Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-12-08

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have no complaints of sectional interference
NEWS OF THE DAY.
"Yo sioao the very age and body Of the Times
At a large mass meeting at Edge6eld, S. e.,
yesterday, resolution was passed to lynch
persons, white or black, caught setting lire to
cotton gins or dwellings. Several speeches
were made against the resolution. Among
those who opposed the resolution were Coy.
| Bolham, Gen. Donovan and Captain Lewis
Jones. all prominent citizens. There was
much excitement A long list of gin houses,
| DWELLINGS aud barns burned since the election,
| was read.
Mr.. John Meushaw, Supervising Inspector
Of Steamboats,, to whom al appeal was taken
| from the action OF the local inspectors 10 rela.
ton to the collision between the Louisiana and
the Falcon, yesterday delivered decision,
which in point of fact decreed that the evidence
is 50 conflicting that no decision can be made
! Both Vessels, he thinks, were 10 default IN re-
gard to the observance Of rule third OF the pl-
lots code, aud the pilots OF both in fault
! The admirers Of Garibaldi will not be much
gratifiei to learn that committee of the As-
scmbIy have ceDsured that adventurous old pa
! triot for dcscrtus his command towards the
close Ut the latc war;
| Lieutenant General Sheridan and General
Pope, with several members of their respective
stats, We're in conference with General Sher-
man at ST. Louis yesterday. The nature OF
the consolidation is as yet unknown.
Tie Injunction obtained by certain English
stock hoder> 10 the Erie Railway Company
| against the London agents Of the Company in
! the Chacce,y Court has been dissolved.
Joseph Bancroft, u cotton manufacturer OF
Wilmington, N. c., aud prominent member
Of the Society OF Friends, died yesterday
Bcrohard de Westenbcrg, Minister resident
Of the Netherlands at Washington, has been
tran. terred to the Legation al Rome.
The Bishop OF UrgeI has abandoned the Car
list cause, and has advised Don Alphonso to
10 llk-wlS"
Francis Alexander was yesterday elected
President OF the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany.
Prof. lIolzandorff will undertake the defence
Of Couut Won Arnim.
President MacMahon, it is reported, will
form 4 new Ministry during tie coming mouth.
ARREST OF MAIL RoBBER WIN. G. Brs-
tow, the luali-rder aud contractor on the Unit
ed States mail route from Tappahannock to
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia, was ar
rested on Friday last charged with robbiDg the
mail For some time past registered letters
have been mysterousIy disappearing from the
mail bags transported between Tappahannoek
aud Gloucester Court house, Va. The accused
was arrested at Centre Cross, Sussex county.
The robberles supposed to have been commit
ted have been golug on for some months past,
aud it is difficulty to tell how much money has
been distracted from registered letters which
have passed through the hands of Brstow.
Bristow took his run from Tappahaonock Sat
uray luorning, and upon his arrival at Centre
Croos, the registered letters, broken open and
robbed of their contents, were found upon his
person A lot of implements used in opening
the letters, and the mony distracted from those
on that trip were also found upon him. The
Government agents also found upon bis person
. key to the mail bags, which he had stolen
from the United States Postal Department.
THE DISTRICT OF CoLUMBIA.-The Pres-
uCut, III LIS llcSSdSCs adJo LII lAC
District of Columbia should be regarded as the
grounds ofthe National Capitol in which the
entire people are interested. l do not allude
to this to urge generous appropriations to the
District, but to draw the attention of Congress,
10 framing law for the government of the
District to the magnificent scale on which the
city was planned by the founders of the Gov
erument, the manner in which, for ornamen
tai purposes the reservations, streets and ave-
uucs were laid out, and the proportion Of the
properly actually possessed by the General
Government. | think the proportion OF the
cXi enSes of the government and improvements
to be borne by the General Government, the
county should be carefully and equitaby de-
fined" The debt Of the District is shown to
be, exclusive Of assets, SIS, 994 Gl3.24.
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-A CON-
mittee of the Chesapeake aud Ohio Canal
Company, held meeting 10 Baltimore yester-
day afternoon, aud transacted some routine
business preparatory to the meeting OF the
stockholders of the Company at Annapolis
on Wednesday. The committee then pro-
ceeded to the banking house Of Georges. Brown
l. Co., corner OF Baltimore and Calvert streets,
where they destroyed 100000 worth of over
due coupons from the preferred stock, and
which have been paid four months ago,
DIVORCED. -ln the Equity Court of the
District oil Columbia yesterday, Judge Wylie
granted divorce to Caroline X. Mallam,
from her husband, Charles E. Mallam, the
plaintiff being daughter of the late William
ID. Massey, Of Alexandria, and the defendant a
clerk IN the Treasury Department. They we're
married 10 Alexandria about the close of the
late war. and she charges him with cruel treat
uienr The decree was for divorce vinculo
uatrlmouii, $50 per month alimony, and 40
allowance of 500 counsel fee, whereupon the
defendants counsel took 40 appeal to the
Court IN General Term.