Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-21
NEWS BY TO-DAY'S MAIL.

La, by OrQer OF Cne ITeeuiIeH ) bureau as Ieu
to the dismissal Of Conway, the Superinten
dent, who justified the act and of Callahan,
by whose orders it was committed. Judge
Weems was released, and has since been
requested to administer the laws in all cases
that may be brought before him. General
Fullerton has been temporarily appointed to
assume the duties of Superintendent OF Freed
men in that State. Gov Wells has issued
proclamation calling for proposals for the
reconstruction Of the levees on the Mississippi
River A petition has been received by him
from the inhabitants of Northern Louisiana,
asking him to take steps to prevent negro
instructions The two regiments raised. In
Louisiana by Gen. Banks, are to be Immediately
disbanded but some OF the papers assert that
the men composing those regiments intend to
retain their organization, Notwithstanding the
order disbanding them.
Gen. Beauregard is to be appointed Super
intendent of the New Orleans and jackson
Railroad Prominent Texans who have re-
Gently arrived at New Orleans state that fears
will delay calling State Convention. I .
conduct of the freedmen IN Texas is made T. ;,
subject OF bitter complaint.
The negro troops retained at the South are
to be restricted to garrison duty on the sea
posts will be composed almost entirely of regu-
lars.
The deaths by cholera at Paris are said to
have numbered at the latest adyices, about
two hundred day; but precautionary measures
appear to have prevented the spread OF the
disease.
The Missouri delegate to the Fenian Con
gress, at Philadelphia who was commissioned
joAr
to the unconditional release of John Mitchell,
reports that he has been successful, and that
an order to free MI. Mitchell will soon he
ISSUED.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
to issue gold certificates on deposits Of gold.
These gold notes are to be receivable for Gus
toms, and are to be of the same general form
as legal tender notes, but very little larger.
They are to be gotten up, we are told, regard
less OF expense for the sake OF security.
The mysterious State prisoner, who was at
one time reported to be Surratt and at another
aperson by the name of Ryan, now turns out
to have been neither Of these, but man nam
ed Fuller, formerly employed in the secret
service Of the Government.
Mr.. Vallandigham telegraphs to the New
York News that the Democratic gain In Ohio
Ia the recent election, as compared with the
vote for Governor Brough, IS seventy-slX
thousand, and since last fall thirty five thous-
and, with double the number OF Democratic
Senators and Representatives IN the State
Legislature
Gen. Bragg, who is now at New Orleans,
took the oath of allegiance on the 9th instant,
preparatory to an application for pardon.
The schooner Three Brothers, with an as,
sorted cargo of -four, dry goods and groceries,
was plundered recently on the lower Mlssls-
slippi, the crew having been previously muir
dered by some parties unknown
One hundred and sixty thousand skeletons
Of horses and cattle, that were killed or died
during the war in the Valley of Virginia, are
collected at a bone factory near Winchester.
Five passengers from the steamship Atlanta,
which left New Orleans on the 7th instant,
were picked UP at sea op portion OF the
Atlanta, which sprung leak and went IN
pieces on the 18th instant, two hundred miles
south Of Sandy Hook, in heavy gale. Only
these five out of total of fifty two persons are
supposed to have been saved.
All statements that the Treasury Department
has been, or is paying money to the various
States, On account of their expenditures tor
var purposes during the war, are entirely un-
true. The accounts of the various States are
passing through the Auditors and Comptrol-
Ter S Offices but no payments Of any kind are
being made to any State.
Flour is still on the decline.