Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-03

perhaps, have been observed on any previous
occasion Of the kind throughout, the great
?sf possible regard has been paid to private
property, and the contributions ezactcd have
.,eyer exceeded-nay, in 40 instance have ever
~aacned-the amount Of provisions required
CT the troops. This is very different way
:: carrying on war, from that recently pursued
=, This country.
The Baltimore Gazette says :-'Wc are
glad to find that very considerable number Of
-,alical journals have had the sense and dcccn-
e. 10 treat with indifference Il not with cor
tempt, the report made to the House BY Mr..
5outwell, in which he endeavored. as Chair
nan Of the Judiciary Committee, to give some
color to tie malignant talsehood that Mr..
Ca7is was party to the assassination Of Mr.
Lincoln.
Notwithstanding the announcement that the
-.tlantic cable was open fer business was only
made on Tuesday afternoon, there were twenty
Messages fled for Europe on that day, and the
ash receipts therefrom, atthe New Yori: Office,
7ere 3,046 in gold Nineteen messages we're
fled in the New York Office on Y. edncsday fox
Transmission through the cable TO Europe, on
which tolls were paid TO the amount Of 50 Isl
i gold.
The Boston Commercial recently announced
several muniGcent gifts, which Dir. Peabody
1as said to intend bestowing upon various New
England colleges and the poor OF Boston. 4
Salem, Mass, paper denies these reports, and
Gays that Mr.. Peabody alleged intended gifts
70 the city of Boston and those colleges, as pub
'ished, are in reality nothing but hints that such
presentations would be acceptable Isn't this
acute trick?"
England, Ireland andScotland, arc the starting
points of 10 of the whole number Of submarine
telegraph lines. Italy has three: Norway has
aid three across the Fio,ds since 1857: France
mas two; Spain has one, and India two. The
I;!alta and Alexandria line, next in length
1885 miles, to the Atlantic cable, is laid in
i?ee sections. and the part in deep water has
royer caused any expense for repairs.
The Richmond Wing gives the particulars OF
lie mysterious disappearance OF John Herndon
lIaury, son Of Matthew F. Maury, and aid to
jol. Burnett, in January, 1863, somewhere
lear Eicksburg. Circumstances go to show
:nst he was captured and placed on board a
:;un-6oat, but nothing certain can DC heard Of
Gin. lie was reported to have died on board
be gun boat.
Thomas I. Bowie, Of Maryland, dominates
5A1drew johnson for the next Presidency To
3 letter addressed by him to the Bel Air INTEL
iigenoeg, in speaking Of President johnson, he
says: - regard him rs the only man who
:an save the South from utter rain ard de-
siTuctioa. He shall be ny candidate ior the
AeEt presidency
The Washington Chroricls ''calls the &ttcn-
lion" Of Judge Underwood to the treason
able utterances Of Henry 4. Wis" and hopes
Mr.. Wise may be indicted and tried With JET
:e@sor Davis. " VIII Judge Underwood
lake note" Of that call, and act accordingly?
The New York Commercial asks, How long,
n case Of war between England and this coun-
@ly, would American dispatches be tolerate,
- The submarine wires? Great n.r4ain wound
at once take armed -, r,.,,ssess;or Of both shore
enGs."
Efforts will be made to bring the subject OF
:Gc destroyed Lovecs Of Louisiana betore Cen
grass, at its next session. Gen, Banks, it is
said, caused the defeat OF the appropriation for
ne repair of these LeyceS, at the late session.
1. s77inGcr, with various aEidScs,~De We're.
Eocoue2illc, Dc Montogut, &c..-hailing from
Few Orleans, and representing himself as a
music teacher, is advertised in the Southern
oapers. lie lately appeared in Richmond.
Uobt Island, Northampton county, Va, is
getting to be bathing place Of great resort. -
It is delightfully."- situated, and the bathing is
zery fine. 1t is likely to take the wind ont of
:n2 sails OF Cape May.
The Legislature Of Tennessee has granted 4
:nerter for college for colored people, to be
Known as the Central Tennessee Methodist
Episcopal College" A site has been secured
a. Nashville.
ihe fourteenth annual convention Of the
.!o.ti American Sangerbund, recently held ct
louisville, Ky, terminated with grand cycur-
2ion 20 the Mammoth Cave.
t-Iuaost all the religious conventions recently
acid in the South have adopted measures 70,
me education Of the freedmen.
From New Orleans
luotoUs demonstrations continue to be made
~ the negroes Of New Orleans On Wcdnes
LAY night street car was fired into on the out.
skirts Of the city by negroes, who killed Cap.
lain Reynolds, Of the steamer Starlight Ono