Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-07
ALEXANDRIA, GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.

A desnatch from Governor Holden to the
President, announces that the North Carolina
State Convention, yesterday, declared the
ordinance of secession null and void. and that
the slavery question will be disposed OF to day.
John D. S. Driden and W. V. N. Bay, who
were elected from the Supreme Bench IN
Missouri BY order of Governor Fletcher, be-
cause thew would not obey the Vacatlng ordl-
nance of the State Convention, have rendered
their resi- gnatlons.
Mobile is once more in communication by
rail with Montgomery, via Knoxville and
Lvnchburg, and Adams's Express has also
found it's way there.
Later news from Mexico says that force Of
| 200 Mexicans, under Cortinas, is marching
on Matamoros, laundering everything as they
90. A decisive victory of 900 Mexicans over
8, 500 imperial troops, in July, ~ is claimed
with the capture of prisoners, arms, and tro-
phies.
Macmillan has issued an imperial decree
which nominally abolishes slavery in Mexico,
but at the same time establishes a system OF
peonage in the empire.
Gen Rousseau, member OF Congress elect
from Kentucky, has written letter to, the
President, sustaining the course pursued by
General Palmer in the administration OF affairs
in that State.
Dr. Mudd, at the Dry Tortugas, undertook
to escape recently, by secretlng himself IN the
coal bunkers of the steamer Thomas Scott.
He was found and set to wheeling sand. The
Quartermaster Of the steamer was his accom-
plice.
Two warehouses; containing 1900 and 500
bales Of cotton respectively have been Destroy
ed by inoendiarism at Mobile. Loss on the
greater amount, $4,000 mostly insured.
From San Francisco we learn that the steam
er Constitution has sailed for Panama, with
nearly million and half III treasure.
There is no truth in the reported story Of
what General Grant said about Mexican affairs.
Judge Catron denies that the General ever
used the language, or anything to the purpOrt
Of that published in the Philadelphia despa tch.
A report from Los Vegas, New Mexico,
states that President Juarez had arrived at
Santa Fe, en- route for 1.-THE States. Doubt
full.
Flour is still advancing in the New Y ork
market.
Ex-Mayor, Walter Lennoz Of Washing ton,
has been released from Fort Henry after
twenty-one months confinement.
Cold has been l49 but fell to l462 owing to
the government putting half million on the
market.
a meeting was recently held in New York
with the object Of providing some effective
system for the reclamation, or at least the
protection, Of that unhappy class Of females
whose existence is at once the surest concom-
liant and the deepest modification Of civilized
society.
4 general order has been issued by the com-
uandant OF the Navy Vary at Brooklyn, \.
Y, prohibiting the exaction Of money for
political purposes from the Workmen employed
there, and directing that any money already so
received shall be refunded forthwith. 4 repe-
tition of the offence, it is announced, will sub
ject the offender to removal from whatever
position he may chance to hold Excellent
Gen. Humphreys, Of Mississippi, was par
doned by President Johnson yesterday This
act Of the President settles the question as TO
the eligibility Of General Humphreys to the
office of Governor Of Mississippi.
General Grant reached Washington yester-
day from the West and was in consultation
with the President Senator Davis and other
Kentuckians are there to urge the removal Of
General Palmer as commander in that State.
The deplorable condition Of matters in Mis-
souri,, growing out of the inexplicable policy
of Governor Fletcher, is engaging the attention
of the President.