Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-02
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER ? 1869.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER ? 1869.
1t is said that information has been received
by the Navy Department which leaves no
room 10 doubt that the Cubans have fast
privatecr adoat which will soon be commit
ting depredations on Spanish commerce in Gu
ban waters. The same dispatch says, as a pre-
cautionary measure, two more u. 5. iron clads
are to be sent to the Cuban squadron as soon
as they can be got ready. Great activity con-
tiuues to prevail at the navy yards at the
North, in the preparation OF vessels for sea.
The projectors of the contemplated utter
national Fair and Exhibition IN Washington
have determined to have general executive
committee, to be composed of the Governors
of the States and Territories, and OF which the
President of the United States should be pres
dent. General Sherman, Admiral Dahlgreen
aud Mr.. Henry d. Cooke were appointed q
committee to notify President Grant OF thus
action, and request him to accept the CHAIR
manShip OF the executive committee.
Some think, that Notwithstanding the ger.
cral impression to the contrary, the preliminary
session of the Virginia Legislature will be pro
trac;cd for week or two. We hope not. 1t
ought to adjourn in three days at the iarthest
specialization is not desired, nor is it desirable
Aso-lct us have no Geographic dispatches to
aud from Washington, giving either oyd''N or
advice. What is to be done, let it be done,
"aud it were well il it DC done 4ljctig.'
The Cincinnati Commercial (Radical) says
that Nat Turner's insuuection' in South
amptou county, Va, in 1881 or 1882, ought
to have succeeded and if it had, his monu.
mcut to-day would not be unfinished as Wash
inptoa's is. Nat Turner iusurrection, 1t will
be remembered, brief as it was, resulted IN
killing men, women and children, and cOntem-
plated the murder Of every white person in the
county. This is specimen
The Washington correspondent OF the Ba.'
timorc Gazette reports that recent letters IRON
Cuba and Florida represent the Cuban lnSur
rectionary army as disorganizcd-that there Is
great jealousy Of and dislike to foreigners. thai
the Americans in the island are anxious 20 &c
away, that those who remain there arc at th(
mercy of the SpaniaIdS and the CubanS, tina
Cuban treachOry and Spanish gold are doing
their work, &c, &c
Advices from Nova Scotia state that the
flag ship Royal Alfred and another war steam
or are under orders for an immediate depart
ure for Cuba, and that war stores were being
rapidly transferred from the magazines aud
Ordnance Department to the steamers. This
augmentation of the British fleet in Cuban
waters is for the adequte protection otthe lives
and property Of British subjects in the Island.
1t is proposed that while Attorney General
lloar is delivering opinions he should settle the
point whether the tcst-eath should be required
OF the clerks, sergeant alarms and other Off
GERS Of the General Assembly, for It IS said
that General Candy will exact it in their eases,
though it is very probable that men who can
not take it will be elected.
The committee of the Macon (Ga. } Fair deny
that they ever particularly invited Gen. i. +.
Butler to attend the fair. lie came in under
the instruction to invite the members of Con
greSs generally. Some OF the Macon papers
are very severe ia their denunciationS of Gen.
Butler
L. $. Senators Of the right strip" that
is $50 near Radicals that there is little differ
erce continue to be demanded By the "pr0
gressiyo' politicians in Virginia.
George Wm, Curtis, recently nominated by
the New York Radical Convention for Sccrc
tary of State, has declined the nomination.
Horace Greeley and Gen. Robert William,
are the candidates for the U. $. Senate, which
the Richmond Wing favors.
A story is circulated in the newspapers that
during a recent visit to ~ y, President Grant
expressed desire to purchase some eli
CARS, and visited quite number OF es ablish,
mentS foT the purpose OF testing their brands,
&c. The result was that unknown to each
other, each dealer visited resolved to make the
President present, aud he received not less
than seventy thousand prime Havanas. This
we presume Is only a Joke, ut the expense of
some people who are 50 tend of making pres
Cnts to power and authority.
GREArTmES. "A friend has called the alten-
ton Of the Charleston Courier TO the following
paragraph in an English paper. the Yorkshire
Post and Leeds Inteligenccr, of September {,
1869, in which light IS thrown on hitherto
dark subject
The APPROACHING GREAT TIDE. Lieutcn.
ant s. NJ, Saxby, OF the Royal navy, writes to
n contemporary to state that "a: : A. Nj. on
October Sth the moon will be at the part of
the orbit which is nearest to the earth. Her
attraction will, therefore, be at its maximum
iorce. At noon on the same day the moon
will be on the earth'S equator, "a circumstance
which never occurs without marked atmoSpher