Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-25
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The Mobile Advertiser is informed by W..
II. Harris. a late Confederate scout, that Lieu.
tenant Maury, of Virginia. of whose fate re-
cent enquired has been made, was captured by
party of the federal soldiers, and taken
across the Mississippi river, where he was MUIR
dered by dese-ter from the Confederate ser.
vice. Harris further says he was buried where
he was thus murdered, eight miles below lcSs-
burg. He says that John H. Rainey, OF Kinds
county, Mississippi, was present and can proc
ably identify his grave.
The Cork Examiner states that within a
short period four vessels which run between
Queenstown and New York have brought back
about TWO hundred passengers each, the major
ity of whom were Irish This Irish "Immi-
grafton" is chiefly laborers who left Ireland
lately, aad who have not succeeded in finding
in America the well paid employment they ex-
pected They state that if wages are higher
in the u S. the price of provisions has much
increased and that their position would consc-
quently not have been improved by remaining
there.
James NJ. Scoyille, of the New Jersey Sen
ate, whose action prevented the election OF a
Republican y. S. Senator last winter, has
written q letter to the Evening Telegraph, in
which he rciterates his approval Of the Con-
stitiona amendments passed by the last Con
gress, and says II propose, at an extra SEES
Il "a do ,l,Ity
as Republican upon all questions which may
arise, first satisfying my own conscience, then
gratifying my constituents and friends. -
A telegraphic dispatch from Washington an
nounces the appointment by the President of
VIM. H. Purnell, Esq, as assessor Of internal
revenue for the third district Of Maryand.-
This diSplaces Joseph j. Stewart, who received
the radical nomination for Congress few days
since Mr.. Purnell, Was renominated by the
President for the Office of postmaster of Balti-
more, but was not confirmed by the Senate at
the late session of Congress-
The johnson State Convention, Of West
Virginia, was held at Parkcrsburg yesterday
Colonel Smith was nominated for governor; J.
". Kennedy, secretary Of State, and Il. Rich
ardson, attorney general. One hundred and
sixty delegates were present Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the late Philadelphia Con-
vention, pledging fealty to West Virginia, and
denouncing the radicals.
The Labor Convention at Baltimore resolved
to appoint committee to wait on the President
and present their views on the subject Of the
public lands and the national debt. A des-
patch was received from the President indicat
ing that he would receive their committee to-
day.
The Pensacola Observer Of the 2lst instant
says the United States gunboat Muscoota AZ
rived at the mouth of that harbor on the Goth
from the Rio Grande, with seventy cases Of
yellow fever on board The surgeon is dead.
The vessel is still outside, awaiting orders.
The reconstruction Of the Richmond and
York River railroad, which was destroyed dur
ing the war, is progressing The first train
went down yesterday below Fair Oaks. The
road will be finished to West Point by the mid
die Of September. 49,. ......G.
On the Oath inst, in Richmond the new
brick warehouse Of West, Beardsley & Co.,
Wholesale grocery merchants, on Pearl street.
was destroyed by fire, with its contents. The
adjoining buildings were badly damaged Loss
about 900.
Robert S. Chew, who has heretofore dis
charged the duties connected with the Con-
sular Bureau, has bean appointed Chief Clerk
Of tho State Department In place OF William
Hunter, recently promoted, to the newly crea-
ted Office Of Assistant Secretary Of State
The Laesburg Washingtonian says: 1.-The
Locust Trees III this and, adjoining counties.
seem to be suffering from some new disease, or
the attacl, of an unknown and unseen insect
all the trees look as if their leaves had been
scorched.
4 curious and fatal disease is killing the hogs
in Page, co. Va. Its first symptoms are an en-
largcment Of the tongue and refusal to cat or
drink. The tongue turns black and putrid and
after few days the hog dies
GEN. HowARD.-The Washington Chroni-
Gle says: Son Thursday General Howard call
ed on the President, in compliance with the re-
quest of the latter, to confer with him on mat
ters pertaining to the operations of the bureau.
During the interview which was somewhat pro-
tracted, Gen Howard laid before the President
communications from a number Of prominent
men in the South, in relation to the workings
of the bureau. 1t is not known that anything
was said in regard to the removal or withdraw
al Of Gen Howard from his present Office, but
there is a significant report that On the day of
this intervewa telegram was sent toGen. Tilson,
assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Blu
rcau for Georgia, now temporarily sojourning
at Saco, Maine, instructing him not to return
South, as his services would soon be required
to relieve General Howard as chief Of the bu-
reau 1t is understood that should General
Steadmau lie made Secretary of War, General
Howard would ask to be relieved.