Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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J. D. Werles, State Librarian, and W. 81.
Furniss, County Clerk, in Mississippi. were
yesterday arrested on affidavit of Gov. Alcorn,
charged with stealing seventy.6ve volumes Of
State reports from the Office of the Secretary
of State. The testimony indicates that Furniss
furnished the books to Werles, twenty five
volumes of which were to be sent to Jno. Nj.
Langston, Of the Howard University. and the
rest to be divided between Weres and Furniss
The parties are held 10 $1,000 bond EACH
They are both from the State of Ohio.
A special order of the War Department au
thorizes general court martial to convene on
the 2Oth at West Point, Of which Gen. O. 0.
Howard is named as president. to try Cadets
James w. Smith, colored, John W. Wilson,
VIM. S. Davis and Geo. q. Hoyle, of the Uni.
ted States Military Academy. Smith men.
toned above is the colored cadet who lately
preferred charges of i'll treatment from white
cadets.
Fifty. one Indians of the Winuebago tribe
were naturalized in St. Paul yesterday. Their
object is to obtain title, under Homestead
law, in severalty to lands they now occupy 10
common. One Of the Indians is named David
Twiggs, and is son of the late Gen. David
Twggs, formerly OF the u. s. army, and after.
wards of the Confederate army.
A mob of people, of Wall street, jeered and
Kissed at Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker, in Broad
street, New York, on Wednesday, Mrs
Walkers sex seemed to be no equivalent fol
protection against insult, because OF her boomel
costume.
A man named Kern. who was concerned ir
robbipg one of Adams & Co., express cars
in Pocahontas county, Va, and then made hi:
escape, has been followed to Michigan, re
arrested there, and brought back to Virginia
Letter from Richmond.
Correspondents of the Alexandria Gazette
RICHMOND, Ocs. l3.-The sole, sad topic
here to day, is the death Of the good genera
Lee-good as he was great-great as he wa:
good. "All eulogy is imperiinence +; naught i:
lett but to ming|o our silent sorrow with the
sadness that is universal mono name him
but in praise.
The mourniul intelligence of the death Of
the great chieftian was communicated to the
Legislature Immediately upon its assembling,
at noon, by the Governor, in we'll conceived
and very appropriately written message, where
| upon suitable and expressive resolutions were
duUpCtu, duu pOlu uOuSeS "ltuOul
transacting any business.
In the House of Delegates Rev. MIR. Ed.
wards of the NJ. f. Church, South, opened
the proceedings with beautiful and appro-
pirate prayer.
Mr.. Kelley in presenting the joint resolu
tons prefaced their introduction with the fol.
lowing remarks:
"A sigh and sob of grief thrills the COM
mon heart to day as tho sad news flashes
| athwart the earth that Robert Edward Lee is
| dead. 10 the presence of such grief and such
cause of grief, all eulogy is impertinence.
| Naught is left but to add our silent sorrow to
the sadness which is universal. Men will pause
| to.day in all their works and ways, as each
| whispers to another, with trembling lip and
fearful eye, the melancholy story; and the
wave of mourning which rises amid the noun.
tains OF Virginia, will pause not nor subside
till it reachel the utmost limit of civilization.
And if all who honor the great and good viii
grleve, how much more we who have lost our
| own. The worlds sorrow, is our anguish.
The world loses an heroic namc-a marvellous
example. Virginia bends in woe that is un.
utterable, over her noblest child"
All places of business wero closed and many
private houses were draped in mourning flags
were at half mast, and the solemn tolllng OF
the bells has been heard all day. Everywhere
appropriate tribute is paid the memory of the
dead.
Judge Cox, recently nominated for Congress
by the Conservatives of this district, has de-
clined the nomination on the ground of ILL.,
health. His successor will probably be Col.
Albert Ordway.
Messrs. Barbour and Walker were before
the Police Justice this morning, and it appear.
ing from the evidence that no hostile meeting
was contemplated as charged in the warrant
for their arrest the parties to the difficulty
were discharged.