Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-03
NEWS BY TO-DAY'S MAIL.


arms ia the war, for the best specimens OF pen
nanshin. The competition is exciting great
deal Of interest among the soldiers and very
Interesting collection of specimens has been
sent IN.
The firm of August Belmont & Co., New
York. was robbed on Thursday OF government
bonds of the $40 denomination Of the loan OF
1852 to the amount of $4,000. The bonds,
when taken, were lying on the counter, and
several persons were in the banking room
at the time Of the abstraction, butno one saw
the theft committed. Oa Friday, Charles
Jones, alias Chauncey johnson, we'll known to
the police of New Y York was arrested aud COM
mitted on charges of having stolen one thous-
and six hundred dollars from the Adams Tx
press Company aud the twenty-five thousand
dollars from Belm ont's Banking House
Major General Thomas has issued military
order directing that Bishop Wilmer OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Ala bama, and
all the Clergy Of his Diocese, be suspended
from their functions and forbidden to preach or
perform divine service, and that their places OF
Worship be closed until such time as the Blsh-
,op and his Clergy give evidence OF their 10y
aitv TO the United States Government by con-
senting to take the amnesty oath and to pray
for the President of the United States and
all others in authority.
]. The steamer Nightingale, from Savannah,
hound to New York, with seventeen passen.
GERS and cargo of fourteen hundred bales OF
cotton and other merchandise, went ashore on
Saturday last on Absecom Beach An at
tempt was being made to save the cargo.
The New York Times of yesterday says that
the steamers City of Boston and Erin, which
sailed from that port on Saturday, are SAID to
have taken out 81 100000 II bonds tor the
use of the embryotic Irish republic. This,
and other reports, from this country concern
ing the Fenian movement, Will not be agreea-
bic to the BRUSH government.
They had quite local sensation in Philadel-
phia onSunday Rev. Or. Wilmer, who went
South on the breaking out OF the war: reap
peared on Sunday, in the Chancel Of St.
Marks Church, to assist in administering the
communion A large portion OF the audience
retired This will not tend to a conclllatlon
between the Northern and Southern Eplsco
pal churches.
Juarez the President Of the Republic OF
Mexico is in Ell Paso He is running from the
French, who entered the capital Of chihuahua
fifteen or twenty days since, aud are now re-
ported on their way to Ell Paso. Juarez has
no army, and is only attended BY his Cabinet
and some few fugitive officers Of his disbanded
army.
About two weeks ago q large dry goods es-
tabshment, on Eighth street, Philadelphia,
was robbed of about $4,000 worth Of silks,
aoes, &c. The detectives of Philadelphia and
New York have been working up the case,
and have arrested notorious thief named Jack
Peacock, and recovered about $4,000 worth
Of the stolen property.
The announcement made, though not Off
eially, that the Secretary of the Treasury ln-
tends converting the Compound Interest Lee
sal Tender Notes into Five-Twenty Bonds. IS
meeting with considerable favor IN financial
circles throughout the country.
A New Orleans dispatch informs US that
authorized delegates of the Democratic party
are about to leave for Washington on an I'M
portant mission The reported murder OF
:he Confederate General Parsons IS confirmed.
Advices from San Domingo report the re-
'vlValof business, and the return OF the taml-
lies who fed during the war. The death pen
atty tor political offences has been abolished.
ten. Brannan has been relieved Of his COM
znand at Savannah, and ordered to the De-
p:artment of the Tennessee, and left for Nash
Vile, On the 26th.
Ihe Connecticut election has resulted in
me defeat of the negro suffrage amendment
Oy from 5000 to 5000 majority. 4
), Nothing decisive has lately occurred at the
. 'neatre Of war in Paraguay. 5trs