Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-08-28

leaders of Pennsylvania, have procured from
the War Department a list of dcSerters from
the army during the war, comprising sixty
thousand names, with the Intention Of chal-
longing at the polls such Of them as shall offer
to vote the National Union ticket The intcn-
ton is to keep the matter quiet, and only chal-
lcngc such of them as will vote against the
Radicals"
Preparations continue to be made in Phila-
delphia for the Radical Convention to be held
there. It is said that the names Of several
persons in Virginia have been published as
Delegates who entirely disapprovc Of the
whole concern. The Radicals in Wheeling
have named as delegates 'Go7. Boreman,
Senators Wiley and Van Wrinkle, General
Kelley, and Mcssrs. Harris, DuYai, Lightturn
and Strothcr-"Porte Crayon. "
The delegation of Cherokee Indians which
left Washington few days ago for their home,
west of Kansas, after stopping one night in
st. Louis, proceeded by stages via Fort Scott
Some distance north Of Fort Scott the whole
delegation was attacked with cholera One Of
them, 'White Catcher" died the others are
reported recovering. The people Of the neigh
borhood and the stage drivers were complete
ly panic-stricken.
Speaking Of the Radical Convention, the
Washington Union says :-''Thero are more
delegates elected from Massachusetts, to attend
the Union bogus Southern Convention, than
there will be delegates from the eleven South
ern States. There will be twelve from North
Carolina and one hundred and ten from Massa,
chusctts. New Jersey sends At least hundred
delegates and yet this is called Southern
Convention
The report Of the total number Of freedmen s
day schools in the United States Las been sub
nitted. It represents that in Ill the districts
Of the bureau there are 975 schools, with ,4Q5
teachers, and 90,77S pupils. The State Of
Virginia is in advance Of al others in freed
mems schools; the number reported being 1913
schools, 200 teachers, and II, ISL scholars.
The recent discovery Of correspondence BE-
tween the supposed suborned witnesses in the
case Of Jefferson Davis, before the Judiciary
Committee, and S. Conover, and Conovcr and
Garter, and Conovcr and Judge Holt, has
created no little feeling at Washington, aud
President Johnson, it is said, is taking mca
sures to look into the matter
Eaycttc McMullen of Southwestern Vir-
sinia, has lately obtained verdict against a
Railroad Company for the alleged destruction
CT his barn. &C., On the line Of the road, BY
sparks from the locomotive. The Railroad
Company deny that their engine caused the
burning, and the case has been carried up TO
tho Court of Appeals.
4 meeting Of the citizens of Frederick cyun-
y, Va, is to be held at Winchester, on Mon
Coy, the Sd inst, to endorse the action Ct the
PRESIDENT as opposed to the Radicals, and to
4atify the result of the proceedings Of the Con-
acrVative Convention, lately held III Philadcl-
9hia. Mr.. Conrad, and others, will, probably,
address the meeting.
Gen. B. T. Butler has lately made an inccn-
diary speech at Gloucester, Mass, in which he
denounced the President and proclaimed that
IF the present state of things continues VIZ
Ii. c. Gen. Butler, we Supposed vii! marcl.
once more !! Well, let him march His
marches never amounted to much yeti
Brownlow, the Governor Of Tennessee, is
''out' in characteristic address 20 the Loyal
Men of that State, full of wrath, and fury,
and malice, and balderdash, and bitterly vitcr-
perativc of the President Of the i. S. lie is
only following his old vocation.
a very imposing ceremony will shortly take
place in Paris. The coffin Of the Duke Of
Reichstadt, son of Napoleon l., is to be rcmov-
ed from its Austrian tomb to the Imperia!
sepulchrc, beneath the dome Of the Inva!ides,
where his father is entombcd.
The 'Fall Fashions" including the newest
.,tylos for Fall bonnets," are announced in New
York. One is small oyster she'll shaped
bonnet, made OF soft white chip. The "Gladi-
ator" is the novelty in round hats
1.-THE widow Clicquot is dead SO say tho
French newspapers But the Champagne, VIC
suppose, and hope, is not dead too! We have
lingering idea that We may taste that brand
once again, in better days.
Gen. o. o. Howard states, in ii card, tia
the recent order for reducing the rations ISSUED
by the Frecdmen's Bureau, was issued, at hi
recommendation, by the Secretary Of War
General Joseph Wheeler, of the late Con
tederate army, is writing history Of so mucl
of the late war as relates to his OWN command
and those who were associated with il.
BroWnlow, in 1861, threatened the Nortl
with fire and sword in case it should attemp