Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-26
VOL. LXXIV.
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
K. Osgood & Co., of Boston, proposing to
reIingush the business Of magazine publishing
have sold their periodicals, the Atlantic Month
X and Every Saturday. to Mcssrs Hurd (;
Iloughtou. of New York, and Messrs Fl. D.
IIoughton & Co., of the Riverside Press; and
Our Young Folks to Messrs Scrbuer & Co.,
.! New York, publishers Of the new juvenile,
s! Nicholas.
Il is now stated that the most experienced
detectives in the New York police department
are OF the opinion that the confession which
Irving has made touching the Nathan murder
is Il fabrication from beginning to end, and that
the motive that prompted it was as at first con.
j,ctuscd merely to procure for himself free
passage from San Francisco to New York.
The conflict of the Prussian Government
with the Roman Catholic Episcopate is carried
On vigorously. Last week, acting under de-
cree OF the Court, the turoiture of an Arch bishop
was seized. Not content with this the Gov
.rrmrnt holds France to account for the action
Il the Bishop of Nancy for ordering prayers
jor the recovery Of Metz and Strasbourg.
Tie statement has recently been published
that ex President Andrew johnson lately re-
c,iycl patent for ombnation plane. 1t is
Incorrect. One Andrew Johnsou, of San Fran
c<co. recently made application for patent
for such an invention, and this circumstance
probably accounts for the statement referred to
above.
Now that the ''javeln of Justice has pier.
ia Tweed, it meuaces others of the ring OF
which he was the chief The trial of Iugersoll
and FarrDgtun for perjury in the third degree
was begun yesterday 10 New York before
Judge Davis, who so ably presided over the
Tweed trial,
The report of the Congressional Printer, A.
VI. Clapp, gives statement of the workings OF
that ofie and declares that its facilities are SO
extensive that it can undertake to publish the
debates aud proceedings of Congress upon each
succeeding morning, which, it is claimed, will
make saving.
The colored people al Memphis did not suf-
FIR from the yellow fever in the same proper.
ton as the white. SoTe of those who were
stricken by the pestilence died; but the ma
j'rty recovered.
VIEWS OF HENRY A. WISE -Ex- Governor
IIenry A. WISE Of Virginia, in conversation at
Richmond, regarding the case Of the Firgnius,
is reported to have said:
| have not the least feeling of excitement on
the sui ject to sway my judgment at all. The
Virginlus was, presume. either inimicus or
hostis in her attitude toward Spain, or was an
innocent neutral, under some national fag l
can hardly see how she could have been an
enemy iu any sense of public law; it she was,
that law justified her capture on the high seas,
but not the execution OF the prisoners captured
on board of her. If she was in the character OF
ht SITS, according to that law she was pirate un-
der any aag she might falsely sail under, and
was liable to capture; on the high seas oy any
power, and even within marine league OF any
shore, while hotly pursued, and all on board OF
her, particeps crimuis, were liable to trial and
execution for piracy. But if she was, bona
fide, commercial vessel, under the flag of the
United States, according to their laws, and was
not attempting to land troops 10 Cuba to wage
hos,ililies against Spain, sailing towards Cuba
with known rebels against Span on board, and
also with arms aud munitions of war on board,
provided to overthrow the viceroyal goverDmet
of Spain in Cuba, then her case calls for the
sovereign tone Even then, though, it requires
to be fully heard and considered, and all peacea-
blc mcaus of redress must be cxerted before re-
sort to war withSpain can be justified. With these
views [ think the excitement at present is pre-
mature Let Us all wait to be better Informed,
and for the action of our own Executive and
Congress. By this time we have SO waited,
the case will have been but nine days woud-
cr. People who have tretted themselves into
frerzy will, perhaps, when the whole facts
are known, and time is taken for cool reflection,
feel rather simple Is it not time to stop all
flibustering? Aud, if Cuba, is to be acquired,
WILL it not be well to obtain the good will OF
Spain and secure the key of the Antilles by
purchase rather than by arms? | would glad
iv see the United States get that Golden
Key" but war, just now would be very de-
moralizing to the Uuited States | advise,
keep peace
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROADS.
--Cu. hos \. Scott has arrived IN this city.
He was at the interior Department this morn