Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-28
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A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia, dated
Yesterday, says, "a University difficulty here
has given rise to much feeling. 1t is stated
that the speech of student at recent COM
mencement caused Gen. Pope to take steps
toward closing up the institution and convert
ing it into a barracks, but through the exertlons
of Chancellor Lipscomb the exercises were
allowed to be continued, on condition, as it is
alleged, that the press of the State should not
refer to the matter. 1t is also stated that Gen'
Pope has ordered an appropriation OF eight
thousand dollars which was made by the Leg
islature to be withheld.
The Victoria News says, on authority OF
letters received in Victoria by the last English
mails, that the question of the cession of Van
couvers Island, British Columbia, to the
United States, in liquidation of the Alabama
claims, was the subject Of free discussion in the
various clubs of the British metropolis, the
general feeling among the English politicians
being favorable to the proposition as the readi-
est method of paying the So, 100000 which is
claimed as compensation for the losses sus-
tanned through the depredatons of the Con
tederate cruiser. e?
Colored men in the lst and 4th Congress
sional districts Of Georgia are out as candidates
for Congress, and have published addresses
They claim that the right to vote gives them
the right to hold Office, and as they are 10 the
majority the whites shall not be elected by their
votes The candidates are Conservatives, and
are in favor of universal amnesty. The i'm
preston prevails that large number O: whites
will vote for these candidates in preference to
white ones.
A dispatch from Washington says it las
leaked out that the State Department has
received intelligence through an agent OF Gen.
Prim, the Spanish revolutionary leader, that
Unsuccessful, he will offer the island of Cuba to
our Government at price to be fixed by a
mixed commission, to keep England a passive
spectator Cuba being pledged to repay the
British bondholdcrs This intelligence was
sent to Mr. Seward a month ago, it is said 81
The correspondent of the San traDclso
Bulletin writes from the city of Mexico, July
81, describing the entry of JuaEez, which elicit
ed much enthusiasm. At a grand banquet Ju-
arez hoped the nation would initiate the elem
ency and moderation of the United States in
victory The Mexican press were clamoring
for general amnesty; the people were sick Of
bloodshed
Gen. Cooper has issued an order at Nash
vile, Tenn, stopping the dlsbanding of the
State Guards He gives as reason the bad
conduct of outlaws and disloyal parsons in GER
tain portions Of the State, He recommends
loyal men VINO have been threatened to bring
suits, and promised to dispose of the State
Guard for their protection.
The significant remark of Mr.. Thaddeus
Stevens, in his letter on the "Conservatlve'
Republican Senators, will be noticed. Some
of the members of the Senate seemel to doubt
their powers under the Constitution which they
had just repudiated, and wholly outside Of mhtch
all agreed that We we're acting.
Three hundred aid thirty deaths by the
cholera have occurred in the Indian Territory
south of Kansas Thirty per Ct of the
population at Fort Gibson had died. At Fort
Arbucke sixty soldiers and seventy-fve ln-
dams succumbed to the scourge.
A Nashville special says Gov. Brownlow has
taken possession of the Mobile and Ohio rail
road, and appointed Mr.. Cliff receiver a
Cairo dispatch says the strike on the above
road has ended, and the trains will run today.
Intelligence ftom the Plains is to the effec
that the Indians declare their intention to con
time the war and reject all proposal for peace
Gen. Hancock was at Fort Harker
The game of base ball between the Mutuals,
of New York, and the Pastimes, Of Baltimore
yesterday, was won by the Pastimes, the scores
being 81 to Al.
Immense swarms Of locusts were 10 the
vicinity of the city of Ellsworth, Kansas, yes
terday moving in soutbeasterly direction.
A State temperance convention is now il
session in Baltimore It is we'll attended