Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-05-08

VI Tue COuCu, auu aUuuI Piiooo w."
hand.
Last night, as a young lady, Miss Ollie
Dutton, was going up Third street, on her way
home, she was accosted by a man, who put
a cloth containing chloroform over her mouth
and robbed her Of a gold watch and other Va!u-
ables. The police foand her lying upon a
porch in an insensible condition.
The japanese Commissioners have gone 10
Annapolis to pay a visit there. They nave
ceased to attract much attention here.
Among the patents issued from the Patent
Office last week was one to Charles i. Alexan-
der, OF Washington, d. G., for d printers type
case.
Mr.. Andrew Hancock caught, at the Little
Falls, on Monday, 4 beautiful black pass,
weighing four and a half pounds, and a smalier
fish of the same kind, weighing four pounds.
Mr.. Scrivener brought some from ove OF the
northern lakes years ago, and put them In the
Potomac at Cumberland, and they are now
abundant in the river throughout its entire
length.
Waiting for a Car on a street corner recently,
our ear was taken by a strlklugly novel but
highly expressive discrimination of classes
A couple of colored women were exchanging
expressions of surprise at the conduct OF some
third person mentioned by one, the other
thereupon inquiring: WAS she colored or
plain 2" "Plain!' was the satisfactory an
swer.-Nat. int.
VIRGINIA 1rEMs.-By the fire at Mr.. S.
Wexford Corbin's, in King George, Comm.
M. T. Maury lost all that part Of his Library,
which had been saved from destruction during
the pillage Of Fredericksburg in 1862. Also
all of his private correspondence, and fugitive
writings written up to the war, embracing his
Humboldt correspondence, papers on the ANA
ION, &c, sc. Il Is a very decided loss to
history, science and literature.
James Ga,nett, colored, informs us that the
noted Rev. Lewis Robertson. a colored man,
who hail" from Pennsylvania, aud came among
the colorcl people here as 4 great friend. stole
a mule from him on Friday night last.
Mrs Wexford Corbin, CT King George
county, has collected nearly five hundred dol
Ter the repairs Of 'Lamb's Greek Church"
in thae county.
The steamer Matilda" plying between
Fredericksburg and Baltimore, is about to he
Withdrawn for the purpose OF undergoing
Mr. Jesse White, of Fredericksburg, the
:Oid Practical is nearly r years of age, and
il bard 10 beat "at case, or getting up a
poster" He is probably the oldest printer
IN the country, having followed his profession
from early youth to the present moment
Fredericksburg Herald
FoRE1eN NEwa.-The Peace Conference
assembled at London yesterday. It is reported
that the leading Powers hesitate to guarantee
he naturalization Of Luxembourg. aud that the
people Of the Duch7 ask for annexation 10
Belgium. 4 London dispatch OF yesterday
says that Notwithstanding the preliminarics
to the preservation OF peace, alarm and
are both arming. We think these cable dis
patches are not a little influenced by specula-
tors and that they should be received with
degree Of disbelief. At no time has the
probability OF war been as great az was rcpre-
scented by these dispatches. The British Tory
Ministry, warned by its recent defeat, has ac
ceptcd the Liberal amendment to The Reform
bill providing for 4 Iodger's franchise. This
will add largely to The number OF voters. Two
more OF the ffenian prisoners Oh trial at Dublin,
have been convicted of treason. Consol3 closed
yesterday at Oh, United States bonds at III.
Scene IN IT Il. S. CIRCUIT Court Room
AT R1cHMoND.-The Judge ordered that Mr..
Bolts be sworn as, forcmau, and he was sworn,
taking q number of oaths. The rest were
then called up by fours and sworn.
The Grand Jurors having been duly sworn
and having resumed their seats. the Judge
turned in his seat, and, facing them, proceeded
to read in harsh and rather iEdistinct voice,
fumbling the sheets Of his manuscrip pit nervously
ly the while, the most abominable dlatribe, with
out doubt, that ever disgraced 4 court of justice.
During the reading, which was interrupted
only by IAN occasional ~halfsuppressed snort
from a Grand Juryman, Bolts shut his eyes,
and, COMPRISING the lids violently, looked as il
attempting to imagine himself somewhere else.
The charge having been concluded, the Judge
instructed the jury to re- ensemble this snoring
II O o'clock, and ordered the crier to close
the court.
As the crier ceased, the grand jury hustled
put, followed by the judge, aud the citizens
In the course of some conversation with a
newspaper correspondent, Judge Underwood
stated that the Court he was about to hold
vas the Circuit and not the District Court
Richmond Times.
A POLITICAL JUDGE.-Wc publish, this
morning, hcremarkable charge of j Judge Under
wood to the grand jury at Richmond. There
nay be partisaps who will pronounce this an
exhibition of nerve and manliness; but we are
sorry for them as we are profoundly sorry that
!, Judge OF u court of the United States found it
,omportw with bis ideas of judicial impartiality
and professional dignity to deliver a political
from the bench which we will not
permit ourselves to characterize in the terms it
1.-THE wholesale utilization Of an
.ntire community was true, if the tribute paid
he notorious spokesman of coniscation was
deserved, there could be no possible excuse for
hem coming from the lips OF one sworn to
administer Justice in the very court over which
is called to preside. Az it is, history will
AXE care Of the man who has permitted the
politician to absorb the Judge, and the very
,normity of the offence of one who thus prosti-
utes the bench of Justice to the base purposes
# party should lift the people whom be maligno
hove the affront he seeks to put upon them,
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