Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-25
NEWS OF The DAP,
$50 shoU the very age and body ofthe Iases

Texas He had several fights with them,
whipping them badly, killing and woundlng
seventy of their number. The loss OF the
troops was slight.
Rev. DR.. McMullen, of Chicago, has gone
to Rome, to urge the removal Of Bishop Dug
gan from the Catholic Diocese of Chicago
Rev. J. P. Roles, who was deposed from the
pastorate Of the Church of the Holy Name,
has been reinstated in his ecclesiastical tunc-
tons, though he will be obliged to leave the
diocese.
A box containing $1,000 in currency, was
stolen from the drivers seat OF an Adams Ez-
press wagon in Broadway, New York, on We'd,
nesday, while the driver had turned his head
away to adjust something. The thief was seen
and hailed but he dived into the crowd anc
made good his escape.
Ex-President Roberts, Of Liberia, is at
present in Boston. He will stop In this coun-
try until December, looking after the interests
Of the Liberia College, Of which he is now the
President, and will visit several of the New
England colleges to obtain information III re!a-
ton to their management.
A beafsteak was cooked and some potatoes
were baked in the sun in London on the I'D
of July. The suns rays alone did the work
in about twenty minutes. The food was placed
in a small box, closed over with three panes OF
glass about an inch apart.
The President has directed that the unexc-
cuted portion of the sentence Of the military
commission 10 the cases of VIM. }. Toar,
Thomas Powers aud David Watkins citizens OF
North Carolina, be RENTED, and the prisoners
released from confinement.
Rev. Charles F. Robinson, recently elected
Episcopal Bishop Of Missouri, is the son OF
James Robinson, former resident and poll
tician of the seventeenth ward of New DIRK. A
new Bishop is to be chosen for Northern New
York in November by the Episcopalans.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee has ad-
iourned until November, not feeling satisfied
that it is a legal body. Objection has been
made TO Horace Maynard continuing one OF
the Judges. He is member of Congress.
A difficulty has occurred among the law stu
dents at Harvard University, Mass, growing
out of the effort of colored student to join,
what is called the ASSEMBLY" there. The
coored man finally succeeded.
A Charleston, S. g., merchant has cleared a
vessel for a port in Cuba, her cargo consisting
almost entirely of Southern -four, prepared
partly at the Charleston City Mills from wheat
grown in Tennessee, Georgia and the Carollnas.
Captain Schultz, ex-Captain of the Federal
army, blew his brains out yesterday morning
ia the garden Of citizen, in Richmond, Va,
from whose employment he had been discharg
ed. He leaves family iu New York.
It is stated that the steamer Dunbarton, re-
ported few days since as having left New
York on shaving cruise, was really laden with
warlike stores for the Spanish insurgents.
II is stated that Ex-Gov. Orr, Of South Caro-
lima, has determined to take up his residence
in St. Joseph, Mo-, and to resume the practice
of law.
Mr.. Robert Lincoln, eldest son Of the late
President Lincoln, was married at Washington
last night to the only daughter of Senator tlar-
lan OF Iowa. a..
Alexander Fl. Stephens having spent sever
al days at Silver Springs with Frank ?, Blair,
left ON Tuesday afternoon tor Georgia.
Lieutenant Beecher killed by the Indians, is
said to be the son of Henry Ward Beecher.
THE RACHEL CAsE.-Ma1ame Rachel, Of
dubious character, the "enameler' and beaut-
fer, who lately got herself into trouble in Lon
don, on account Of being concerned in an ''af-
fair" between q foolish old woman and
young lord, still figures in the London papers.
The Pail Mall Gazente says: Madame Rachel is
still in the snarcs OF the oppressor and the sale of
the celebrated Arabian dew seems to have been
stimulated by the discoverer's misfortunes.---
1t was clear beforehand that Madame Rachels
business would be improved rather than iDjur
ed by the recent trial. Was there not an ex-
posure once before, and did not Mrs Bora
dale 90 to be bcauti6ed after that? Women
who are not lovely, and who long for love-
Illness, will cling even to Rachel, as drowning
men catch at straws. 1t was not denied, many
of the fair creatures may reason, that Mrs
Boradaile was greatly improved by the bath
and other appliances 1t is true that her own
counsel spoke somewhat slighingly of her ap~
pearance but how do we know what she was
before Madame Rachel polished and improved
her? The reporters seemed to have been rath
er struck by her comeliness. Putting every
thing together, there is prospect before Ma
dame Rachel of doing a tremendous business
next year. There is plenty of room for Eer
skill and plenty Of candidates. She does quite
right to have her shop gilded and decorated,
and to stick the list of her famous preparations
outside of it. The place only needs a sign, 50
that the mart ofbeauty may be known far and
wide, and it is unnecessary to suggest to Ma
dame Rachel what that sign should be.
The CaopS.-The correspondence Of the
Agricultural Department for August and Sep
TENDER has been very voluminous and very IL
defnite-partcularly concerning the wheat
crop, the statements being contradictory in cal
culation of quantity. The reports OF dlsap-
pointed ezpectations.in threshing are abundant
throughout the South, in Wisconsin, and other
parts of the West. A little rust here and there,
the chinch bug, and other causes OF failure are
found, and the grasshopper at certain points Of
the distant West has been burthen to wheat
growers. On the other hand, the report will
show that cases are mentioned of three-fold
acrca ) with half an average Weld giving a