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

NEWS BY T0-DAY's MAIL.
Sixty amnesty pardons were granted by the
President on Saturday to residents OF Alabama
The Kentucky Mammoth Cave is to let.
Advices from Texas state that General Mer-
ritt is taking active measures to protect the
Inhabitants from the inroads of the savages.
The work of civil reorganization is progress
Ing very successfully. One hundred and five
counties are already completed, and only Thirty
remain to be fixed. !"
Returns from all but two towns in Connec
ticut increase the majority against the negro
suffrage amendment to the State Constitution
to 6,368.
The conservative Union party of Louisiana,
it is said, would nominate j. Nd. Wells for
Governor.
An earthquake at San Francisco on Sunday
was of SO serious character as to send the
whole population flying into the streets tor
safety from apprehended danger. So great
was the panic in some Of the churches that In
the rush to get out many were seriously lnju red
by being jammed and trampled upon Build
ings rocked to and fro, brick walls generally
were cracked and split, and quite number
were thrown down, injuring persons IN their
fall The City Hall bell was set to ringing by
the vibrations Of the town:
In the North Carolina Convention on the
Ath inst, resolutions were introduced, but laid
over for future action, expressing the utmost
confidence in President johnson, and thanking
him for the course be has pursued towards the
erring people Of the South, to the gratitude Of
all of whom, it is believed, he is entitled .
A signifcantspeech was recently delivered by
j. A. Mcdonald, Canadian Attorney General.
o4t tha
future of Ottawa, the new Canadian capital.
Ottawa he said, will ere long be the metropolis
of one-third of the American continent, the
capital of all the British North American
provinces, which the British Government and
the Canadian authorities are determined shall
be united in one grand confederation, in spite
of all opposition, before another year has
passed
The large number of twenty-one ocean steam
ships cleared at the port of New York on
Saturday last. Of these two were for Europe,
one for Havana, two for New Orleans, ore for
Galveston, one for Mobile, three for Savannah,
one for Charleston, one for Key West, one
each for Wilmington, Newbern, and Beaufort,
n. g., and the others for different Southern
and Eastern ports
The election In Georgia for delegates to the
State Convention took place on last Wednes-
day In the majority Of the counties but one
ticket was being run, and it is said that good
class of men have been selected for candidates.
The Episcopal Convention at Philadelphia,
yesterday, after long and excited debate,
voted to accept the credentials of Rev. Mr..
Quintard as Bishop of Tennessee Mr. @.
was formerly Confederate chaplain.
General Humphreys majority for Governor
IN Mississippi is 10000. The majority for
the anti-negro testimony candidate in the jack
son district is 5000.
1t is said that John c. Breckenridge, pro
poses to enter into the pork business in some
Canadian town.
The Mexican correspondent Of the Philadel-
phla Press states that President Juarez is a
55Iugltlye, and has taken up his residence IN
franklin, Texas, on the Rio Grande. He as
serts that the Republic no longer exists. .
r Yesterday morning a fire occurred on the
d61omden and Morey farms of the United
o1ates Petroleum Company at Pithole, Pa,
winch destroyed sl50,000 worth of property.
\ bark which arrived at Halifax, on Satur-
1quay, reports falling in with one of the cable
ouoys to which the lost telegraph cable was
attached, but thinks the wire had parted
from it.
1t IS said that fifty thousand Americans are
~" travelling in Europe, and spending their
uoney at the rate Of hundred millions year.
Arrangements are in progress in Baltimore
lor the erection ofa monument over the grave
the poet Edgar A. Poe
Orders have been issued from the War De-
partment abolishing the military department
OF New Mexico.