Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-07-25

cd, so far as numbers and military resources
70, the actual fighting men OF the two sides
being set dowo, for all practical purposes, about
the same numerically One Of the most curious
parallels between the contending powers is in
the ages of the principal generals, nearly all
being between sixty and seventy years Old, and
therefore may be supposed to possess about
equal experience, GOODNESS and warness.
A dispatch from Washington states that the
Navy Department will, in few days, send three
additional III oniors to the West Iudies. The
government Of Venezuela having persistantly
refused to comply with the terms Of the con-
venton between that country and the United
States for the settlement OF the claims OF
American citizens against that government. the
President has directed that the United States
steamer Narraganset be sent to Fenezuea TO
enforce the collection Of the claims.
The reports relative to the massacre OF
foreigners in China are confirmed by recent
dispatches from Pekin, which assert that the
first accounts were not exaggerated, ana that
tho affair was conducted with the utmost com
pleteness of Asiatic bsrbarity. Neither age nor
sex were spared, and fire Was used to SWEEP.
way the victims with the marks of the
slaughter.
1t is said upon good authority that it is
not the intention of the President to take any
official notice OF the war in Europe by procla
nation until after hostilities shall have com
menced on large scale, At a recent meeting
Of the Cabinet there was an interchange OF
views, and this course was sanctioned by the
opinion informally expressed) OF all who We're
present.
1t is rumored among diplomatic circles in
Washington, that the su ccessor Of N. Par
ad0I, the late French Minister to Washington,
will probably be Vieomte Treilhard, at present
the French representative to Chill. VI. Trell'
hard is we'll known 10 Washington having
acted as French Charge dAfaires 10 this
country in 1862.
The Boston Traveller, utters remon'
STRANGE against what it terms 'tho REVEALING
custom OF ministers leaving their parishes ut.
terly uncsred for during the most sckly season
of the year." But minister's are on'y mortal,
after all, and need recreation like other people;
and hot weather or any other slight cause keep
people away from church.
The New York Journal Of Commerce de-
plores the attempt being made in some parts
Of the country. TO make locll political capital
out of the troubles 10 Europe, by seeking to
Aatter Germans or French, in order to catch
the votes of either by profession Of sympathy
for one or the other side.
A special dispatch from Washington states
that the Postofics Department viii put into
operation on the 1st Of August three hundred
and eighty.eight additional money order offices;
among them the following in Virginia.: Cul.
pepper Court House, Eastvic, Gordonsvie,
Manassas, Smith6ed aud Suffolk.
Meetings are to be held in the various coua-
ties OF the State at August Court, for the pur-
pose Of re- organizing the Conservative party.
the appointment of good active and trust
worthy county superintendents is matter of
much importance
1t being expected that new election will be
ordered in Richmond shortly, notwithstanding
Il desire on the part of some, that new candi.
dates should be nominated, there is strong
feeling that the old candidates should fight it
over again.
Usually in European wars. "Thc Fair Land
OF Poland looks upon the crisis as her oppor
tunity, but We suppose whatever may be the
result of the present confess she will remain
the same down trodden victim Of tyranny and
oppression.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
circular to collectors and others announcing the
repeal OF the tonnage tax on vessels engaged
in the coastng trade and fisheries, and of the
special internal revenue tax on boats, barges
and flats.
iIr. d. D. Fiske, formerly the editor OF tho
Portsmouth Transcript and at one time Mayor
of that city, died in Portsmouth on Friday.
Mr.. Fiske's paper, the Transcript, was stop-
ped at the breaking out Of the war.
The fare ut some Of the watering places is
coming dowo; that at the Sweet Springs hav
inv been reduced to So SO day, which is am
Die, all things taken into consideration.
Humphrey Marshall announces himself a
for Congress in the fifth Kentucky
district The democratic majority in that dis
trict iu 1868 was some thirteen thousand.