Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-30
NEWS OF TIL n DA "
40 xho,o the recy cgs and body Of the Times


New York house OF Jay Cooke u Co., was
filed yesterday. On September Is he turned
over all his ass IS 10 Joel Barlow Muorhead in
trust for his creditors The statement shows
there are four parties who are TO- be paid ln
| full, secured ny priority, three of whom are OF
| Harrisburg and ones II. hubbard OF New
York, total about $4,000. The interest on
bonds amounts to over S24 900, aud the cash 90
ing deposited with Jay Cooke & Co; bills of
exchange, promSscry notes and securities over
SIT, 900; personal property. $1,000; notes in ac-
ton, stocks, &c, s2O0,OIO
The Meuuonites who recently visited this
country for the purpose of examining Western
lau.is for the location of colony have bought
large tract trom the directors of the Atchlson
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. Tie purchase
covers 10 900 acres, situated in the vicinity Of
Ha}sted. Kan, which is situated at the point
where the railroad crosses the Little Arkansas
river. 1t is believed that the Menuonites will
eventually purchase tract six miles in width
across The entire belt of forty miles which is
covered by the land grant of the railroad. This
will give them control Of Halsted. The site
selected is said to be in the midst OF good
farming country.
Rev, DR.. Newman, who is gathering iufor-
NATION on the other side Of the world for the
American people at an infnitcsinal compensa-
ton Of ten thousand dollars per annum, de-
votes his latest communication to the Treasury
d .partmcnt to sorrowful exposure OF the
wckcdness of British manufacturers who are
d. frauding the heather Chinee with certain
fraudulent trade marks upon goods, to the dis
aivan!are. OF the American trade. Like Mrs.
Game, D. Newman cant abide SIGH d,lngs,
and so he is off for Calcutta, to breathe a purer
moral atmosphere at the expense OF his beloved
country.
Centre street New York was crowded yestcr-
day 10y the idle and curious, gathered to wit
ness the march to the Tombs Police Court
from po!ice head quarters, of twJ hundred and
Fifty men and women, boys aud girls, arrested
the evening before while dancing in place
knnwu as Union Assembly rooms. As the
prison pens OF the court We're not intended Tor
20 many PERSONS the magistrate sent Tor the
warden to the TnmbS, and on being lutui med
by that "fhcial that he bad accommodations tor
the crowd, all We're sent TO prison pending To-
ve-li yatiun Of their several cases
In New York about midnight on Monday a
fire broke out on the fourth floor of u fve-stOry
building, No. Is Green street, occupied by
julius Saruer j. Bro, dealers in caps and furs,
who also occupied the third and fifth floors.
Their loss is 100000. The second A'or was
occupied by Thomas q. Cook & Go. and II. j.
| Ward, commission houses, who lose $4,000.
| The first floor and basement were occupied ty
Sylvester Bruss 4 Co., dealers IN raw turs, who
sustained damage to the extent OF S5O,0OO,
while the building, owned by the Lorlllard es-
tate, suffered to the extent OF SS,OOO.
DR.. De- Klerck, now in Washington, who
has been on a tour Of this country 10 the inter
ests of Ouch capitalists who have invested
their money in American railway securities,
has suggested to the President the formation
OF mlx.d Commission, consisting partly OF
Americans md partly OF Europeans, to keep
the world posted on the value of railroad and
other stocks. 1t is said that President Grant
listened with favor to this proposition and
took occasion to express his opposition to the
building Of railroads in the future by aid OF
subsidy.
There arc now two vacancies in the Board of
| Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, occa-
stoned by the resignation Of President Woolscy
and the death of Prof Agassiz The former
will probably be filed by The election of Prot.
Dana, OF Yale, and it is suggested that Presl-
dent Eliot, of Harvard, shall be chosen for the
other. Ii is claimed, IN opposition TO this pro-
gramme, that the West ought to be represent
ed 10 the Board, and DIR. Andrews, of Chicago,
aud Prof Lcsquereux, of Ohio, are mentioned
as competent meu for the place.
The accounts of the Treasurer Of Loaven-
warth county, Kan, are in confusion, and a
committee who have examined them. report
| Il, ~, hp
mittee requested Of The Treasurer an explana.
ton of the disagrecable facts, and he replied
that he was unable to say where the money
was; that he had none ON deposit save what
the committee had found, and that he could
not remember having loaned any considerable
amount of it," He has been requested to
| resign.
The keeping up the pursuit of Genet in
Canada is still continued by the New York
Sherifs. |; is now said that they have him
shut up in one hundred miles Of territory, and
that he will be recaptured during the week.
A special from B.rlin says the project to
make the Crown Prince Frederick, William
regent has been abandoned in consequence of
the i'm provemeut i'll the health OF the Emperor
| William.
! CHEF JUSTICE.-A paragraph is now going
| the rounds OF the newspaper press, stating that
Il bill has been prepared, and will be presented
to Congress after the recess abolishing the Office
of Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and providing that the court
shall, at each term, elect It's own presiding 9TH
Ger from among the Associate Justices. The
proposition seems to meet with considerable
favor from leading mco 10 and out of Congress
There is 90 provision 10 the Constitution con-
corning the ohice of Chief Justice except that
Clause in section of article |, which says =
wv hen the President of the United States is
tried (on Impeachment the Chief Justice shall
preside" 1t is singular fact that the article
Of the Constitution (ar 3, sec. ~ which creates
the Supreme Court does not mention the Office
OF Chicf Justice at all. 1t is iu these words
THE judicial power of the United States
shall be vested in one supreme court and in
such inferior courts as the Congress may, from
time to time, ordain and establish. The judges,
both Of the supreme and inferior courts. shall
hold their offices inring good behavior"