Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-15
NEWS OF THE Uil,.
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A duel was fought in St. Louis, yesterday,
between Major Henry Keith, on the reportorlal
staff of the st. Louis Times, and Captain L. ..
fun, who is said to have once served IN the
French army. The weapons wcro cavalry sa.
brcs. Major Keith received slight wound on
the forehead and tritling cut on tho hand.
One OF Captain Vans eyes was put out by
thrust from sabre. The whole affair is in
volved in mystery.
The President yesterday sent to tho Senate
correspondence between Secretary Fish and
General Sicklcs upon tho subject of slavery in
Cuba. The Secretary expresses tho earnest
wish OF our Government that an immediate
emancipation Of tho slaves in Cuba may be de-
creed 10 Spain, and the reply OF Gen. Sckles
gives the action that has been taken by the
| Spanish Cortes.
Gen. Pitcher, Superintendent OF West Point
| Academy. says that the allegations OF Cadet
Smith, the colorcd cadet at that institution,
relative to insulting treatment, although not
without foundation, have been greatly cxag'
gcrated. but now q better feeling exists SEQ
rotary Belknap has ordered court OF inquiry
to investigate the whole affair.
a despatch from st. Louis says: On Tues.
| day last black man outraged white girl.
| The citizens took him from Jail and hung him.
| Yesterday another black man insultcd Mrs
| Crawford. living four miles f;om Scdaa, dur.
ing her husbands absence Mr.. Crawford,
with b!oodhounds, is now on his trail.
| A velg ingenious trick, by which gang OF
sWindlcra are making money by mutilating,
national bank notes OF the donominatlon OF
| five dollc-s, has recently como out. The
dodge consists in making ten bills out OF nine,
and is so managed that there is but one past
| ing to each of the mani, 'acturcd notes.
The President yesterday nominated l.. A.
Frelinghuyscn to be Minister to England, vice
| j. Lathrop, Motley, removed The nomina.
ton of Peter Ncgley, Of Hagerstown. Mary
| land, to lc Assistant Treasurer OF tho u. 5. at
| Baltimore, was confirmed.
Gen. Starr, recently convicted of violating
the ncutra lily laws in the recent Fenian raid
| into Canada, was yesterday sentenced to 2 years
Imprisonment in the Auburn Jail, and to pay
| a fine Of $40 Several other Fcnian leaders
| were also sentenced to Imprisonment.
A report Of yesterdays proceedings at tho
National Camp Meeting at Darlington gives the
nomcs of large number OF eminent Methodist
cergymcn in attendance. The proceedings OF
yesterday were interesting and impressive. The
attendance is very large.
Yesterday special | unani .nously passed
both Houses of Congress tor the removal OF
the poFticll disabilities OF Major General
George II. Bier, Adjutant General of Mary.
land. General R;crs friends say that he is
thoroughly Reconstructed.
A special despatch to the Baltimore Gazette
says that private dispatches rom Paris to
| New York have been received, stating that
negotiations have been broken off. Much OK
element in gold and stocks has naturally
| followed.
1t is reported by the latest intelligence that
| several OF the great wheat growing districts OF
Russia exhibit signs OF short and backward
harvest, in consequence of the cold spring,
followed by drought.
On Wednesday evening one of the most fear
| full storms which ever visited Canada swept
over Montreal. A large number of buildings
we're utterly destroyed and hundreds damaged.
There is great excitement in tho city.
At New York yesterday there were fifteen
proposals for SIS, 43G. 900 FiVc.twenty bonds;
tho highest bid was $ll0.Cl, and tho lowest
$lOS,75. The award will DO $2,O0O,OOO at
$l09.4j.
Yesterday train on the Nashville and Deca'
| tur Railroad fell through bridge near Lynn
vile, Tennessee, into the stream below One
jured.
Reports have been received from several
points in the Indian Territory, at Washington,
which arc of u favorable character The
Indians apokcn of arc reacca5le, and industrl-
Gus.
Tho crop reports from North Alabama and
Arkansas arc unusually favorable. The corn
and cotton are both remarkably good. West
Ia hn I'M, fuU
The practice of Kentucky distllery hands OF
bathing after working hours in the watts OF
whiskcy not only rclreshcs and cIeanses the
men, but adds to the body of the liquor.
Neil Mclaughlin, one of the party attempt
ing to assassinate Revenue Officer Brooks, OF
Philadelphia, died in the Pennsylvania Peni.
tertiary, yesterday.
Z. L. Forney, son OF John w. Forney. who
had q leg crushed on the Pontchartrain Rail
road on the Sth inst, died Of lock .aw in New
Orleans, yesterday.
"A New York paper has the news OF the
successful landing OF another expedition IN
Cuba
The Orangemen in New York have deter
mined to hold another pic mic in August, and
will call on the authorities to protect them.
Adviccs from China state that Tan. Tang
Slang, one Of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs,
is dead.
Somebody says ice water is attening; but it
is expensive material to get TAT upon just now
There is movement on foot to substitute
iron for wooden craft on the Western rivers.
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS, who persisted on the
u. s. steamer Oneida, in the faithful perform.
ancc of his duty, has, it is stated, lett three
children who were entirely dependent upon bis
salary for their education and support. OF tho
sum of ten thousand dollars which Captain Il.
B. Forbes undertook to collect for these desti.
tutc orphans, over six thousand dollars have
been raised. MRS. Lincoln has just been pen
rionnd-uhu moi liant Williams' famiIu2