Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-30

las published statement TO the effect that
France four years ago offered to serd Prussia
500 600 men 10 use against Austria, if Prussia
would surrender to France the territory be-
tween the Rhine and the Mos,lc. The pro-
position was then rejected, but Napoleon has
repeated it since.
The board of managers of the National Asy
lum for DISABLED Volunteer Soldiers met at
the Eastern Brarch Asylum, near Augusta
Me. ca Monday Tho board determined TO
establish branch somewhere in tho South,
probably 10 the neighborhood ofNorfolk, Va,
and appointed committee TO carry the same
into effect before the coming winter
The Mayor of Fredericksburg has received
a communication from Culpeper. urging the
opening Of railroad from that point to con-
meet with the Gordonsvile road, near Wilder
ness tavern, L distance of about twenty Tour
miles, over thc route of the old Plank road
which is very nearly graded sufficiently to all.
nit of track laying at once.
On Thursday evening an outrage Was com
mitted upon little German girl in her parents
house in Baltimore. The inhuman criminal
vas arrested and committed to Jail to await
the action of Tie grand jury, the magistrate
refusing to take bai' While IN the custody OF
the officers he narrowly escaped being 1ncheo
By tie excited Hoyuac'.
Sir. p. {. Assilom, Il Portsmouth, Va,
has contracted Win Tue Treasury Department
nf the r.nova! ct he hui! OF the steamer
Florida Iron tie James river. near Newport
News, a.i has paid $500 for the same, and
given boatl OF indemnify in the SUN of $4,000
or the faithful tuiiilImcnt of his CONTRACT.
\ ,umitr Ct German shipping merchants
uI New Iclk, who arc citizens Of the United
STATES and owners offoreign built vessels, have
taken on, sea-ctterS TO sail the vessels they
own un;cr tho American flag, aud thus to
secure 10 certain extent the protection ct the
United States government.
Many G! TIC Republican papers censurc the
high handed meta Of Governor Holden, OF
North Caroline. and his military minion Kirk,
in !e!yi.. the constitution and dcnying the
writ @! iabcas corpus, and ia committing NJ.
merouS outraees upon the liberties o. the
rcol'c OF North Carolina.
The French cruisers have commenced to
lock Otter German merchantmen, and the lat
ter are rnoning into friendly ports for asylum.
The bark Meridian, from Philadelphia Tor Bre-
men, was o7erhauIcd by French man.of.w al
but wss y, rniit,ed to proceed.
The Paranen, oi Great Britain will adjourn
on the ]lth Of Angus, but in view Of the Jos
siblc ccn;it gerccs that may occur, Mr.. Glad
stone has proposed Till by whic! it may be
called together in six iastcsd of fourteen days,
as heretofore.
Newspaper correspondents find themselves
in no: water n the headquarters oil the French
army. Several were arrested as spies at Metz
yesterday, bat We're released after being warn.
cd TO keep away from the army 10 future.
The Post Office at Aqua Creek, Stafford
county, Va, has been discontinued BY order
OF the Postmaster General, and hereafter mai
matter for that place will 50 to Brooks Sta
ton.
There were shipped from Cumberland, over
tie g. & o. Ca nal, duIiog the week ending
the 23G, lG, SCI .05 tons Of coal, and over the
3. e. 0 r. K. for the same lime 1854 Is
tons.
tx Gov Wells, who was seriously injured
on the cc:a>i,n .! the ciplto! disaster at Rich.
mond, has greatly improved in health. He is
at Saratoga.
The tia. Of Fcnan officers charged with VIC
lating The neutrality laws is progressing at
Windsor. Vermont. General O'NeiIl and
Co'oncl Brown pleaded guilty.
At the Wesleyan General Conference 10 Lon
don yesterday Bishop Simpson presented the
credentials If the American Conference aud,
delivered al address.
General Sigel, while crossing Broadway on
Monday afternoon, between and 5 ciock,
vas run over by a one horse carriage, and two
Of his ribs were broken.
The London Times of yesterday comments
upfavorabiy on the removal Of MIR. Motley as
Minister to ENGLAND, and thinks it an instance
Of Republican tickencSs.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MEMBER OF
CONGRESS. Serious charges against member
of Congress from the South have been for a
long time pending in one of the bureaus of the |
Interior Department, and, having been tho |
roughly investigated, there has been found suf. |
ticent evidence to warrant the matter being
brought up for judicial Investigation. An of.
fee. of the bureau has been dispatched to the
locality, and should further examination sus.
tain the evidence already obtained, legal pro.
ceediDgs will at once be instituted The char
scs include having received money due to 9th.
er parties upon papers believed to have been