Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-25
ALEXANDRIA VA.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1870


regarding the sudden decision Of England to
induce Austria and Italy to join her in media
ton between France and Prussia. 1t is said
that Prussia is acting independently 10 efforts
FIR peace Luxembourg is spoken OF as the
possible cession to Prussia TO save Asace and
L ,rraine to France. London rumors state
that the Empress Eugene is to 90 to Fersall.
les and sign treaty Of peace, as the represen-
tative of the only Government recognized by
Prussia. Very doubttul.) The French jour
mails talk of not accepting peace until every
Prussian soldier is off the soil of France. News
from Paris says that preparations are being
made for an offensive movement on large
s,ale The French journals charge that the
Prussians massacred the garrison which recent
~ capituated at scissors. There are rumors
that the French fleet has taken into Dunklrk
three German steamers but vessels recently
arrived at Hamburg know nothing Of it, hav'
ing encountered no French men OF war on the
coast. The German army in the South made
an Intellectual attack on Chatillon lie Duo. near
Besancon. The forces around Ferte st. Aubln
below Orleans, have abandoned their positions
there aud gone northward, according to French
reports The garrison of Verdun made
successful sortie recently, drivios the Germans
from some OF their positions, and capturing
two mortars and twenty two cannon. The
CORPS under the Duke Of Meckenburg has lett
St. Quentin and returned to Paris. \ French
loan OF elO, 900, 900 is said to have been ncgo
tiated 10 London at S., with six per Ct
interest.
The Baltimore Gazette says :-"ltit be right,
as the Radicals vehemently assert, that colored
men should have the privilege of the elective
franchise, that right. it is manifest, ought
above all. to be heartily and unreServedly ex-
tended to them in States where Radicalisn is
predominant. This is a proposition to which We
think every honest mind will assent. How stands
the case? Massachusetts,, at this day, will not
allow any colored man to vote unless he pays
taxes and can read and write. BY insisting
upon the payment OF taxes as CONDITION OF
voting, and upon the ability to read and write
as an indispensable qualification, she has ez-
cuded from the polls many colored men within
her hnrhirs -
The Vestry OF Grace Church in Lexington,
Va, have determined to place in that church
a marble tablet in memory Of Gen. Lee. We
have always wished that a marble tablet with
proper inscription should be erected in old
Christ Church, in this place, over the pew
that Gen. Washington and his family once 90
cupied. Aud now, also, We think one In
memory of Gen. Lee should be placed near the
pew which he and his family used. Two plain
marble slabs with Inscriptions are all that is
wanted.
A dispatch from Richmond, dated yesterday,
says: THE joint resolutions to release the
captured Marylanders and their vessels taken
10 alleged violation of the oyster laws OF Vir.
GINA, passed both houses OF the Virginia AS.
sembly to day. Gov. Walker will at once order
the release authorized, and will communicate
the act without delay to Coz. Bowie. of Mary
land"
A dispatch from Lyuchburg says that the
bridge over the James river on the o., A. Il
Nj. Railroad at Lynchburg will be completed
probably by next Monday.
Another humbug convention about the re
moval OF the National Capital is to meet to-day
10 Cincinnati.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE, VA.-General Lee
Was the leader Of the South in her battes.-
When The tide of fortune turned against her
when her colors trailed and her cause Was lost,
he ceased to be the leader of her armies to
become the trainer OF her youth in the paths
of knowledge and of virtue. To this object he
bent the energies Of his great mind. Upon the
threshold of this undertaking he ceased to be.
lie had chosen this College as the scene Of his
abors. He sought to make it the pioneer in
the revival OF this great work in his own low
ed South. Cosmopolitan in his views on this
subject, Washington College became the i'm
mediate object of his efforts. He had but laid
the corner stone of great structure, when he
was called away from his labors. This work he
Willed to US, who survive him, to complete
Will his friends permit his wishes to 20 no
needed? Will his own people allow his plans
to TAIL? Shall his labors-the results of his
anxious carc,-the labor, the caro- that helped
to loose the silver cord--,o break the golden
bow, shall all this 80 for naught? Let us
hope that Washington College may become
living, growing monument to his greatness
the appropriate guardian OF his sacred dust
the Mecca of true heroism-the shrine of real
nobleness of character. and the resting place of
one, the representative of all those attributes
that make man and Christian in the largest
sense of the term.-Lerington Gazette.
A SINGULAR SPECTACLE came under our OBJ
servation few evenings since in Richmond,
during Mr.. Geo. Chahoon's trial before Judge
Guigou, for forgery. 1t will be recollected that
MIR. T.. isa u. S. Commissioner. After the
close of the case Friday, for the day, Mr.. Cha.
hoon was taken in charge by U. 5. Marshal,
and as We saw the two vending their way down
town we were told that Cbahoon was en- route
to sit in judgment on an offenders case that
was to come up-probaby that Of Wilcox,
charged with having too strong an affection Tor