Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-18
Foreign News.

Foreign News.
Paris tclcrrams announce that the consttu.
tional reforms proposed in the Government
will 90 before the people to DO voted upon IN
the shape of query as to whether they will
have liberty under the control of the Emperor
and the Bonapartc dynasty. The moderate
Liberals will divide on the vote, one portion
adhering to the Radicals against the question.
and the other supporting tho Monarchlsts and
the Emperor. =,
There are rumors in Paris that France will
propose TO Great Britain and Russia general
disarmament.
The Republican journals of Spain demand
the separation of Church and State, and that
all the priests or troops refusing to take the
oath to the Constitution be sent to Rome
The Duke OF Montpensier, who was banlShed
from Madrid for one month, has gone to Seville
PoILTiCAL.-A conference ofinvited Radicals
will be he'd in Richmond next Thursday
Dist Instant. From a circular signed By
&. K. GiImer. Williams z. Wickham and
Charles Il. Porter, we copy the following :
L" The obj!ct of the contemplate con-
terence is to take such steps as shall most
surely and effectively result in the reorGan'za,,
ton Of tho Republican party in this State, and
to place il before the people in its true light as
the party OF liberty and equality, and as alone
suited 10 the present emergencies OF the State
and nation.
lis platform should be broad and national,
and its principles and noicy liberal, acd just
to all classes and conditions OF men
We must make il emphaticaly the party
OF the people, Of progress and Improvement,
and, in concert with the National Republican
- ~ DIM Of hn host
interests of the county. and Undue 1t with
spirit of harmony and just coucilation.
\ BURIAL Place OF Books. Alr. Jenckcs,
tho other day. il Introducing bill to amend
the patent and copyrisht laws said he had
discovered that in the Department Of the In
terror there is o scpuchre in which forty thous-
and books are entombed. The room in which
they are stored is accessible only by c!amberlng
~ narrow staircase, over an archway. The
room has no daylight, and it the books are to
be examined it must be by candle-ileht. These
books have been consigned to this literary tomb
as result of the provisions OF the copyright
law now in Fore. This law requires that
person wishing to procure copyright must
send u copy OF his book to the clerk office for
transmission to the Patent OficN The books
thus transmitted have been deposited in the
lumber room above described, where many of
them still remain in the original packages.
Wash. Chronicle
y. Y. GOLD EXCHANGE. Thursday after
noon some OF the members of the Gold Ex-
change, to relieve the general dullness, treated
themselves and the habitues OF New street to
novel entertainment. A member was fined S.
for some slight indiscretion, and yesterday tue
penalty was paid, tho offender giving the pre-
siding officer five hundred new pennies 10 a
great bag. One of the members bought the
pennies with five dollar greenback, and anus
ed the crowd on the street by throwing them
out OF the windows in fifty and seventy five
cents lost. The scramble for the coins as they
rolled around New street provoked merriment.
and the numerous somersaults we're worthy OF
the Hanous' best days.-Ne1 YOrh Sun
LIGHT HoUsEsIN Vain view of anticipated
appropriations by Congress for lights and
other aids to navigation on the coast and in the
waters Of Virginia, the Secretary OF the Naval
Bureau at Washington has written to Gov.
Walker inviting attention to the necessity Tor
such legislation 10 regard to the cession of
State jurisdiction: as it is an indispensable
requirement before the title to lands can be
accepted as perfect and the work commenced.
Estimates have already been submitted to.
Congress for appropriations to erect light
house on False Cape Henry, and to purchase a
site for o stroehouse and buoy depot in the Vi
cinity of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
GREAT REFORM IN NEW ORLEANs.-TheI
city OF New Orleans is alb ut to under 20 a
wondrous Improvement by the adoption OF the
earth closet Little doubt can be entertained
that the periodical epdemics of yellow lever
and cholera that have Sc desolated that city in
former years have been greatly exaggerated, if
they have not been directly produced, by the
fecuence which there was no system Of sewers
to remove. The same cause, prior to the con- |
struction of proper drains. rendered a that
part OF London known as st. Giles's liable to
terrible visitatons Of cholera.
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. There are
now 35l students at the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, including repre-
icntatves from the following States: l4l
from Virginia. 10 from West Virginia, -
rom North Caro|iua, II from Tennessee, 81
rom South Carolina, 10 from Georgia, As
rom Alabama, from f orida, 10 from Mis-
issiDpi. Is from Louisiana, - frem Texas, 5
rom Arkansas, Is from Maryland. l from
New York, 3f:om Missouri, 6 from Kentucky,
from the district OF Columbia, and from
" iscopsin: total, 35i.