Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-28
ALEXANDRIA VA.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1870

lean 10 its summary OF tho European news
says: King William has telegraphed to Queen
Augusta that Metz was surrendered yesterday
to the German forces besieging it. Bazaine' 5
army, which laid down its arms during the at
ternoon, numbered one hundred and fifty thou.
sand. of whom twenty thousand were sick or
wounded. The capture of the strongest posi-
,iou in France, outside of Paris and the army
defending it, will release from active operations
the entire command Of Prince Frederick
Charles, which has been occupied in the siege
of Metz since the middle of August. French
accounts claim that Garibaldi has won victories
in the Vosges, thereby checking the advance
of the German army on Lyons The forces
north eff Paris which were threatening Amiens
have fallen back to Laon and abandoned ST..
Quentin. A division of twelve thousand Prus
sans have occupied DreuX, twenty.seven miles
southwest OF Paris. The positions OF the ar
mics of the Loire are Unchanged: Minor en-
gagements have taken place at Longchamps,
about fifty miles north of Paris and near Or
leans, in each of which the French were
victorious according to their own statements.
Bismarck has refused Theirs permission to
enter Paris for the purpose of comforting with
the members of the Provisional Government
there on the arrangement of an armistice, as
was requested by the English Cabinet. Theirs
would have been allowed to 60 as tar as the
Prussian headquarters at Versailles but he re-
fused to undertake the mission unless allowed
to enter Paris. From. all sections of France
petitions are received by the Government
against the cession Of territory to Prussia as one
Of the terms of peace. Russia declines to act,
believing that the terms of peace must be lett
TO the belligerents, and that mediation unsup'
ported by force would be useless. The terms
proposed by ENGLAND, Austria and Russia were
no cession Of territory, the Notifications from
Metz to Strasbourg to he dismantled and France
to pay 200. 000 900 of francs indemnity.
The Norfolk Journal says: 1t is remarka.
BILE that all over the South many of the most
savage scalawags we're the most ferocous fire.
eaters before the war. The Missouri Radical,
Drake is an instance Of this. 1t was he who in
1859 brought forward bill in the Missouri
Legislature to sell all the free people OF color
in that State. He would now disfrauchise
nine tenths of the citizens Of his own color.
Brownlow, Ia miserable wretch,) was fu-
rous advocate for the reopening of the Airl-
can slave trade. Brown, of Georgia, went a
bowshot beyond the most hot headed Southern
men up to the war, but be is now one OF the
most intoleraut Radicals. The course OF liol
den is kaown to US al"
Mr. Alexander Rives, who is now the Rsdi.
cal candidate for Congress, from the Albemare
district is one of the most Objectionable and
Inconsistent OF his class of politicians. The
Winchester Sentinel says :"Judge Rives
whilst member Of the Court of Appeals vas
Lot only opposed to colored suffrage, but was
in favor Of restricting the right to those whites
only who were assessed with and had paid
their taxes. We we'll remember his advice to
us to oppose the ratification Of the tourtcent h
amendment when first presented to the Legis.
lature for its action" But, uader the present
system Of things, the colored people will vote,
On moeSa fnr fbio m,p