Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-03-17

GENERAL CANAL IN reference to the aute-
ceients OF General Boisrond Canal, who is try
ing to upset the Government of President
Doniugues and his nephew, Septimus Rameau'
the following is brief sketch:-
He is about forty four years ofage, is six feet
TWO iuohes in height, OF every commanding
pres nee aud # mixed bloed. DE took part 10
the revolution of las, May. when Generals brlce
and MoDtpIaisir were killed. lie fought his
way cut of the city to his plantation at Freres,
where be resisted the Government troops, aud
iu the fight several officers end soldiers we're
killed He subsequently, went to the village OF
Peironville, wheIu he and his party were ols
lodged. Canal then hsd to the'resideoce OF
Jimted States Minister Bassett, where be re
NAMED frou May till September. Meanwhile
the Government impeached him for treason.
and he was sentenced to death. The refusal OF
MIR. Bassett to surrender him ueary caused
oompll,ations with this country, but through
the friendly Offices ofthe Haytian Minister. Mr..
Preston, it was agreed that Caual should be al
lowed to leave Hayt and go into banishment.
This was done, aud Canal went to Kingston,
Jamaica. There, with other exiles possessing
about 81, 900 900, be plotted for the overthrow
OF the Dominique Government. Recently the
Octavia was purchased with her cago OF arms:
General Canal has been always soldier. and
in 1869 captured Port au- Prince, the capital
city, which caused the overthrow or SaloaVe,
and he is generally looked upon as brave and
honest man. Domingue recently became a
grandee of Spain and member OF the Order OF
Isabella la Catolica after his consent to Danish
Cubans from Hayti.
Jacmel, where the revolution is now pro-
,rht r,yloc
mountains from the capital city of Port-au-
Prince Troops have left for the sceue OF ac-
,Iou, aud the two Haytian gunboats, built
few mouths ago, will doubtless be ordered
thther.
The TRADE IN WILD ANIMALS "A writer
for the Mit,heilungeD des Vereios fur Eskuode,
of LEIPZIG, has just furnished an interesting
article on the wild animal trade Of Europe.
He says that the whole business was formerly
done BY two meu-ons an Italian named Casa
nova, aud the other Charlss Hogeubeck, of
Hamburg. 10 1862 Casanova made treaty
with the wild tribe, of Taxa, Africa, engaging
to take all they could capture, which resulted
in the purchase from them oil hundreds of
beasts and reptiles. These were subsequently
sent to the different geological societies OF Eu-
rope, aud are now ou exhibition. ln 1874 one
NJ. Won Reich, of Asield. went to kassaIa and
captured and bought from the African chiefs
26 giraffes, % elephants, Catfre buHalo,
rare autelopes, 2 tapirs, 2 gorlllas, hyenas
and leopards. Immediately afterWard Hogen-
beck imported 80 glraffes, III apes, 10 eleph-
ants. l3 anteloprs, lions, leopards, hy-
enas, 5 ostriohes, s rhnoceros aDd number OF
huge serpents. 1t takes from seventy to eighty
days to briug the animals trom kassals to
Hamburg. From the interior OF Africa to the
coast they have to drive the elephants, glrsfes,
sntelopes, buffalo, &c, on foot, fastened to-
gether with ropes aud chains Often, through
the negligence Of the negro attendants, the
lions aud eopards get eut OF the cages during
the transit and create general stampede,
causing loss OF life aud great loss OF money.
ATARTAR's FAITH In MANKIND.-There
are few people who have not felt the pleasure
Of a good bargain. Ouoe in way it is use-
full experiences; but it should have sense OF
adventure aud rarity in it to be harmless. Some
men are as utterly without the spirit Of barter
as Nj. Hue describes the Tartars to be, and for
the waut Of this sharpening Influence, they are
as easy dupes as he pictures them to their
keen, rapacious Chinese neighbors. Yet bis
Own dealings with this simple people furnish
40 apt a contrast to the grasplng temper that
We cannot do better than conclude with an OK
ample of their method of transactiug business.
The missionary having offered Tartar Lama
bis scales to weigh the silver rendered 10 pay
ueut of sheep, the Tartar stepped backward,
and, throwing up bis hands, cried out: Above
there is heaven: below there is an earth, and
Buddha is the master of all things He de-
sires all meu to treat each other as brothers.
I Ou are Of the west; am of the east. La that
any reason why our dealing should not be
frank and true2 You have not cheapened my
mutton take your silver unweighed. LION
don Saturday Reriea1
A PLEASANT ANECDOTE. The Gauols tells
this aneodote Of Adellos Patti (the Marquis
de Caux y Adelina Patti went to America
when very young girl. % the voyage the
vessel foundered, and, of the forty seven per-
sous ou board at the time, only three were
saved, two sailors and Adelina, who escaped
through the efforts of one Of the sailors named
facaud. Two years agoPatti, ,in passing through
LGettlch, Belgium, learned that her reecuer,
was living 10 thut city as a Commissionaire.
She procured his address, and called on him 10
company with her hu band. She found him in
exceedingly modest circumstances, surrounded
by a family of FIVE children. These she loaded
with presouts, aud at parting said to her res
cuor IF you should ever stand 10 need OF
my services, remember am your debtor and
you need but wite to me-" Pacsud did not
forget her pr,miss. He lately arranged grand
concert for the benefit of the aged and infrm,
and called upon the Marquise de Caux to par.
uclpate, aud she gave her consent. He then
offered prize OF medel worth 200 francs for
aoouquet to be presented to the fair singer at
the concert and all the florists in Luettich are
competing for it.
HROVEK 3 BAkkR'S