Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-24
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
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| held Lodge of Sorrow 10 Inc !uil
Degree last night in the Metropolitan EnurGh
| in Washington in memory OF b. ID; rtencns
G rand Commander OF the Supreme GounelI OF
the Thirty-third Degree for the ooutnefn us
trict of the United States. There was large
,ttondcnco Of Masons, with ladies and chosen
friends. Albert Pike and Albert G.. Mackey
Irlivered eulogies, and there was music by the
Germania Mannerchor OF Baltimore.
About three hundred negroes broke open the
Jail at Louisville Jefferson county, Georgia. on
Sunday. and released the prisoners. The
Sheriff was sent to Atlanta tor troops, which
reached the scene of riot yesterday. Some OF the
leaders were arrested. The rioters threatened
to burn Louisville and take vengeance on the
whites, but prompt action of tie citizens pre-
vented it. The difficulty is said to have orisi-
mated in the arrest and Imprisonment OF ne
gro for the shooting OF mule.
Vienna lost one of it's most prominent and
popular men on the afternoon on the I'D OF
July, the famous composer of dancing music,
Joseph Strauss. He was born On the 22d OF
August 1927, in capital Of Austria, and died
not quite forty three years OF age. be lelt
more than three hundred compositions, mostly
| waltzes and other dances, and has besides, or,
ranged more than two hundred pieces for the
orchestra.
An attempt was made by the ultra Republl-
cans u the French Corps Leglsatlt yesterday
to add nine Of its mem ber5 to the Committee
of Defence, which would virtually give the con
troll of Paris to the Chamber The hrmness OF
Count Palikao in resisting the proposition
seems to have prevented any action being tax
en- on the subject. but the matter is to be decld-
cd to day.
The steamer Pereire, which arrived at New
York on Monday, from Havre and Brest.
brought back many American families who had
intended to stay there until late in the autumn,
had not the war broken out. Not few OF
these families had children at the schools.
most Of which they say are now broken up, the
buildings having been taken for hospita! pur
poses.
Judge Brooks yesterday. in the case OF the
North Carolina arrests, discharged eighteen
more prisoners. Kirk sent them into Cou.t
with an armed guard, which was promptly or
armed soldiers would be allowed 10 his court i;
that when he wanted them he would ask for
them. Kirk Lieutenant is under arrest.
The German regular army in France, it is
reported, has been thoroughly reorganlzed since
the recent battles, and is divided into thlr'
teen army corps numbering 500, 1000 men,
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Lorraine to invest and occupy places IN the
rear and relieve the regular troops Of those
duties.
Fire is raging in the mountains OF West
Point, and large quantity Of standing timber
and cord wood has already been consumed. ln
nearly all the counties along the Hudson river
fires ore raging, and 50 dense is the atmosphere
With smoke that vessels find navigation diff
cult.
Samuel Sheabarger was yesterday nomina'
ted as Republican candidate for Congress from
one VI tic Ohio districts. -Four years ago he
The present member is James j. Winans,
Radical.
The prussian war vessel Hertha has been
captured by the French feet. She was q
wooden corvette Of twenty eight guns, which
formerly belonged to Denmark and was cap
tured by Prussia.
Archbishop NcCloskey arrived at New y ork
on Monday, from Rome, in the steamship
Percre. lie vas accompanied by Father
McNierncy, his secretary, and number OF
clergymen.
Instructions have been issued by the Navy
from hIinsin. from foreign ports unnecessary
quantities Of dutable articles ostensibly tor
private use.
Fx.President Fillmore, President, and
Charles NJ Thruston, Secretary, have issued a
formal cali for the Southern Commercial Con-
vention to convene 10 Cincinnati next October.
The Spanish officials in Cuba CLAIM series
oil contests with small bodies Of the Insurgents,
defeating them in each. Ali the prisoners
were immediat ely executed.
II, bn 70 ho OF
up and low down.
ABOUT WHEAT. -Complaint is again rife on
a subject which we have already brought to
our readers notice, the bad condition Ct much
OF the wheat brought to our Virginia market
from points west OF US. Millers, buying to grind
and merchants buying for shipment constitute
the market for all the grain that seeks us
Both these classes alike are governed by the
quality of the article, and to both alike the
trustwotbiness of the sample and the uetormi.
ty Of lots offered are of the greatest Importance.
1t will cost the farmer much less to put his
grain into a c.eaD ard mcrchantable shape,
than to pay the miiier to do SO by suffering o
material dminution in the price paid. And
the shipper Of large lots must lose on them 1t
he does not separate into grades the varieties OF
which his shipment consist. By SO doing he
eau Set tNo iu1!hCl pllCC iOl GULL SlouS' IL
be ships it in an indiscriminate mass, he must
expect to lose on his good grain and can make
nothing on bis worst. This is matter really
of the first Importance to the trade and we
hope that it will be in future better attended
to by shippers, to the turtherance OF their own
interests and to tho benefit of our home mar
kets. Petersburg Mder.
PILoTAGE-Some days ago Mr.. Baldwin,
the Vice Consul OF Brazil, laid before the
Chamber Of Commerce statement showing
that large quantities of -four were being ship.
ped from the city via the lower Potomac route
for Baltimore for shipment thence to Rio,
instead of being sent by vessels to that destina-
ton direct from this port, and that this fact
was owing to the pilot and other charges, the
former particularly being so heavy that cap.
tains O! vessels refuse to come here.
There is no doubt but it is OF much impor::