Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-23

The, Richmond Republic speaking Of the
" M House Plantation, in New Kent cou1nty,.
va sab: Il ere Gen. Washington married
then dow b, Custis oENhose family it was;eyeh
in those days, the ancient h e estea M II
descended to her son, the late george wasp
ington Park Gusts, by whom 1t was bequea at,
.ofasGG en.rqR.rsE. Lee. The,
dmaIl;na house. from which the plantation
deriya is narne Vas used ederal army
as . danot IN 1862 and was burnt by Gen.
Stoneman during Nee eIan's retreat from the
lifeline of the Chick ahominy. From that
time@to the conclusion of the war it was uncut
tiyafed. being at all times occupied by the
Efroops of one or the other of thehostile armies
After the surrender Of Gen.. Lee, his. son,
William III. r. Lee, without loss of time
repaired to the White House, determined,
Notwithstanding the lateness OF the. season, to
attemptto make crop OF corn Armlstead
and William Christian, two young men former
yof his command, and Andrew Shackeltord,
Of the late Confederate artillery, attended him.
A German and an Irishman and two freedmen
were subsequently added to their force. Ihey
began blowing on the goth of April, and have
made splendid crop of corn which is estlmat-
ed at fifteen hundred bushels.
The Ouartermaster General has issued an
order. under instructions from tbs Secretary OF
of War, In reference to horses recaptured from
the rebel armies, to the effect that where
horse captured from the rebels is identified
by sufficient proof as the property Ola oyal
citizen, the claim of such citizen to his property
will be recognized by returning the horse to
him, or if the necessities of the service prevent
such return, by paying for it at the average
Government price Of the district, receipts to
be taken in all cases in duplicate
Yesterday a counterfeit fifty dollar note Of
the United States was presented at the mint
in Philadelphia. It apparently and doubtless
is from new plate, and is pronounced a dan
gerous fac smile OF the genuine fttles.
The large supplies of cotton from the South,
which were for some time expected IN vain,
are at last arriving in full measure at New
York. The receipts in this market alone,
during the last six weeks, have been over one
hundred thousand bales, (l03 64S) or an
average of more tnan seventeen thousand bales
week. Last week we had close upon twenty
thousand bales, l9,404.
"A single gentleman advertises in the
Baltimore American for permanent board III
private boarding house or with a private
family" and he wants a room on the first or
second foor,' and above all he says mo pro-
posals desired from any who ever sympathized
with the late rebellion
The Washington Star upsets the story that
is going the rounds about the desertion of his
wife by New Hork blood - the wife being
Gen. Harrison's niece, &c. The young man
was named Getty, the lady a very distant
relation of Gen. Harrison's &C., &c.
John Mitchell is still in confinement at
Fortress Monroe His health is bad
The plantation Of Jefferson Davis, in Mis-
sissippi, is now occupied and cultivated by
freedmen, under the direction of the Freed
men Bureau.
A spiritual medium is under trial in
Rochester, n Y, for practicing as a jugger
without taking out license.
Tournaments continue to be held in diff
ferent sections of the country. They are
quite the rage
The largest peach grower in Delaware is
Mr. Anthony Reybold. He has a peach
orchard Of thousand acres, of which six
hundred acres have trees of a bearing age
His crop of last year amounted to 10000
baskets Of which the average price was one
dollar per basket-$60, 000 Deducting twen-
ty-five per cent for expenses. the net profits of