Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-12-27
Foreign News.

4 Vienna telegram reports the receipt OF ad-
vices announcing that the Dalmatlan rebels
had laid down their arms and surrendered.
Seventy nou-commissionci officers and sol
ders of the garrison at Paris, it is said, have
been arrested for having formed Republican
and SociaiStic Society.
The French Ministry, will resign, 1t is asser.
ted, to-day, and VI Olivier will be charged
with the formation Of the new Cabinet.
The reported reconciliation OF l-abella and
MontpenSier is formally denied by the Madrid
Correspondence.
Christmas Day the Pope received the Felici
tation Deputation to the Ecumenlcal Council.
During the present week he will receive in
state the Diplomatic Corps, Roman officials
and French officers on duty at Rome.
The ceremony of blessing ducal hat aud
golden swor,! (which marks the eve OF Christ.
mas in St, Peter's-took place. 1t Is m old
custom, dating back six hundred years. The
hat and sword are designed for one OF the
crowned heads of Europe, but the name OF the
sovereign is at present withheld.
DEFAULT OF w. H. BOYD, SHERIFF OF
FAUoUIER COUNTY. William II. Boyd, sheriff
of Fauquer county by military appointment
is deiaulter to the Commonwealth OF Vlr'
gina in the sum OF $4,503.44, for monies col
Iected alone on the spring and fall license taxes
assessed by our commissioners.
What else could the public have expected
lie was appointed to the sherltialty by Gen.
Candy, who knew, or ought to have known.
had he any eye to accountability, that Boyd
was at the time he signed his commission
bankrupt.
His appointment might have been pardon
able had good aud sufficient security been re-
CURED of him. But with the Auditors books
before him, showing that the taxes alone oil
Fauquier county Appropriated annually $50,
600, General Candy violated the spirit of the
laws lie was instructed to conserve by directing
Boyd to qualify in bond of $50, 900 only.
He would not permit the justices OF our
county to pass on the solvcncy OF that bond,
as by law aud custom they were authorized
to do, but issued an order referring it to the
Judge OF the circuit, who was a stranger to
us. and who approved it in chambers at Alex
andra.
When it was filed in the Office OF the clerk
Of our County Court and at once ascertaIned
to bc insufficient, sense or DUTY to the public
aud To their clients constrained the bar OF the
county, with entire unanimity. to unite in
mcmoralizing General Candy to insist on re-
sponSiblc surcties or remove the principal from
Office.
Instead of complying with this request,
couchcd in most respectful language, snd 10
itself both reasonable aud just, Gen. &. pro
mulgcd another general order directing the
circuit Judge to inquire whether or hot a
conspiracy existed here TO induce The with
drawal OF "a surety from the bona and make 1t
obligatory Tor Boyd 10 give new one.
rhc effect Of that order, whether intended
or not, prevented prompt action being taken
on the bond in the County Court. and rna.
bcl Boyd to hold over from the 22i of May
Il the 18Th od September, period ct nearly
four mouths, during which time the default
occurred
General C.'s responsibility goes further
even than this. BY his previous action he
had only been incidentally cupable. Hls
subsequent action proves him to have been
wiiiulIy 80. For after the circuit Judge had
removed Boyd from Office, aud the time Tor
him to account at the treasury Tor spring Ii
crn~e4 had elapsed, and he stood on the books
Of the acting Auditor of the State, subai-
tern officer of General Candy, detaulter To
the amount of :3,Sl5 10, he was re appoint
ed. on the lst OF October sheriff OF Fauqner
county. Ii need not be pleaded in extenua'
ton Of Cunby's conduct IN this particular IN
strncc hat he took pains to get good bond
at that time That is not the point We make,
but the point is, that he at that date forced
ON this county man sheriff whose char
acter was stained with aDprOprlating the public
funds to his own USE
u the frat bond OF Boyd were insufficient
1t - more than questionable that the Common
wealth could recover the deialcatlon by pro-
cecdnes instituted against the sureties, mas.
much a. one OF them filed petition at the
May term Of the County Court, before the
default occurred, requiring the principal to
execute new bond. and the court under the
law, was compelled 10 order 1t, aud was re-
strained only by the present ation oil the paper
before referred 10 coming from the military
commander of Virginia.
In our Judgment the loss is q clean one, 50
far as Boyd and his sureties are concerned. :
Is there no remedy for this and similar plum
dcriDes now going on in the State 2? Warren
ton Lndec. .l
CASE OF GEORGE s. AYRE After the ex-
animation OF the case of Geo. s. Ayre for the
killing Of DR.. Oliver ,at Charlottesville, the de-
cision of the court. without dissent, was that
Mr. Ayrc should be committed to await the
was then argued, and bail was granted, Justice
Goodyear dissenting It was fixed at the sum
of 49, 900. TIE following gentlemen went on
the bond: s. w. fickhn, John T.. Antrim,
Woods Garth w, II. May, r. Colston.
Mr.. Carr, w. ii. Benton, Mr.. Moss, Rev,
Henry w. Dodge. Il. Z. Flanagan, Thomas
Henderson and Robert Beverly. a.
During the examination Of the case, it was
sta ted that Oliver was. what is called "a prac
tical mesmerizer, and it was proved by the
family physician and by the young lady that
she was likely soon TO become mother, and |
she stated on oath what she had told the ply :
sician before, that DR.. o. was the author Of
her ruin. The general character of the young
ady and her father was proved clearly to be
he very best, and it is thought by those who
Know her aud her standing that her fall could
MY have been brought about by the use Of ex
iting drugs.