Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-06
NEWS or THE DAY.
"1o s7toao the rey age and body Of the times. "

l05 years with what respect and awe should
poor humanity look upon such duration OF
life. Born two years before the end OF the
French and Indian war, four years before the
famous stamp act was passed. fifteen years
before the Declaration of Independence, thirty
eight years before the death of Washington,
hfty-one years before the war OF 1872, one
hundred years old at the outbreak of the
Southern rebellion. What a long, weary pill
grimage! !"
Dispatches from New Orlenas bring some
news from Texas Col. Mason, the command
or Of the soldiers charged with the burning of
Benham, declares his belief TINT the citizens
were the aggressors, and that the town was
fired by them Gen. Sheridan has instructed
Brcvet Major Smith not to permit himself to
be arrested by any civil authority, and des-
patch to the Associated Press states that this
officer has proclaimed martial law and ordered
the disarming of the citizens.
The Washington correspondent OF the Phlla-
de!phia Inquirer states that it is understood
that an order will be made that Chief Justice
Chase, Judge Underwood and others, be mott
fed that Mr.. Davis is held subject to the In
dctment found in the U. S. Circuit Court, and
that these officials be requested to have the
proper writ issued to take the prisoner into
custody under the Indictment for treason.
Considerable feeling is exhibited throughout
Georgia GA the subject OF population, and it
is thought an effort will be made, on the meet
ing of the Legislature in November, to relieve
the people from the payment OF certain debts
contracted prior to and during the late war.
The plea urged for Reputation is the loss OF
slaves and the failure Of the crops.
.Judsou Palmer clipped with Il daughter OF
Archibald Stephens, Of Cooyman's Hollow,
Albany county, n Y, and was pursued by
the latter They met on Thursday, ana COM
menced firing upon one another when Stephens
was killed ant! Palmer wounded. lIemaua2cd,
however, to escape with the daughter.
In Cambridge, Mass, a few evenings ago,
Richard II. Dana, it,, made Z spoec! against
the Presidents policy. lie stated that lie Al
rived from Europe on Friday, and on Saturday
he sent 10 Gle President his resignation Of the
eilic2 Of District Attorney.
Che Charleston Is. g. News speaks hope
fully G! the spirit OF enterprise developing IN
that State in regard IL manufacturers. ltsayS
the ''lnidllc and upper sections Of thc State
are covered with unsurpassed manufacturing
sites
4 board Of officers, assembled yesterday, iii
obedience 10 orders from the Secretary Of ar,
for the purpose Of preparing p ais and srecfi-
cations Tor the buildings Of the War Depart
incnt in Washington.
A despatch from Fortress Monroe says that
five hundred white emigrants from the interior
Of North Carolina had passed that point going
West to seek The livelihood they ware unable
to SECURE there.
From Fortress Monroe We learn that Mr.
O'Conoc visited Mr.. Davis yesterday end re-
manned in close consultation with him all day
The purpose Of Mr.. O Conor's visit is not
known.
BY the Atlantic telegraph re have foreign
commercial adyiccs to noon Of yesterday
Consols closed at SCI; United States Five
twentics at 7Q3.
4 Paris letter received at Washington asserts
that the French Emperor has decided to recall
the whole Of the French force at once from
Mexico.
Assistant Secretary Of State. I. ". Seward,
has been appointed Secretary Of State ad
interim, owing to the renewed sickness Of his
father.
Mr. 4. T. Stewart has offered to donate a
million Of dollars for the erection Of tenement
houses for the deserving poor Of New York.
The Chamber Of Commerce at New York
has adopted resolution to memorabilia Con-
gress to repesI the export duty on cotton.
The dcatA Of Porfrio Diaz, the noted Next
can guerilla ieader is now denied on the author
ity of ad&ices from San Francisco.
The steamer Saxonia has arrived with ninety
thousand six hundred pounds in gold.
The Journal of Commerce exposes, with force
and terSeneSs, the illegitimacy of West Virginia
as State, and the inconsistency Of the Radical
politicians; in regard to it. That able journal
asks:
''H.ow came New York to be equally match,
ed in the Senate of the United States by two
Senators representing new State within the
boundaries of old Virginia? II secession and
cebcllion deprived Virginia of her locality in
the Union, Of her representation, or right Of
representation in the councils of the nation,
how could she give that consent which, by the
Constitution, was necessary to the erection Gfa
new State within her boundaries?
NO better illustrations could be needed than
this Of the inconsistency Of the Radical politi-
clans. Virginia was regarded as State Tor all
their purposes, but is regarded as no State
when they have another purpose to carry out.
PLENARY Observation-Disclosures, October s..
ALL the members Of the Roman Catholic
Council have arrived except five Bishops and
A., 1,l,cbn, VIII, ny,,irtnI harn tn