Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-01-05

cia principles. McCaHeIVy, lolheilS -
in the Confederate service, ana an Ahietloan
citizen. who was arrested at Colk anu puI ~
IN his trial on charge of Fenlanlsm, has Deeh
w. on account Of aaWin the Indictment
10 new King Of Belgium has been formally
;nauanrated On taking the consltutlonai
oatL n the presence of both Houses OF the pei
o;,,m Parliament he declared he should rehg1-
ensy follow his father example and precepts
Count Gutenberg, who was concerned N the
mur5er Of OFT, Prince Alfreds Cook, at Bonn,
prussia. has been sentenced to i've and nan
,oantbs' ;mnrisonmept There had been slight
;ncrease Of cholera in France. The markets
a. cotton. wheat, &C.. have been steady and
unchanged. u. s. securities had advanced
slightly. -
STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN RICHMOND
The Richmond Examiner, of yesterday, has
the following:
r will be remembered that we published a
statement ito the effect that negro woman,
living near Chimborazo, had been delivered OF
a litter Of puppies. We now learn that these
animals have human heads and canine bodies:
thew were originally five in number: Ope mas
died two have been sold to a Yankee TOR ex-
h h;h;t;on. for enc thousand dollars, and the
wretched woman has refused an offer OF I'VE
hundred dollars for the two which remain.
The woman will be sent to the Poor House,
and when she is sufficiently recovered. she VIII
he Sent to the Penitentiary. Hanging would
he far TOO slight a punishment tor such an
abandoned outcast as this creature must be-
About forty years ago, when pine trees were
still growing on the north side ct Main street,
where Twonty-ffth streets now runs, negro
,~nlan, named Sally Ham, was the mother OF
three creatures such as We have described
above, but they all died soon after their birth.
acustorn of high officials to distribute the gifts
of their positions among their relatives Some
Senator's have secured comfortable beTths tor
their relatives The Congressional directory
discloses the tact that son of Senator Clark,
Of New Hampshire, is doorkeeper Of the re-
porter gallery that a son OF Senator Cowan
is clerk Of Senator CoWan's committee; that
a son Of Senator Doolittle is similarly favored;
likewise son Of Senator Howard; ditto a son
of Senator Dixon ditto nephew Of Senator
Foote; while a nephew Of Senator Wade stands
euard at one Of the entrance doors to the cham
Der for 81, 200 a year. Phila., Telegraph.
The Charleston papers announce the sudden
death cf Brig. Gen. w. II. Trapier, OF the
}ate Confederate Army. Gen. T. was gradu-
ate Of South Carolina College, and afterwards
entered West Point He was in tic same
class with Gen Beauregsrd, and graduated
with high honor Fl served in the q $. army
fourteen years, AMI was promoted to the rank
of captain OF engineers. During tue la&e war
he had charge OF the defenses Of Charleston AZ
one lime, and afterwards served IN Florlda,
then in Mississippi, under Gen. Johnston.
Carl Schultz delivered, few days since, a
lecture on Southern affairs in Boston, in which
h ,oSnrtnol, ~ onnn11raa HAITI hn tr11a r,oiou
Of the Administration was either to continue
to protect the rights Of freed negroes by
direct interference in the home concerns of
the Southern States, or to grant the blacks
such privileges as will enable them to protect
tne,; selves In the course of his lecture he
took Issue Wit, President johnson in respect to
the policy Of reconstruction.
Judge Hughes, of Washington, has applied
to the Secretary of the Navy to have day
fixed for the trial Of Admiral Semmes. Sec
rotary w elies, however, declined to do so, On
the ground that it was impractlcable at this
time to make detail of a sufficient number OF
officers of the proper grade to constitute the
court. In the meantime, however, all per-
sons in charge Of vessels captured by Semmes,
are requested to come forward and give iDtor-
nation =
The Mexican ImperiaEsts claim to have
gained another victory over the Juarists on the
4th ult., at Comitlan. The forces of the latter
were commanded bythat enterprising guerrilla
leader Perjeio Diaz. Among the killed was
Thomas Sanchez, partisan chief Of some re-
pute. ,Oa the other hand, the Republicans are
said to hare taken possession Of the town Of
La Paz in Lower California
The War Department disbursements for the
month Of December were near fourteen mil
lonc re dollars 2&s##f. .7' ssff