Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-21
FOREIGN News,

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educational bill was again taken up. Alter
much debate the bill was read q secoaf time,
ALondon Letter say the Prince Of Wales i1as
received an additional 60 1000 per anaum iToln
the Queen, in consideration of the evidences il
the Mordaunt casa.
An American named Booth has been in
nrisoned at Londonderry for killing u 'nan
named lyle, in November last.
The Bishop OF Barbados died yesterday ii
his homo in western England.
The officers of the Bauk Of Eaglaal have
determined to express the assay OF gold Ill
thousandths hereafter, instead OF carats. Illus
bars will be calculated in parts of one three
thousandths instead Of one seven hundred and
| sixty.eights as at present.
One of the boats Of the Cunard steamer Su
maria has arrived at Queenstown, and reports
| that the ship is forty miles of the coast, vita
her screw broken.
The trial OF Prince Pierre Bonapartc for the
killing of Victor Noir will commence 1t Tours
to day. RocEetort and the other editors 81 the
Marsellaise have been sent to that city as VII
nesses, aud the public interest is SO great that
the trains running there are crowded with geo
ple thronging to witness the trial.
The Pope refused to allow the French pre-
Iatrs to celebrate mass at Rome Ter Count Non
ta,embert, supposedly on accout OF the latters
Tendencies in religion. The French Ambassador
at Rome has been called to Paris Tor an inter
view with the Emperor. The answer toCount
Darius note, demanding a French lay represent
tive at the Council, has not yet been sent from
Rome. ,, Ill.,,
King William of Prussia. reccivedthc eldest
son Of the late Hon. Mr.. BurIlngam2 Oh Fri
day.
The Spanish Official Gazette publishes a de-
cree requiring Bishops and the clergy To take
the oath to the Constitution within one month.
MILLS DEsTROYED--A bill Is nOw pending
in the General Assembly of Virginia allowing
'the owner or tenant OF any MIL. mliI dam,
toll bridge, manufacturing machine Or engine,
which may have been destroyed bY hFe or
otherwise, or have become unit Tor use. dur
ing the late civil war, Two years IN |l'cH 10
begin, and four years IN which 10 hnlsh, the
rebuilding or repair OF the am without icinG
subjected TO the forlcitur1s provided by law
This only affects parties who have entered
into obligations with the State to continue
their mills, &c., in good order under certain
conditions. Of course, tic General Assembly
would have no right 10 l~cgislate about strictly
nrivate property. -Richmoad State .JoWndt.
L1st Friday nearly the entire front Of i brick
building on Pennsylvania avenue, III Nash'ns'
ton, known as Rilgely's drug store, iell to The
ground, The front had recently been torn out
Of the house adjoining for improvements, and
the foundation Of R!dgclys wall had been
mincd. There was sufficient notice to allow
the inmates of the house time 70 move out
their turn iture, As we'll is the greater art "l
the contents of the drug store. The building
will prove 4 tO:al loss.
The Japanese are still prosecuting the M
tive christians and showing decilal hostility to
all foreigners.
COMMUNICATED.
CIRCUIT JuDusHGp.-The editor Of tho Alex
andria Gazette is resp, fully req'pcS!eI By
"S-veral Members OF tna F%auquicr !iHr' TO
copy the following colntnumic*:l"n from the
Warrentnn Index
a correspondent, under thn namA II "h!ay-
andria,' in The Gazette issued some days back,
~arraigns tho Fauquier bar Tor It's opposition 70
what it terms the re-elettion Of Henry -.
Thomas to the j udgeshlp Of the circuit - which
Alexandris. and Fauquier form u part on be-.
half OF the FauGuier bar, we ask the use Of
your columns in reply. The head aud 'front.' OF
our offending seems u be. that Wa 10 70. rc.
cognize tho manner Of his taking oil. rs that
correspondent expresses it. Is conclusive Of his
superior claims TO The position OF Judge OF this
circuit. We beg to remind "Alc&andriM" th.t
he was unmade by the power that made HIM
He was made by Piorpoint and lnnladc By Can
by. lie was set up and Knocked down by one
and the same authority ana IN 10 sense ca"
our people b3 said u haze anything 10 10 with
his appointment or deposition. On the ront7A-
ry, it is we'll known that Gen. HunL"l. Mt Inc
time of Judge Thomas appointment, Was nj
IN ost tho unanimous choice Of the lawyers and
people Of this circuit. Pierpoint refuse! to
nominate Hunton and nominated Thomss-and
thus he was elected. We do not deny that his
election WAS \ relief to tho ci1cuit. u might
have been much worse. Grant that ali that Is
said by "Alexaudria in praise OF Judne Thorn
rs is true-thst he WAS learned, able and patient,
and that an opinion entertained OF nm by some
that lie lacked two invaluable requisites Of Il
good JUDI &c, r]etlcence and irmneSs, Is untrlie-
in what way are we committed TO an advocacy Of
| his claims to tho Judgeship? We ara sorry
that our opposition to I'D &c Thomas has thrown
| the lawyers and tho business community Of AL
exandria into such d disturbed condition, though
| it aattcrs our vanity considerably. We frankly
acknowledge that when, in tho exercise OF what
we conceived to be undoubted right, weIecom
| mended Mr. Keith as a gentleman in every re-
spect worthy to Ill the position Of Judge OF
| this circuit, we had no idea that we were dis
turbing to such 81 extent the delicate sensib;!i.
ties Of the bar and business community Of AL
eXandria. Who knows how far this knowledge
| would have sealed our lips in this matter Had
we known that Alexandra stood agnast ~ Tic
nnormity Of our presuming to have q choice As
to who should be the Judge of this circuit. we
should, in all probability, have deferred, AS We
have done before, TO her better judgment. We
refer to the matter of the last Congressional
election, when Mr.. Shaskclford, an able and
true man, was obliged, at the dictalion Of Alex
dris, although the nominee of the Conservative
party of this District, to give way to Mr.. Lewis
Mckenzie. who, elected exclusively by Con.
servative votes, we observe by recent papers, is
uniting with those who have called Tor y
reorganization of the Republican party, &C.
But "AlexsndriH" ostentstiously pnradcs ~ the
close rf his article the letter which Mr. Tucker, !
in the abundance of his good nature, wrote to
Judge Thomas at the time he was unmAde by
the hand that made him, which bears the sigma
lures of our bar. The occasion when that paper
was written as well US the writer, explains the
warmth of its language. So much u matter "c
course was it TO sign it. that it was not reud by !
many Of those whose signatures it bears AMI
was characterized by one Of the foremost men
of thia bar az ttJu6va ThouasiS nuiteuh Ia |