Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-12
France.

The Ordre, NJ. Roubers organ, 10 referring
| to the anniversary of Louis Napoleon's election
as President, argues that, mixed up at the last
| elections with parties having 20 root aud no tn
turc, the Bonapartists who, with difficulty, won
| thirty new seats, impaired their prestige by
going to the country under faded oolors and a
| borrowed name. 1t now behooves them to re-
constitute their autonomy and. declining tho
equiVocal honor of being the prop of schemes
concerted without them, to recover their lode
pendenco and freedom of action. They will
| gain by no longer being the dupe, and appear
| ing to be accomplish of presumptuous medloc-
Reiohshuffen, and would fam lead it to Sedan.
Various Paris specials show that everything
is still uncertain. The latest report is that NJ.
Batbie has failed to form a ministry, aud that
Nj. Audren dc Kerdrell has been summoned to
the EIysee.
The London Times Paris correspondent says
he is not surprised at this announcement. Nj.
de KerdreII is the mere mouthpieoe ofthe Duke
de BrogIic, and if, as some believe, the Cham
Der should be prorogued, the Duke de BrogIie
will assume Office on the morrow of its proroga-
| ton, with firm resolve to shrink from nothing.
President MacMahon still believes he has the
support of the majority of tho Senate. The
| firm belief Of those who know him best is that
if tho Senate refuses dissolution and urges him
to make overtures to the Left he will comply.
At the present moment it is certain that pro.
posal for dissolution could not obtain maj rty
| 10 the Senate. The policy Of the Invisible ad.
visers of the Marshal now, therefore, aims at
dissolution. accompanied by some violent il!e-
gality, 10 the hope that when the Marshal is
once committed to an illegal course be will per,
severe to the end even to the overthrow of the
w. Il, ~ Lab,
The London Standards Paris special says
uneasiness and apprehension that prevails. Ia
accordance with orders of the Minister Of the
Interior, all the gunsmiths' shops 10 Paris have
tom Of agitation making such precaution neces.
sary. Some foreigners are leaving Paris.
A Paris dispatch announces that the pew
Ministers have held several councils. The
Temps states that they have been unable to
agree upon programme. The troops 10 Paris
and Versailles are confined to their barracks.
PARIS. Dec l2-There is nothing definite
about the new Cabinet yet.
The Dix Neuvieme Steele speaks of the pos
siblity of President MacMahon impeachment
on several grounds.
The Clerical organ Defense says 1.-The
Senaes refusal to sanction dissolution would re.
lease President MacMahon from his promises
end leave him free to retire. The Defense,
however, hopes that President MacMahon will
not be eager to seize such an opportunity and
thinks his devotion to the country will suggest
to him oftier and frmer resolution"
Near Liberty, Ky, Sunday night last, Thorn.
as Moore and United States Special BaiIiff
George D. Ellis killed one another. Moore
has been wanted by the authorities for year
past on an indictment charging him with illicit
distilling. Ellis met him by chance on Sunday
night while riding towards Liberty, KY, with
man named Dryer. Ellis called on him to sur.
render, and Moore aswered by firing bullet
through bis body. Ellis returned the shot,
Moore disappearing in the bushes. Next morn.
ing his body was found frozen stiff 10 death,