Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-09-24

he says that his grandmother left a statement
in writing about her separation from Lord
Byron, which does not contain any accusation
of so grave a nature as that which Mrs. Stowe
asserts was told her, and Mrs. Stoves story Of
the separation is inconsistent with what he has
seen in various letters, &C., OF Lady Byron.
Accounts from the Indians in the Far West
represent that the Sioux are becoming again
unruly, and report more Indian outrages. The
red men on the reservations. it is said, arc be-
ginning to know that the Quaker agents are
unwearied in their efforts to ameliorate the
| formers condition, and honest in the dispen-
| sation of the rations and annuites they are en-
titled to receive. There are some six or seven
thousand Indians now on their reservations.
The Fredericksburg Herald contends that
provisional legislature cannot be expected to
give anything more than a provisional ratihca-
ton of the fifteenth amendment of the Consti-
tuition" 1t would seem that there is reason in
this. But that amounts, in these days, to
nothing. The fifteenth amendment will be
adopted by the Legislature; and the ratification
counted. The question now Is, not what is
right, or proper, or constitutional.
Leonard Scott & Go. have republlshed the
September number of Blackwood's Magazine.
Contents: Lost Preterites; the limitation Of
Enlistment aud Army reserves Year and
Day; Mr.. Mill on tho subsection OF women;
night with the volunteers of Strathkinahan
Cornelius O'Dowd's papers the Winding Up.
The denial OF the assessment upon the clerks
in the departments, for electioneeriug purposes,
is all Losh. What are called voluntary con-
tributions" are we'll understood. 1t is, pay up
or lose your pace-''bc suspect" The whole
practice is disgrace upon any administration
allowing it.
X. T. Daniel, Chairman OF the late Conserva.
tive State Central Committee. publishes q card
stating that there is not "even the color Of
truth" in the statement that Gen. Candy ever
ntimated that the test oath would not be re-
CURED, il he (Canby) could be made Senator,
Mr.. Rye has not yet been displaced from the
Office of State Treasurer 1t is said that his
removal was actually in contemplation--but it
is now postponed abandOned-,hough
Gen. Candy can effect it whenever no chooses,
as long rs our military government continues.
The timo of the President yesterday was en-
t:rcly devoted to business with the Postmaster
General, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary
OF War. A large crowd of visitors were unable
to see the President, because oil important BUSH
ness with prominent officials.
A man named Marckand has been arrested
in Louisville, Ky, believed to be the leader OF
a band OF coun:erieitcrs in the West who have
been circulating large amount Of spurious
coin. A quantity of nickle and the dies were
found in his possession.
The managers of the proposed International
Exposition at Washington, favor holding it
upon the Washington Monument grounds in
1871, and that the surplus funds, If there be
any, be appropriated TO finishing the monu-
mcnt.
A Wall street broker named Gould has been
arrested in New York and held TO bail in the
sum of $4,000, on the charge of a criminal
assault upon lady while she was under the
influence of some drug.
at is said," and the opinion of some astron'
omers TO that effect is cited, that Sirius, the
dog star, is rcceding from tho sun, and slowly
taking itself out of our solar system.
Leon Larluandc, we'll known sculptor OF
New York, was accidentally killed few days
ago by being thrown on the pavement by a
runaway horse.
The population of Baltimore and its i'm
mediate suburbs is said to be over 100000.
Foreign News.
The London Times comments upon the fail
| uro of the Emperor Napoleon to convene the
French Legislature that The Senatus
Consultum has been adopted. The Times, also,
continues to discuss the cotton supply, and
thinks it would be safer to say that Lancashire
suffers from loss OF trade moro than from the
doornoss ami scarcity of cotton