Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-20
VIEWS OF THE Di!.
70 sdoy the veTy age and 6odyof The tines.

Mr. Mccormick having accepted an invita-
ton from the Emperor Napoleon to give a
private exhibition of the working Of his reap
ing machine, trial was made last week on the
imperialtalm, near Chaons, at which his nj
jesty was present, accompanied by Marshal
Mel, Gen lie Boeuf, and NJ. Tiperand, Dlrec,
tor Generao! the Imperial Agricultural Es-
tstes The trial was complete success, anu
gave 50 much satisfaction to the Emperor that
b. Immediately gave orders for the purchase OF
three of the machines for use on his private
farms, and earnestly expressed the intention OF
encouraging the adoption OF the Invention
throughout France.
AS the New York express train yesterday
was approaching Wilmington, 1t struck The
buggy of q gentleman attempting TO cross the
track, stripping the harness entirely from his
horse, which was terribly mangled, and had to
be shot. The Garage and gentleman were
carried forward on the truck Of the engine for
miie before the train was stopped, the speed
at the moment OF the accident being forty
miles her hour. When the train was stopped
the body Of an old gentleman was tai ken iii
hfeless condition from the debris OF his buggy,
the latter being completely smashed up and
piled in u heap On the truck of the engine.
A duel was fought last Saturday, al Wee
hawken, near New York, between Mr.. James
Wilson, an Englishman, and leading sales
man ia prominent English wool Importing
house in New York, and Sehor Franels di
Ballo Cuban, reported to be possessed VI
fabulous wealth, aud large plantation owner.
The cause was womah daughter OF uilltloh-
aire, to whom both paid their addresses. -
Three shots; result zip out OF Wilson ear,
and Il wound 10 the heshy part ct the Cuban ;
LETT eg-an the ''aftair" ended.
Considerable feeling in Georgia has been
caused by General Pops order NJ. ~ and
letter to Gen Grant, 1t is believed 10 have
injured the cause Of reconstruction. The press
is sgjtatiug a call for State convention Tor the
PURPOSE Of making an effort in opposition 10
organization under the military bills y mum
Der Of papers favor the calling OF Convention.
County meetings are teGg held in Alabama TO
elect delegates to conservative convention, To
lie held in Mnntyomely on The 18th OF Saptelu
Der,
The submarine cable to Cuba is expected to
wulk complete change in commercial tranSac-
tons, aud may lead 10 the atolishlug VI tie
Hack mail tag Of four per cent. now levied On
all sales 20 the wllarves by d Combination OF pro-
dnce dealers. The establishment of 4 colilmrr-
ciaI exchanxe ut Havana is also spoken Of. A
tree academy for The musical education OF Ca
bans has been established at Havana.
a piece ofthe boiler OF the steamer Fall3aue'
blew out at New \ ork, yesterday, az the boat
was leaving her dock An alarm OF fire soon
spread, and scene Of intense excitement DC,
cured when the five hundred persons on board
struggled to e&cape from the steamer. Two
We're plunged overheard, and We're Subsequent
ly picked up. No one sustained any injury be-
yond the fright.
The Austrian bark Niemau arrived at Bridge
town, Batbadoes, July 9Th, with 40 Coolies.
Four days afterwards they became muttndns>
and Captain Beckwith ordered a vollcy tired
into them, killing three and wonhdInE several
Others. The coolies afterwards set the vessel
on fire, but fearing tor their own lives, they
put it out themselves.
The barbarism Of Western Africa at the
present day SURPRISES in revolving cruelty al
most anything OF which there Is record. Iiro''
san IL are slaughtered every year under the
sanction of religious rites For almost every
imaginable evil the remedy prescribed by the
brutal inhabitants of that region is sacrifice
of human life,
During an excursion yesterday OF the EN-
ployees of the Hartford and New Haven 1all
road to Charles island, a little son OF Ihoma;
Hauon, while in bathing got beyond his depth
and began to sink. His father in trying to res
cue him was drowned. The boy, however