Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-09
NEWS BY To-DAY,s MAIL.

George n. Saunders and carry him across the
border. The conspirators engaged IL this
affair offered Canadian detective the sum of
ten thousand dollars1to assist them. O'Rellley
deceived them by asserting to the proposition,
and then warned Saunders and the police OF
what was about to take place, Some Of the
conspirators were arrested.
\ bitter feud is said to have sprung up be-
tween the returned Confederate soldiers IN
Arkansas, and the soldiers who entered the
Federal service from that State. A fight oc-
cured between them recently, at Spadra,
IL which four men were killed. The white and
negro soldiers in the Federal service III Ar
kansas, are said to exhibit toward each other
an equally deep rooted animosity.
A negro loyal league is being formed at
Richmond Virginia, which, it's believed, will
number twenty thousand members within the
next thirty days. The objects of this League
are said to be the promotion Of education
among the blacks, mutual protection, and the
advancement Of their social and political rights.
Certain Of them have already held meeting
and drawn up a petition, setting forth their
grievances and claiming either the protection
Of the civil authorities or the privilege OF pro-
tecciDs themselves.
The Raleigh Standard, Governor Holden 5
organ, strongly protests against the nlsrepre-
senta5ions Of the Associated Press correspon
dent from that State III regard TO the manage
men. Of public affairs It denies the sweeping
charse in regard to the use Of the pardonlng
powsr.
Intelligence OF doubtful authority represents
the Liberals IN Mexico as gaining considerable
advantage over the lmperiallsts Cortlnas,
wbo was 50 badly heaten recently that his
entire force was dispersed or captured, has Is
sued a manifesto denonncirg all citizens OF
Nstauovas, who adhere to the Imperial cause
and threatening them with the confiscatlon Of
their property Cortinas, when hard pressed
by tie TmperiaIist crosses the Rio Grande into
Texas and takes refuge at his mother rancho,
some miles north of Brownsville, in that State.
The State Treasury at Austin Texas, was
broken into short time since, and robbed of
thirty thousand dollars in gold. The act is
attributed to guerrillas.
From the Pennsylvania coal region it is
learned that the demand for coal is good, and
We understand small advance IN prices has
been realized. The Philadelphia Ledger says
tits generally understood among the trade that
tolls and freight charges on both the Reading
railroad and the Schuykill canal will be advan-
ced On the lst of the coming month. The
Northern Central railroad and the TideWater
cana, bringing coal to this market, generally
make at least corresponding advances with the
Philadelphia lines. Already coal has been
put up about ST per ton in this market to con-
sur'ess, and its present price of from $3.50 to
slo.5O, it would seem, ought to be It's maxi
mum "
The New York Tribune of the 26th has
THIS paragraph ''The divorce cases, as the
records OF the Courts show, are rapidly In
ffIeasl1g here, having been twice as numerous
.Is the year ending July l, as they were during
W we previous year, and five times as many as
the7 we're IN 1861. The war has done much
20 unsettle domestic affairs and engender an
"aIesasanty and restessness that rarely tend to
augment the harmony Of married couples =
2goso at present the Superior and Supreme
0oss's are granting ten or twelve divorces
each week.