Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-21
RRIET PARAGRAPHS.

that negro girl has been most cruelty and IN
humanity treated bya Virginia woman'-thal
photograph of the girl has been taken anu
sent to Gen. Howard, and that Judge Under
derwood, of Virginia, proposes to take her into
his own family, and to accompany her to the
President of the United States, there to let
him see the last specimen of the humanity OF
the reconstructed Rebels. "
The Washington Chronicle says: Virginia
is probably more bitterly hostile to the United
States Government than when Richmond was
the rebel capital" There is a typographical
error here doubtless. The erratum should be
;'for u. S. government read Radical faction,
headed by Stevens, Sumner & Co. .
We regret much to sec the accounts Of the
Cholera in New York They should admonish
every city that the danger is rot ever; and
warn the authorities every where to be vigil
lant and the people to be careful.
The Washington Chronicle makes very
considerable miratiou, over the admission
of Tennessee, and notifies the other Southern
States that they cannot come in, unless they
follow her example.
The Express Office in Boston, yesterday, was
robbed of certificates of $50 shares Of Adams
Express Company's stock, and $25, 900 in bank
understandable funds only $4,000.
The advance sheets Of Mr.. Pollard s new
book, ''Ehe Lost Cause" have not been favor
ably received, especially by the Southern press.
The number of deaths from sun stroke and
extreme heat during the last few days, exceed
ed anything ever before known in this country.
A building occupied by an army surgeon was
burned at Hampton, Va, yesterday, and the
government buildings were in much danger.
The weather was hotter in New Haven, Conn,
during the late heated term, than it has been
before, for eighty-nine years
Large quantities Of tobacco we're seized IN
in New York, yesterday, for violations OF the
revenue laws
The North American Sengerfcst, German
musical festival, is to be held at Louisville on
the Oath.
One of tie elephants in Bailey's menagcrie
died in Belfast, Me-. yesterday. Hisvalue vas
$4,000.
A quarantine has been established in Hava-
na against vessels from the U. S. Fear Of
cholera.
Dartmouth College, N. IT,, has conferred the
degree OF j. L. y. upon Gen. Sherman.
Heat and drought have damaged tho crops
in Georgia.
Flour and Wheat both declined in n. York,
yesterday.
WOMAN, AS SEEN BY SURpRIsE.-In a
book, called Meadows History Of the
Chinese, lately published in London, there is
curious story Of youth who passed his ju-
venescence without ever having seen a woman.
1t is thus narrated "A Chinese, who had
been disappointed in marriage, and had gricy-
iously suffered through women in many other
ways, retired, with his infant son, to the peaks
of mountain range, in Kweichoo, TO u spot
quite inaccessible to Iittle-fo0tcd Chinese wo.
men He trained bis boy to worship the gods,
and stand in awe and adherence cfthe devils
but he never mentioned woman to him, always
descending the mountain alone to buy food.
At length, however, the ;ntrmitics Of age
compelled him to take the young man with
him to carry the heavy bag Of rice. AS
they were leaving the market town together,
the son suddenly stopped short, and point.
ing to three approaching objects, cried =
Father what arc these things? Look! look
what arc they? The father instantly answered,
with poremptory order, Turn away your
head they are devilz!' The son, in some
alarm, turned away, noticing that the evil
things we're gazing at him, with surprise, from
behind their fans IIe walked to the mountain
in silence, ate no SUPPER and, from that day,
lost his appetite, and was afflicted with melau-
choly For some time his troubled and anxious
parent could get no satisfactory answer to his
inquiries, but at length the young man burst
out, crying, with inexplicable pain, oh, father,
that tallcst devil that talleSt devil, father