Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-09-19
3, NEWS OF THE DAY .
so shao the vsry. age and s6o5y of the times

| DfS IOItuSdS was urtu upon ny Strange cI"it
bearing the Confederate flag, and that DR..
Mudd, who is confined on the Island, was Sc
riou>ly injured by the explosion Of a shell.
Mr.. Alexander G. Cattel was elected Sena
tor of the United States by the Radicals of
New jersey, in legislative session at Trenton.
None Of the Democrats voted, and in each
House. they presented a protest, declaring the
new law for the election of Senator unconst-
tution2l, and denouncing, in severe terms, the
conduct of the United States Senate in dep:iv
ing Mr.. Stockton of his vote whilst permitting
him to retain his;seat.
The New York Express reports, but as a
rumor merely, derived from trustworthy
sources, that three hundred Fenians are about
to start from Boston for a raid upon some
Canadian Bank Colonel Roberts and the
Fenian Senate are taking measures, it is said,
to prevent the expedition starting.
The Darlington, South Carolina, Southerner
states that the negroes Of that place are moving
in the preparation of petition to President
johnson, a. king for the withdrawal of the mill
tary, the abolition Of the provost courts, and Il
prohibition of the Freedmen's Bureau from
interference in the affairs of the blacks
The Ohio delegates to the Cleveland Conyen
ton have done cool thing in requesting the
withdrawal of the entire Democratic ticket in
their State, and the nomination Of Conserva-
tive Republicans instead
The National Military Asylum to be erected
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be located on
tract OF about 500 acres. The buildings will be
capable of accommodating from l0, 900 to $4,000
inmates, and will cost nearly 100000. The
asylum will be placed in charge of disabled Off
GERS, and will be for the accommodation Of all
disabled Union officers and soldiers of the late
war. Two other similar institutions are to be
established IN other localities, under the act Of
Congress. -..- 1T. . 80. -.... -.
Five deaths from yellow fever and nineteen
from cholera were reported in New Orleans on
Monday. ..-.. ..-.... .. ......
A terrible accident to coal train on the
Reading Railroad occurred on Monday through
the malicious displacement Of switch. An
engine and twenty cars were destoyed, and two
men killed. *
General W. W. Orme, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
who came cut of the war with his health broken
down, died of consumption on Thursday.
The Comptroller of Texas reports to the
Senate Of that State that the loss of revenue
arising from the abolition of African Slavery,
as based on the value Of slaves in 1860, at the
then existing rate of taxation being twelve
and one half cents Oh the one hundred dollars
valuation-is slS3, 36l.l7, that being the tax
on Sl05, 6SS, 92O 10. The aggregate value of
taxable property of the State, as rendered Tor
taxation for the year 1860, was 1924 3l5, $50,
and the estimated Der of acres uoon which
no tax was paid for the year 1865 was 56: S2l 22O
NIr. Chandler. the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, is reported to have resigned.
In Lower Canada the crops have been seri-
ously injured by continued heavy rain. 1t is
estimated that in many districts at least one
halt of the bay and grain crops are ruined, and
it is feared that much suffering will prevail
the coming winter. 3D..
The cotton merchants OF New Orleans met
on the evening Of the 18th inst, and adopted
memorial to the Secretary of the Treasury, re-
guessing that the regulations tor assessing and
collecting the tax on cotton might be modified
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald says:
The Secretary Of War is reducing the num-
Der Of volunteer officers remaining in the ser
vice as rapidly as the exigences of the army
will permit. Within the present month large
number have been returned to their llneal rank
in the regular army, or have found their way
to civic occupations. An entirely new method
seems to have been adopted by the War De
partmeut in effecting these changes. Instead
of Dromul gaticg the muster out orders by lists
each officer is now mustered out by virtue of
an extract from War Department special Or
der, having reference to himself only. BY his
method the fact is known to none but the de-
partment and the officer concerned. Like the
encmy's bullets these missiles from the War
Derartmcnf speed to their destinations, dealing
swift destruction to official rank and dignity,
and without :. warning note titles Isl! in I'll d.
l., ctnns Most OF the volunteer officers that
hav,. can retained in The service are tn duty
in te Etcjmen> Bpreai Many u these
have air ally teen hor ahiy HiScharG'' Sl"ce
The f>L e! = n'f,n'"r. Hn1 nHml'tr 81 '':.tiH'
it is cz!.nc'ed. viii l." l'.utgrYd uu' by the LIST
Of Or1o|:,'. All the o.ic,Is acting ~ he ca
pacity OF Assistant Commissioners Of the Freed
men Bureau are to be mustered out Of their
volunteer rank Each of them will, however,
be retained in the regular service, either by
virtue of commissions now in their possession
or iy appointment recently made. with the ex-
ceptions of Major General R. K. Scott, Assist
ant Commissioner Of South Carolina, and Ma
.ior General Davis TlIsoD, Assistant Commits
sioner Of Georgia, who hold no other than vol
unteer commissions, but the musterout OF these
officers has been suspended until the lst OF De
cembcr next, to allow them time to properly
arrange the affairs OF the Sea Islands, which
have hitherto been in rather unsettled eondl-
ton MAJOR General Clinton B. Fisk, late As
slstant Commissioner of Freedmen S affairs in
the Stale OF Kentucky, has recently been mus
tarod o1it ot Servica ond hos popa ST ,OuIS