Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-06-26
Foreign SpW1.

Ii the Erti-h House o! Lords last night
Baron Eclcslllc gave noiea %! IN amendment
to the Iri.h Churth tai! to alow the lash
Bishon5 to retain their seats in the House.
Lord Russell avors the proposition lor concur
rent endowment and will introduce an amend
ment 10 that effect when the lrlsh Church bill
comes before the House OF Peers again.
An attempt ha5 been made To- a>Sa>slnato the
President Of the Council oil Ministers IN Walla
cha. The assassin arrested.
The American, Swedish and Portuguese
Ministers have returned to Pans.
At the Camp oi Ehalons yesterday MarshlI
Ha2linr, IN presenting to the Emperor the sol
der who took part in the battles 81 Eolirrno
and Magenta, SAID ~ our soldiers recall the
day Won led them to victory The rlOrioa' an
nivcrs4ry shall never be ciiacei rum oar EeaitS.
Iuiar All ClrcumeiIn they remain devoted
10 yonr dyuasir." The Official journal, III Il H.
port of the f,mperor's speech IN reply, gives
the following version OF the CONCLUDING words:
Continue IN the same course, anG You will
always be worthy OF so great 4 nation, and will
maintain the military pint nerr tsaFy for %
great people
The Great Eastern ianow -, miles out. She
has paid out loo miles OF clhc. The signals
are still perfect.
Mr.. Mcmahon, American Minister to Para
quay in lcttcrt the American legation IN Paris,
dated May >, states that his relations with
President Lopez are friendly. War news Is
unlmpOrtant
Cont Won der Cole, pussian Envoy Ey
traordinary and Minister Plcnipocntlary to
France, died in Eerhn yesterday.
The GREAT BAEY SHOW. Winchester Is
far in advance OF all the cities and towns OF tins
Ancient Dominion in one respect. On last
Saturday afternoon, in the Court House square,
a lumber OF workmen might he seen engaged
in erecting 4 ''platlorm." At the appointed
hour babies IN carriages and babies IN nurse ;
arms, began t. arrive. and the manager of the
display and friend of the little ones, Mr.. Henry
kinzeI, was actively engaged together with
many assistants, IN kceplng the crowd from
tramplinr down the young uns or smotherlng
them. As usual the female portion OF the
community were out IN full force, and many
encomiums were passed on the assembled baby
hood OF Winchester. At length the square WAS
vocal with the squauling OF the infants.
The babies and nurses were persplrlng freely,
and the poor creatures could scarcely breathe.
Old ladies straddled their spcctacles on their
noses aud pecred into the eyes of the suiierlng
infants, TO Judge, perhaps, whether they re-
Somblcd their daddleS. We suggest to Mr..
kinzcl that he stretch 4 rope around the
grounds the next time
After the preliminarics the Judges came
forward McSsrs Jacob Snyder, Henry Slagle,
Lewis Huck, DR.. s. Taylor Holiday and DR..
W. :. Love. The PRIZE to be competed ior
was a very handsome silver cup, to be given to
the haudsomest and the best baby under fifteen
months If age. About twenty infants were
entered, and the Judges examined them care
fully, awarding the cup to Blanche Offender
Ter, Il little daughter OF Mr.. John DitGndericf.
aged about eight months.
The orator Of the occasion was Capt. JAS. i.
RELY, WHO addressed the crowd IN a happy
vein Of humOr upon the momcntous occasion
that had drawn the SuiIocatng audience
together Capt. iluck responded in few words
liz behalf OF the successful recipient OF the prZ'.
Mr., kinznl then distributed cornucupias of
candy, oranges, Ne. to the cOnc1urse OF babes
and nurses, and the crowd, old and young dis
persed. Thus ended the baby cXhl bition,
Winchester N0cS.
EpMAN $pANGLER, who was tried and sen
fenced by 4 military commission IN May 1865,
on a charge of being engaged in the plot to as
sassirate Prcsldout Lincoln, and plr1oncd hy
President johnson, has prepared AMI sworn 10
a statement, asserting his innocence OF all
knowledge OF the crime, and detailing the cru
elites pgactised GA the prisoners before ani
after convctcn The evidence against han
was OF the himsiest character Nearly every.
body believed him innocent, and the military
commission sentenced him to six years at the
Dry Tortura~. while thc others were sent for
lie. Abundant testimony Is now at hand
to show the vast amount of perjury at that
trial-pcrjury exacted by fear and dictated by
malice Spanelers allusion to the witnes
Wechman being IN the abduction plot, is im
portant. Wechman' testimony, 1t will be ~
membered, hung Mrs. Surratt. Spanrler says:
"Whle Imprisoned with AtZerodt, Payne and
Harold, and after their trial was over, was al
lowed few minutes exercise III the prison
yard. heard the three unite in asserting Mrs.
Surratt's entire innocence, and acknowledged
their own guilt, combining the cri2e, as they
did entirely to themselves