Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-09-25
Foreign News.

The London Standard says wv hatever her
Legitimate claims to Cuba may be, Spain labors
under disadvantage in having to prosecute them
in the face of the susceptjbilities OF the Amer-
can people, while she is herself in the condition
OF revolution.
The London Guardian says manuscript in
Lord Byron's own writing will soon be publish
ed. which will settle the question raised by
Mrs. Stowe.
The Gaulois a serts that France has sent
note to Prussia and Baden declaring that she
will regard the annexation OF the Grand pnchy,
by Prussia as CdSuS beAH.
Father Hyacinthe has left his convent and
gone to the home OF his parents, where he Will
await the decision Of the council,
General Feury has been appointed French
Ambassador to st. Petersburg.
The father and son, supposed to have assas'
sinated the woman and her five children, whose
bodies were found this week in field near
Paris, have been arrested at Havre.
The meetings Of the Republican Club 10
Madrid have been suspended, because feSo-
luton was adopted condemnlng monarchy
since the return of General Prlm the language
Of the American Minister has been concliatory
True WORDS AND SOUND DOCrRINE. We
need hardly say how cordially We agree with
the following sentiments, from the k'cEmon d
Enquirer:
ave ourselves not only believe in physical
DEVELOPMENT, but We always did believe IN IT..
Physical development is the basis, the iounda-
ton, of all other development. Until acountry
is physically developed 1t will have no arts, M
literature, no culture, no wealth, no power.
We must develop Virginia OF her ma
terial resources. We must complete our rail
roads, finish our canals, open up our mines,
utilize our water courses, build up our cities
And that is The great job OF these years Just
now to come
But is the Empire Of Principle, therefore, like
those deserted cities in Central America and
those melancholy ruins in the plains of Meso-
potamia, which are "a perpetual desolatlon =
"a dwelling place OILY for bats and owls j.
il banquet hall deserted never t. h. re
visited
Ne affirm that the danger of this hour in
Virginia is that we shall plunge into wild
dissipation of joDbng, and politics, and rings
which shall result in utter public and prlva tie
decentralization. There is q fearful disposition
to seek ends regardless OF the means employed
70 reach them. We warn our people OF what
may lUlOW, uhlpSS lilc tCtupCi hhic'i W. -
depreealing, is checked And that philosophy
Of politics now so fippantly taught our people
that the day of principles is passed, will result
not only in spiritual ruin, in the decay oil al
elevated and ennobling sentiment, but IN dis
asters of physical kind, as we'll.
mitchell vs.. DIx.-'rhc answer OF Genera
Dix to the plaintiff complaint, together with
some curious CORE spondence, shows that the
first order for the arrest of the plalnuit came
from ~. S. Grant. ~ Irish citizen.
By Government telegraph in cipher, dated
Washington, June G, 1865
Major General John A. DIX New Iork
Have John Mitchell, formerly editor OF thu
Richmond Enquirer, arrested and send tt
Monroe, Virginia, for confinement and trial
| Make the arrangements for his Immediate ship
mcnt before arrested and give this matter II
charge OF a discreet officer who will not let /
| Get ont that the arrest Is to he made until NJ
Signed l.. s. GRANT
"HFADorARTERs MILITARY DISTRICT
| 'OF Fort MONROE,
"FoRr MONROE Va, June IL, 1868. J
Received from Major General John \. Dix
per Second Lieut.. William ii. Morris, 1wen
tieth New Yolk Independent Battery one Il
prisoner. named John Mitchell, late edito
| Richmond Examiner.
"Slgnrd JOHN S. McEwAN,
Captain and 4. A. A q.