Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-29

Ia, IN company With Nen. JoHh ". bfechlu
Ridge.
The President, it is said, leaves Long Branch
next week, for visit to St. Louis.
NEWS OF THE DAJ
$40 to,o the uery age and 6odu OF the Tsnpr.'
10 Baltimore, yesterday, Charles Costuo,
colored, cut his wte's throat with raz)r,
after first making an attempt to choke Ter to
death with strap. Three children were pres
ent and witnessed the fendish act. 1t is
asserted by the neighbors that Costun and his
wife lived happily together, and were not
known ever to have quarrelled or to have had
any domestic difficulties. Cosun appears to
be sane man, though some OF his friends
assert that he is subject 20 fits Of insanity
lie has been arrested and IS now lodged 10 the
city Jail.
The Army bill aud the changes it effects in
the several branches of the Federal forces arc
now under consideration by the War Depart
ment. The act provides that all officers III
cluded under the head OF "Supernumerary" OF
whom there are about five hundred, may be
discharged and receive years pay at the
time OF dschagc, or may be retired on part
pay, Il. their option. The Department has
issued the necessary orders, and already
number ot officers have applied for their dis
charge. They receive from 81 500 to 1000.
Every Collector of Internal Revenue in the
country is required to furnish the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue the names OF all persons
in his district engaged in the manufacture Of
tobacco, SNUFF and cigars. This information is
to be placed in the hands of all the Collectors
and Assessors for the purpose of aiding in the
discovery OF counterfeit marks and brands.
By ord L OF the President, the Secretary of
War hes dismissed from the service the follow.
ing named officers on account of their desertlon
from ne army First Lieutenant L.. w.
!iarnbart, Fourth United States Cavalry; First
Lieutenant William |. Patterson, Fifth United
State, Artillery and Second Lieutenant w.
A. Newton, First Infantry.
\ female in Philadel phia, aged only sixteen
years, after arranging for the theft OF all the
vaiuaoles in the way OF plate and jewelry in
he house in which she was servant, turned
on every gas burner in the house with the ez.
pcc,aton Ut smothcring the inmates.
The Peruviau Government has paid the
American Legation to Peru $780, the
amount awarded the American claimants, by
the mixed commission, to settle the claims IN
dispute between the citizens OF the two coun-
tries.
Thomas j. Martin, for several years past
Clerk to the Board of Police Commissioners of
Baltimore, died quite suddenly yesterday.
Admiral Farragut is dangerously i'll. For
some time past he mas been IN bad health,
suffering from the asthma.
REPORTED CASE OF CRUELTY IN RICHMOND.
TIE Richmond correspondent of the Petersburg
Courier gives the following particulars of case
OF cruelty in the former city:
The chief topic in the town now is the out
rageous treatment Of their niece, Miss Noble
Stevens, Iy Nlr. Liva Lalond and his vile.
The accused were arrested yesterday on
charge of the most heartless cruelty toward the
young lady, whom they had in their power.
The matter has been much talked OF FOR seVe
raj weeks IN that portion OF the city where La
toua lives The nci ghbors have observed how
Miss Stevens vas beaten, starved, imprisoned
and otherwise UNANIMOUSLY dealt with. She has
has been kept 10 most filthy condition, so as
get out OF her loci, room. At the window OF
this room she has cltcn stood, piteously beg
cins every oac who came in hearing Tor bread |
She has almost daily been heard to shrek and
scream under the blows and other torments 10
alccd upon her by her unnatural uoco AID |
aunt Some time ago number OF ladies rush |
ed into Lsiond's house to her rescue and found |
her ned down by her aunt, who was stuthng |
salt in Quantities into h&r mouth, eyes and |
nose. On Sunday last, her cries becoming |
be,.rreuding, the neighbors again invaded the !
~ cmiscs, and caught Lafond himself, armed |
with paddle bored ull of holes, holding Miss |
Stevens clothing above her head and beating |
her pitiessy on her bare person. She is a
skeleton, bruised and Scared from head to ioot |
scarcely able to walk alone, and almost an idiot |
from her sutferiugs. Clothes had to be given |
her TO cover her before she could be brought |
into tho police court. The examination OF La
fond and his wife is postponed until tomorrow,
and Miss Stevens has been placed in charge Of
a family that will take good care of her. Her |
guardian and brother, who live in an adjoining !
county, have been sent ior All the parties |
are said 10 be respectable and OF good family. |
and the guardian OF Miss Stevens pays Latopd
a ibercl monthly allowance for her board and
clothing.
CHINESE LABoRERS.-lti is expected that 10
a few days Chinese will be at work with the
pick and shovel on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad. The present western terminus of
the road is at White Sulphur Springs, Green
brier county, and at this point the Orlentas
will in all probability first appear. Mr. Hun.
tipsdon, who has been building railroads In
California, has taken the contract for the con
.,tructon of the Lewis tunnel, few miles from |
White Sulphur Springs, and his agents are |