Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-08-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

&c ennlovment. It was the most extensive
cotton factory, in the South. The value OF the
nroperty destroyed is estimated at s20o,ooo
and it was insured for $4,000, Among the
insurance companies who are sufferers were
several in Baltimore.
Major H. K. Douglas, Of ohephardstoWn'
Va. and Of the late Confederate army, was
again arrested on Sunday last and taken to liar
per's Ferry, and thence, report says mas Deen
cent TO Fort Delaware to serve out two months
confinement for an alleged violation of military
order, in going to Photograph gallery with
.b;suniform on, shortly after the surrender OF
Gen. Lees army.
The legal gentlemen Of Virginia differ as to
the eligibility of ex-rebel officers under the
Constitution of the State. Under these clrcum-
stances, the Richmond Wing advises the people
of Virginia, in ssthe elections to come OFT, not
TO do vain and idle thing by electing to offices
anv persons who have held office under the
Confederate or State Governments during the
past four years,
Mr.. Samuel Wright, residing near Charles
town, one Of the wealthiest and most ln1entlal
citizens Of Jefferson County departed this LIE
during last week.
The Union Convention to nominate candl-
dates for Judge Of the 10th Judicial Circuit,
and Senator for the 10th Senatorial District,
villmeet at Bath, Morgan County, West Viz
pinia, on Thursday the oath day of August
1865.
General Dabney H. Maury advertises in
Fredericksburg that he will open classical and
mathematical school in that city on the lst OF
October
Gen. Hartsuff has issued an order restoring
the government Of Petersburg to the civil
authorities.
Dispatches from Washington in the North
ern papers, say Several wealthy Northern
CAPITALISTS have agreed to furnish the capital
necessary to complete the James River and
Kanawha Canal which was nearly ruined by
the repeated raids of our cavalry during the
last three years. The amount required to
restore it to its original condition will be several
millions Of dollars
A result Of the aggressions of Napoleon and
Macmillan in Mexico is the formation OF
defensive treaty made on the 23d OF June
last, between the States OF Salvador, Bolivia,
Columbia, Chile, Ecquador, Peru, and Vene-
zuela, and is binding for fifteen years. By the
terms Of the treaty the several States become
united for the special purpose of q common
defence against foreign intervention in the
affairs of either, and each binding itself to non
intercourse With any nation attacking either OF
them.
The President has pardoned Bishop Lynch,
of south Carolina, now in Rome, Italy; ". b.
Weed. sentenced to the penitentiary for two
wears for larceny. Mrs. Cora A. Slocum, Ida
Slocun1, and Mrs. Caroline A. S. Urquhart, OF
New Orleans, were also pardoned The con-
fscated estate Of Mrs. Slocum was restored to
her, on the recommendation of Gen. Butler.
The Washington Star states that official
]atters,at the Freedmen Bureau, from Missis.
sim; inform that the "antagonism beteen the
freedmen and the planters nsections occupied
by the U. S. authorities, is stelf a subject OF
serious consideration. - s. -.
: Gen. Wade Hampton has published letter
in South Carolina deprecating the emigration
mania, advising all to stay at home, and go to
work, and to take the oath OF allegiance to the
u. S. and be peaceable citizens.
Gen. Meagher has received the appointment
of Secretary Of the Territory of Montana.