Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-28

Vallog IN Nay, when the strike Degan.
TUE Boar RACE-We announced in yes
ierday's Gazette the result OF the boat race
between the Oxford and Harvard crews. The
contest was u very close and exciting one, the
Euglish toat Winning by three lengths, the
Harvard crew being but six seconds behind
their opponents in reaching the judges boat
The time OF the race was twenty two minutes
and forty -and-one halt seconds. The contest
was a fair one. The track was the Putuey to
Mort axe course, starting from the upper side
of Putupy Bridge, aud finishing at Barker
Rails lust above Mortlake-a distance OF
about a miles. Thomas Hughes, NJ. p, (the
author OF Tom Browol acted as umpire at the
request of the Harvard crew, accepting the
position in this characteristic way: Il should
lie il | said hope you Will win but DO
hope that st the flush at Barker balls the
bow OF your boat viii be at the stroke oar OF
Oxford" A London dispatch says that it is
probably 10 exaggeration 10 state that probably
4 million Of people witnessed the race.
Gen. Rosecraus. in his letter to the Demo
cratic party in Ohio defining his position and
his principles, argues that 1.-THE present enOr
NOUS interest on our public debt is producing
The most fearful inequalities IN the distribution
Of capital. bringing the government into the
money market as borrower at an average or
IL Per ct. per annum currency interest 80
per Ct, premium on the coin l. 50, exemption
from taxation 2i0-ll 80 per c;.-to compete
Gith private borrowers, and, moreover, giving 10
bankers holding It's bonds not Cny this inter
es,, bu, the right TO issue notes on their credit
and use them as money under the national
banking law. This, he says, Is forcing the
terry lite blood oil capital from the West and
South, in iacr from all the eztremiies where
its circulation is especially needed, 10 the great
Eastern centres OF capital aud speculation, and
By putting an enormous price on capital 10 a
country whose industrial aud business develop
ments require a great deal of cheap capital, Is
Snawing AT the very vltas OF Industry and
the business OF the great mass Of the people.
Coal strikes are very costly" In Eng
and the Treasurer of Yorkshire Miners
Inon has disbursed during the past year near
IL eighty thSlsand dollars to sustain the strike
ni six hundred miners. Ia the Laekawanna
,oal district OF Pennsylvania al assessment OF
eighty. tour thousand dollars has been made,
End this, ofcoursc, is 4 small modicum OF tie
expense incurred by heads Of families while out
OF work. Months Of labor will have to be gone
through before the losses are made up, la
this country, respectable and excellent work
men, are often mulcted to pay for strikes OF the
most worthless of the different pursuits who
thus prey upon the trades to which they pro.
fess to belong
The Richmond News says: "a gentleman,
h. inf bot {,aDNral
Candy regards the test'oath question as out OF
his hsnds-it having been referred, by the
authorities ct Washington, to the Attorney
General OF the United States. He will obey
instructions in regard TO the matter, whatever
he instructions may be. The same gentleman
IL OF opinion that there will be no meeting OF
me Legislature until after Congress assemblies.
4 very few words from Gen Candy himself
would prevent the circulation OF all sorts OF re-
ports concerning his determination, and what
the people are to expect from him.
In the Cour: of Appeals Of Western Virgin
ia, the Judgment of the court below In the
Steenr9l will case has been reversed by the
Conrt, aud the case now goes bacS
90 l.. .s,.iel Inls probably settles The con-
troyersy III favor of the will The contestants
4ndeavOr 10 set this viii aside on the grounds
of mental inc apacity OF the testator and undue
influence over him by his son in-law, Judge
Thompson, and his daughter, Mrs. Thompson,
the latter being one OF the principal dcvisees.
One Of the boldest robberies on record was
Committed at St. Louis on Tuesday. While
the teller of the German Savings Institution
was standing at his desk engaged in his usual
Employment, man, dressed in the garb of
boa,man, entered the bank, aud without say
ing word, leaped over the counter near the
teller, and snatching several bundles Of bank
notes lying on desk behind the counter,
jumped back again, ran out Of doors, and
made his escape.
A writer in the Washington Chronicle argues
that the Military Commander at Richmond, is
right ia exacting the iron clad oath from the
elected members of the Legislature Of Virginia;
but winds up his essay, by admitting that 1T
IS true that the law has not been understood
and administered 10 some of the other military
districts as construed and proposed to be ad- |
miuistered by Gen, Cauby''
The Scientific American describes a new
double locomotive, Just manufactured at Taun.
Ton, Mass, for the Central Pacific railroad
1t looks precisely as i two ordinary locomotives
had been backed up To each other aud made
into one machine. Like a double endcr steam |
ship, it can go equally we'll either way, thus
obviatiug entirely The necessity of turn tables
In Washington diplomatic circles discredt is
thrown upon the rumored disagreement OF the
Pekin Government TO the BnrlingGme treaty
With the United States