Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-17
NEWS by TO.DAYas MAIL.

Peter b. Mumford, who 1t was reported,
had failed in New Y ork on Monday, was al.
rested yesterday, charged. with having de-
frauded sGreenleaf, Morris e. Co, by means of.
. worthless check, of twenty eight thousand,
dollars in gola, and, on the presentation Of the
check it was found that there were no funds
4 in the bank. 4ss s3
One page Of the New York Journals Of Sa-
turday last was filled with accounts Of the
festivities going on Saratoga, Cape May, New
port, Nahant, Lake George, and other water
ing places Turning to the next page, the
reader found an account Of the theft OF three
hundred thousand dollars by an obscure bank
clerk. On one page We. were told Of the beau.
tiful forms and the elegant toilets Of fashion
able women; on the next Of the crime and
debauchery Of a clerk and his harlots. Here
are dances and dinners; there; disgrace, despair
and suicide . Isl
An immense number Of applications for
pardon were received on Tuesday, including
$50 from Virginia, about 800 from North
Carolina, and an. equal number from Alabama
and Georgia. Three thousand pardons are
already completed, with the.excepllon Of the
signature of the President and the seal OF the
Secretary Of State. In consequence OF the
great labor attending the signing of all these
pardons, the President has had made stamp
with which, to affix fac simile of his signature
to all such, papers.
Hon. John Smith, = Judge of the Circuit
Court of Allegany county, Nd, died very
suddenly near Cumberland, on Monday last
He was riding on horseback, when he tell dead
from his horse. He had been suffering for
some time with disease of the heart, and to
this is attributed his death.
Bv recent arrivals from Brazil we learn that
an active movement, headed by Silvlera da
Motta, has been organized IN the Brazilian
Senate for the gradual extinction of sllvery In
that country The largest shareholders are
most active in the matter, and the probabilities
seemed to be that. the bill framed to accom-
plsh this object would become a law. z z
Blythe last steamer from Europe we learn
that King Louis, of Portugal, when closing
the Cortes, promised strict law for the final
abolition of negro slavery within his domin-
IONS s This actually means in his colonial pos
sessions-iin the Cape de Verd Islands, Ma
deira and ST. Thomas; in the Azores; in Sen.
egal Angola, Guinea, aud Mozambique; in the
East Indies; il the Indian Archipelago, aud
at Macao, In China.
The New York Evening Post has reason to
believe that the trial of Mr.. Davis will not
commence uutil the trial cf Captain Wertz IS
closed It is expected that the testimony
taken in the. case Of Captain Wertz will be
SUCH to mpicate the former in the cruelties
alleged to have been committed upon Federal
prisoners OF war at Andersonyille.
An address. signed by the President and
Secretary Of '''The Temporary Executive
Committee Of the Conservative Citizens OF
Louisiana, = has been published in the New
Orleans papers The address strongly opposes
negro suffrage on the ground that the negro lis
not not fitted to become voter, either naturally,
intellectually or morally
The Mayor Of Mobile has made arrangements
With the military authorities to send to the
iorts to be put to work, all negroes that are
found in.thecity without passes, and having
nothing 70 do
The crops in England aud ireland are abun-
dant