Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-09-09
NEWS BY T0DAY'S MAIL.

Orders have been given to prepare quarters
for Mr.. Jefferson Davis, in Carroll Hall building
inside of Fortress Monroe. tits thought that
probably his trial will take place there.
A collision occurred yesterday on the Cana
dian and Amboy r. r., by which locomotive
was damaged, several cars injured and num-
Der Of the passengers bruised.
The reported burning of Shreveport, La,
iscontradicted. Can anything in the neWspa
pers be believed !?
Twelve indictments have been found against
Ketchum, in N. York
A dispatch from Newbern, n c., says -
Mrs. Robinson, loyal widow lady, residing
in Beaufort, N. c., made application for back
rent of building occupied by the Government
and decision recently arrived adverse to her
claim, on the around that Beaufort was cap
tured city, and therefore all property, including
personal, in town, is a lawful prize Of war;
persons in insurrectionary States, which are
also conquered territory
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Press speaking of the expected return
Of Mr.. Corcoran, the banker, says, ut is pre-
sumed that he and the government have a fai1
understanding as to their future relations. :
Fitz Henry Warren, of Iowa, has been ap-
pointed Minister to Guatemala. Tie is always
in for something or other.
The Washington correspondent Of the Phil
adelphia Ledger states that President j Johnson
sides with the Southern Bishops on the South
ern church question, and there will, therefore,
be no trouble in the resumption Of their la
bors IN future.
Nearly two hundred persons were on the
u
day last, when the ammunition which filled
one of the cars, exploded. Seven of the pas
sengers were killed outright, and nearly all the
others received more or less injury. All the
cars were blown to pieces, and the engine was
reduced to total wreck.
The anniversary of the martyrdom of St.
Peter is to be celebrated in Rome, with re-
igious ceremonies, and vast concourse OF
people from all quarters of the world is ex-
pected to be present.
The Port Tobacco, Md, Times says that In
Charles county, the Registration In that county
IS going on slowly, and that it is though the
qualified voters will average from one-half to
tWo-thirds of the former vote
MANIFESTO OF IHADDEUs STEVENS. .-Thad-
deus Stevens delivered a speech at the Court
House, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania a few days
ago, in which he rejoiced over the successful
termination of the war, but is distressed, he
says, by passing events. He regards President
johnson theory of reconstruction as wholly
Wrong, and would have the South held as con-
quered provinces He declared himself to be In
favor Of confscating the property of all South
srners worth over ten thousand dollars, who
mad, In any manner, committed themselves to
the prosecution of the war. He estimated
that this property would produce a sum OF
over three thousand millions of dollars, which,
proposed, should be used to compensate
.oya! men who lost property in the war, to
provide homes for negroes TO increase the
pensions of soldiers, and towards liquldatlng
public debt He stated that this debt,
:3lough usually estimated at four billions OF
a9oAars, IS far beyond that amount, and that
tne annual expenditure will shortly be not less
nan %! five hundred millions Of dollars. He
alluded to the plea for mercy to the women
sna aOi children of the South but urged that such
in5e1ng should not be allowed to influence us.
aaelaVored the most rigorous enforcement OF his
atoctrlne even fit should drive all upon whom
!aIIoperated into exile" Finally. towards the
vse sbst OF his Speech he boldly avowed his belief
n suat the very existence of the Republican
patty y depended upon the Rebel States being
as;ep1 out OF the Union for while their admis-
Inevitable" '0,0 = '''0 ~
: brandy is now made from water-melons, il
~ ~ Mary's county, Md, tasting, it is said