Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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tmors Yesterday IN ic p esss St %n5 B1 ge
late assistant postmaster at Cumberland, Md
charged with eulbezziug public money to the
amount Of several thousand dollars, on trial for
several days. the jury came into court after be-
ported that they were unable to agree, and
were discharged.
The cholera shows nc signs Of abatmcnt at
Nashville Thirty deaths from the disease oc-
Cured yesterday. Great alarm prevails, and
there is considerable exodus from the
city. Ninety convicts in the penitcn-
tiary are down with the disease. Eleven
deaths from cholera in Memphis yesterday.
Two deaths, with symptoms resembling the
cholera, are reported at Cincinnati.
The Sioux Indians in Minnesota seem de-
termincd to prevent the surveying of the route
for the Northern Pacific Railway through their
like tribe, may give much trouble. On Tues
day, it is reported, they attacked a surveying
party, but were repulsed by the escort after
four of the Indians had been killed.
A Washington special says that official ad-
vices received by the Attorney General indi-
cate that Utah is in condition of legal anarchy
So far as a successful enforcement of the laws
is concerned, the Federal courts aud officers
might as well have no existence, as il is i'm
possible to obtain jury in either civil of crimi
nal cases.
The Admiralty Court of Cadiz has complet-
ed its investigation of the sinking Of the emil
grant ship Northhcet by the Spanish steamer
Murillo. A verdict was rendered severely
censuring the captain of the Murillo, and sus-
pending his certificate for nine months.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg report the
success of the Russian expedition against Xiii
van. Several engagements have occurred, in
which the khivanesc forces were defeated, and
at the last advices the head of the raiding
column was only twenty-five miles from khiva.
While the Modocs were being removed from
the peninsula at Tule Lake to Fort Klamath,
one of the Indians, known as Curly Headed
Jack, who surrendered with the Hot Greek
bands to General Davis, at Fairchild's rancho,
shot himself and has since died.
There is no doubt that John Gordon was the
murderer of his brothers family at Thorn dixie,
n Fl. The little boy who was wounded has
recovered sufficiently to give his evidence, and
states that his uncle struck him on the head
with an axe.
Wagner, the Isle of Shoals murderer, was
convicted yesterday at Alfred, Me-, of IN urder
in the first degree.
A CAPITAL ERROR 1t is a capital error
an error which it concerns the tax paying pub
lie to correct-that high pay secures the SER
vices Of the best men for public position. The
reverse, rather, is true, and tor the simple rea-
son that when the emoluments attached to
these positions are large, men are tempted to
secure them tor the sake of the emoluments
alone, regardless alike of the public interests to
be served, or their own fitness for the service.
Hence 1t is that our elections are often little
else than debasing scrambles for private gain,
from which the best men retire In disgust.
leaving the contest to the unworthy and incom
petent. For we hold it to be true that no man
is worthy to fill public position, more espe
cialy representative one-who is influenced
by no higher motive than the money to be
made out OF it.
Compare, for instance, the unpaid magis-
tracy of the oldcn time with the paid magis-
tracy Of the present day. We have many good
and capable Justices now, but no intelligent
man will deny that the magistracy as body is
inferior.
But the contrast is not so glazing in this in
stance as in the case of Congress. Take the
last Congress will any one pretend that that
Congress was equal in morality, ability, pa
triotism, or general responsibility to the Con
crosses Of thirty years ago. Winchester Times?