Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-31
NEWS OF THE DA 7.
g 10 stoa0 the re,:y age and body Of the times. '


Gen. Ortega, refuses to regard himself as
included in General Sheridan denunciations in
his letter on Mexican affairs. Ortega insists
upon his constitutional claims to the presidency
Of the republic. He says that if he could
think that Gen. Sheridan thought OF setting
aside the constitution Of Mexico, or decide
upon titles to authority under it, he would
formally protest against his assumption
Al IL tournament lately held in TuScumbla'
Ala, the prize, pair of silver stars, was
awarded to Il competitor who had been Fede'
raj officer, General Forrest being one OF the
Judges. The victor, as soon as he had received
the prize, announced that it was offered as IA
present to the Association for the Sepulchrc Of
Confederate Dead This act was highly APP
piauded
Il man named Martin Tate, living in Cum
bcrlaud county, Pa, died on Sunday night of
hydrophobia lie had been bitten by rabld
dog nine weeks ago, and was under Il seeming
" successful medical treatment when he be-
came unduly excited on Sunday morning at
some domestic mishap, took sick immediately
alter. and died in the most terrible agonies.
A portion Of the Utah Indians, Il tribe that
has been committing depredations upon the
white settlers in Colorado, surrendered recent
" to the commandment at Fort Garland. 1t Is
sunnsed, however, that the surrender wos
only for the purpose Of receiving the usual
annutieS.
The New York political newspapers are filled
with most fearful stories of the fraudulent issue
of naturalization papers by their opponents, in
order 10 manufacture additional voters for the
approaching election Each side charges the
other with doing this thing 70 about the same
extent.
1t is stated that nearly 1000 Germans le,ve
Europe every week for the United States on
the Bremen and Hamburg steamers. Com
panies are also being established in Europe to
encourage Immigration to America among the
Danes, Norwcgans and Swedes.
\ steamer belonging to the General Trans
atlantic Company which was to have sailed
from France for New York, sunk at her wharf,
on the Sth inst Three hundred and eighty
passengers were to have sailed in this steamer.
Mr. James A. Morgan, Of Ohio, has been
| appntel by the Secretary of the Interior De-
pa.'tmcnr to the position Of chief clerk Ct the
Pension Bureau, said appointment to take
effect from the 18th inst.
The T. S. steamer Benvic, from st.
Thomas, is lying at quarantine at New York,
with eighteen Of the crew sick with yellow and
intermittent fever on board Fourteen others
died on the passage.
1t is said that Gen Sherman accepts the
position in connection with the Mexican en-
hassy and that Gen Grant will take charge
Of the War Department, ad interim, when Mr.
Stanton retires
The St. Joseph correspondent OF the st.
Louis Democrat tclegraphs contradiction OF
the exaggerated stories recently set ahoat in
regard to Indian outrages and hostilites on
the plains.
Matilda Heron Stoepe, the actress has sent
to the St. Louis Southern Relief Fair set of
very fine lace three hundred years old, for which
a New York lady had once offered her $4,000.
This month closes the centennial jubilee Of
American MethodiSrn, last Sunday being the
last Sunday in the first hundreth year of it's
operations in this country.
\ boy in Cincinnati on Monday, knocked
another boys hat off. Boy No. = shot boy
No. | dead. Both boys aged about H.
"Rising generation y
The Police Commissioners OF Baltimore are
putting in their rebuttng testimony to the
charges brought against them. The result is
doubtful
Lieut. Braiuc, the captor Of the steamer
Chesapeake, during the late war, has Ueen
Indicted in New York ''tor piarcy aud murder "
Fenian meetings continue to be held in the
Northern and Western cities. The Fenian
trials are still goiAg on in Canada
1t is said that the report Of the attempt to
re. organize the deflmct Louisiana Convention
OF 1864 is a canacd
TIE CALUMNY REFUTED During and since
the late war, the Northern 'Shriekers" have
made the ''cruelty Of the South to prisoners
the hourly subject Of the grossest calumnics.
Truth is beginning TO shine out from the gloom
of falsehood The figures furnished by the
United States War Department, themselvesre.
fate most Of these SANDERS. The Toronto
(CanatIa} Leader, in quoting the official State
mcnt Of the. mortality of prisoners on both
sidcs-a statement which we have already in
serted in the Gazette-says:
1T is due to the truth of history that these
figures, published by the authority Of the u.
s. Secretary of War, should be widely circula-
ted. From them We learn that although the
Confederacy had more Northern prisoners in
its hands than the Northern government had
of Southern prisoners: the mortality in the
Northern prisons was more than twice as great
as in the Southern 1t is thus that facts and
figures disprove the violent calumnies which