Alexandria Gazette from Alexandria, Virginia • 2

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2. win BY TO-DAVS MAIL. The I VS. Secveraiy War a ment of various in which Confoder a-e njrisonera have heen oniistod in rfri U. rerviee.

He that in Qetobrr. 1S64, by the President. prisoners enlisted Rook Inland, and credited Pennsylvania. with the exception of 12 emlirea to Ohio. Counterfeit fraction-i! currency, of the denomination of 25 is gerring into eircitladon to an oxrant t)m is likely to prove not.

ofj'y ro? hie -owe, but expensive. to persons of sur-dl means, who are the most likely to brim posed on. President. Lincoln has sitrned the act to prevent officer of the army and navy and other persons engaged in rhe military and naval service of the United States, from interfering in elections in the States. A band of thirty guerrillas made a dash into Hick roan, yesterday, burned three scores gutted others, and committed other depredations.

Troops will be sent for the protection of the town. A teiegram to the New York Commercial, cU-ed at liaiu on do 25th states that at that time the Army of the Potomac was under marching orders, and was in readiness to move at a moment's notice. Reports from Washington say that recruiting for the U. S. army at the North and West is going on lor several days past, 3.296.

The American Express Company paid a dividend of thirty eight per cent, cash, ai.d fifty per cent, in stock with last year's business. As good as ile. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, and Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, have both jjublished cards denunciatory of the Fenian organization. It is said in the London that at a recent I ball given by Piiuce Napoleon in Paris, no in- vit-aiious were extended to persons belonging 10 the Southern Confederate pany. The first of be month having arrived, the Old Capitol prison is strain beinir fSearoJ of all ihw Confederate who are bring sent to prisons in the North.

A number ot Con federate officers captured before "Wilmington have been brought up to Washington, and placed in Old Capitol The roads in the South are represented to I be very bad, at this time, so much so as to impede military operations. A French transport which arrived from Vera Cruz reports that the Imperialists had captured Oaxaca, in Mexico. Beaufort, N. is to be made a depot for supplies fur the Federal army operating in North Carolina. Gen.

R. A. Pryor arrived at the front, for exchange, cn Tuesday. The Senate of New Jersey by a tie vote rejected the Constitutional amendment. Cardinal Wiseman died on the 15th of February.

Governor Cannon, of Delaware, died yesterday. The blockade runner Syren was captured on tfcs lying below GENEEAL NEWS. The Museum of the D-pirrmeiu- oi Agri in Washington, recenrly received a fio! oatiari uf Northern Like tUn. The fLsh, some fourteen in number, were pnjsk od in ice and saw came saie'V. and when taken our were as fresh if just dmwn their native element.

One is a monster kalung weighing thirty pounds, and said to be some forty or fitly yearns old. A gentleman from southwestern Kansas communicates to the Leavenworth Times some particulars about the business or eattie stealing carried on in the Indian country. He says that during the past summer and fall every Government detective, and many officers, were engaged in puichasing eattie brought from the lower country, knotting them to be stolen. Last Sunday evening, Mi. Beecher deliver ed in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, a sermon in which, we find a satire on clergymen who are so stupid as to regard theology as their profession, and a scathing invective against the corruption which stalks through the legislative halls and public offices.

The taiiff bill, as from the Committee of Ways and Means, relates to but a few articles, and 3s intended merely to conform the present tariff witn some changes made in the internal system. Thus there will be no essential modifications of the present tariff at this session. Gen. Palmer, on taking the command in Kentucky, delivered an address at the State capitoi, in which he said: Federal Ad ministration regards Kentucky as a loyal State, with an organized government and code ot luws enacted by her own people." A correspondent of the National Intelligen cer asks, why, if beer is quoted at from 9 to 12 cts. on the hoof, should butchers charge 30 cts.

per lb? The Countess Guiccioli, Byron's lady fair, it appears married the Marquis de Boissy, and is yet lining. She has, she avers, the last two cantos ot Don Juan. Recruiting is brisk both in Ohio and Indiana, us we learn from Columbus and Indianapolis. The Court of Inquiry on the Petersburg Mine Failure, have reported, and ascribe the failure to Geo and to Gen Ledlie, (leu. Ferrero, Gen.

Wilcox, and Col. Bliss, of in not pushing on the assault, and cooperating effectively, The Court, howev- er, nay, in reference to Gen. Burnside, that he believed the measures he took would insure success. The U. S.

Secretary of the Navy, in re spouse to a resolution of the Senate, gives ari account of the he has insti luted in relation to various alleged frauds in the Navy Department, and says that the Department been unjustly assailed, and often by persons themselves implicated in abuses, which could not be prevented. The Vice President elect of the IL Andrew Johnson of arrived in Washington yesterday. He will be sworn into office on the 4th instant. Another rainy disagreeable day, whieh makes business dull, and duller. Very little doing in trade now.

Gold, io New York: to day, 197. The U. S. Navy Department has received information of the results of an expedition, sent into Galveston harbor og ihe night of tic 7th instant, for the purpose ol (Kp blockade rnnaer and capturing the eo(ton iadened schooners that vvrre lying anchor under the guns of the forts. It found impossible to the Wren, but die expedition wvs sn esprating two schooners.

supposed jo be British, laden With cotton. One oi then? had about 256, and brother about 220 baies of cotton on board Twenty prisoners were captured on board the two vessels. Ii is said that Fredricksburg is not regularly garrisoned hy Confederate troops, but quently visited by scouting parties. The town is nearly deserted, and the fiw persons remaining there are suffering for the necessaries of lift-. The U.

S. Navy Depaitment has received formation of the destruction or the blockade running steamer Will o'the Wi-p, which was chased ashore off Galveston, Tesas; a shore time ago. The steamer was fired by a boat expedition from the Princess Royal, and destroyed. George W. Kendall, formerly of the New Orleans Picayune, is on his ranche in Texas, raising sheep and cattle and shooting wild turkeys, waiting for peace, troubled somewhat by the Indians, and ''waxing on to three score years." The Duke of Northumberland, whose death on the 11th of February is announced by the last steamer, was a representative of one of the great historical families of England.

The family name is Dudley, and dates to the peperiod ot Hem II. DIED. At Port Mc Henry, on Friday, 24th of February, fob 0IT jN 1 GH AAi, son of the lale Thomas B. Washington, iisq of Claymonl, Jefferson county. Virginia, aged 17 years.

The funeral of the late Miss Lizzie Steaurt, advertised to take place this afternoon, will take place to-worroiv (Friday) afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from her late residence, 107, Cameron ct eet. 0 I 0 A ny a FK A0 KS LAin vicinity, with a small house on it for sale, may hear of purchaser, by S. S. Post Office. giving description of the property, location and price.

mh 2w JOST, March 1, 1865, on King between Patrick and Henry A BRAID OF A liberal reward to be given to any one that delivers it at 2o8, King st. mh well educated YOUTH, to learn the Drug Business. Apply to HENRY COOK, mh 39, King; Street, Alexandria. WANTED to PURCHASE, neat and convenient DUELLING HOUdE, suitable for a moderate sized family. Any person having such to-cisoose of will please address A.

through the JPost Office. mh Edgar Snowdek Sr's Office, corner of King and Royal streets, over Mr. 0 wings'a Store, where he will receive subscriptions and advertisements for the Alexandria Persons having business with the office, can transact it with him. feb tf ADVERTISEMENTS for the Alexandria Gazette can be left at the Printing Office, at stone's Book store, (over which is the office,) or at the office of Edgar Snowden, S.r corner of King and Hoyal up.