Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-22

TIE RECENT BLOODY AFFAIR IN LOUISIANA.
A letter from Washington TO the Baltimore
Sun says:
Mail adyices received this afternoon furnish
very full and reliable accounts of the troubles
from beginning to end. The concurrent tcSl-
mony of the ciizcns of both parties in the dl>-
turbcd locality is to the eff CT that after tho
blacks took possession uf the town OF C"lfax
they rode in armed bands through the SURROUND
ing country, pouring abuse upon The whites.
sackiug houses, driving off the stock, and shame
fully maltreating those OF their own race who
would not join them. Most all of the white
families were compelled to leave. Ou Easter
Sunday, when the whites rallied and attack kid
the Court House, to which these blacks mad
been driven, the blacks hosted flag of truce,
and then when some of the attacking party I'M
suspectingly advanced they were fired upon. 1t
was this treachery which infamed the whites
and resulted in the horrible massacre"
BEEcHER ON SOUTH CAROLINA Henry
Ward Beecher, in characteristic sermon at
Plymouth Church, Sunday, drew on South
Carolina for an illustration.
| He said that he did not know on earth 4
more pitiable sight than South Carolina. II
was at one time the richest and proud:st Of
the States. 1t inaugurated those ideas which
| led to the disaster of the war and the cleansing
of the continent. The people of South Caro-
lima had riskcd and sacrificed everything fortheir
principles; they had seen their children laid in
the grave and their households reduced to beg
gary, aud yet, in the pcnitude of their sorrow,
they would take back no particle Of their faith
in the cause. Though in bad cause, they
had shown herosm it would be well TO pat
tern and admire.
In his prayer he bcsought the Father of all
mankind to remember 10 mercy the children Of
the forest, whose pcnt-up wrongs had driven
them to bloodshed and diabolical murder.
TIE CENTRAL PARK will soon unfold its
gories to thousands of delighted visitors. We
will take our rural cousins up to inhac its vernal
fragrance and be dazrd by its magulfccnce
Railroad presidents will see their cars going w
crowded, and they will bless their lucky stars
that the Park was made so beautiful. The real
estate world will compare the present with the
dull old times in which lands above Sixtcth
street were worth less than $500 an acre. Every
| body will return to his home elated The Cen
trail Park cost millions. But who will think of
that ? Who will grudge dollar that has been
than half per centum day. and every CAPT
taiist knows it. Twenty years ago large area
Of the Park region was i quagmire, with pos
sbilitics of drainage as hopeless as arc those Of
the Sixth Ward SO long as Its pavcucnts lie
twenty feet below the city 5 mean elevation a.
indicated at Broadway and Chatham square,
NeD York Su
WASHINGTON ITEMS Pink Cross, who re
sides in Prince Georges county, Nd, was met
by a colored highwaynan as he was on his way
to his home from the city, on Saturday even
ing, and as an answer to money or your life. "
he handed over $3.50 gold watch and gladly
walked off The detectives think they Can ar
rest the lucky highwayman Inside OF Il few
days.
Mr. Wm. w. Rap'cy is preparing his plans
for the re-erection Of the National Theatre,
which was burned to the ground on the 2Sth Of
January last, is al improved and more elegant
style.
Only two new cases of smallpo reported yes
terday. No deaths.
place 10 Paris. A. Nj. Dtcrorc invited several
of his friends and small company OF scientific
men to dine upon the flesh of horses who had
died from the CHAMBERS; of cows, the victims of
of the riuderpcst, and of an ass, just killed for
hydrophobia. 1t was test banquet" one
that proved the devotion of each man there to
science, that he was willing to risk his life to
demonstrate, in the most practical manner, that
the flesh of animals is not affected as human
food by even The worst diseases The fire pnri-
fes it and purges away all infection. The
director of the Paris geological Gardens is said
to corroboratc this theory from personal cxper-
ments on the condemned meat sent to feed tie
animals.
SHAVING ON SUNDAY The Memphis APP
peal gives detailed report Of prosecution of
four BARRIERS in that city for violation Of the
Sunday law. 1t says:
"rhcy we're accused under the section Of the
code which provides that no person in the
State of Tennessee shall do any ordinary bust
ness on Sunday, from the fact that they did
prosecute their regular business by shaving
certain parties last Sunday. The case was
ably argued on both sides, and Justice Wallace
decided that the services Of BARRIERS, like those
Of hotel. keepers and livery stablckeepers, were
essential for the convenience of the general
public, particularly in these days Of so much
railroad and steamboat travel"
The business portion Of Canistola, n Y, was
burned few day ago. Loss SS5O0O