Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-27
NEWS OF THE DA \.
"7o sho,o the very age and body of the Tan

There was duel fought just over the Mis-
sssppi line, few miles below Memphis, at
sunrise yesterday morning, between Msio I'D.
Freeman, young merchant and Nlr. IL
Edward Hamlin, young lawyer, both OF that
place. with DerrInger pistols at fifteen PAGES.
Both fired simultaneously. MIR. Hamhn was
shot through the body, and died in ten min
u,es. The affair has caused great excitement,
as the parties were well known and highly re.
spected.
Two men, masked and otherwise disguised,
entered the United States express car OF the
| SCOTS Station, about seven miles west OF JET
terson City. made a furious onslaught on
the messenger, and gagged him. They then
robbed his safe of $40 800 in money, and as the
train approached Jefferson City jumped off and
escaped.
\ dispatch from the Alleghapy Springs,
| Va, states that vote of sympathy upon the
issue of the Franco russian war was taken
| there, in which much feeling was manifested
| by visitors from all parts of the Union. At
| the co>e Of the polls the vote stood two to one
10 favor of France. Generals Beauregard and
Hardee voting on the side OF France.
A test case, under the law of Congress, pro
viding tor the enforcement OF the Fifteenth
Amendment, is to be tried, before Judge Bond,
at Martinsburg W. Va, Oh Monday next; one
of the Registers Of Voters 10 that State having
been arrested by United States Commissioner
on the charge of violating the provisions OF the
law.
General Ryan, the Cuban leader, was ar
rested in New I o1h, justsas he was leaving for
Long Branch, yesterday on the charge OF having
resisted United States officers when previously
10 custody, and for violation of the neutrality
laws.
Rear Admiral Goldsborough, it is believed,
| will receive the appointment OF Vice Admiral,
| to fill tie vacancy occasioned by the promotion
of Admiral Porter. The latter it is stated will
remain at the Navy Department.
The Panama and West India telegraph cable
has been completed to Santiago, and now
| awaits the laying of the shore communications.
Mr.. T. NJ. Clarke, special agent Of the Pen
sion office, has been sent to Tennessee to assist
in the prosecution Of Il. K. Butler tor forgery.
EUROPEAN WAR IrEMs.-A writer 10 the
New York Times from Paris, regards the mill
| tary prospects of France moro certain now
than at any time since tho commencement of
tn campaign, and that the strategic combina.
tions can scarcely fail Of success.
A dispatch from London states that King
| William had left force to carry on the siege
of Metz and had Joined the Crown Prince
that Mcmahon has abandoned Rheims as well
as Chalous.
| From Paris there is contradiction OF the
! report sent cut on Thursday that battle had
| been fought near Epernay, on that day.
| A severe artillery fight is said to have occur.
red at Strasbourg on Wednesday night
| In Paris there were rumors yesterday of
fighting going on, but nothing authentic could
be obtained.
Many arrests continue to be made in Paris
by the police among them a number of
''strange women"
1t was formally announced yesterday TO the
French Chambers by the Minister OF the To-
| terror that the army of the Crown Prince,
which had paused had recommended its march
upon Paris.
| The U. s. Minister at Paris has received
| offers from Berlin of further means for the
| support of Germans expelled from Paris.
Provincial journals say that the Prussians
| increase the anger of the French people by des-
ecratiDg the churches-in one place profaning
| the statue of the Virgin.
PRAYER FOR PEACE Bishop OF Lon
don: as provincial Dean Of Canterbury, has for.
<warded to the bishops of the province of Can
terbury form prayer which he and the
Archbishop of Canterbury have agreed to re-
commend as help to private devotion during
the continuance OF the present war. The form
| recommended is as follows:
O,Aimighty God, King of all kings whose
power no creature is able to resist, to whom it
belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be
mercitul to them that truly repent ; assuage,
we besecch Thee, the horrors of this
war. which Thou hast permitted to break forth
in Europe; restrain the passions of the comba-
tauts inspire the conquerers with mercy, and
the vanquished with submission to Thy will
give patience to all who suffer; prepare for the
summons those who are called to die and set
to this warfare bounds which it may not pass.
We pray, Thee, 0 God, speedily grant peace
to the nations, and so overrule, in Thy good
providence, the course of all events, that our
present anxleties may end in the spread of
righteousness, enlightenment and true liberty, |
and thus Thy Kingdom may at last be cstab
ished on earth. And this we pray through |
the merits and mediation of ,Jesns Christ. our |