Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-08
GENERAL NEWS.


Nor can the truth Of the statement be doubt
ed No one who reads any Of the leading
journals ST the country can fail to be himself
struck witt. tbefact. Almost every day we are
called upon to chronicle some fresh murder or
other outrage each. of SO appalling a character
that it would, a few years since, have been the
subject Of several days discussion.
The General commanding the department Of
Texas, is enjoined to strict and faithful
observance of the instructions heretofore issued,
which require him to forbear from any form of
Intervention in the war between France and the
sovereign power of Mexico, Of which President
Juares continues to be recognized as the chief.
The frigate Congress, as already reported, was
raised, and wask kept aAoat waiting for high water
to take her from her bed of sand until S
P. NJ, when the pumps gave out and she
sgain sunk, though in amore favorable posi-
ton and on higher ground than where she lay
before
The ease Of u. s. Grant VS.. Joseph W.
White, unlawful detainer, has been decided by
ajury at St. Louis adversely to the Lieutenant
General The suit was for the possession of
farm in St. Louis county, Mo, which White
had leased from Gen. Grant.
The State Department has been officially In
formed that a new source of industry is In pro-
cess Of development in Antigua, W. l., by
the discovery Of very valuable deposit of
guano on the island OF 'Rednida, Some Of
this fertilizer will soon be sent to the D. S.
Six Of the Bishops Of the Protestant Epis.
oopal Church, in the Northern States it
is said, have refused to sign Bishop Hop
kins' letter, inviting the Southern Bishops to
the approaching General Convention, and as-
suring them of cordial welcome, with no
reference to the past
ali the papers represent great distress and
suffering in South Carolina: and the destitu
ton in Columbia, 50 great, that it Is feared
many will starve.
Nobody has word TO say against the Corn
crop, throughout the length and breadth Of the
land
By the arrival of the steamship Damascus
Ou I0ktuti Oltt, NC N6fC dOVICCS 1tOuL 1IH'opC
to tie 2Sth ult. The only news of Importance
thus far received is that at ten o'clock on the
morning Of the 2Sth the Great Eastern was
about four hundred and fifty miles from Valen~
tla and had paid out five hundred miles Of the
cable. The signals were good and the weather
fne
Tie Galveston Bulletin, Of the 4th, says:
The yellow fever is prevailing to considerable
extent at Havana The proportion Of deaths
Is greater than usual
The amount Of Government money lost,
squcndercd or stolen from the Memphis Custom
House, is now estimated at over one million
tEo hundred thousand dollars Mr.. Page, the
PRESIDENT of the Commercial Bank Of Memphis,
Who was arrested on the charge Of completely
With his enormous defalcation, has been releas
ed on bail.
4 portion of the men belonging to the lst
Ohlo cavalry, whilst under the influence Of
liquor, robbed and destroyed goods at Florence,
oouth Carolina, to tie value of two thousand
hvehundred dollars.
\ special despatch to the New York Com
nerotal Advertiser from Montreal, August 7,
says that John H. Surratt has been in Canada
LOT long time and is now secreted In or near
that city.