Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-02-20
The Louisiana Case.

New ORLEANS, February lS.-A mass meet
ing OF citizens opposed TO the present usurpa.
,ivu Of the government Of the State was held
at EXPOSITION Hall this evening, under the au-
spices of the committee OF seventy. Twelve
hundred persons were present. Several ad-
dresses were delivered aud resolutions adopted
Tie preamble recounts the election of 1872,
the famous pureIl order, and the subsequent
action Of the Uoitcd States authorities there
under an action takeu by the people endeavor-
Ing 10 obtain their rights the tolerance eft the
people under wrong and oppression, and de-
carcs that we repel with Indignation and con-
tempt the entirely false imputalons that we
acquIcscc in or are content with the lgnomlnl-
Gus government which has been illegally and
wickedy set up to Eear rule over US; there
fore
ReSolred, That we shall continue our efforts
to remove the lntolerablc burdens OF reproach
aud shame which have been put upon US 10
violation Of law and the constitution, and abuse
Of power, until hope of success shall be wholly
destroyed.
ReSotre}, That we claim now at the hands of
Congress as we have in the past, recognition
OF the government elected 10 November, 1872
o! which Gov. Mchncry is the head, or III de-
fault thereof, that the present government be
suspended by military provisional rule, aud
new election ordered under federal auspices as
the best that can be accorded US.
The SHAD AND HERRING FISHERIES The
season for the prosecution of shad and berrlog
fishing In North Carolina waters has already
commenced, the receipts of shad br the Nor
folk boat yesterday being ten barrels, which is
now the daily average. The supply will grad
ualIy Increase, until 1t reaches fifty and then
100 barrels per day. The first North Carolina
shad are caught in Albemarle and PamIlco
Sounds in stake nets, each thlrty-sx feet long,
aud Is 600 or 20, 900 Ut these nets are set and
tshed by men 10 small boats, 200 pets being
managed by one boat. From five Thousand to
a milIlou shad are caught in this way every
season. These fish are at once packed IN Ice
and in fifteen hours are in Norfolk, and IN
twenty-lour hours after being caught are land
ed iu this city. From here many are shipped
to points in the West 10 March the North
Carolina fisheries about Edenton are 10 full
blast, the enormous hauls Of shad and herring
being landed by means Of seines. At least one
million shad aud many more herring are caught,
the shipments reaching from one hundred to
five hundred large boxes each day. The North
Carolina fish are considered superior. because
they are caught as soon as they leave the sea,
and are always fat aud 10 excellent condition.
Shad first reached here this season early In
January. having been caught IN st. Johu s
river, Florida, and brought to Baltimore by
the Savannah steamers. These fish are gener
ally poor, and whilst North Carolina shad now
sell at $50 per hundred, the Florida article
commands but $50 The Potomac and Mary.
land shad aud herring fishermen commence
operations about the first of April, and the
same Fl h are not caught in the waters north OF
here until as late as May and June. -BaH. Am.
\ YoUNG LADY TERRIBLY BURNED.-A
correspondent Of the Richmond Dispatch.
writing from Charlottesville, under date of
February IL, says:
Our community was shocked on Friday on
hearing of a dreadful catastrophe, which hap
peucd four miles below here on Thursday olght,
at the residence of Mrs. Virginia Macon, the
mother Of l. S. Macon, ESQ., for some years
High Sheriff of this county. 1t appears that
Mrs. Macous daughter, Miss Lucy W. Ma
con, had retired to her room, and had set
down before the fire to read when she fell
asleep, her clothing and the chair upon which
she sat, taking fire meanwhile, and to such
an extent had the fire progressed that when
she awoke she was unable to extlngulsh It.,
burning her hands seriously 10 the attempt.
She immediately ran down stairs to her moth
ers room, where she had TO wait sometime tor
entrance, the flames mean time making fearful
progress in her clothing. Upon entering the
room, however, her mother dashed bucket
of water over her. aud her sister threw her
upon the bed and smothered what OF the fire
remained. She is terribly burned, aud is IN
very critical condition.
Private adviceS received yesterday stated
thar Miss Macon's condition had improved.
The TEMPERANCE CRUsADE.-Dispatche
state that the temperance prayer movement
has been started ats Manchester Iowa, a band
OF women having already visited number Of
saloons and held services
Areport from Lincoln, near Omaha, says the
Women temperance movement has been iuaug
urated there. Yesterday afternoon thirty wo-
men visited the salnnns At one nlace the