Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-19
NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.

s NEWS BY T0-DAY's MAIL.
The General Episcopal Convention, sitting
IN PHILADELPHIA, passed aresolution, in response
- an invitation from the House of Bishops,
setting apart Tuesday, the seventeenth instant,
as day of special thanksgiving, that 1t has
nleased Almighty God to restore the church to
its old relations Of brotherly affection and union
throughout the whole land.
A Nashville despatch says the Senate spent
Monday in debating on the admission OF negro
testimony in the courts.
General Sterling Price has been appointed
by the Emperor Mazimilian one OF three
American Commissioners OF Emigration tor
Mexico -
The twenty thousand dollar clause of the
Amnesty Proclama ton, it is now explained,
applies only to certain classes OF offenders, who
are required to make special application tor
pardon. All other persons who are worth
more than twenty thousand dollars may hnd
immediate relief by simply taking the amnesty
oath.
An organized band of outlaws nfest the
mountains above Lynchburg, and it is no unu-
sual sight to find a dead body in the roads or
woods In that section Mr. Allen L. Carey,
Of Richmond, recently undertook to visit that
section for the purpose Of buying butter.
Leaving Lynchburg one day last week on loot,
he sgG t9XaSd i Fnease aka ahns Afns Pq pu7
chase, and in doing SO he exhibited about $500
in specie and greenbacks, which he had tt ken
with him. Late in the afternoon when about
ten miles from the river, whilst passing through
a deep gorge in the mountains, with no sign
of hatitation near, he was set upon by two
ruA6ans, who robbed him of every cent he pos
sessed. He attempted to call for assistance,
but the first alarm caused them SO to tighten
their hold upon his throat that be sunk to the
ground exhaused. He was left in this stua-
ton by the Williams.
Mr.. Julian Mitchell, of South Carolina, who
was commissioned to 60 to Washington to soil
cit President johnson to restore to the owners
the valuable plantations On the Sea Islands OF
that State, writes to Charleston that he has
succeeded in obtaining general order Tor the
restoration of the lands. General Howard, OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, will shortly visit
Charleston to make a formal surrender OF them.
The President has taken no definite action
as yet on the application for the removal OF
General Palmer, but has decided not cnly that
all colored troops shall be withdrawn from
Kentucky, but all other troops, which prac-,
tically disposes OF the case. 1t is also said
that the President has determined that all
troops, of whatever character, shall be With
drawn from the South, except what few may
be required to man the Notifications, lmmedl-
ately after the restoration of civil government
IL the several States.
AS illustrating the mortality among the ne
groes in state of freedom, Richmond paper
cites two instances. IN the case or nlnety-elght
slaves from one plantation, who took refuge IN
1863 within the Federal lines, twenty dled
within two years In another case OF twenty
SIX negroes, who made their escape to the Tree
States, eight of the original number died With
IN the space of thirty-one months.
The President has ordered George W. Ga!e
lawyer of Alabama to be transferred to CIVIL,
instead of military court, for trial. he IS
charged with being the author OF an ADVERTISE
ment soliciting contributions to the amount OF
one million of dollars, with which to procure
the assassination of President Lincoln
The Mississippi Legislature met at jackson,
the capital of the State. and organized on
Monday Gen. S. J. Gholson was elected
Chairman of the Senate, and Col. Slmonton
Speaker of the House. General Humphreys
was naugurated Governor of the State, Mon
day evening.
The Provost Marshal Of New Orleans Is un-
tertaking to manage election matters IN that
city, by striking off the registry list at least
oae-fth Of the enrolled voters on the ne e ground
Of alleged disloyalty. Governor Wells has
protested against this interference as IN VIOLA
ton of the established law Of the State, and it
the Provost Marshal persists in his course,
Will appeal to the President to settle the mat