Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-27
NEWS OF TIE UI J.
$40 slso.o the re,y age and bot}y Of the times.

Among the arrivals at Boston BY the China,
from Europe is the Princess Murat, who is On
her way home to Florida, in company with the
son Of the late Commodore Dallas, of the u.
s. Navy She is the defendant Of Joachim
Murat, King OF Naples, and belongs in Fiori-
da, where she has long resided At the close
OF the war, louis Napoleon sent to know how
she Jared, ard on receiving the required intor
NATION, settled on her for lite TIE Snln OF 20,
O00 francs, or about s., 500 in gold, annually.
She is also = relative OF Cen Washington, her
great great grandmother having been Wash,
ingtOn's sister
The amount Of space SET apart 10 the United
States department Of the Paris Exposition for
the purpose Of m American restaurant and
drinking saloon, has, through the agency Of
j T. Derby, esq, genera agent for the United
States, been secured to three person., Of BoS-
ton, Philadelphia and Newark respectively.
'''Ihis saloon will be the only one in the Expo
siliou representing this country, and will be
purely national in character, in the fitting up,
in the kind OF food and drinks used 80 far as
practicable, and in the preparing and 3ispens
ing Of the same.
4 most horrible iratricide occurred yestcr-
day near Washington, three miles back Of
Maysvil!e, in Mason county. Ky. Two broth
crs, twins, aud fathers Of families, met At the
residence OF the sheriff of the county, and
being intoxicatcd quarrelcd about HORSE
John called James thief whereupon The lat
Ter tool; up;, log chain anl beat hin1 with it
terribly. until in turn he drew bowie knife
and stabbed his assaiiant with it in the heart,
killing him instantly.
Hon. C. Y. Culver, Of the V:uanyo Bank,
now confined in Jail at Franklin, Pa, desires to
avail himself of his congressional privilege, and
will meet his trial in November Besides
civil processes innumerable, several indictments
charging him with false pretcnses and cmbez-
Element are pending and are 10 be called up
next month, at Harrisburg. Last week the
house and furniture Of the gentleman were
sold, at the instance of bis creditors.
\ Salt Lake telegram says that DR.. John
King Robinson, formerly assistant surgeon at
Camp Douglas, was decoyed from his home
at a late hour on Monday night, under the
pretc3t of his services being professionally re-
Quircd, and murdered within half block Of
his own house. An investigation into the
murder has elected nothing except that five
or six persons were concerned in it.
Accounts from Northern and Central Alaba
ma report great Gcstituton from failure Of the
crops Many Of the planters have mortgaged
their lands for supplies but the crops falling,
the lands are sold Ut ruinous rates. Families
and homes are broken up under these forced
sales In Greene county alone there arc more
suits on the Circuit Court docket than there
are voters.
Treasurer Spinner yesterday received letter
from Greensboro, Georgia. enclosing $500
Confederate note, and requesting that as the
note was payable two years after the ratfca
tion of treaty of peace between the Confeder
ate and United States, it might be exchanged
for greenbacks, rs the action Of the United
States had rendered it useless
The pardon Of George A. Trenholm, who
was the Confederate Secretary Of the Treasury,
was granted at the special request Of Gen. ..
0. Howard, Chief Of the Freedmen's Bureau
Gen Daniel f. Sickles: omnanding in South
Carolina Gen Dix, and number OF other
persons OF similar military and political prom
inence.
Mr.. peabod reviewed the children Of the
public schools Of Baltimore in front Of the
Peabody Institute yesterday. The children
turned OUT to the number Of about eighteen
presenting 4 most pleasing and ami
mated spectacle.
The Western journals contain sad accounts
of the effects Of the tornado or cyclone that
swept over the greater part Of Illinois, Mis-
souri,, and other States on Sunday evening last.
After the Joint interview between the PreSi
dent and Gen Grant and Lieut. Gen. Sherman
terminated yesterday, the President. had 4
conference Of long duration with Gen. Sherman.
THE WINCHESTER CELEE:RATION. The New
! DIRK Tribune, an ultra Radical paper, says
1.-The despatch which We have received from
" lnchestcr, 'nglnla, gives bUt m imperfect
idea OF the character Of tbe address which Gen.
Wise delivered at the dedication of the Stone
wall Cemetery But We Gave no doubt it Was
eloquent, and that his hearers took from it new
inspiration to cherish the past, to which Stone
wall Jackson and the living Lee Individually be-
long. We cannot dispute over Virginia ODE
1ience to nature in mourning her dead, For
agree with Gov. Wise that the cause for which
hey died still lives. Mr.. Wise himself may
have philosophic doubts upon that point, if his
confessions concerning 81 avery be truly reported.
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