Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-30
The Alexaudria Gazette
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 80:
NEWS BY TO-DAY'S MAIL.

to one hundred thousand dollars IN Govern
ment bonds, which were on speclal oeposl''
The property of the bank was not touched
No arrests have been made.
Carl Schurz, whilst travelling through the
South upon special mission from the 0oV-
ernment, is writing letters to Northern paper
the tone of which letters, lis believed IS CAL
culated to do more injury than the oohurz
mission is likely to do good. The intention OF
the Government when Schurz was sent to the
South was to have him quietly perform his
mission and make an official report to the War
Department.
It is generally thought that if General Her
-sundi takes the place of General Dulcc as
Captain General of Cuba, the African slave
trade will commence again with renewed vigor.
The managing director Of al influential
company in France, formed under the aus
pieces of the French Government, engaged IN
developing the resources OF French Guiana,
South America has applied to the Bureau OF
Freedmen to know if it is possible to obtain, IN
large numbers, the freedmen OF the South to
20 to Cayenne with their families, where they
would be we'll fed and treated, and where the
prejudice of caste is not SO strong against
them as in this country.
Mr.. Blair in his recent speech was severe on
the Registry law of Md, which he declared to
be unconstitutional, because it inficts an infa
nous punishment without a trial IN State
where public order is not disturbed, and is re-
Prospective in its operation.
The determination of the President of the
u. s. that Jefferson Davis should be tried by
civil court is likely to be carried out at Nor
folk, Virginia Soindicates a despatch received
from Washington last night. In that case
Chief Justice Chase would preside, Virginia
being embraced in his judicial circuit.
On August 1st, 8, 1874 bales of cotton arrived
IN Mobile the largest amount that had reached
there in one day for number Of years.
The large cooperage shop Of Aviles & Leb
lane, in Cienfuegos with a large quantity Of
sugar and molasses, was recently destroyed by
fire. The loss is $4,000
Mrs Ephraim Griswold, a wealthy old lady,
in Williston, Vt, was found in her barn yes
terday brutally murdered The perpetrator Of
the deed is at yet unknown a large amount
of money was in the house, which is missing.
Gen. Swayne, Assistant Comm issioner Of
Freedmen's Affairs for the State of Alabama,
teegraphs from Montgomery, under date of
the 2Sth instant, to Gen Howard, Superinten-
dent of tie Bureau, calling for an additional
military force to put stop to cruellies prac
ticed upon the freedmen of Alabama by the
late slave holders and others" Gen Svayne
suggests that the I'd Maine cavalry be sent to
him Immediately.
The Agricultural Bureau reports that the
potato crop this year promises to be the largest
ever made.
The Boston Herald which is shrewd OBJ
server of public affairs and the tendency Of the
public mind, says, Everywhere in Ohio and
Pennsylvania and throughout the country the
Democracy and the Conservative Republicans
are deserving the radicals, and they will 90
down. A new party will be raised up, which
will take the place of the old parties, and re-
store the nation to peace and to an economical
administration of its affairs This revolution
is now going on throughout the country, and
will soon will be heard laundering along the
political horizon"
Gen. Ruger in n G., declines to comply
with the request of Gov. Holden, to remand
three citizens arrested for assautlng freed
man, to the county in which the offence was
committed, to be tried by civil tribunal. Gen,
r. says that the magistrates do not act in such
cases, that acts Of violence against negroes are
booo,ni - frenueDt and that rrOmnt trial and