qualities of education, personal beauty
or refinement, who were judges, magistrates,
members of Congress- aud who were admitted
Into society into which the poor man dared not
almost look. Men who We're often judged by
the money they possessed; ministers of the
Gospel Frustrated themselves before it; the
churches were fishing to catch the moneyed
man, while the poor man was allowed to 90 by