Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-25
Foreign News.

The sugar brokers Of London conpiala bitter
IL of the ruinoas effec: of Nr, Loves sudden
remission Of the sugar duties.
Adviccs from London STATE that a collision
occurred on tn. Great Northern Railway, 10
which one man was killed AMI several wound ed.
The recent Fcnian panic in London was
caused by Information given the Chief OF Police
that number 0! Fenans had arrived from
America tor inccniiary and other unlawful
purposes. The police are recording the names
Of all !oigers at hotels and boarding houses, as
q measure OF safety.
The iron clad Rochamtcau, late tho u. s.
steamer nuIderburg, Is now said to carry eight
SOD nounders and two $50 Founders.
Minister Morct'S answer to an Inquiry In the
Spanish Cortes relative to Cutao affairs, was
considered vague, and creates some uneasinesS.
The Chancellor Of the Legion of Honor Is
dead. l. IS reported Olivier will be decorated
with the grand cross OF the Legion OF Honor.
Adric,> from Rome state the the pamphlets
issued hv Hcrci, RanSahcr AID Swarzenberg,
against PapnI in.iibiiity. are being destroyed
hy lhc 20 ic, The photographs OF these gen
tiemen have also been seized.
The Pope made his entrance at &C lock YES
terGay at the third public meeting OF the Ecu
mcnisa Connc;!. The vote WAS taken, which
was in The ali atvc on the four first chapters
of the first schema &c file.
The Armenian manifesto relative to the
Q2cumeniclI Council, which was posted on a
church in Constantluopie, was torn down by 4
Turkish mob on Friday last.
The Turkish Minister at Athens reports &c
his Government that the captives who were re
tAincd ia the hands of the brigandi Tor ransom,
pear Marathon, had been killed.
LETTER FROM GEN. FI1zHUGH LEE.-Thc
following letter from General Ei'zhugh Lee is
valuable contribution to the history OF the
recent war. Il WIS called out bT U.s. lie has
given US permission 20 publish h.-Rtch.
Dispatch.
II knew Gen. thomas we'll Was lieu
tenant in the cavalry regiment of which be
was he M jor bcf3re the war; aud stationed
at the same post in Texas With him., lie was
an excellent arr; cry officer (served in that
arm in SIrE;c'), an indifferent cavalry onc-too
heavy, too slow. Had not that coup d'niI
Plus rapdc quelc courser emporte au galop,
! addre>se Il IN athlete, ct I agiite & I'm
cantau7c,' thai Gen. Fog talks about in the
'Ptniusuar War bat which did not prevent
;i.n from b inga genera! officer of indisputab'o
consaga and urquestiouatle merit.
You say he is charged with having, at the
beginning oi the war, hestated as to which
side he should enlist with, &c. The New
York Tribune, however, and all other northern
enc NUNS thu! have real upon his name AMI
tanc, lag grcat stress upon his being d
Nirei0ian Win rcv"r taltercd in his allegiance
to lie UoivI.' But they would better have
lett that part Of his record alone.
1T is a TACT that when war threatened be
tween the twO sections Of the best Govern
nent the world ever saw General Thomas's
feelings were southern to almost the Dccose
degree.
'Itis fact that he !oId NE in New York
city, in 1861, as Was on my way from West
Point to Washington, 10 resign my commi;-
sion as an officer OF the United States army.
that he, too, intended to resign, and would
soon follow me.
Its a tact that about that time he wrote
a letter tn John Letcher. then Governor of
Virginia, aud rendered his services TO the
State (which letter the Governor may have
now)
"!he State Of his birth can hardly be cz-
pcctcd, under the circumstances, TO erect
q monument to him, but it should not defame
him.
He was an upright, kind hearted man
and fought well, though against US. Let him
rest in pcaca, and let Virginia keep her
viaIs Of wrath TO be forever poured out upon
the heads of some few of her citizens who
would not fsht upon either side, but who
stayed at home and made money by being
paid by the North as spies, guides, and
informels. or who, alter having fought, have
acted as if they were ashamed Of their past
record.
Very respectfully, your obedicnt servant,
FITZHUGH LEE.