Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-11-09
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1870.

Loire, IN WulCu tuo IIussiaHS neIc oti'eu oN
With slight loss The town and Notifications
of Verdun have been surrendered to the Prus-
slams. A general battle commenced yesterday
near Orleans, of which no result is yet announc.
ed. The troops in Paris are divided into three
armies two of which are to operate outside OF
the wa ls. Garibaldi issues an address to bis
army urging them to 60 into the fight earnestly,
. and from bis headquarters it is announced that
tie army is to make forward movement from
Dole to-day. At the Festival OF San Carlo in
Rome yesterday the Pope intimated that by
the new year he will have resumed sll the su-
premacy be formerly possessed. Large
amounts of money are being sent to him as con-
tributions. In the Italian Parliament report
has been presented against making Rome the
CAPITAL of Italy before the death Of the Pope.
The ELECT1oNs.--A dispatch from New
York, dated last, night, s:-One hundred
and pinety-two districts outside the city show
a Democratic gain OF 4 904. The tour wards
of this city, so far reported, showa Democratic
loss of 2,lG4.
A dispatch from Wilmington (Del.) says -
Returps from the State show Republican gains
over the vote in 1868, but not sufficient to
change the result. Pouder, Democrat, for
Governor, has 500 majority, aud Biggs. tor
Congress. nearly the same.
We have, by this mornings papers, partial
returns from Kentucky, New jersey, Tonnes
Gee, &c., &c.. but they are Incomplete. Rhode
Island has gone for the Radicals. Whatever
additional news is received up to the hour of
going to press will be found under the postscript
head, among the telegrsphic dispatches.
The Richmond Wing says 1T is the duty
OF the Government to publish the laws OF Con
gress IN papers OF general circulation so that
the masses of the people may be inlorncd as
to their provisions and requirements. But the
custom is to publish them only in certain Rad
ical organs. The consequence, in the South,
is that very few of the peoplo have 'ne oppor
tuni,y OF becoming acquainted with them
There is 1.-THE enforcement act,' for Instance,
passed and approved in May last, which every
voter should have had the opportunity OF read
ing carefully, but which has only been publish
ed 10 some Radical papers. They paid Tor
it's publication as an advertisement. 1t the
Conservative papers publish it they have to do
SO at their own expense, and at u heavy ey-
pense.
Can't. Judkins, the veteran Commodore OF
Of the Cunard line Of transatlantic steamships
has teudrred his resignation, and will retire
from sea service after one more voyage IL the
Scotia, which sails this week. He has become
widely known and, respected in this country
and in England He has made between 400
and 500 voyages across the Atlantic, voyages
10 China, and voyage to the Black Sea With
French troops for the Crimean war. OF over
$4,000 passengers who have been under his
care, not one lite was lost. The following YES
sells have, at various times, been under bis com.
mand: Britannia, Acadia, Columbia, Hiber-
Liza. Cambria, America, Canada, Arabia, Per
Ella and Scotia.
A letter from Lexington, Va, to the Rich
mond Dispatch says that the family of Gen.
Lee have selected COL Charles Marshall, Of
Baltimore, to writ full biography Of the great
Chieitain, and will turn over to him ample
material, including that collected by Gen. Lee
himself, and his notes and letters of his cam
paigns. Coz. Marshall will also prepare the
Biographical sketch for the forthcoming Lee
Memorial. which the Faculty Of Washington
and Lee University are pushing forward to
completion. To his high literary attainmenss
Col. Marshall adds the qualification OF having
been Gen. Lees private secretary during the
war.
The Radical party haa had Iull control Of!
Congress for severa! years. The Nation, a
very able and extreme Radical organ, condemns
the legislation of the Republican party in the
following emphatic language: ut is tolersbly
clear that nobody ia tho Republican party looks
back to its performances in Congress during
the last two years with any pride or satisfae-
ton. Two years more of such helplessuess aud
ipcspacity, 10 the presence Of the questions OF
the day, would probably, even if nothing bet
ter turned up in tho interval, make even the
Democrats. With all their sins upon their heads,
acceptable to a majority Of the voters. !"
lhe Teue yeettHy entertained towards the
memory OF Gen. Lee, by the bitter Radicals, is
exhibited in the following from the Washing. |
ton Chronicle
n. =. Lee is to have statue in Richmond. |
The leader Of the rebel armies is to be cast in |
bronze or cut in stone. Future generations |
are to look upon his likeness, that treason may
be nurtured and live. He who merited trail
tor ae"th 90 the scaffold is to be honored as
8 dt n-god.'
We do not choose to comment upon this:
In the distribution Of the new National bank |
currency it is understood that the applications
from the South have yet amounted to only
of the share to which it is entitled.
The West has asked for little more than its
proper proportion. None has been sent East,
md the indications are that all proper requests