Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-05
NEWS BY TO-DAY'S MAIL.

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NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.
Judge Apperson, of the Montgomery Ken
tucky) Circuit Court, has decided the act OF
Congress freeing the wives and children OF
negro soldiers, to be unconstl utlonal An
innotion has also been granted by judge Doui 2
3Juvs nhan Of Bracken county, restraining certain
persons, of abolition proclivities, from lnterter
ing with the Methodist Church, in Newport
The narties thus restrained Immediately ap
nealed to Gen. Palmer, who ordered the arrest
ofthe Minister of the Church on the charge OF
being NOTORIOUS Rebel preacher Mr.
Moore, of Coving ton has recovered damages,
IN Kenton county, from an Inspector OF cleo
tions, who refused to allow the former to vote
at charter election, on the ground that he
wasa Rebel sympathlzer.
There has been heavy advance In provl-
sions and fuel just as the weather IS manifest
ing change. Coal has advanced one dollar
per ton, and butter and meats, both salt and
fresh, are unusually high.
Gen Howard has issueda circular stating
that the Freedmen's Bureau will recongnlze
State laws regarding apprenticeship where no
invidious distinction of color is made between
black and white children, and regulating that
each7t 7towl, county or3parish shall take care OF
its own colored paupers in the same manner
as the whites. = H.. "
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, is in
Washington, and is not sloWin denuaciatlon OF
the result of the Connecticut election refusing
negro suffrage He processes to be greatly
disappointed, and predicts that New York,
and possibly New Jersey, will do much better
for the cause of radicallsm
General Banks made speech on Monday,
at Lawrence, Mass. in which he compared the
policy of President Johnson with that OF Pres
ident Lincoln, making the comparison very
unfavorabe to President johnson. He said
that President Johnson's policy was too liberal.
A dispatch from New Orleans asserts that
General Humphreys has been elected over
Fisher in Mississippi, by large majority, as
Governor
Gen. Grant arrived at Pittsburg yesterday.
A hundred thousand people thronged the
streets to see and welcome him, and an immense
procession escorted him to the City Hall,
amidst wceaths, bouquets, flags, bunting bells,
and cannon, where he gave tive receptions,
during which ten thousand ladies passed IN
review.
A Democratic Convention a. New Orleans,
repudiates President johnson S reconstruction
policy, declares that this is exclusively "a
white man S government asks COngreSS IOr
compensation for loss of slaves, requests the
repeal of the Emancipation Proclamation &C.
English capitalists have purchased 100000
Of Colorado mining lands, and their agents and
employees are en- route to develop the same
In the North Carolina State Convention,
onMonday, not much was done beyond effect
ing an organization and the reading of the
Governor Message.
The total estimated loss by fire in French 4
Richards drug warehouse, in Philadelphia, is
from $3.50, 900 to $1,000 Insured for sl75,,,
900, mostly in Eastern, Philadelphia, and
English companies
The Augusta Ca Chronicle says despatch
mas been received at Atlanta stating that A.
d. Stephens has been paroled, and will soon
return to his home.
The tragedian, Edwin Forrest, has purchas,,
ed the splendid mansion and grounds OF
eHa George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, tor s76,-
Flour has advanced 10 to Is cts.
The Portland Angus declares that the seven
hundred men, principally negroes, who were
cfnl. II IL 4h1 10 ~ q