Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-26
! NEWS OF THE DAP.
SO dsoao the re,y age and body ofthe times.

David L. Gardiner. The property, at present
valued at .$ls0,000,. is in possession Of Mrs.
Julia Tyler, who, according to the terms OF
the will, is to enjoy the income of The same.
until she,isF unidentified for losses sustained to
her property m Virginia during the war. - :
Contestants claim that she exercised undue lu,
fuence on the mind of testatrix in order to Sc
cure possession of her real estate sr
The trial of c. c. Williams at Norwich,
Connecticut spiritualist, who in January last
starved his child, girl OF thirteenyeats, nearly
to death, commenced on Tuesday. The evil
dence shows that he kept her in cold room
on water-gruel for three weeks, and for three
days gave her 90 food. He gagged her for
speaking to him, aud with his alleged para
mour cowhided her some twenty times
The girl escaped byjumpiog from third story
window into snow bank The girl testified in
court yesterday The defence admits the
charge, and pleads insanity. - ~, ~ :, T..
The case of Virginia against the State of
West Virginia, will be taken up in the SUI
preme Court on the 9Th of May. This
case involves the right of West Virginia to
the counties of Jefferson and Berkeley Sena-
tor Johnson is retained for West Virginia.
The question whether Virginia is State OF
! the Union will be involved in the case, and
will be argued at length for it she is not judi
cially recognized as State, she is powerless to
claim Jurisdiction over any portion Of her Tor
mer territory now claimed by West Virginia.
Mr. Norris Bell, q member Of the Bachelor
Base Ball Club, of Philadelphia, died at all
early hour yesterday morning, from the effects
of an injury received on Saturday last. Mr..
B. was struck on the side Of the head with
ball. He played the game through, went
home, aud in the, course of Monday in6amma-
ton set in, resulting as before stated
Arailway up Mount Washington is being
constructed with great activity. The track
iron il being transported to the base OF the
mountain, and teams and laborers arc hard at
work. a large and magnificent hotel will be
built this summer, and will be ready for the
travel of next year. ...,... ,.-.
Another atrocious murder was committed Ill
L.
Magitton having been horribly butchere,t.=-
Nothing was stolen from the house, and the
object Of the murder is involved in mystery.
a party has been arrested on suspicion.
The Cosmopolitan Hotel at San Frauoiaco-
was burned on the 23a The building and
furniture cost $650,O00. The loss is estimated
at $50, coo; insured for 100000. The house
was crowded with guests, and the lose Of per-
aonal effects is very large.
Senator Wilson visited Fortress Monroe yos
teIduy, where he WAS received with salute
from the Fort, and afterwards addressed large
assemblage white and colored) at Hampton.
In the afternoon he started for North Carolina.
Adyices from New Orleans state that under
the rules laid down by General Sheridan for
the registration OF voters in Louisiana SO many
whites are dsfranchsed that the Radicals will
carry every Congressional district in the State.
We have what purports to be I. further
confirmation Of the capture OF puebla By The
Mexican Liberals and the shooting 81 all tine
Imperialst officers taken prisoners "ho were
above the rank Of lieutenant.
Severe shocks Of an earthquake on the oath
we're felt at various places in Missouri, and
Kansas At ST. l.ouis the shocks wcre very
percep!ibe. -.:"
A colored lnau named Ash was elected one
of the Commissioners OF Plymouth, n. G., at
an election held there recently.
The receipts of the United States Treasury
from June 30, 1866, to April %, 1867, were
1868, l39, 900. -.. ...
DsspoTIsM IN WEST VIRGINIA - The follow
ing correspondence is taken from the Ureenbrier
independent: .." o.. ..
- Is E.- LEWIsBURG, April lG.
Col D. s. Homs,cN
DEAR SIR: Exiled, as you are about to be,
from your home by the tyrannlcal laws OF
West Virginia, and their unrelenting enforce
meDt; and forced, as you are, from your iaml-
~ and friends, to seek home where tree
thought and free speech are tolerated, we,
your brethren of the bar, desire to express our
by rendering you q public supper, at the
:Lewisburg Hotel, on tomorrow evening.
Very truly, your friends, &C.,
(Signed,) Samuel Price, and others OF the
best citizens of Lewisburg.
~ .%lA LEw1sBURG, April Il, 1861.
GENTLEMEN: l accept your Invitation aud,
for your kind expressions Of respect, return
my profound gratitude
Within her jurisdiction, West Virginia has
extinguished civil liberty, and thieves are fore
most in making her laws Her tyrannc
statutes breathe the spirit of her Fergusons,
her Farnsworths, her Witchers and her MAINS,
and are as vile as the legislators who make
them, the judges who expound them, and the
Governor who executes them.
| willingly, then, gentlemen, withdraw from
u base born State, where legislative, executive,
and judicial corruption exudes from its every
pore, TO another land, under more benignant
auspices where again can catch the inspira-
ton Of civi! and political liberty. ... .. g..
My only regret is, that Will not be here to
rejoice with you in your victory, when truth