Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-29
NEWS or THE DAY.
70 sho1o hevuy age.and body Of the Times.

tue OHdIltStOn mercury says tuaI $tttEic 10
a prospect of the early release Of Lieut. ). e.
Braine, Of the late Confederate who has
been, since the close Of the war, and IS now,
prisoner in Fort Delaware Lieut.. Braine has
never hada trial, and it is understood that he
will be released upon parole, and when his
case is called mol. pros. will be moved by the.
| District Attorney Of the district in which he
| My be indicted. All that is necessary nov to
effect his restoration to liberty is the amount
| which will be required to pay the expenses OF a
| process to satisfy the forms OF the law. ,ta
Mrs. Helen Smith, who lives in Oxford
Place, Boston, was seized by a man while walk
| ing in Harrison avenue, on Sunday night, who
! blindfoded her and then cut her throat in
ficting probably fatal wound. The woman
| thinks it was her husband, with whom she had
not been living for some time. ~.
Mr. S. Beach, of the New York Sun, and
one of the Quaker City excursionists, has do
mated three hundred pounds sterling to send
back to the U. s (. the Jatfa colonists, who had
reached Alexandria, Egypt in destitution.
The coonists were forthwith forwarded via
Liverpool, on the 9TH instant. g@1
| The treaty made by the Indian Commission
crs with the Kiowa and Commanche tribes on
| the 2lst instant, gives them about six thousand
| square miles, embracing three and q half nil
| lion acres This grant embraces the southwest
ern corner of the present Indian Territory, with
| fraction from Texas. uaa al!gsyrs
| A special from Chicago, says THAT a move
ment il on foot in Iowa to bring out Senator
Harlan for the Presidency. The Davenport
| Gazette and Muscatine Journal are said to be
| for him. This is !, immense aid and assist
ance' to begin with!
O. G. Adams, mail agent between Boston
and Portland, was shot at last night in one Of
the principal streets of Saco, Maine, by ruff
| fan, who then attacked him with the butt ond
Of his pistol, nflictlng several wounds before
being frightened away.
The sui. committee of the House Committee
on Elections have concluded their Investigations
into The loyalty OF the Kentucky congressman
elect. They will recommend the immediate
admission OF Mr. Knott, whose loyalty was
unqucstioned.
| The British Government having declined to
release Culonels Warren and Maggie, who claim
i to be American citizens, the Secretary OF State,
| by direction Of the President, has authorized
| the employment of counsel to MD in their de-
! fence
The Charleston 6. CO. News which has
heretofore supported the reconstruction acts Of
| Congress, comes out in its issue Of yesterday,
against them, AMI advises the people Of South
Carolina not to vot, on the quest ion of Stale
convention. III 4.
| Francis Thomas 8 sub committee Of the j udi-
cialy Committee of the House of Represen-
tatives, engaged in the Investigation OF Mary.
land affairs, adjourned yesterday until the 18th
OF November.
Complete official returns show the OHIO Leg
islature to stand thus: Senate, Is Radicals,
and 10 Democrats; House, ~ Radicals and Sc
| Democrats, showing seven Democratic ina ority
| on joint ballot.
| The Norwich Advertiser has an article
| warmly urging the claims of Gov. james f.
English for The Presidency Bring theh all
out at once, and be done with it! -
THE SCANDALoUs ExposURE.-Hh follow
ing article is copied in various journals from
the Macacheek Press, western Radical Jour
nal, edited by Mr.. Dom Platt, who, it is said,
was intimate at the Presidents House, inWash-
ington, during Mr.. Lincoln's administrations
1T was known to the wide circle that bust
al utt IN WITT in
Executive Mansion, that its interior was as
gross, vulgar, and corrupt as it was possible
for any house to be and retain even Il semblancc
of responsibility. The startled public now
reads its history 10 forty-thousand dollar
wardrobe, made up of shawls, laces, and dia-
mopds-the gifts of dear friends how
dear, the poor public is now realizing in the
| millions that shameless thieves have stolen
and are yet stealing. How was itpossiblc that
these gifts from "dcar friends were paid for
in lucrative Offices, given under the signature
of Abraham Lincoln, without that shrewd man
being aware OF the infamous character of the
official and the nature OF the bargain that
brought him into office? This is surmisc
only, but Thurlow Weed seems determined to
bring the business home to the late President.
Mr.. Weed might have added the TACT that
| this refusal to approve Of . bare-1accd sWlndle
cost Mr.. Smith his seat in the Cabinct-Mr
| Lincoln SO far, sympathizing with his wife in
the extraordinary transaction. Mrs Lincoln
was not only as unprincipled and avarcious as
| the late sale indicates, but she was and is ex
| ceedingy ignorant and stupid and yet how
| are we to account for the control she exercised
over the domestic life and public affairs Of the
late President. We remember how pain
| ed the loyal hearts Of the Union were to learn
| that in the darkest hour OF our national pride,
| when our armies were parayzed by imbecility,
and our treasury was being robbedby dishonest
| agents, while the artillery of the enemy echoed
| through the very halls Of the Capitol, dane
| ing, drinking entertainment, or ball, was given
| at the White Housed We turn away from, the
inner life Of this White House, that was indeed
a whitencd scpulchre, 10 sorrowing disgust,
and feel ashamed through all our being that
the curtain was ever lifted to let light in on it's