Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-08
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
AND VIRGINIA ADVER r s L 4
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

\ suit by 8 MIR. Samuel Brannan for large
amount OF money, involving serious charges
of evil doing, has been commenced IN San
francisco against tho Central Pacific Railroad
Company aud other corporations. An answer
bv the President of the Central Pacific Raj
road Company to the suit aud heavy charge:
brought against it by Samuel BraDnau, dc
cares them false and malicious, brought only
TO eXtort money.
Notwithstanding the recent alarming reports
from official sources, mentioning indications OF
immediate general Indian hostlties, the bu-
rcau is in clined TO think, from communica
tions received from its agents, that the season
has advanced to period which will not favor
apy such movement among the Indians, and
consequently regard the majority of the reports
recently published as By no means entitled to
full credit
ltappears By the report Of the register OF vi
tai statistics to the board Of health that the
death rate of NewI ork city last week was high.
er than that of any corresponding week of the
past tftoen years. There were tbirty-eight
Eases of death from aunstroke, or other direct
effects of Leat. A genuine case Of Asiatic
cholera, which resulted fatally, occurred in the
eighth ward The total number OF deaths, 1773
\ letter to New York paper from South
Pass, Wyoming, june Goth, says that some of
the followers of Red Cloud and Medicine Man
had made raid upon that towD and pundercd
the inhabitants of $4,000 worth OF property.
principally cattle The writer makes some ssr-
castle illusions TO the entertainment Of Red
Cloud in Washington. and the expenditure OF
$j0,0Go upon him and his party.
The conference committee OF Congress on
the bill making an appropriation of one huI-
dred thousand dollars to aid 10 fitting out an
expedition of discovery to the Arctic regions
have agreed to make the amount fifty thousand
dollars. The bill allows the President to select
the commanders of the expedition, and author
izas the Secretary of the Navy to detail two
vessels for its use
The constitutional election in illinois Oh
Saturday, as lar as heard from, resulted in the
adoption of the new constitution and OF the
articles subjected to separate vote Among
these last is the one introducing the principle
Of minority representation.
The Quakers in Norway are often called W
On to suffer for their principles Two Eng lish
Friends, who have just returned from that
country, say they found young men In prison
at Christiansand, for refusing to bear arms.
Dispatches from Cheyenne, Wyoming. bring
the usual style of accounts about the dolngs
and intentions of the Indians. 1t is still iDsis.
ted that many are ION the war path, or COM
emplat!ng it.
Another delegation of Sioux Indians has ar
rived in Washington, eight days from the
CHEYENNE Agency They are to have an il,
terview, make speeches, and, it is said, intend
TO usk Tor food, aunu!ties and goods.
Preparations are being made for larRe
4 gathering at the annual reunion OF the Society
. Of the Army and Navy of the Cult, at Boston
s on the 9Th OF August.
y \ school teacher was shot dead at ST. John
9 Sonville, New York, on Tuesday, by drunk
( en- man.
8 The STEAMBOAT RACE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
81 The newspapers of Louisville, Cincinnati,
b st. Louis aud others OF the river cities, are
3 lIled with the details OF the loolhardy race
8 from New Orleans to St. Louis between the
s. steamboa Robert +. Lee and NatcheZ. The
n distance is in round numbers one Thousand
81 miles, and the Lee has run it in three days,
E eighteen hours and fourteen minutes, an aver
s. age, not including stoppages, OF mile IN live
# and three tilths minutes during the trip. The
~ Natchez arrived at st. Louis nearly seven
Is hours behind the Lee but her Captain claims
@$ the victory because he lost six hours IN tog
"a on the river and thirty.six minutes in repair
Is ing pump making his actual running time
8rhe Natchez is Cincinnati boat, 800 feet
81. long, and with paddle wheele A feet iu diane
5:Stcr The Lee is 293 feet long, and has paddle
wheels IS feet in diameter.
M The race grew out of desire to excel the
a Natchezs time made some three weeks ago
between New Orleans and St. Louis, and this
SssSthe Lee has succeeded in doing, her time be-
SSipg three hours and forty-four minutes less,
sSand the fastest ever made over the course.
This dangerous and really useless affair
sswas promoted and backed up by the river
Nmcn and gamblers, and the interest arous-
.ed seems to have been SO universal alopg
ahc Mississippi that the Fourth OF July
bank into comparative insignhcance. The bet
aAtlng everywhere was enormous, and one OF the
hlemphis papers even tells that as no men who
were not interested could be found to act ss
Stockholders the money was deposited 10 the
hands OF women. The boats carried no freight
%or passengers, and the wheel houses we're strip
% ped and cabins kept closed in order to remove
4Sseyery possible impediment to the cleavage OF
the air. Every stick of wood before being
placed In the furnaces was dipped into tar,pltch
and turpentine, and in addition to this on the
NatchtZ hose was attached to tank OF lard
aoil, and tho wood soaked also with it 50 as to
@@aid combustion. Bargcs with wood and coal
Eere stationed IN mid stream, and the great
Iteamers took from them their supplies Of fue
Fith the shortest possible stoppape.
# The people Aocked To the river banks from
miles back in the country to witness the passage
sol the steamers At Memphis business actua
ss& came to stand still and the bluffs in iron,
et the city were crowded with spectators. Al
louisville, Cincinnati and st. Louis betting OF
khe result was the main business transacted OF
Change and in the business houses.
s8ss ss The rash and dangerous trial is over, fortu
{ alately, without any accident, but as TO thos
persons who risk their lives in such way
may be said that fools rush 10 where angels
sSear to tread Nobody is any better off b
he result except the gamblers who stsked thei
honey upon the Baltimore Ameri:an