Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-24
GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
NEWS RY TO-DAY's MAIL.

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for stating that all the colored troops now II
the service are soon to be mustered out. The
idea that they would be retained as part Of
the regular army is erroneous. They form
simply provisional corps, which will be dis
continued within a few months.
A man named Lemos supposed to be ar
accompice of the assassin Booth, and a woman
believed to be Jane Tipping, were arrested al
Fort Waynes Indiana, yesterday by order Of
Gen. Hoyey, commander in Indiana Both
are now in the military prison at indianapolis
Lemos is the same man who was recently ar
rested at New Haven, Conn, for robbery, bat
subseq uently escaped.
Many robberies and murders are still com
mtted near Memphis, many persons losing
large sums Of money.
The Convention in Mississippi has passed by {
vote Sc to IL, constitutional amendment,
Tor the extinction Of slavery, and the protec-
ton Of the freedmen; also anbulling and repeal
ing the ordinance Of secession passed IN 1861.
The night express train from Iowa, on the
Dixon and Fulton branch Of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, ran into a cuIverj
which had been washed away by storm or
Tue day. The engineer and fremor, and ona
express messenger were killed, and three pas
sengers were injured.
The President has appointed COL Thomas
Biddle, OF Pennsylvania, late Secretary OF
Legation to Brazil, Commissioner on the
part of the United States to adjust claims
under the recent convention between the
United States and the United States Of 20
Iombia.
The President having become satisfied that
he is physically incapable of attending per
sonally to all the business which daily comes
before him for consideration, has concluded to
organize an Executive Bureau, before which
certain business will be disposed Of, included
in which are applications for pardon which
do not actually require the personal attention
Of the President This Bureau has at its
head, the Third Auditor of the Treasury John
Wilson, Esq.
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England, an object Of public interest.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
decided yesterday that, IF hotel-keeper,
or other person, employ laborers to can and
Theoretically seal up tomatoes, corn, beans,
or other vegetables or fruits, to be used Or
consumed by him, where the annual product
of such preserved fruits, vegetables, &C., shall
exceed the rate Of $780, he is liable to pay a
duty thereon OF six per cent, under the provi-
sions Of sections SO and 81 Of the act Of June
50, 1864, as amended by the 9Th section Of the
act of March 5.
ADemocratic Convention is now in session
in Pennsylvania The Democratic organiza-
ton there is to he Kept up.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
desided that ice creams sherbets, Roman
punches, blanc manage, are not to be regard
ed as manufactures
J. J. Siebles, formerly Minister to Belgium
under the Administration Of President Pierce
died recently at Montgomery, Alabama
The Washington Correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, who ah:irms that he writes by
authority, says:-''The attempt to retain
possession Of the confscated lands in Louisi-
ana is the same as has been made in Tennessee,
and the rebuke Of the former by the President
will be no less pointed and emphatic than was
the latter. In Tennessee those in charge of
the Freedmen's Bureau were compelled, by
order OF the President, to restore to those who
had been pardoned the property formerly in