Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-10-25
NEWS By TO-DAY's MAIL.


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NEWS By T0-DAY's MAIL.
The Charleston Courier says much excite
ment exists in the Beaufort district as to the
ownership of the sea islands, the freedmen
being under the impression that they had been
given to them.
Gen Bennett, commanding at Charleston,
S. c., has issued an order forblddlng the
organization of colored militia, as tending to
bring about war OF races.
Rev. Dr. W. T. Dwight, long regarded as
one Of the ablest Congregationalist clergymen
in New England, died at Andover on Sunday,
aged seventy-one:
It is stated that our Government does not
intend to interfere in any way with the Mexl-
can loan which is about to be put upon the
market in New York.
Halifax papers report negro lnsurrectlon IN
Jamaica, and a regiment OF troops and teld
battery are soon to sail for the scene OF dis
turbance.
The Episcopal Convention of Philadelphia
has at last terminated It's labors, and adjourned
Commander John L. Missroon, ordnance
officer of the Charleston navy-yard died yes.
terday.
A large number of Government steamers
we're sold at New York yesterday, and brought
good prices
The final sales of Government horses have
commenced at different points. Sales at Gies-
boro on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Gen: Buckner, of Kentucky has become
editor Of journal at New Orleans, called
NiXon's Crescent.
New counterteits on the Government legal
tenders have been discovered in New York,
At St Louis, Missouri, an attorney who
was indicted for practising without taking the
oath, has been subjected to fine of five hun
dred dollars. An appeal was taken to the
United States Supreme Court, and stay Of
execution was granted to file bill Of exceptions.
Frank Blair made speech recently at Rolla,
Missouri in which he stated that of one hun
dred thousand bales of cotton seized in the
vicinity of Vicksburg and turned over to the
Government not thousand bales were ever
accounted for. He charged that the Provost
Marshals of the West were a set of thieves
and plunderers generally, accused Secretary
Stanton with being an original traitor; said
that Alexander H. Stephens was, on the other
hand, a loyal man, and that when Stephens
was locked up, the true man was imprisoned
and the rascal and traltor-Was lett on the
outside.
lne medical department OF the freeQmen
Bureau reports that it has under its care and
treatment in the Southern States, sever thous-
and sick and helpless negroes.
The strietest surveillance is maintained over
all American vessels touching at Queenstown,
Ireland. The principal Fenians now under
arrest will be tried, it is reported, by special
commission. The French troops have already
been removed from some of the outposts in
lne Papal States, preparatory to a general
withdrawal
General orders No 152, bearing date of Oct.
18th, 1866, just promulgated from the War
department., directs that hereafter no person
small be arrested as deserter for having failed
to report under any draft, or for any other
Noncompliance with the enrolment act, or the
amendments therto All persons of this class
now held will be Immediately discharged.
President johnson yesterday granted TWEEN
sy-three amnesty pardons, all OF which were to
parties from Virginia, except five
General Augur, commander of this Depart
nent, is quite i'll, and has been confined to his
residence for several days past.
;, The President has received letter from
GOV johnson, of Ca, in which he (the Gov
eefnor) expresses desire that the United
otates military forces be retained in that State
until the local forces can be organized
= Mr. John Il. Reagan, who was Post Master
ueneral under the late Confederacy, and who
nasJust been released from one of the No1 thern
DrlS0nS 4bo q oF Toro.