Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-30

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Windsor Castle the melancholy occasion was
observed by the Queen and the royal family
with great solemnity. The tomb was hung
with flowers by the queen. When the sarco-
phagus was carved the hollow within was made
large enouth to receive two cofins. In this
the Princes corpse has just been deposited, the
coffin occupying just one-half the hollow, the
other being, it is said, reserved for the sorrow
ing widow of the Prince, whose wish is to be
beside her late husband when called from this
earth.
The Richmond Wing thinks that the pro-
ceediugs and speeches at the assemblage In
Chicago of the officers and soldiers Of the
armies of the West, indicate that deliberate
and systematic effort is to be made to organize
and consolidate the military spirit so as to
govern the country. The reunion is to be an
nual, it is constituted into an association, sub
iect to certain rules and regulations, looking to
perpetuity.
Considering what manner OF men compose ed
the Senate of the u. S. in 1886, and comparing
them with the Senator'S in 1868, Mr.. Greeley,
of the n. Y. Tribune, admits that human
progress in this country is not very torclbiy ex-
emphied" MIR. Greeley thinks that in these
latter days, "the principal qualifications OF can
didates are impudence and money, mainly the
former.
Gen. Hancock has written letter stating
that the portion of the letter of Col. Wynkoop,
late Indian Agent, expressing or implying that
he, (Gen. II. committed breach OF faith in
his intercourse with him (W.) at the time OF
the destruction of the Cheyenne village on the
Pawnee Fork, April 10, 1867, is entirely I'M
warranted.
There is no agreement in the Radical ranks,
as yet, as to the repeal of the tenure ot-0tfico
law. Gen Butler intends to urge the repeal.
Wendell Phillips is totally opposed to the re-
peal. Some Of the Radical Senators, charmed
with the new power which the law gives them,
are not anxious to rolinquish it.
A man in Tennessee has invented sort OF
internal machine!" designed to kill regi-
ment Of soldiers, mile and half distant, in
four minutes" A few Of such machines IN ac-
tive operation would end battle very quickly,
and would be as near an approximation to 0
Kilkenny cat fight, as could be desired.
Rev. Mr.. McElroy, S. j., widely known and
highly respected in this city and elsewhere,
who has suffered from total blindness, from
cataract Of the eye, during the past two years,
has Just been restored to sight, through an OPP
Grafton performed by an eminent German
oculist, who has recently settled in Baltimore.
The Boston Journal states authOritatigely
that Gen. Banks will not allow the use of his
name for the Speakership of the Forty first
Congress, but that the Massachusetts, deesa-
ton will unanimously sustain the nomination
Of Mr. Dawes.
A whole family, in Philadelphia, were nearly
sulfocated on the night before Christmas, by
the escape ofcoal gas from fue Of a gas oven
in the lower story, and which passed along side
of the sleeping apartment. One Of the chill
dren died.
1t is now said that the Mrs Dickens, who
lately died in Chicago, was not the real widow
OF Mr.. Augustus Dickens. the brother of Mr.
Charles Dickens, the writer-but that the real
widow is in England supported by Mr.. d.
1t is said that the aSsassins of Mr.. Doug las
Love, at Cumberland, Md, have been arrested,
and are lodged in jail at that place.
They have found out in Prussia, still more
effective weapon than the needle gun. it Is
called the Morganstern rifle.
The Grand Lodge of the knights OF Pythias
will meet in Richmond this week.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
A correspondent reports to the Richmond
Dispatch the sale of one thousand acres of land