Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-16


took place in the years, 472 l779 1894, 1919,
1884 and 1889.
West Indies. 71's,| S@ /
The Cuban cable brings further accounts Ct
the terrible destruction caused by the hurricane
which recently swept over the West India Is
lands The Island of Tortola had been sub
merged, and ten thousand persons drowned. 1t
is one of the Virgin Islands, West Indies, be-.
longing to Great Britain, situated between
Virgin Gorda and St. Johns. The length ofthe
Island is twelve miles and its breadth four miles.
It consists mostly Of a range Of hills rising to
sixteen hundred feet in elevation, and in its
northern part enoircling harbor, on the west
side of which is the town of Tortola. The
number Of lives reported lost is probably an ex-
was but eight thousand five hundred,
The hurricane swept over the southe IN por-
ton of the Island Of Porto Rico, destroying the
crops and causing the loss of two hundred lives.
oG The Liverpool steamer, which was sunk dur
ing the hurricane at St. Thomas, carried down
FIVE millions of dollars in specie and merchan-
disc The loss ofthe Steamship company, at ST.
Thomas will amount to twelve millions of dol
lars. Some Gfe hundred, bodies remaining
unburied had been burnt on the Island. ,fsf
THE WIsE-PoLLARD AFFAIR --,'fhe diff
fculty between the Hon, Henry A. Wise and
Mr. E. ArPollard, which eliminated on
Thursday last, in Baltimore, by the shooting
affray between MIR. Pollard aid Mr. John s.,
the son, and Mr. George D., the nephew of
Governor Wise, resulted from a criticism Of
Mr.. Pollard $ book, lice and his Lieutepants"
copy of which had been sent him by the
author, by Governor Wise, in which the fol-
lowing language is used IL Il |J.l
IF the author meant kindness, he don't
know what insult and injury are; if compli-
ment, he blundered most awkWardly; and il
to tauut me with his travesty ofmy biography,
he ia simply insolent and need only expose
the motiveso of bis malignity to account for his
meDdacity. y *a:* Its authorship
bore the marks of reckless partisan who was
never in tue rank or file OF the army; of d
newspaper paragraphs (nevers as he processes
editor OF the Richmond Examiner, clreless of
his own reputation as he is Of that of Others of
a parasite OF patronage, a pander of prejudice,
and pu6er or false praise ;of book maker,
with the purpose to make money and spit
spleen, in the one case malignant, and in both
cases mischievous' 80. ' go" e., =,
In another portion Of General Wise letter,
in speaking Of Mr. Pollard, he says: s. He is
more than afflicted; he is cursed in the very
heart and core of his moral nature. y ....
The reply of Mr. Pollard characterized Gen
Wise as the ''Bombastes Furioso of the War"
which position he attempted to prove BY quot
ing from certain remarks which General Wise
had made at the commencement OF the war,
that ''she Yankees would run from levelled
cornstalk Ks and rusty blades" and that it would
be merely "a foot-race after Yankees > The
strongest persona lities in Mr.. Pollard's letters
are contained in the following sentences:
''The occasion is a professed criticism of a
book, recently published by the: undersigned
Ice and his Lieutenants and the product a
frantic letter, which, without single judicial
exposition of facts against the book, r. is a
volume OF bile and fury, which would not b.
characteristic without the usual plot Of filth,
and the outpourings Of those deceased rheto-
rcal tumors, which have made the ex Gov
a literary stink and nuisance in the nostrils of
decent men, Il ~ ~ Thereby to this
polite and honorable. note is the frantic and
filthy letter Of Ex-Governor Wise, in which,
without pointing out asingl error for correction,
except the significant mention that he was not
put among the most distinguished leaders Of
the war; and numbered with the Du Majores,
be rushes into an abuse of both book and au-
thor, gets himself in q tempest Of rage, and
lashes with his pen that thin scum of low and
dirty words, which, from time immemorial,
has been the dog resort, and the demagogue's
resources in argument. There must be some
special cause for display of temper 50 extra
ordinary and so indecent. 80
The WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA. Later ad-
vices from Brazil indicate that the war in Par
aguay has been brought, to close. A treaty
Of peace was under, consideration, by which
Lopez is to bind himself to surrender the Pres
idency Of Paraguay to the Vice President OF
that Republic, and the command of the army
to General Barrios, and to leave for 'Europe
for, a period of two months from the date of
the treaty. BY other provisions Of the treaty
Paraguay yields up her claims to, the Gran
Chaco territory, and copeedes the free naviga-
ton of her rivers from the source to the ocean,
to commercial vessels-the latter being the
main point in the dispute in which the war SO
long protracted had its origin.
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