Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-12-05
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1870
THE WAR IN EUEopE.-The latest news


MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1870
The WAR IN EUEopE.-The latest news
scarcely determines the general result 0! the
battles around Paris aad north OF Orleans, but
it is apparently settled that the Army OF tine
Loire has succeeded in driving the German
army northwaGd, and that both sides are now
gathering strength for q rcne~a OF the contest
1t is placed beyond douot that the sories from
Paris were repused, and that there has been
no junction between the forces OF Ducrot aud
Palladines, but it also seems that there Will be
another attempt to cut through the German
lines of investment. Garibaldls victory at
Autun was q repulse Of the Germans who en-
deavored to storm the town.
A suit has been fled in chancery against
the city OF Chicago. to make $4,000, 600 OF
bonds issued BY the comptroller between tie
date OF the adoption OF the new Illinois constl.
futon and the time Of its taking effect, null
and void, and also the bonds previously issued
for dcepepipg the Illinois and Michigan canal.
Bonds thus: issued aud sold are water loan
bonds sewerage bonds, river Improvement
bonds. school bonds and the Lascilc street tua,
mel bonds. The bill says the bonds were Issued
10 evnGe the new constitution, and Tor the puF'
rose OF accommodating largo fund ID the city
treasury, to be used for unlawful ard improper
purposes.
Late events in France have caused an enor-
nous increase in the number 81 messages by
Atlantic Cable, both ways. and the facilities OF
the telegraph Company. haviaa cue wire row
instead Of three, as heretofore, are taxed to the
utmost. 1t is likely, however, that the east
ward business will soon be cleared away, when
DISPATCHES will come forward as usual. Mean
while the steamer Robert Lowe is actively st
woik repairing the Eogish cable.
The Baltimore Sun remarks that "eIper-
ience has shown that comparatively little c2ls'
la!on Of an important character is 10 be eE-
pectcd from the short or last s:ssion OF Con-
eress. Unless, therefore, some unforeseen
emergency should create 2 necessity forsome
special action On the part OF Congress. we do
not look for any marked change in the exist
ing legislation of the country this winter.
10 an editorial article in the WASHINGTON
Chronicle, the College over which the lament
cd Lev presided, ct Lexington, Va, IS Sad'
under his management, 10 have been "a schooi
for kee.ing alive issues which m&n| people
supposed had been decided BY an appeal 10
arms! We suppose there Is 80 institution IN
America, il which al! such matters were mere
studiously ignored y
Yesterday DR.. Albert 4. Ble0soe, Vi the
Southern Quarterly Review, who lately ca
pressed publicly his dissent from certain t2nats
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, formally
connected himself wi.h TIC Aicih. Eris. Church
South, in Baltimore, and afterwards pTeachee
from the pulpit O: the Central Church at that
denomination, in that city.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the Uni
versity Publishing Company, With the family
of Gen. Lee, and tic Faculty OF Wasbingtoa
College, looking to the speedy publication OF a
Memorial Volume" embracing biography
Of the Great Confederate leader, and an I'M
partial narrative of the principal events and
incidents of the late civil war.
The Louisville Journal says lit Is SAID
that Sumter county, Georgia, has eleven indie
Dendeut candidates for Z certain office, each OF
w!om announces himself "at the solicitation
of many citizens" That is all very we'll, pro
vided eleven times many citizens arc not more
citizens then there ere in the county.
The excitement in Europe on the castcln
question has almost entirely subsidized, ROW that
it appears settled that conference OF powers
will be held 4 telegram from Vienna states
that Turkey, Eogland, Italy, Prussla ard Aus
tria accept the proposition for conference.
Mr.. Washburnc, Representative in Congress
from Wisconsin, has received letter from his
brother, The Representative Of the u. :. IN
Paris, that the people OF tho French metro
polls have provisions enongh TO hold oot nntli
the lst of January.
The newspapers, everywhere, in the neigh
borbood O! the oyster markets, north and south,
report that this year oysters arc unusually tD'
and large. They are fatter and better, as
general rule, than they were last year.
Blue Fish arc low caught in abundance 10
the neighborhooa Of The Capes of Chcsa
peake bay. and arc sold in the Norfolk mar
ket, at 40 els. piece, weighing from - to
Is pounds.
Politicians, North, and South, East and
Vest, We think, commit an error when, thus
early, they enter upon any discussion OF tic
next Presidential question.
There is e combined movement among the
civil officers OF the Government in Washington
N imnrcss DON Congress The justice OF their