Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-28
NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.

NEWS BY TO-DAY's MAIL.
Gov. Perry, Of S. c., has sent IN his first
message to the Legislature of that State. lie
thinks the members Of Congress to be elected
will be admitted, and the test oath Will De
modified, as no man IN s. C., can take the oatn
without perjury He praises President J Ohm
son recommends protection to the freedmen,
nrpes the fostering of internal Improvements,
oommerce. manufactures, and the encourage
mont Of foreign immigration, and not to be de,
nendent. as heretofore on the Western States
FIR horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and beet, nor
IN the Northern States for furniture, agrlcul-
tural implements, and clothes.
The Georgia State Convention has been Or
ganized and HerschelV V. Johnson chosen Pres
ident Gov. Johnson's message to the Con,
yention. announces that all cotton purchased
BY the State had been captured or burned
that all assets of the State abroad had been
drawn to the full: that all sources OF income
are unavailable He invites attention to pro.
posals for borrowing money to the amount o.
fifty thousand dollars, and to the redlstrlctl4n2e
Of the State for members of Congress- He
states the debt of the State is $40, ,8l3, ,525, O.
which only So, 667, $50 was contracted before
the war. TIE debt contracted before the
war he said, is an honorable one; but the
other one is on very different basis, having
no legal or moral obligation. The Confederate
currency and cause fourished together in life
and must be buried in the same grave.
Commodore Craven is soon to be tried before
Naval Court Martial IN Washington tol
failing to fight the Confederate Ram "Stone
wa" in the harbor of Fayal, he being. on boarc
Of the steamship Niagara. At the time, the
Sacramento, another ship, was IN close prox-
unity
Private letters from Western Texas say The
Confederates who went to Mexico when the
Trans Mississippi army surrendered are return
inc, disguised with the Mexlcans.
Emerson Etheridge has been acquitted O
the charges preferred against him before the
Military Commission at Columbus Ky, auc
snow at his home in Dresden, Tennessee.
From Rio Janeiro we have advices to the
18th of September. The Brazllians were re-
oicing over their recent victories, and the city
was Illuminated several nights The news OF
the utter rout Of the Paraguayan army was
confirmed, and the, allies were following up
their successes by an invasion OF the Paraguay
an country.
John B. Henderson, y. S. Senator, from
Missouri, in speech on the results OF the war
and the present political situation, delivered
on Saturday last, endorsed President Jo Ohm
sons restoration policy.
The man who committed the recent murder
at Pithoe City has been arrested, tried, anC
convicted, and the friends Of the murdered
man are anxious to save time and trouble t(
the officers Of the law by anticipating his lega
execution.
Henry S. Foote, formerly u. S. Senator,
and more recently member Of the Confederate
Congress, appeared in the u. S. District
Court at New York for the purpose, OF taxing
the necessary oaths and being admitted te
the bar. He went through all the oaths but
the "iron-clad." After listening to that be
declared that he could not take it, and lett the
court unsWorn.
The citizens of San Antonio, Texas, held 8
public meeting August l6, 1865, for the pur
pose Of inaugurating a subscription by the
people Of the State to provide a home and 9
competency for General j. B. Hood, he being
- disabled by wounds and injuries received
] uuuflng the late war as to be unable to provide
'ue means of living for himself.
4 The remains of the Union soldiers who were
ouIled south Of the Potomac in 1861 are being
eeAnumed and reinterred In the national GENE.
Try at Arlington, under the direction OF Col
nuoalngton, chief quartermaster of the Depart
3 ha hnent Of Washington. Sixty-tour have thus
oeen transferred.
=, At an extraordinary meeting of the stock
hholaers Of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
ueio On October II, it was unanimously resol
Eea to increase the capital to two million ster
nag ei by the creation Of 100000 new shares al
4 20 each share.