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ALEXANDRIA. VA. 1 EETING OF THE CrTV CouNciL—There was a regular meeting of the City Council last night. Board of AujERMEN.-Messrs. Bryan Armstrong, Simpson, Markell, and Barton appeared. Mr. Brvan, President of the Board, took the Chair, and Mr. Barton was appointed clerk pro tern. After the usual call on the Committees for reports, Mr. Armstrong introduced an order making an appropriation of thirty dollars for the purpose of purchasing fuel for the use of the Free School, which was comper ed and passed. The Board concurred in the action of the Common Council, authorizing the Auditor to pay the officers and employee? of the Corpo ration in due bills of the Corporation of the of $1 and $2. The Board also concurred in the action of the Common Council, in referring to the on the Poor the bills of the American Coal Company, and J. W. Aikin" Tbe report ond accompanying resolution, j and bill of the Committee on General Laws pawed by the Common Council, was receiv-j ed and read, and the report adopted, and the resolution in reference to the salary of the I Teacher of tho Free School, p it , se d.' The bill for the removal of the Night Wateb and Day Police, was then taken up avid considered. Mr. Armstrong moved to i !Werc fhe uame j w r ' 7* ~ppwefl " iie ***** rf Mr. Simpson advocated the paesge of the WII, and oppoeed the amendment oi Mr. Armttroag. want of the requisite number of vote/-five* being required, aa.ftlsawii It— Mesgrs. Armstrong and Markell Marked who voted in the negative j purpose, then moved a reconsideration ' vote by winch ,he bill was lost, which ! oarried, on Button Of the same gentle- i ie bill was laid on the table, and then ! mon Covscil-In the Common Conn- I re were present, Meters, McKenzte I araiesou. Harper. Harmon, Andrew! oa, Dorsey, Miller, Snowdan, A thin d Smoot. Prwidaal boing absent, H 11. Miller owe President pro tern. BiCteea being called upon for report. iKe&aie, from the Committee on (jon- Wdi in conformity with a resolution I September 11th, submitted the tbl report aud accompanying resolution, ity Council of Alexandria :— ommittoe on General Laws have had nn [deration the resolution referred to th»m th inst., and herewith submit an act re from office the Superintendent of the atch, the Watchmen and PoPce Consta- ! io Commiueo believe that this will the! etually accomplish the object of the reso- ] reference to the said officers. 14th section of the Charter, (page 184 ) ' idod that the "City Council shall anpoiut ye all officers of the Corporation Those i not otherwise provided for." d appear from this section that the pow oval is as absolute in the City Coune'l 'er to appoint said officers. Your Com not think that the Cky Council need in j ««es for the removal of such officers, nbo aeeaatary, a sujjicient c «ui e of re . ourulin the fact that the said officers ar. on duty, and their services are not re j •mmittoo have examiaed the question as iction of the salaries of other officers spectrally report, that whilst the erisai- the has been suspended functions stilt continue, and that hi ß s Meats** now as formerly to put in -vo' rho City Council. A reference to cage 183 of th. Charter will sh ow very ' at his salary cannot bo increased «, dun-- h ;* ~r-.,.-;r •enn of service, j i and this is doubtless true as to all officers elected I In reference to the Free School aud the authoi i- Ity for employing the teacher thereof,. your Com mittee find the ordinances on that subject obscure aud illy defined. They believe that for many years the management of this institution has rest ed almost entirely and exclusively with the Trus tees. They recommend that the said Trustees be Ed to employ a competent teacher for the ear at a salary of $400, payable at the c yea-, and report a resolution for that ommitteo are equally at a loss lo propose for curtailing the expenses of the Alms The support of the poor is an obligation d by all Christian communities, and is gatory ns well by tho ordinary dictates ity and Christianity, as by the laws ol passed by our own seeking, which throw municipal authorities the care of their be present regime, there arc no criminals to the Work House for support, and in 0 of your Committee it would at the uo and under existing circumstances, be ' i cruel to withdraw tho credit or money j from the support of tho.se who (for no dependent on the community for sup yhavo, therefore, deciiued, (until posi ucted) to offer any modification to the gulation for the support of the poor. mraittes would further suggest to the boards, that each board have tho power I xnd appoint its own Clerk. Slioulii I uneil bo of opinion that these officer- ! have salaries too large for their present service ' it is entirely competent for each board to reaiove their present Clerks from office, and to employ the same or others at salaries to be fixed by the City Council prior to the new appointment. Your , Committee would especially iv this connection call I i;ion to the salary oUthe Clerk of the Board lermen, ($880,) whose only services are tho ; 'got the minutes of the meetings of that! "Ived, That of T -u,toes of the | Jehosl, be requested to employ a teacher for I rrent school year at a salary not exceed!," undred dollars, payable at the end of the _ CT providing for tho removal of certa'n ' ers of the Corporation. areas, tho oit* of Alexandria is no W occu pied by the military forces of the Uni.ed Btafes '< who have superseded the City Police and Nhrbi ,'I w reaS ° n WheM ° f ' *•'*•«•■ Constables i kttr s'fnT haVe bOeD rendtre<l BM,6S,J tho ' out equivalent service: heretofore held the oftir.->„ ~*• □ the W «h "v ome ** ot oupsriatendjnt of ; ! offices. ' Jr Ka ' | Shafl beinfoicefrom and after its passaf*. .' read a first and second time, the rule was j j aud passed. iof SI and $2, was introduced hy Mr. Smoot I , and passed. J- W. Atkinson for work for the Alms j Committee on the Poor. there had been n'> renewal of the fidit at j Meeting of the Union Association—No mination for U. S. House of Represent \ tivrs.—A meeting of the Union Associa tion, of this city, was heid last night at the Lyceum Hall, S. Shinn in the chair. After a discussion as to the propriety of no minating a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, it was determined by the meeting to go into such nomination, when S. Ferguson Beach was selected as the Indidat-, he having received upwards of ty votes, C. B. Shirley 2, Gargas 1. Soper 1. The meeting then ad- Angtiier Northern Debt Case.—The ex isive Dry Goods establishment of the 3ssrs. Witmer, was closed this morning in :-dience to an order from the Military (t appears that preliminary proceedings retreen taken in that Court, by a Northern >tor of the house, similar to those in the i cases of Meade & Mavre and Addison, Wallace & Co. The final adjudication of the matter has not been made, but we learn that the case Will be tried in a few days, Mr. Slaymaker, tho Junior partner of the firm, representing its interests, and that in the meanwhile the establishment will be plaoedin charge of a military gevrd. - The Military Court.—The statement i that the time for opening the Military Court bad been changed from one to three o'clock is erroneous. The nhange was merely a temporary one—and the Court met this morning at the usual bou.:. Nociril busi ness of interest, however, came before it. The ship Thomas Watson, from Liverpool, while attempting to run the blockade, and gee into Charleston, on the 10th, was run .;ti sin, re, and beached. Tne ship was burned hy the Federal troops, they first taking from her a large amount of army fiaonels. A dispatch, dated Cincinnati, October 22 says: "A fight occurred at Camp Wildcat, Kentucky. Zolltouffcr, with some 7,000 Confederates, made three different attacks ' on ©01. Garraud's camp of 1,200 men, and j was each time repulsed with considerable I A dispatch was received at Washington on Monday from General Roseorans, dated at ! Camp Tompkins, ucnrGauley Bridge, where j he has been encamped for some time. He ' .reports all quiet. The Confederates, it is ! said, are falling hack from their position. | It is just three months since the Bull Ran ! , nfiair. For two months two of tho larg< -t I ; armies ever assembled in modern time 3, end i I provided with all the means and appliances I jof war that modern invention e;;n supply, have stood face to fane. The awards of the government contracts | for beef and pork were made public yeatc.r- j j day. 4,120 bbls. of the furuter were con- J ; traded for at 15.70@;?17 for mess, including some prini3 at $11, and prime mess at : - — tm .. | It is currently stated that General Scott's i I healrh is much impaired, but he attends reg- I | ular'y to business. It is supposed that the command of the j army of the West will be given to Geo. Wool. asMl is understood that the thing was near j being determined soma time since. — i _— It is not believed that any other vessel j than the sofa M>aer Fairfax, heretofore report j ed, has been captured by the batteries on the I Potomac] I thousand seven hundred and J sixty-eight horses have been purchased by j th- gsvernment in Cincinnati since the break j in£ out of the troubles. j ■ It is rumored that Colonel Graham, of j Sickles' brigade, was accidentally kill- • yesterday, at t>r near Port Tobacco. Camp Denison, in Ohio, is to be used ci [winter quarters for Western troops. It ii-is recently Acted up for th it purpose. "Whire Gunpowder" is among th a novelties mw being made end talked European advices to the 10th, have beeu breadstuff* are advancing. The ports of Portugal have been opened to the importa tion of foreign grain. Private letters speak of the shortness of the cereal crops in Eng land, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland and Italy. There was a bread riot in Paris late ly, but it was soon suppressed. The report that the Emperor Napoleon will soon recog nize the Southern Confederacy is revived. The London Shipping Gazette says that England and France ought to move in this matter together. I A despatch dated Louisville, Oct. 21 says ■ be reported occupation of Greensburg by ie Confederates is premature. A small imbevwent there and took twenty mules bich had been placed, as contraband, in arge of Q« tt , Ward. It is reported that General Ward fell back elve miles from Qreenabttrg to Campbell* le. Ho dispatched 15 cavalry to reoon itve, intending that they should return sterdny, but they bad not returned when r informant left. General Ward has about 3,(100 froope. eadvance guard of the Confederates at .tie Barren, on the smith side of Greeu er, is estimated at 2,000. The river was ;b, and will be impassable for sever.il 1 private despatch to the Journal day a aeral Ward has not fallen back as report- The Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, for the Western Shore of Maryland, and the adjacent parts of Pennsylvania and Virgin ia, has issued an address setting forth the well known sentiments wt that religious so ciety in relation to WBr <( \ tDe bearing of arms, with regard to the payment of the taxes imposed, to., it is advised to obey ail laws, with widen the members of the society' can conscientiously comply. The address is temperate and is signed among others, by lamin Hailowell and E. H. Stabler. Ie telegraphic war news from the West accounts of the capture of one hundred ral troops in Caldwell Coenty, Missou* i a skirmish near Lebanon, and of the of Conf.derate forces estimatedl at 5,« ien near Frederiokstowni io the same UOVKTar CsoaoßSS -Mount Olivet Church a mile north of Bab's Qroas Boedi, is now a mere shell, every chipboard having been taken off. Hunters Chapel was commenced apon, but was saved before the work of de struction had proceeded far, Some Indiana regiments, at Jarre Haute, recently proceeded to sack a printing office and demolished several private residences. Great excitement was created, and the citi zens were about organizing, and marclrng against their camps. The funeral of the late-Thomas Wildey, in Baltimore, was attended by the Lodges' of Odd Fellows, and the procession was a large The Local Preachers' Convention, of the M. E. Church, recently held in New York, after an exciting debate, refused to act on resolutions introduced in relation to the pre- The army "regniatioa" bursa is fifteen to sixteen hands high, between four and nine years old, perfectly sound, square trotter, and oolor bay, brown, black or sorrel. fthaa been decided"not to renew the pa tent of MoOormieh'e reaping neeebine, Onthe 19th of September, hy the Rst.o* rr w Lemon, Mr. JOSEPH BOBSBMAB, And SARAH KiMi, both of this city. On the 2lst all,.by she same, JOHN R vn r«BB, andOATUARINE OH AUN OBY. ' aJ&S? 26th nit, hy the same, WILLT-VV a WITH, and MARY A. LILLTBRIDQB. * ' 'On the 10th Inst., hy the samCf jqhn WHfl LBS ADAMS, ana FANNY WITTAKBR. ,it n *5 d 22 1 lMt » b .v the .same. CHRISToj'HPR ItYLBS, and JANE ALLEN. r\Ki: ;v -s.>. Nitrur,- Bismathj H<Tp«; Ale*,. \J hbl; Cansphorj o a rd»tnon Seed; *~ L™ 1 " '. MM tor sale by : ' "' ~., , , JAMBS BBTWWLS, J« ' ~ u * Apothecary, 94 Kfag-i