Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-11


in advance.
ADYERTIsEMENTs rs inserted at the usual rates.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Paris correspondent ofthe London Globe
states that fifteen thousand Polish refugees
who are at this time dispersed among the Swiss
Cantons, contemplate settling IN America, and
that their agent at Washington is IN active
Communication with the G Government in regard
to the terms On which they would be received
as agricultural laborers in the States. The
Swiss Diet has already voted q subsidy OF one
hundred and eight francs to each emigrant,
and it was expected that the French Govern
ment would place some Of its transpo port ships
attheir disposal for conveyance to their place
Of destination.
The interminable SchlesWig Holstein ques-
ton has not yet reached solution. The
discussion Of the matter has recommended II
the Germanic Diet at Frankfort, where resolu-
tons were offered requesting Austria and
Prussia to bring about the incorporation of
SchlesWig with the Gaermanic Confederation,
:
for the payment Of the costs Of Federal execu.
tionin Holstein and assume a portion OF the
war expenses Of SchlesWig. The cholera was
abating in Alexandria, Egypt, at the last ad-
vices, but continued to spread at stantinople.
Constance Kent, who confessed the murder
I Of. her brother ID England, and was sentenced
to death, has been transported for her lite TO
Freemantle, Western Australia. Il is said
that The information that her life had
spared produced no visible effect upon her.
when it was communicated.
SENSATION SToRIEs SPOILED. Early,
Of the Confederate army, who was charged
with saying certain rude things OF the President
in Washington the other day, it turns out was
not within 200 miles Of the city. 1t is this
wholesale lying about public men which pro
duces about half the political mischief in the
land, and In this case, as IN thousand Others,
the lie travels It's league while truth is putting
on its boots. Another Of the current lies is
the statement that one Of the family Of Robert
Ould, late commissioners for the exchange Of
prisoners at Richmond, had been stopping at
{ Carlisle, Pa. and took exception to the dis
play Of the United States flag, and lett the.
hotel on that account. Mr.. Ould writes that
none Of his family have been there, and that
there is not one word OF truth in the state
ment-NeW York E.cpress.
Those who are always so ready to give Gre,
dence to such stories and circulate them, are
almost, if not quite, as culpable as those who
invent them. Very few of these statements
especially when ascribed to persons of any
brains at all, or who have been known as OF
respectable character will bear the least test OF
common sense scrutiny or reason bait. Sun.
Ata meeting Of the Board Of W William and
Mary College, recently held in Richmond, it
was determined to resume the sessions Of this
WellknoWn institute Of learning during the
coming Autumn. The college building, which
was partially destroyed By fire during the war,
will be repaired. This college is the oldest
institution Of learning in the United States,
except Harvard University.
The yellow fever is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Savannah. Vessels are neither al
lowed to leave or approach the city.
The President has pardoned Herschel v.
johnson, the candidate for Vice President
With Stephen A. Douglas. The amnesty was
granted at the intercession of Mrs. Douglas
n. N. Nixon, Of North Carolina, iilliam I !.
Jaques and B. B. Boiling, of Virginia, and
", Prusthey and G. Shackleford, Of Missis-
slppl, were pardoned yesterday also.
General Brisbane, in his official report Of
the Organization Of colored troops, states that