Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-04-28

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pUBLIsHED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKLf BY
EDGAR SN0WDEN. Iii
ALEXANDRIA,:
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL IS, 1890.
CoNoREss. Senate was not In SEES
sion yesterday. The House of Representa-
tives spent the day in committee without
quorum, listening to speeches. 5r
TIE JAPANESE VIsrToRs.-It is stated in
the Washington Constitution, that "Mr. Har-
ris, our Minister at Japan, has strongly re-
commended that the embassy from that coun-
try should first land at the city of Washing
ton, and not at New York, as he thinks that
the ambassadors and their suite should not
be brought into contact with such immense
crowds as will surround them in New York,
until they get somewhat used to the new
people whom they come to visit. 1t is also
understood that the ambassadors prefer to
be presented to, and received by, the Presi-
dent, before they make any ceremonious
visits. Instructions have, in consequence,
been given for the Roanoke" to touch at
Hampton Roads, and, as she cannot come
up the Potomac, that the persons composing
the embassy take passage on a suitable stea-
mer, and be conveyed Immediately to Wash
ington. II is expected that, after remaining
in Washington few days, they will visit
New York, and some of our other principal
cities. "'sa ,5aa ,od slg
h The New Orleans Delta ridicules and
denounces the custom of publishing duell-
ing correspondence in the papers. The
Delta says:-'..Here, where the duello ex-
lists as an institution, and is almost daily re-
sorted to, the sentiment and rule forbid pub
licity. The parties maet quietly III some re-
tired place and fight, and there the matter
ends. The result may be referred to--fre-
auently it is not--in the local columns OF
the daily papers; but as to publishing the
correspondence and the particulars of what
occurred on the field, as is the prevailing
custom in Virginia and the District of Column
bia, every principle and sentiment of the
code forbids it. To avoid all chance of this
offensive publicity, the parties here, in du-
ellos, generally avoid written commuDica-
tions and challenges, the whole affair be-
ing one Of verbal arrangement and under
standing between the parties. Thus unne-
cessary correspondence, special pleading,
and newspaper display are avoided, and the
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teal issue and conclusion. Let a similar
will be fewer duels or attempts at duels."
s At the opening of the Sandman Chambers
on the first of the present month, Victor
Emmanuel briefly referred to the then ex-
pected Papal accommodation in the Royal
speech. He says: Firm, like my ances-
tors, in the Catholic religion and in the res
pect due to the Supreme Chief of that reli-
gion, / shall, if the ecclesiastical authority
makes use Of spiritual arms for temporal in
terests, in safe conscience, and III the tradl-
tions of my worthy ancestors, find strength
to maintain entire the civil liberty and au-
thority for which am only indebted to Coo
and to my people" 1t is therefore war to
the knife.
The London Illustrated News, of the 1th,
contains description of the tunnel now be-
ing built under the streets of London, for the
purpose of connecting the city with the Sc
ries of railways at the north of the Thames.
To have railway after the American fash
ion. passing through densely populous dis
trict, and crossing % a level and over-crowd-
ed thoroughfare, was considered utterly out
of the question. Therefore, the plan was
resorted to of avoiding the surface altogeth-
er, leaving that to the ordinary local traffic
and travel, and going entirely under the
city with all the passenger and freight trains.
Three persons were arrested in Paris and
judged to be lunatics, because they tried to
enter the palace and call on Napoleon. One
was a commercial clerk who desired to say
good morning to his Majesty, and to pre-
sent him copy of a work on the physical
constitution of the globe; he was at once CIV
en- up to the police. The second was far
mer who wished to show the Emperor some
remarkable turnips. The third was cook,
with patent method of roasting fowls.
By the new arrangement for the starting
and arrival of the pony express from St DO
seph and San. Francisco, messages sent from
any point in the East to California can be
answered, so that the message and reply will
consume only twenty days. Messages from
San Francisco and answers will require only
eighteen days. &fr|4AA
A despatch has just been received from
Mr.. Harris. stating that our relations with
Japan are now in the most satisfactory con-
dition, and that every disposition is shown
by the Government to carry the treaty faith
fully into effect
The Port Tobacco, Nd, Times, a most re-
spectacle and excellent journal, has COM
menced its seventeenth volume. 1t deserves
the liberal support of Charles and the sur
rounding counties.
The New York canals were opened on
Teusday to navigation, after impatient re-
CARNATIONS on the part of the public and
press. The Welland canal was opened
t~enty-four days ago.
The shi, Lama Star tho nioneer in the