Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-14

Mr.. J. M. Carlisle sAddresss tothe students %
at the recent annual commencement OF lhe
columbian College Law School, IN W ashlng
ton, was most eloquent and excellent. RE re
| ferred, 10 opening his address, III brief words
not unmixed with sadness, 10 the tact that
malaIy had taken from him SO much OF M
eyesight that for two long years ne hah no
read at all, and that, consequently, what WORD
he should utter would be such as wonld cluste
upon his thoughts as he should present them
| We honor Mr.. Carlisle not only as an accom-
plished gentleman, an abla lawyer, and tf'it
! friend, but as one Of our Alexandra boys
who have done credit to the Old town otaiiu
| ine in the front rank of his profession, ne u
worthy Of as he receives, the confidence i0
spect, and esteem Of his brethren OF inc pai'
and of the bubble. We hope the malay ne
speaks Of may not he permanent. q.
The snrfaca OF the moon, according 10 s'ale'
ments recently made by eminent astronomer
in the French Academy of Sciences, has uh'
| dergone change a crater We'll dehned ano
! nerfactly wel-kllown to astronomers, has dis
appeared within IA year, and lis place IL now
marked by a large white spot III the middle
Of plain This is said TO be the first time
thai any change in the moons surface has beer
noticed.
The National Intelgencer says: The specie
movement since the LIST day OF January las
shows that whatever amount OF gold We may
| produce from our own mines our stock oi goll
| will not be increased. Thus, during the pre-
| sent year. notwithstanding The large supply o
! gold from California the exports have exceed
ed the supply from all sources by the amonn
Of six millions.
| Mr. Il. A. Pollard has written 4 new work
which is shortly to be published, entitled Ice
and his Lieutenan(s "a collection OF blogra
plies covering the space and action OF the lat
war The work includes some fifty lives in tn
| space Of about nine hundred printed pages. =
| lie represents Stonewall Jackson rs an ambl
| tious man and a high tempered combatant.
| The Raleigh Sentinel says there is q rumor
| that some Radicals in North Carolina have
| determined to use efforts to induce the colorct
people to register, and vote against Convcn
ton" The argument TO be employed is, tina
this is the best means of bringing about con
fiscatinn.
"All Right" little boy, one Of thc Japa
{,1l If I,,rfy tfo
from Il rope in the New York Academy o
Music on Wednesday night, whilst descending
from the dome to the parquelte. No bone
were broken, but it is doubtful whether he vii
recover.
The doctrine OF protection to domestic IN
lustry has attained its highest development II
the proceedings of Il Radical county con
vention in Pittsburg, which has insisted tina
the exclusion of foreign manufactures shall b
| followed 10y the exclusion of foreign lahorcrs
| We have received the Catalogue OF tn
| University of Va. The students in all tue de
ipartlneut, numher 400 The faculty Will pro
ceed on the 30h Of this montli 10 make ap
point,nants Of State students ur vacant dis
itricts.
A gentleman in Leesturg, in an advertise
mant to those indebted to him, to pay mp,
assures them that the issue with him Is mon
ey or the bankrupt law This is another i5at
forced upon the South H Hl ..
! The National lntelligencer says that the Goa
ltion in Virginia. between the two wings OF tI
Radical party, has haen effected upon the al
controlling idea 0l a satisfactory division OF til
spoils. = -a,-a saa,
| The Chicago Tribune Of the 18th devote
two columns to accounts OF intanticlde. murder
adultery, riots, robberies, stabbins a1iaYs, an
desrrtion cases, ia that city.
j NJ Langst0n, the nolorei lawyer lfdi'
Ohio. spoke at Gordousville, On the llth iusf
Eiis sreach was similar to those he delivered Ii
Loudoun and other places.
Tie German Turner'S National FestiTa
closed IN Baltimore, yesterday, with a 'lisn,
button Of premiums.
| 4 "Freelmen's Association tur the Ie=iora
ton of lost friends has been organized il
| Washington. :as-
| Prices Of flour and beet continue III decline
| in the Northern markets.
FIRGINI1 NEWS.
Thomas A. Mitchell, Of Washington, (rll
of Mitchell & Son, has recently sold, in NcS
York, 80, $50 acres of land in Botrtou''t county
(part of the original Barclay tract, III . I
per acre purchasers-A. i. Balm A
| nirharLlsnn G. A Mheel0rk Wood. anl