Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-12-28
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2s, 1870

WEDNESDAY,, DECEMBHh 70, 1911
EUROPEAN NEws.-The battle near Amiens
on the 23l is claimed by dispatch from King
William to have been German victory, Gen.
Msnteuffel capturing 200 prisoners and pur
suing the French in the direction Of Lille.
General Faidherbe, the French commander,
makes directly opposite statement IN his 70
port 10 the Government at Bordeaux. In which
he says that the fight continued all day, and at
it's close the French success was complete.
Other reports received a: Bordeaux state that
the result was indecisive, which is probably
about the truth. The Germans have seized
and sunk six English ships which were lying
in the Seine below Rouen. The act caused
great indignation at London and throughout
England There has been no recent lighting
near Paris, and nothing important from the
Army OF the Loire. The bombardment has
been commenced on the eastern side OF the
capital. -, ~,
A dispatch from Versailles OF the 23d says
that scheme to assassinate the klng, Won
Moltke and Bismarck was discovered there
few DAYS ago. A number CT strangers arrived
in the city on Wednesday, when the gates we're
closed and the citizens ordered to remain in
their houses on pain of death. The patrols
then searched every place, and arrested two
hundred persons, of whom seventy were armed
with guns and pistols.
On Christmas afternoon the working parties
from the opposite ends Of tie Mont Gems tun-
mel were within hearing of each other, and on
Monday the last barrier of rock was cut
through and the parties met Mont Cepis IS
one of the highest peaks Of the Alps, and lies
between Savoy, France, and Piedmont, Italy.
The tunnel was commenced by the late En-
peror when he was at the height of his power
and popularity, and now the immense work is
ced by railroad through the tunnel, to the
great benefit Of travel and commerce.
The late catastrophe in Richmond calls to
mind the burning OF the theatre on the Goth Of
December, 1911, when seventy victims, iuclud-
Jog the Governor Of Virginia, persisted in the
flames the confagration which laid waste SO
large portion of the town in 1865, just before
the end of the war; the fall Of bridge in
1869 the loss of fifty six lives at the fall of
part of the Capitol, and the destruction of
property by the food, during the present year.
The heroic endurance of the people OF Rich
naeNd uuaor all their affiliations merits DO less
sympatby than admiration.
Gov. Holders impeachment by the North
Carolina Legislature is to be urged as reason
for refusing general amnesty. For instance,
the New York Herald "fears' that by the
election OF Vance and the i'm impeachment OF do
den general amnesty 10 Congress has been
kuocke 10 the head" and the same paper
finds, that General Grant, "a man OF very
generous 10 ,liua,ions'' now thinks that it is 100
soon yet for general amnesty.
". Nj. Tweed, the great New York city
democratic leader, has sent note, With
check for fifty thousand dollars, to Mr. j.
Shapdley, to be distributed Through lew
earpes. aud practical citizens among the poor
Of the seventh ward OF New York. Sheriff
O'Bren has just given 4 900 tons OF coal to re
twenty rst wsfa3 81 1. sh' poor people OF the
The Dtw Georgia Legislature, democratic, J
to assemble Oh the first Monday in January,
will elect another United States Senator to fill
the vacancy which will occur on the 81 of
March next. This makes eight Senators
elected by the various Legislatures of that
State, seven of whom are still in the position,
nominsy, of claimants Tor admission 10 seat
Georgia is conceded by the Radicals to have
gone for the Democrats by thirty FIVE or forty
thousand majority. Five Democratic Con.
gressmen are certainly elected with the chances
in favor Of six. So far but two Radical Sena
to:s-both coiored-bave been elected. All
the returns indicate that the Democratic gains
were even heavier than was expected.
The old scheme for dividing Tennessee into
two States has been revived. Several rcsoIu-
lions have been offered in the State Legisa-
ture looking to this end. Two of them pro-
pose the establishment of the State of Frank.
land out of East Tennessee, and the third one
proposes that portion of East Tennessee east
Of the Tennessee river.
The latest reports from Florida gives Nibiack,
the Democratic candidate for Congress- 212
majority, and Bloxham, the Democratic candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor, SO. The Senate
will stand twelve Democrats and twelve Radi.
Gals, but the Democrats will have majority in
the House of Representatives.
tits understood that General Logan, of Hi
nois, has prepared a full aud elaborate speech
in opposition to San Domingo annexation,
which he will take an early opportunity to
deliver on the floor OF the House of Represen
tatives
Iii reported that General Grant has written
letter releasing the federal officers of re-
straint, and allowing them to express their
opinions" and preferences for Senatorial candi.
dates in Illinois. All
''The New York and London Direct Tele-
graph Com pany" is projected, and meeting
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