Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-12-28

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The hessenate recently adopted a resolution re :.
taqueshng Secretary Stanton to report whether
any person Wasemployed by the War Depart
ment who has not taken the oath. prescribed
by the act.of. Congress. Mr. Stanton, in his
response thereto says none have been SO EN-
p]oyed except those Whowere appointed proYi
SIGNAL governors Of Subsequently, who have re-.
9dceived compensation for their services TO the u.
4 S. government 5outtof the contigent fund of The
WarD Department. t.atthe same rate allowed to
= And. johnson, military governor Of Tennessee,
under his appointment Of March 81, 1862, viz:
at the rate ofthree thousand dollars per annu11;
and IN reply to the inquiry as to whether any
gs person was filling an Office not authorized by-
{ the law, he says that in August last an office
was organized in the Adjutant Generals bu-
,reau for the collection, safekeeping and preser-
iyation Of the Southern archives, and Dr. Fran
CTS Lleben was appointed chief Of that bureau.
William Hutchings, of Penobscot, Maine,
apd Lenauel Cook, of Clarendon, Orleans coun-
ty, New York, are the only survivors Of the
revolutionary war known to the Pension Bu-
reau. Thereare five widows of revolutionary
j. soldiers drawing in the aggregate q pension of
1898 76. Tits thought Congress will increase
the amount l@ -
i, A despatch from Raleigh, n. g., announces
that the people of that locality: enjoyed their
Christmas festival undisturbed by any outbreak
among the negroes, such as they had .appre-
hended The latter class are said to be behav-
ing in a very commendable manner. .
JOS Edwards, Baltimore rough, was shot
last evening at the Oxford Theatre, Norfolk, by
soldier at whom he had discharged pistol.
A despatch from Atchison, Kansas, announ-
ces the arrival there Of Messrs. Chaffee and
Evans, United States Senator'S from Colorado,
who report genera confidence among the peo-
pie that Colorado will, be at once admitted as
State 5 ales s;l 9s .ui&a @0
Fifty two thousand three hundred md nine
ty-two acres last month were taken .np. at the
United States Land Office at St, Cloud, Min
~.nesota, of which over. forty uiue THOUSAND
three hundred acres we're rgntaTett' f2gE nol2$: :
stead actual settlement, a5d1 the re&i}7u3 lea
ted With agricultural c}iltge scrip, n aodIH'o!'
to which, IN that lnooth and at the san:e place
cash sales were made, amounting to 81 ,4l3. 49.
Late news frou. South America, via ST. Tho
mas, represents that the fortieth anniversary
of the birth of the Emperor OF Brazl! was:
celebrated With popular rejoicings American
emierants from the Southern States were said
TO have selected site for "a town near Rag
nord. A tract of 5000, 900 acres OF unocoupled
Government land has been selected, it's said,
and large flow of emigration from the South.
ern States is expected. There was no change
in military affairs
An entire family were poisoned yesterday:
morning.in New York by ylaudanum put in their
coffee None of them lost their lives, but the
father was-in precarious condition.
General Meigs, the paymaster General, has
stonnea the nav of nearly 100 officers OF the
Quartermaster's Department, until they shall
have re ndered to the Quartermaster General
the returns and accounts required OF them by
the law andregulations Of the Department.
Edwin Booth and J. S. Clarke, the come
dian, have rented the Boston theatre, at a rent
of $l6,O 900 per annum."
The total number of patients in the military
hospitals throughout the country was, on 1ha
10th Of December, 2,035.
New certificates Of indebtedness were ?2 issued
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