Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-24
ALEXANDRIA, VA.


ALEXANDRIA, VA.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST "a, 1870
THE EUROPEAN WAR NEWs.-There Is
nothing of an official character in any OF the
dispatohes from the seat of war, published this
morning, and the accounts through private
sources are as vague and contradictory as
ever, rendering it impossible to obtain anything
like correct idea of the actual state OF affairs
One report leaves the Crown Prince still NOV
ing on Paris, while another states that he has
formed junction with the forces at Metz
Marshal Bazaine is said to have been at Met,
on Monday, and about twelve hours later, ht
is represented as being fifty miles from Metz
A third dispatch says Marshal Bazaine has
concluded to remain at Metz. While McMa
hons army is reported at Montmedy, his head
quarters are said to be at small village seven
miles northeast of Chalons Another dispatch
SAWS that Marshal Mcmahon has before him
the choice of attempting junction with Baz aine
or to continue to hold the road to Paris. The
dispatches of last night seem to prove that
McMahons army was on its way from Chalons
to Verdun, 10 order TO effect junction with
Bazaine a. or rear Montmedy, fortified town
on the Meuse, twenty FIVE miles north of Yer.
dur.
It's sometimes said that the French people
are incapable of self government, and always
throw themselves voluntarily under the control
Of master. Even if this be so, France is not
the only country where this trait is exhibited,
10 our day and generation. The Richmond
Dispatch says -"Congress has destroyed free
government in this countly-has in fact lett
rot Vestige of it except in that mere sem
blance or appearance of freedom which seems
10 be implied 10 the publ. ,aton Of such articles
Congress Just as the French people sustained
Louis Napoleon.
The agricultural scrip for the States of Ar
kansas and Virginia has been prepared by the
Interior Department, and will be dispatched
to the Governors OF the respective States. -
The scrip thus to be issued amounts to nine
hundred and thirty seven quarter sections or
within traction of one hundred and fifty
thousand acres. The State government will
be called on at the time of delivery for the
legislative act authorizing the transfer Of said
receipt, so that it may he available for the
purposes of the grant.
The US. Ice and Refrigeratiug Company: O
New York, has set W one Of lis icamakinl
machines at the Morgan Iron Works, foot o.
Ninth street, Fast River. Many Of these
machines are already in use on the continent,
10 England, and in the Fast and West Indies
aud, it is claimed for them that twenty-five
horse power engine is able to produce thirteen
tons Office per day OF twenty lour hours. At
this rate it is claimed ice can be manufactured
for IL, 80 per ton.
The Charleston News says that Governor
Scott, when he first went to that State, paid
taxes only on o horse and chaise. AS Cover
nor of the State he has for two years received
salary OF thirty FIVE hundred dollars per year,
and now, according to his own admission, has
property to the value OF ono hundred and thir.
~ thousani dollars !
Archbishop Purcell delivered k :ture in
Cincinnati On Sunday evening, for the benefit
OF the Society OF St. Vincent dc Paul, on the
subject Of the E:umcpieal Council. The lee
ture seems to have excited great interest. He
gave an Interesting account of the deliberations
Of the Council, and vindication of his own
course.
The New York Times says "the grave mis-
siana, Georgia and North Carolina, Of attempt.
ing to control the administration Of political
affairs by arbitrary class legislation and by &C
,ual force, undoubtedly bad an uniavorable
effect upon all the Southern States"
the European news most effectually draws
off the attention OF the people Of this country,
from politics. Where one man stops to read
an article about Radicals and Demo Gratis, q
hundred will pause with intense interest on &C
count OF military movements by the French
and Prussians.
A dispatch to the New York World dated
London, Aug. 10th, says: Il hear to day that
your correspondent with the army OF McMa
hon. MIR. Moncure D. Conway, has been shut
up in Strasbourg and cannot get through the
lines
"Jeemes Pipes" say that there are great
many internal rascals 10 this country, but the
most "infernalest' in the whole South is Hold.
Tn of Norta Carolina. Probably so-but there
are others, who at competition would put in
tor the prize
There are said to be twelve gentlemen who
are, at present, candidates for Congress from
this district, most of them subject to the nom.
inati0n of Conservative Convention.
No clue has yet been obtained to the eluci-
dstion of the Nathan murder In New York