Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-13
NEWS OF The DAP,
$50 shoa0 the very age and body cfthe Times.

He went to work to make his investment pro-
ductivc, and the Charleston paper says his
profit has averaged $500 per month, during the
whole period Of his possession, this handsome
income being derived from the sale of peaches,
apples, and grapes raised on his own place.
A number of residents Of New Orleans, who
have claimed citizenship under tue French
Government as we'll as under the United States
Government, have been notified by the French
Minister that they must either refrain from
partici pating in political affairs and voting, or
renounce their allegiance to France.
In the Court of Common Pleas OF Philadel-
phia yesterday decision was rendered adverse
to the claim of the Sheriff to exercise paramount
or exclusive authority in the preservation OF
the peace Of the city. It was decided that the
most he could claim was concurrent power with
the Mayor.
The Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati
Railroad will be in operation in about year.
The City Council of Fort Wayne have voted to
advance one hundred thousand dollars to the
road as soon as it is in running order between
that city and Bluttton.
The passport system in Cuba is to be rigidly
enforced, and the United States Consul at
Havana notifies Americans that, according to
the decree OF the Captain General, no one will
be permitted to land unless he has the necessa-
~ papers.
In the Episcopal General Convention at New
York yesterday, the Committee on the New
Dioceses reported favorably upon the applca-,
ton for the erection Of the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland into separate diocese.
! Gen. George Fl. Thomas arrived in Wash
ington yesterday to attend the Dyer court mar
tial, not having received notice of the postpone
ment of the case until the 9th Of November. -
He will at once return to Tennessee.
Two night trains on the Allegheny Valley
railroad coided yesterday, killing fireman,
wrecking both engines and burning five oil
cars. None of the passengers injured. damage
to the road about $780,
A short time ago man was married to an
interesting looking young lady, in louisville,
Ky, and has since gone off to California, al
lesing that his wife is no woman at all 1t IS
curious case
Recent dispatches from the East Indies state
that earthquake shocks were telt IN the Pun
iaub on August 90 The catastrophe in South
America occurred, it will be recollected, from
August IS to IS.
The Central Pacific Railroad has been finish
cd to point five hundred miles east Of San
Francisco, and it is said the grading to Salt
Lake will be finished by the 18th OF December
next.
Joseph Warren Revere, well known nler
chant of Boston, died at Canton, Mass, aged
o. lie was a son of Paul Revere, OF the Roy
dictionary War.
Gov. Boreman, of West Virginia, visited
Washington yesterday to request the military
authorities to send troops to that State to pre-
serve the peace at the coming election.
A new road locomotive has lately been tried
at Edinburgh, Scotland that threatens to rcvo-
lutionizc public traffic, both for speed and
power. " ,........ 49,
The Athletic Base Ball Club Of Philadelphia
defeated the famous All England Eleven Cricket
Club in game OF base ball, yesterday.
Full returns from Colorado show that Brad
ford's (RadicaD majority for delegate to Con-
gress is seventeen votes.
Gov. Smith, of Alabama, has issued proc.
lamation for an election on the Sd OF November
Gen. Sigel was yesterday nominated Tor
Register of New York city by the Republicans
POLITICAL PREAcHERs-ReU. Samuel L.
Spear, D. D., is one of that class Of Reverend
politicians who sing "Hosannas" on Sunday,
after spending a week in writing the yilest and
most vituperative SANDERS to the independent
In the last number of that journal this Revcr-
end slanderer thus writes oil Mr.. Seymour:
''Timid, cowardly, vascillating, false, copper
headish, weak in his cunning, wanting the ele-
ment of 6rmness, aspiring to lead without the
capacity to do so, processing to decline the very
thing he hopes to gain, the mere tool OF sharper
minds than bis own, utterly unfit tor the exec
utive duties of the presidency in the present
criSis-such are the distinctive characteristics
of Mr.. Seymour as a politician and public
man. as
And then, as conscience twinged the Rev
erend politician with its rebuke, he DUETS the
monitor by adding lit is no SANDER to name
them
Having once sold himself to party, he must
earn the recompense Of the reward by the use
Of every weapon in the armory OF party, and SO
from the SANDER of Mr.. Seymour he resorts to
deliberate falsehood as to the Southern people.
OF them he writes
Every one of them that can do so will vote
for Seymour and Blair, meaning thereby to
vote for the lost cause.
This is what Mr.. Greeley would nervousy
call wicked lie" If possible, it is worse
than that; it is vile and vicious SANDER Of q
weak and down trodden peope--of men who
are so innocent of ever having wronged their
faIsifer that n6 ten Of them ever knew of his
existence.
AS you cannot serve God and Mammon, so
you cannot be preacher and politician with
out sinking all that is pure and holy in the
one, and becoming all that is mean and despi'
cable in the other. Render unto God the
things that are Gods, and unto Caesar the
Rev. politician undertakes to write on the
DUTY of the Hour'-let him remember that
"a good man, out of the treasure of his heart,
bringeth forth that which is good, and an evil
man, out of the evil treasure of his heart,
bringeth forth that which is evil; for Of the