Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
40 sho,o the ve,y age and body Of the Ia"

A conflict has arisen between the two houses
of the Prussan Diet on bill providing for
local self government in the rural districts. 1t
has passed the Deputies, but is meeting with
the most determined opposition from the Lords.
A majority of the Deputies have threatened to
resign if the Upper House persists in its refusal
10 pass the bill, and the Emperor has declared
iu favor of it, The Emperor insists that the
Lords shall end the matter by passing the
measure.
At the points where the horse disease entered
the United States-the Lake clties-the plague
is decreasing, but while it grows less there it is
extending southwark New York still suffers
so much that all business requiring the use OF
horsefesh is partially suspended. Phlladel-
phia got the disease yesterday, aud it is proba-
BILE that it has made its appearance in Baltl-
more.
President Grant replies to an inquiry from
Mr.. George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, that
he does not propose to change the Indian poll
cy of the Government unless 1t be on the the
humanitarian side of the question. lie says:
Il do not believe that our Creator ever placed
different races of men on this earth with view
of having the stronger exert all the energies Ill
extermnating the weaker.
The races we're resumed at Pimlico near Bal
timore, yesterday but the rains had cut up the
track to such an extent that there was no fast
time made, if We may except mile IN l:3G!.
| Monarchist was not entered for the Bowie
Stakes, which were carried off by Colonel Nc
Daniels Tubman.
Italy is suffering from the raVages of flood
and tempest. The inundation of the Pc river
covers miles of country, the land is submerged
and the people driven from their homes A
great cyclone has swept through Syracuse, and
more than thirty persons we're buried beneath
the ruins of falling houses.
The torers of Liverpool were intensely exct-
ed on Sunday evening by the enforcement Of
a law requiring the saloons to be closed at niue
o'clock. They vented their indignation by
riotous talk and noisy demonstrations, which
the police quoted when they became excessive.
All the estimates from the various Depart
ments of the Government have been received
at the Treasury, and are now being classified for
the Committee on Appropriations Of the House.
The deficiency estimates for this year are not
more than half as large as those OF last year.
The Boletine Official, of Monterey, announ-
ces the appointment, by the Government, OF a
frontier commission to visit the Rio Grande
and Investigate the charges against Mexican
officials of completely in cattle stealing on the
Texas border.
The Giornae di Roma, of yesterday, says, in
regard to Cardinal Cullen visit to Rome, that
his mission to the Holy See was to urge the
Pope to move in behalf of the Catholic clergy
of Galway 1t says that the Pope peremptori-
| IL refuses tO interfere
A letter from St. John reports that the pc.
tato crop of Newfoundland is to great extent,
destroyed by blight, and that the cod fishery will
certainly not be more than twothlrds OF last
year.
A Paris dispatch says that the Cure of Hova
villiers has written a letter to the Bishop Of
Versailles rejecting the decision of the Ecumi-
meal Council with regard to the inabillty OF
the Pope.
The quays at Havre are reported to be
crowded with vessels bound for the United
States. Shipowners refuse to let them sail in
consequence OF the ten per cent. increase OF
duty on exports in French bottoms.
Ia New York yesterday Minister Washburne
was presented by the German Americans with
an address of thanks for his services in behalf
of the German residents of Paris during the
recent war.
At session of the Board of Missions of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New York city,
Yesterday, Bishop Smith, of Kentucky rresid-
ed, and made an address.
President Theirs has been the recipient of a
congratulatory message from President Grant
upon the progress of Republication among the
French
The Government had about $l04 ,000,0 in
the Treasury at the close of bushes yesterday,
of which S777I,000,00O we're in coin.
King Victor Emmanuel reviewed his feet at
Naples yesterday.
The census Of Vienna shows population of
900000
The prosecution yesterday closed their case
in the trial of Mayor Hall Of New York.
LEAVING VIRGINIA. Marion County
Patriot and Herald says: Several families
have left this county recently, seeking new
homes and better fields in the South and West,
and number of others are preparing to emf
crate during the coming winter and spring "
The Rock bridge Citizen also mentions num-
Der of families moving from that region Of Mis-
souri, and other parts Of the West. 1t is use
less to replne at this natural exodus, tor how
ever much we may desire that our people
should remain with US, the restless DISPOSE
tiou of our semi-nomdic race will carry them
still on, until they reach "farthest thule. -
The best we can do is to seek othtrs to fill their
places From the earliest days of our settle
ment in America we have had feverish dispo-
sition to continue on towards the setting sun,
and the movement of population has been con-
slant iu that direction. The older States. such
as Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Mary
land and the New England communities have
furnished the pioneers in this advance of civil
lization and the places of those W 10 went forth
to subdue the wilderness have been filled by
new arrivals from abroad We cannot prevent
our young men from goiog west to seek their
fortunes and make new homes, but we can Eli
j their places by attracting people from other
States and other lands And this we must do,
if we would not see Virginia gradually depopu-