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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25


was not ready to sum up III the case, as he
wished to look over the evidence before SO
doing The commissioner deferred the further
hearing of the case. = WISH. Chron.
ARSENIC. woman, named Logan, GA
Monday evening procured from one Of our
Druggists small quantity of arsenic which
on her return home she took. Her family be-
coming alarmed at her distress, sent for Doctor
Ripley, who at once applied the stomach
pump, and by great efforts succeeded ia re,
storing her.
CoAL-The supply Of coal, at the coal
yards, in this place is exhausted. We under
stand that the Agent OF one Of the coal COM
panies is endeavoring to make arrangements
with Gen. McChnum, tor supply Of coal for
the citizens during the blockade OF the river
By ice.
LAND MARK-The large tres i'll front OF
the old Insurance Office, on King street, Gan
old land mark was broken down by the heavy
weight of ice which had collected upon it on
Saturday.
--aS--aB~--ess-----
WooD.-Some small loads Of wood, in
country carts (holding hardly more than half
cord, each,) were offered on the street to day
at SIS. There is 40 wood on the wharVes for
sale.
George Hill, Jr, is about to commence, on
an extensive scale, the manufacture Of pa
per, at the foot of Potomac street, opposite
Rays Mill, in Georgetown, D. G.
Provost Marshal General Fry yesterday as
signed new quota to the District of Columbia,
placing it at 1921 men. This is a reduction OF
1877 upon the former quota which was 3,0l9.
CORPORATION DUE BILLS. learn that
the Finance Committee destroyed, yesterday,
$4,000 redeemed Corporation due bills.
The Sun shone out brightly today-but
the weather continues very cold, and the river is
still full of ice
~ ADVERTISEMENT for the ALEX
ANDRIA GAZETTE can be left at the Printing
ONCE, at Stones Book store, lover which is the
ottice) or at the Office of Edgar Snowden, Sr.,
corner 1T King and Royal Streets up stairs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25

Potomac NAVIGATION AND TRANspoRTA~
TON COMPANY Y yesterday, Mr. Morrill, In
troduced into the e. S. Senate, bill to incor.
porate the Potomac Navigation and Transpor-
tation Company of the District of Columbia,
naming as oorpnrators, George y. Riggs, 5.
Seymour William \. Bradley, Ward Il.
Lamon, Moses Kelly, Henry u. Cooke, and
S. A. Peugh; the capital stock 10 be not more
than Million nor lesa than hall million Of
dollars, in one hundred dollar shares, Ct which,
at least one thousand With ten per Ct a(l-
vanced, shall have been taken before the COM
pany shall organize OF the seven directors,
tour shall reside in the y. of c. Wharves,
docks, and railways IN the Potomac river in
front OF Mason or Analoston Island, or upon
accretiona 70 The shore, may be constructed,
and upon completion, saving the rights OF III.
div;dua!s and other corporations. the title OF
the !. S. in such reclaimed land shalt vest in
this company.
The following is the letter of Gen, Butler
to Mr., Brooks, of New York, which the latter
laid before the q. 5. House Of Representa-
tives, and which is, at present, he subject Of
debate in that House:
WASHINGTON, jan. 20, 1865.
JAMES BROOKS, NemJer Of Congress,
House of Representatives.: find in the daily
Globe, Of the 9TH instant, report of your re-
marks in the House on the 9Th instant, an
extract froR which, personal to me is append
ed. | have the honor to inquire whether your
remarks are correctly reported except, perhap@,
,n the misprint gold for bold, and also whaher
there was any modification, ex PLANTATION or
limitation made By you other than appears
in this report?
The gentleman who hands you this will
wait or call for your answer at any time or
place you may designate. (Signed)
B. F. BUTLER, Major General.
The New York News has been for some time
publishing, what are called "Personals,' adj
vertisements from persons North and South.
That paper Of yesterday says:
son yesterday General Dix communicated
to us the information that he had received an
order from the War Department, commanding
the suppression of the personal columns of the
Daily News, under penalty Of the immediate
arrest and trial by court martial Of the editor OF
the paper
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25

m~ ADVERTISEMENTS for the ALEX
ANDRIA GAZETTE can be left at the Printing
Office, at Stones Book store, lover which is the
othce,) or at the Office of Edgar Snowden, Sr,
corner 1T King and Royal streets, up stairs
jan 2O-tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25

WooD.--Some small loads Of wood, in
country carts (holding hardly more than half
cord, each,) were offered on the street to day
at S.. There is 40 wood on the wharves for
sale.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25

LAND MARK-The large tres i'll front OF
the old Insurance Office, on King street, Gan
old land mark was broken down by the heavy
weight of ice which had collected upon it on
Saturday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-01-25

George Hill, Jr., is about to commence, on
an extensive scale, the manufacture of pa
per, at the foot of Potomac street, opposite
Rays Mill, in Georgetown, D. G.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10
From California.

The San Francisco Democratic Press, which
is likely to be well acquainted with the views
Of Mr.. Gwyn and his family and friends in that
city, who are numerous, publishes the follow
ing statements:
1--WE have refrained from indulging in spec
ulations or expressing any opinion in regard to
the many reports and rumors relating TO the
position and designs of DR.. Gwyn in Mexico,
until we could give the exact facts and indis-
putably vouch for them. This we are now pre-
pared to do by information received from Bar
clay Henley, Esq, the accredited agent of DIR.
Gwyn, under protection of the Emperor Of
Mexico.
Maximilian has conveyed by trust deed to
the Emperor Louis Napoleon, Sonora, Senate
liza and northern States of Mexico, the bounda-
ries of which have not yet been determined
upon, to be held and governed by the latter
under Mexican protection, as security for the
payment of the claims of France against Mex
leo, the same to be restored to Mexico in full
upon payment of said claims with all the pri-
vate rights secured under French occupation
confirmed. DIR. Gwyn is Governor General, or
Vice Secretary of the Emperor of the French,
and is invested with plenary powers for the
government of the States which have been
ceded, and to dispose of the public lands and
mines.
DR.. Gwyn has drawn up a code of laws,
which have been approved by the Emperor of
the French, of the most liberal kind, guaranty
ing civil and religious liberty, providing for the
pre-emption purchase of public lands, regulat-
ing the terms of occupation and use of the
mines. The Emperor of the French guaran-
tees a military force, under the direction of the
Governor General sufficient to maintain the
public peace and defend the people of the
States against internal and external forces.
The policy of Dr. Gwyn, which is approved
by both Emperors, is to encourage emigration
from the American States by offering the most
liberal terms TO settlers in order to bring intel
ligent industry. energy and enterprise to the
development of the well known resources of
that region, so highly favored by natural ad-
vantages of soil, climate and mineral wealth,
and TO form an enlightened and substantial pop
ulation, which will assure permanency and Sc
curly and give strength and power TO defend
TIE State from filibusterng expeditions which
the unapproprated riches and emi-barbarous
condition of the people have heretofore in
vited.
Mr.. Henley is associated with Major J. C..
Ridges, and both will act as agents of DIR.
Gwyn. They are here TO invite emigration to
that region"
The California journals are discussing the
subject of the Emperor Napoleon's colonization
schemes in Northern Mexico, and generally
take the view that it will relieve the State OF
Southern malcontents and rebel sympathizers,
many of whom are already preparing to leave
under invitation of DR.. Gwyn, and that event
ually American settlers will revoutionize the
country, if the Monroe doctrine is not sooner
asserted by the United States government.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10
The Hon. William Dennison.

WILLIAM DENNIsoN was appointed Postmas-
ter-General OF the United States upon the res
ignation of MONTGOMERY BLAIR of MARYLAND,
September "a, 1864, and entered upon the dis
charge of his duties on the lst day Of October.
He was born at Cincinnati on the 23d of Nov
ember, 1915. On his mothers side he was of
New England ancestry. His father was ma
tive of New Jersey. In the year 1885 Mr..
DENNIsoN graduated at Miami University, then
a leading educational institution of the West.
Mr.. DENNIsON pursued the study of law at
Cincinnati, and was admitted 10 the bar in 1910.
Mr.. DENNISoN soon after removed to Colum-
bus, where he practiced his profession until
1913, when the Wings of his district elected
him TO the Ohio Senate. His record as Senator
associates him with the repeal of the Ohio stat
utes denying colored persons the privileges of
residence and Of testimony in courts. His first
public speech. in 1911, opposed the scheme for
the extension of slavery involved in the admis-
sion Of Texas into the Union; and his public
acts and speeches have from that time TO the
present been consistent with the record thus
early established.
In 1850 Mr.. DENNIsoN retired from politics
though he was an ardent advocate OF General
SCOTT for President in 1852. About this time
he began to turn his attention to the great rail-
road enterprises then being projected in the
State.
Upon the inauguration of the Republican
party MIR. DENNIsON earnestly espoused its po-
ltical creed and in 1859 he was nominated as
the Repebcan candidate for Governor Of Ohio
and was elected.
When rebellion was declared by force oi
arms in April, 1862, Ohio in all its department:
OF Government, was prepared to execute
pvnDnptlV tbp will of lie nonOlo Tho Goporo
Assembly had not adjourned At his suggest
ion three millions of dollars were voted to pro.
tect Ohio from invasion or insurrection, and tC
sustain the Government against the rebels
additional military powe: Was conferred upor
the executive, and authority was granted foi
the immediate organization of troops for State
defense. The response of Ohio to the call o
President LINCOLN for 5000 troops, and hel
prompt and generous responses to all subse-
quent calls by the General Government for aiC
against rebellion, form n prominent feature il
the history OF the war for the Union. Having
organized nine regiments of infantry, two
squadrons of cavalry, and one battery of artil
lery as State troops, under State law, Govern
or DENNIsoN appointed GEORGE b. MCCLEL
Ian, Major-General to command them.
In the execution of his duties as Governo
Mr.. DENNIsoN never consulted his own ease
lie was always prompt, energetic, and judlclou
in his official acts, and his administration wa
entirely satisfactory to the people of the State
Mr. DENNIson was Chairman of the Batimor
Convention in 1864. The appointment by tn
! President of Mr.. DENNIsoN to his present po
silon Is peculiarly fitting, and the country ma
be assured that be will honestly and industri
ously perform the duties to which he has bee
called as Postmaster General Week
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10
Preservation of Canadian Neutrality.

Montreal papers contain the important in
telligence of the passage of the alien act to
second reading, by the Canadian Parliament,
by vote of l04 to 4, which max es it certain
OF becoming law. The act is entitled:
"An Act for the purpose of preventing and repress
ing outages and violations OF law the frontier of
the Province, and for other purposes therein men
toned"
1t empowers the Governor General to order
aliens to depart from the Province, whose re-
moval he shall have reason to believe is neces-
sary to the preservation of peace and tranquil
itv in the Provinces all aliens wlfully refusing
to obey such order if convicted, shall suffer
Imprisonment for any time not exceeding one
month for the first offense and not exceeding
twelve months for the second and any su5se-
quent offense, and aliens negecting to obey
such order, shall be given in charge by warrant
OF the Governor General, and conveyed out of
the Province.
The bill also provides that the punishment
for setting on foot, or aiding an expedition
against friendly power, shall be fine not ex-
ceeding $4,000, and imprisonment for term
not exceeding three years. Vessels armed for
hostilites against a friendly power, may be
seized and detained until the decision of the
Governor be had thereon. Sherffs are also
empowered to seize all arms, vessels, &c. pass
ing the frontier, when there is cause TO believe
that they are to be employed IN carrying on
military expedition against n friendly power.
Justices, &C.. are also empowered TO issue war
rantssior searching after and sei2ng arms, &c.,
wherever they may be concealed, or manufac-
tured, which are intended to be employed
against friendly power. The Act is to con-
tinue in force for one year from the passing
thereof, and until the end of the next session
of Parliament.
The Gdtete-the rebel organ in Montreal
is much grieyed over this action of Parliament,
and predicts sad consequences from the removal
from the Provinces of its Southern friends with
their gold. AS the class against whom the act
is aimed are not much troubled with gold or
other money, except what they have stolen, we
think our Canadian friends may dismiss fears
of any great disturbance of the specie market
from that source.
1t is announced from Washington that in
view of the promised delivery to our authors
ties of the Lake Erie raider burleigh, the de-
cision in whose case foreshadows that in the
others. the passport system will be counter
manded. With such action on both sides, we
may expect return OF our former cordial re-
latons with our Canadian ighbors.-BWling-
ton Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10

Who was the fastest woman mentioned in
the Bible? Herodias when she got ahead
of John the Baptist, on a charger.
The Missouri Legislature has passed Il bill
authorizing the Board of Public Schools to pro-
vide for the education of colored children of
St. Louis, the old law forbidding the same
The Alumni of Phillips Academy, at a meet
ing in Andoyer, voted to raise the sum of $780,
600 to erect new building in place of that re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
The flute with which John Bunyan beguiled
the tediousness of mis- captive hours is now in
the possession of Mr. Howell, Of Gainsborough,
England In appearance it is not unlike the
leg OF a stool-out of which, il is said, Bunyan,
while in prison, manufactured it.
Gen. Terry, the hero of Fort Fisher, is a
grandson of the late Nathaniel Terry, of Hart
ford. lie went out to the war from New Ha-
ven as Colonel of the 9TH Connecticut volun-
teers, the 18th of September, 1861, and was
made a BriSadier General May 10, 1862.
Orders have been received from Washing
ton, by the proper authorities at Annapolis, to
vecate the naval academy, now used a Uni
ted States hospital on or before the first day
of March next, and to prepare for the return
of the naval academy now at Newport, r. l.,
to its old quarters.
A photograph of old John Brown, wreathed
in laurel, is now hanging in the parlor of the
mansion formerly belonging to Ii. A. Wise,
who hung the original in another part of the
State. The estate, situated about eight miles
south of Norfolk has been confscated by the
Government. plan of secession, drawn up
by Wise in 1857, and approved by Jetf Davis,
was found in the house.
One of our best clergymen one Sunday
preached a sermon on the close of the year,
wherein he alluded to the "pomp OF the regal
forests" One of his hearers objected to the
sermon, on the ground that it was an abolition
discourse. An explanation was asked.
"Why," said he, "ddn't he say 'Pomp of the
forest and isn't that niger in the woods, I'd
like 10 know?'
Rather good story is told of an unfaithful
servant living in a family in this city, who, be-
ing too lazy to keep the fires up to the proper
point, was in the habit of warming the ther-
mometer so as to keep it showing a high de.
gree of heat while the members Of the family
would be suffering from cold, AS the head OF
the household was firm believer in science
and an obstinate man withal, he insisted on be-
ing governed by the thermometer, and so un-
Willingly played into the hands of the servant
until his family were nearly frozen out of houSC
and home. The trick was at last found out by
a neighbor, who Judged the thermometer. by
his feelings and not his feelings by the ther.
cleft out in the cold" herself-N. y. Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10

THADEUs STEVENS on JOHN BRowN.-Dur-
ing the discussion growing out Of Mr.. Brooks
recent assault on Gen. Butler, Mr.. Brooks took
occasion TO fling the John Brown raid into the
teeth of his unrelenting antagonists Messrs.
Stevens and Boutwell,, when they pressed him
closely with the documents. This elected the
following noble and eloquent response from
Mr.. s.:
"While have not word to say in oxtonua
ton of the conduct of John Brown, nor any
thing TO say against his sentence, yet, sir, there
are times in the history of men when there ex-
ist such great evils that the motives of the men
who attempt, although in an irregular manner,
to eradicate those evils, will overshadow all the
Irregularities in the eye of posterity, although
we here at the moment cannot forget or forgive
them. There are times, sir. when posterity will
look beyond the immediate step TO see where a
man proposed to land what were his intentions
and his motives, and they will Judge according
to the ulerior design. Now, sir the motive
of John Brown-no man who loves freedom
can help applauding, although none of us would
Justify the means. But upon the principle
which have mentioned, when the gentleman
from New York and myself will be moudering
in the dust and forgotten, or only unpleasantly
remembered the memory of John Brown,
will venture to predict will grow brighter and
brighter through coming ages and the State
of Virginia itself, by its own freedmen and its
own freedom, will, within the lives Of some
now present, raise monument TO his memory
upon the very place where his gallows stood"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10

SENSIBLE VIEWS IN FRANcE.-The Paris
Temps, in its review of last year, says very
wisely
ain this rapid review the war in America
must only appear for FORMS sake. Europe can
do nothing in the matter and the most chimer-
ical minds have ceased to speak OF intervention.
For the old world this unprecedented struggle
is spectacle rich in lessons, at the same time
formidable and consolatory. BY the cost now
imposed on the United States to extirpate sav-
cry, it displays the terrible justice of history,
and shows by what fearful sacrifices nations ex-
plate the prolonged tolerance of wrong. 1t
also exhibits, by the incredible facility of those
sacrifices, that abundance of material and moral
resources of which no idea existed, and, above
all, shows by the little loss of liberty they have
involved, that liberty is not fatally destined to
perish in the tempests of civil wars. On this
point all European ideas, including our own,
are completely bewildered. The reelection of
Mr.. Liacoln, and the manner in which it was
accomplished, are the pledge of an indestructi-
bile liberty, and will remain in history as an
imperishable pledge of political and moral
greatness"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10

WHY Doors SHOULD BE POLIsHED.-Bright-
ly polished boots are cooler in warm weather
and warmer in cold weather than dull and dus-
ty boots; for in warm weather they reflect the
sun, which dusty and dirty boots absorb and
in cold weather the clean boot does not allow
the warmth of your foot to radiate freely,
whereas the unclean boot does. Clean, bright
boots are consequently more comfortable, as
well as respectable, both in warm weather and
cold. Not only will different substances, as
iron and wood, give out heat or take it in, more
or less, but the same substance radiates heat
more or less actively as it is bright or dull,
rough or smooth. Now dirty boots are rough
as well as dull. They have a surface of many
more surface for the heat to pass through either
way As rough surface is large surface,
more heat from within and without always
passes through dull and dirty boots than pol
ished ones.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10
BRATTLEBORO, VT: FEB.
going on. 1t was a sad sight, and one long to

going on. 1t was sad sight, and one long to
be remembered.
The locality of the fire was considered as one
of the most respectable in Savannah. Nearly
all the places consumed were private residences,
so there must have been a large number of suf-
ferers. Whoever may be the instigators of this
fire Gi it were not accidentally these suffering
women and children are deserving of the strong
est sympathy. Had the weather been OF mild
er character their sufferings would not have
been of so grevOus n character. But Savan-
nah has rot seen such cold snap for thirty
years, During a period of eight days the
weather has been extremely cold and camp.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-02-10

Position OF FRANCE.-The Paris correspon-
den. of the London Morning Post, writing on
the l lth inst, says:
"We seldom get over a period of three
months without report which is eagerly ac-
cepted in Paris, viz, that the French Govern
ment is about TO recognize the Southern Con-
federacy of America. This assertion is once
more on the tapis, and some persons have Civ
en- themselves the trouble to inquire at head
quarters if it be true. There is no reason to
suppose that the French Government has in
any way modified its policy toward North or
South, or that the Emperor and his advisers
contemplate doing So"