Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-06-21


that my camp was surrounded by belt Of TIM
Der on three sides. and as the men were carried
off by the current they were enabled to save
themselves by catching the limbs of trees
When day broke on the morning OF the lst
of June, it showed almost all the men of my
company on the tops of the trees. without an y
covering except remnants Of under. clothes, and
beneath the torrent still raging. After the
lapse of few hours the water began to fail,
and few men who could swim got to the hills.
Atterward the Others myself among the pun
Der, were got off with life-nes and various
other meaus Up to this time nothing was to
be seen of what had been my camp except the
top OF an army wagon which had stuck TO log
on the ground, aud this wagon were collected
eleven men, who were thus saved from wat
cry grave.
The settlers at the mouth of the Backgood
lost almost all their stock and property. the
stock, however was almost all recovered when
the food went down, Six mcn of my company
were drowuod, and lwenty-six horses lost.
A TRAVELLER S EXPERIENCE "A European
correspondent of the New York Post gives
the result Of his observations 10 different 1oun-
tries:
II find that the ladies of every country, the
refined and the cultivated, who enjoy the faci-
ties afforded by wealth or rank, dress much
alike. The fashions are despotc, and seem to
convert every woman able to follow them into a
model of greater or less elegance and attractive
ness. Nationality as far as | can see, uIakes
but little difference. The effec, of an imme.
date and wide dissemination Of a fashion,
coupled with the tyranny and invention Gf mill
ners, renders women 10 measure coSlopotes
in the matter of taste. # accordingly, there is
to be any decision as 10 taste on national grounds,
| think that the test must be sought FIR among
those, who, having few resources. make the
most OF them, and impress you with their taste
in doing so. Judged by this rule, the English,
in my opinion, rank much below the French
or the Americans. II a French woman in an
ordinary position in life follows the fashion, she
will adapt it TO her person so as to appear we'll
10 it. 10 more limited e3teut the American
woman will do the same thing. The English
woman makes great failure of it. Take as
Shakespeare says, the commodity Of hair. The
present fashion Of wearing the hair is, at best,
grac1ess one, but on the head of an English
woman it is mOnstrous absurdlty, trllls aud
other extravagant arrangements remind one
setting aside the restrictions Of sex-uow of an
Achilles with flowing mane and again of u be-
feathercd chieftan. English women, in adopt
ing fashion, seem to have 90 idea of proper
ton, no conception of that harmony OF parts
which, as an essential principal Of taste, makes
a bad fashion tolerable. A verdict, according
ly, on national taste should be made up out of
facts derived from observation Of the masses.
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ANOTHER HORROR -Iu this era of horrible
crimes story brought by the telegraph from
Philadelphia excells in enormlty and cruelty.
Two children, both girls Of FIVE years of age,
who had been missing since Wednesday,, were
found locked up in closet in an empty house
on the outskirts Of the city. One died soon
after the discovery, but the other will recover
The one dead had been badly beaten and was
bruised all over the body; the other had been
less severely handled. at first it was feared
that still more shocking atrucity had been
committed on them, but this was not confirmed
by the post. mortem examination OF the remains
Of the dead child. The living child is said to
have stated that she was taken into the coun-
try by woman and afterwards locked in the
closet by man, but her condition was such
that any account of the affair cannot yet be Oh
tanned from her, the physicians having inter
dicted all questions. Different theories prevail.
some thinking that the confinement was acct
dental, and others that it was done through
malice.
BLACKBERRY WINE. The blackberry is
used for medicinal purposes, particularly tor
diseases of the bowels; we therefore copy the |
following plan, used by Swiss settlers IN the
United States, and it is said 20 make the most
excellent wine: To one buShel Of berries put
two gallons of water, and express the juice; to
each gallon of tho liquid add one pound OF
white refined sugar. Put into cask about
peck of freshly burned charcoal, broken into
small pieces; then pour the liquid upon 1t. Let
it ferment. AS soon as the Fermentation sub
sides close the cask tight and let it remain until
January or later; then rack off and bottle it,
and set it 10 cool cellar.
GEN. LoNGsTREET.-The Atlanta Herald
,ays:-''We have seen letter from General
Lougstreet, written to a prominent Georgian,
q which he alludes to the charge made 10 a
Mobile paper to the effect that he was response.
Die for the loss of the battle of Gettysburg.
General Longstreet says that as soon he can
collect the facts and the figures (in very few
lays) he will publish an argument and map
,oiny to show that he was not responsible for
his loss. and which will 60 far to place this
burden on the shoulders that are really the
light ones to bear it.
THE VIRGINIA RADICAL CAMpAlGN-Jos.
,eear. J. W. Cromwell, u. B. Anderson, w.
J. Pemberton, f. X. Taylor, Wyatt Archer,
I. B. Mansfield, f. W. Moore have been ap
,onted by Weed Corey, president Of the VIr-
iuia Republican Association; as the campaign
ommlttee for the association in the contest
his autumn for Governor, Lieut.. Governor, and
A,torney General Washington Chronicle.
Mr. Evan Lyons, of Georgetown, received
y mail, yesterday, a letter 10 which was enclos-
ice fund" printed on it, aud two twenty dollar
otes and one ten dollar note, making fifty
ollara