Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-09-16
NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.

NEWS BY IU-UAY,o HAIL.
Parties from the North and elsewhere hay
ing repeatedly Of late visited the battle helds
in Virginia and appropriated to their own use
property found thereon belonging to the doV-
ernment. Gen Terry, commanding the Depart
ment of Virginia, has issued an order prohib-
iting the purchase, sale or shipment to the
North by private parties Of fragments ofshell,
fragments of arms the metallic parts of equip
ments or accoutrements, or of any other article
designed for military use, excepting such
articles as are or have been sold by the author
lied agents of the Treasury Department
A French chemist has discovered a process
by which the saccharine matter is extracted
FROM the region of the mouth IN handsome
young ladies, which is likely TO produce a
revolution in the arts 1t has an eXhllaratlng
effect and flavor resembling champagne.
Lieutenant Gamble, R. N, of H. NJ s.
''Urgent," says that he passed the locality
where the Atlantic cable buoys were all report
ed to have been placed, and with the best
lookouts Of officers and men saw none OF them,
and concludes with saying, that II the Great
Easterns reckonlngs were correct, the buoys
must have parted from the cable and are
drifting about the ocean.
Fifty thousand dollars worth Of Government
bonds we're distracted from the counter OF a
banking house In Wall street, New York,
Yesterday afternoon, while the attention of the
clerk was diverted Payment on them has
been stopped, aud twenty thousand dollars
reward has been offered for their recovery.
A special desnatch from Montgomery, Ala,
to the Mobile News says that many influential
citizens of Marengo, aud the adjacent counties,
have petitioned Governor Parsons, asking for
the removal of Colonel Lynch, Of the 5th Wis
consin cavalry, as his open sentiments would
lead to negro rebellion, against the whites,
bloodshed being imminent
Advices from Honolulu to August Is have
been received The whalers James Maui
ry Joseph Maxwell and Richmond had arrived
from the Arctic, the former under bond, with
one hundred and fifty sailors, comprising the
crews of the vessels burned by the SE-nandoah.
She lett the Arctic about TIE time the Nile
departed for New York, and reports the total
captures of the Shenandoah at thirty, of which
twenty-six were burned and four bonded
A person from Texas reports everything
quiet Ia the Red River district negroes
generally remain with 6heir former masters,
working as usual Crops look we'll, and pro-
mise good yield.
The Conference of the Kentucky Methodist
Episcopal Church South, adopted, by vote
of3 against 25, the minority report, which
expresses willingness to receive, through the
General Conference only, an overture looking
to reunion. The report directly favored re-
union Seventeen Of the Union members
asked to be located, thereby resigning their
ministerial functions. Others resigned their
seats.
The war between Paraguay and the Argen-
5lne Republic shows no slgus OF termination.
Kalns had retarded military operations, but
DoStllltles were about to commence on an
IMPOSING scale. Large armies were being
raised by volunteers and conscrlptlons.
;, Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner Of
freedmen's Affairs at Richmond, Virginia,
reports to General Howard, that he has reason
10 believe that the fears lately expressed Of
an nlnsurrection of the freedmen in Virginia,
are entirely unfounded, and concludes his
report by saying: II think this outcry on the
paftot Southern citizens is to prevent what
'ley deem reason for arming military force. >
The National Italian Committee Of Rome
- preparing to send to this country fragment
u Sa the mound or wall of S,rvius Tulius, which
uales @ back as far as $40 B. G. and whose
ns cnesoge: e: may be seen in the gardens Sallust
Syn this will be placed this inscription, in
Latin TO Abraham Lincoln, President of the
ddaur,er'can dar Union the citizens of Rome have
u qTedlcted this stone from the walls of Servius
AZ ANUS, thatthe memory of these two valiant
offenders of liberty may be associated to-
gether''
81 The reception of General Grant at Spring
ae"i aeu' Ill.,, on the 18th instant. was very
enthusiastic.