Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-17
NEWS or THE DAY.
To shoo0 the rery age aud Jody Of tie times.

''1o sho,0 the rery age aud Jouyof the h"les'
The Mississippi Legislature met yesterday
in'an extra session. The Governors message
said tie necessities of the State, resu ting from
the altered and deranged condition OF Federal
relations and domestic affairs, constrained
him to call the Legislature together lie
! s,atcs the removal of negro troops from The
Slate and the transfer of the Frceumcn's Bu-
reau to officers of the regular army arc subjects
of CONCENTRATION He deplores the state OF
the country. He presumcs the mere reading
OF the constitutional amendment will insure It's
rejection. He recommends the admission OF
negro testimony in all the courts, and requests
| that provision be made for the education CT
ind gent children Of Confederate soldiers, and
for the relief of disabled Confederate and State
! soldiers.
A freedman has teen shot in Columbia
county, Georgia. The affair originated from
difficulty with 4 white man, which the freed
man reported to Cen Tilson, who advised him
to seek redress from the civil authorities. a
party of white men surrounded his house, and
murdered him. The citizens are indignant ut
the outrage. "A. military force has been sent
| to arrest the perpetrators.
A private letter from Mayport Mills, Flor
da, says that the second mate Of the Evening
| STAR has arrived there, having left the steam
err with boat load Of women. All but two
| were lost before getting near shore. In land
| ing the latter were lost. Both became insane
from want and starvation The bodies were
washed ashore, nearly -lcvourcd BY sharks.
The mate is barely alive.
| 4 circular from the State Department advises
| the Governor Of Louisiana, that schemes are
on foot to induce freedmen to emIgratc to
foreign countries, especially to Peru, and sug-
gests that every legal and moral means be used
toward preventing freedmen from being I'LL
posed UPON.
The Buffalo Courier is informed by the police
that in consequence Of the great scarcity OF
grain and freight at that point, some fifteen
hundred or two thousand boatmen arc thrown
out Of employment The larger portion Of this
number are lounging about the streets and in
low saloons.
Dispatches are still passing over the cable
line between Macmillan and the Emperor OF
France The last one, sent this week, from
New Orleans where it was received from Mexl-
CO, cost nearly $40, 600 in currency, the cash
being furnished promptly by Max 5 agent.
At meeting called in Quebec to devise relief
| for the suffa,e rs by the late fire $4,000 were
subscribed The number Of lives lost WAS six,
and the number Of houses burned ., 300, h,.lng
larger number than at first estimated. Near
~ 90, 900 persons arc without shelter.
Petitions arc being circulated in Baltimore,
ard extensively signed by those opposed to the
present city government, calling on Governor
Swami to remove the Police Commissioners on
the charge Of misconduct.
So satisfactory is the financial success Of The
Atlantic cable that it is in contemplation to
construct another line dircc: to New York.
This was announced at the catlc banquet in
Liverpool .:..
A gentleman in Philadelphia on Wednesday
celebrated his golden wedding, his eldest
daughters silver wedding, and at the same
time the wedding Of his youngest daughter.
The telegraph announces the death at sea of
John Van Ruren, son Of the late Martin Van
Buren, President Of the Z. s., il prominent
politician in New York, for several years.
Hon Henry Wilson made public PROBES
sion Ct the Christian rcligion on Sunday, the
9TH instant, and united with the Congregations
al Church in Boston.
The men engaged in The recent arrest Of Dr..
Ferris, mail agent on board the mail steamer
at Client, Kentucky, have been indicted, and
held to bail for trial
At last dates from England, the weather was
still favorable for the crops, and the breadstutfs
market had an upward tendency.
The crisis Of the manufacturing distress in
England appears to be over, and, the cotton
factories are again fully at work.
The cholera is very severe IN Chicago. 1t
seems to have subsidized in the Western cities
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