Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-07-29
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEX ANDRIA.
,,IyFEREs1 ON TIE STATE DERr-The Rich
,nnni News Of yesterday evening says I'VE
10 authorized BIZ Auditor Stanton to state thai
ga the l. th ct August the State anthor.ties
.il!. under ,nstructions from Gen. Canby, com
,aence the payment OF the one pei cent, OF the
January interest on the Registered Bonds OF
lie State. These in the aggregate, amount 10
4bont fifteen millions They will also. as soon
thereafter a. practicable, proceed to pay he
asnic interest IN the c0upons, which amou Mt
in ROUND numbers. to about twenty millions.
TrE CN'sE-A writer in the National Re-
publican assigns the following as the cause Of
the defeat of the Radical party in Virginia
Aspiring and ambitious men, with but
limited political experience and Judgment,
looking more to the accomplishment of their
selfish aspirations than to the permanent success
OF the party and the State, attempted to force
upon the people OF Virginia 4 State ticket
which was necessarily compelled TO insure the
defeat OF the Republican party. Intelligent
and leading men Of the party were politically
slaughtered BY the Richmond .Iunta," while
men both white and coored many OF them
urcducated and without any political eXpe-
lipuce, were thurSt forward rs candidates tor
office for no other purpose than TO subserve
the interest OF clique OF politicians who were
seeking Senatorial honor and other positions
Of trust and emolument.
GNCENDIARIsM IN FAUoUiER.-lur reference
TO the recent inccnd;ary fires in Fauquier coun-
~, the Warrentcn Index of to-day, says
so many fires, occurring 10 such rapid sue
eessiou, aroused the Whole neighbOrhood. and
watch was kept, on Saturday night IN
case the incendiary should return The
party on guard had not lo0g to wait, as about
IL o'clock man was observed going from
shock TO shock in the wheat. field of Mr. Ken
per, firing 1t "a he went A regular fusl.lade
vas at once opened by the watching party OF
some half dozen men in turn, the incendlary
tired several shots, and babe defiance to them
all, and, strange to say, escaped, after hrng
several more shocks Oh wheat. 10 the inccn-
diary, the watching party believed they recog-
ni2ed citizen OF an ADJOINING nelghbOrhood,
consequently warrant for his arrest was Is
sued, and placed in the hand Of an officer,
hut as get he is still al large.
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The Richmond Dispatch aays General
Wickham is much concerned abont the propo-
Sitiou TO exact the ;ron-clad oath OF the newly
elected legislators lie thinks it is not re1uir
ID By the reconstruction laws, aud will most
earnestly intercede with the proper authorities
to relieve his fellow citizens from it, He fully
appreciates its disastrous effects "a degrading
the ability and dignity Of the Legislature, and
impairing confidence in the Government
The proposed reunion of officers OF the MON
and Confederate armies who participated IN
the LATHE Of Getty7hurg is t. 10 held on the
battlefield on the ith proyimo. The meeting
- called by ne Gettysburg Memorial Society
Tor the purpose OF designating The poaii,nns #
the two armies during the BATH
DthO L.. Pate, youngest broth, 1T cot H.
clay Pate, He'd under Stuart Al Tho LATHE ri
The elbow Tavern, N l,t4, havins DUAL.
Led at tue fhNolopical emiuary near this city,
- now PASTOR Of an piScoralian congregation
n iwenshaYo' /, entucky
memorial will eoon lie circulated thrdugh-
ma Washington ana Georrete%u, u. C., Idr
-,gnaturea akin. Congress that the two cites
T. consolidated under onr municipal govern
,.,-nj. ,o h. ,al!ed the City OF Va i,inptu.L
tieri. t05ecians retired from III American
Legation At Mry go on the 10Th ult. and Gen.
nelson, his successor, addressed President
.luarez ia IN appropriate speech, wh'ch wa
well recrived.
Je;Se II. Bright, formerly u mtlnhar "i the
aitel States Senate from Indiana, is a candl-
date for the Legislature from the counties OF
carroll! anil Tr;m5ie, Kentucky
MURDER IN ACcOMAC COUNTY, VA. An
unproyoked murder was committed ut the
Fourth Election precinct, IN AccOmac county.
IA, on The 9TH instant. 1t seems that two
neishbcrs and voters at the same precinct,
Mr. Lewis and a Mr. Fast met at the polls,
and, so far as was known, were on Is good
terms as men generally are-at least Mr.. East
suspected no difficulty but sometime during
he course of the day he was approached by
Lewis and asked it he Fast had not some old
sru,lge laid up in store against him, to which
Fast replied NO" with the interrogatory,
what reason have | for having a grudee
AGAINST you and received in response from
Lewis, well, | have against you" Some
other words, though no blows, followed, and
East, seeing that Lewis was bent on a quarrel,
snd maybe mischief, took shelter IN Mr..
Wrights store. While considering himself
perfectly safe from moestation, Lewis land
lewis son, rushed in upon him with fearful
demonstrations, the while threatening an at
tack and violence upon Fast. East, for self
,leieuce. quickly seized stool or common
chair, but failing to ward off his adversaries a
scuffis ensued. during which one Of the parties
the young man We Delieve-struck him
violent blow, near the point of the hip with
pondcrous bowie knife. which, elsncing to the
Hfont, completely severed all the veins and liga-
acnts IN the region of the groin, and also cut
abe femoral artery; and death ensued in q
very short time. Lewis was arrested, and is
now in Drummondtown Jail awaiting the action
of the next term of the Criminal Court
Neacto'ca (MG) Go.ett,.
A correspondent OF the New York Times
writes from Macon, Ca, that the recent decis.