Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-07
.NEWS OF TIE DAF.
80 sho,0 the gerry age and bodyof the times.

The court martial convened at Buffalo Tor
| trying II of the privates OF u ,. 4'h al'lI-
lery, for pa1ading with the fenans at thcir
late pic MIC was concluded yesterday 1t IS
said that fifteen of the prisoners have been
found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months
/ at the Albany Jail The others are to receive
reprimand from the commanding officer -
The findings Of the court were forwarded to
Washington for the approval OF the Secretary
of War
General Orders No. As, from General Pope y
| hesdouarters, 10 Alabama, direct that no CIV!
courts will hereafter entertain any action what
ever against officers or soldiers, or any other
persons, for acts performed in accordance with
orders from the military authorities, orhy their
sanction, and all such suits pending now, or IN
which suits have not been cancelled, will be at
once discharged.
No response has yet been received from Gen.
| Sickles respecting the construction he puts
upon his Order No. 10, in connection with the
refusal Of his subaltern to permit the Marshal
of North Carolina to execute a judgment rem
| dered by Judge Chase at the recent session OF
the y. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh.
Col. Alex. Won Schroeder, assistant lnspec-
tor on the staff Of General Sheridan, died sud
denly in New Orleans, last evening, of brain
| fever. A. Radical meeting is called in New
Orleans, for the purpose OF endorsing Gen,
Sheridan Several prominent party leaders are
announced to speak.
A family named McCann were all poisoned
10 Portsmouth, Va, some days ago by eating
toadstools, gathered by some children, who
supposed them to be mushrooms. Medical as
sistance being promptly afforded, tie sufferers
are considered to be out OF danger.
A young nan named Johnston, living in
| Fairfield, Ohio, recently confessed to having
outraged little girl in that place, whose dead
body was found several weeks ago in John
ston' s stable The citizens attempted to lynch
him, but his friends rescued him.
Orders have been received at Wilmington,
n. c., from Gen. Sickles to suspend all jury
trials, on account Of non compliance with Gen
eral Order No. 81, ordering a reyisal Of the
Jury lists All jury trials upon receipt Of this
order were suspended
Benjamin Thompson, wealthy planter OF
Beaufort, S. c., recently placed III The insane
asylum at Columbia, committed suicide by
hanging yesterday Ills insanity arose from
depression caused BY The present condition O.
| the country
Tx. Governor David r. Porter died at hi:
residence at Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday after
| brief illness He was 10 the seventy niut
year of his age, and had been for many years
identified with the public affairs ct PcnnSy
yaniu.
The dispatches from the West tell OF the
abundance Of the harvest in every direction
The late heavy rains have done lat little in
iuIy The fruit crop OF Western New orb
will be larger than usual.
Vess els arriving at New York report having
experienced on the ID instant, 4 lrcneudou:
hurricane, which lasted about seven hours;
| Several vessels which came ia are more, or less
! disabled.
Gen Sickles has ordered the post command
er at Raleigh, n C., to notify Gov. Wortl
that the adjourned August ;;caaion OF the Leg
islature is postponed until further orders.
| Advices received from Abyssinia, report thai
the British csptives so long held prisoners ii
that country, are no longer iii The hand: II
King Theodore
! A movement is Oh foot, headed hy the mos
substantial parties, to erect i fitting monnmen
| to The memory Of Alexander Dallas Rauhe, IL
Philadel phia.
Bishop Dupanloup, Of France, is prominent
ly nance! in connection with the accession tC
the Papacy, in case Of the demise of the pres
ent Pope.
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