Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-20
EG0.E HSHHE,FaC G,g
Special Correspondence Of Tie i!tsG. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, D. G., July %, 1850.

Special Correspondence o. TIE i;t-:G. Gazette.
WAsu.EGToH, D. G., Jr'y %. 1850.
Tho receipts ct Tie Treasury to day f.on
customs were Sic 1888; fem Interval revenue,
sl40.795. Tic nstionsl bank notcs received
there fer redemption auouoted to 1852 030.-
The ouy change mace in the Virginia pest
Offices to d:y YVES tie appointment Ct Miss
Mary F5w'er as postmaster OF Isssquans,
GoochIand equity. vic, Charles Fowler. &c
signed.
The Sunday School Of St. Dominic cauicb,
tho large s.ouo Catholic church on "tho Is
laud, gave picnic a. Tivoi Park, Giesboro,
TO DAY, and the ferry boats running between
this city end Atx,ndri carried large
cuntcrs Of people, young ard old, to it, as
many as ! ,IC0 tickets OF admission bayicg been
sUll.
The congressional dencc:aic campaign com
l!tec, as previously s'a'ed 10 this correspond.
erc', have taken General Ga fsld at his word
aud are taViog the congressional reports tho"
roughly and Critically x .nined for his record,
With Wow to publishing tho true st,ry Of his
congressional life; and for o catdidato for tho
presidency fearful record it will DO when print
cd, for it will show that from tho limo he first
entered Congress until tho present, bis whole
C, ur3e has botn one CT assumed holiness frank.
ness aud generous magnahlmly, but in reality OF
c.Wardlco, dlsngcIuousnees and sectional par.I
sanism. and that in numerous cases bf.cr APP
n!reoty fsvorlug just onl proDer measures,
when the critical moment arrived no las either
avoided vote or voted against the very ILLS
lie had advocated.
Additiousl news at tho lrdiso Bareaa oon
Eim7 the Intelligence tha! tho rfc3nt fight 10
| he Northwest was not between uoited States
troops and the Sioux. tut b.tween tic Sioux
and Il C Crow lndiaps, who gro hereditary cnc,
miss. 1t is said at tho Bureau that for every
Sioux the soldiers havo killed, the Grows have
killed dtZ,n. aud that the numcrc.l infer-
ori;y Of the Crows. who gro much the better
hghttr' is the only rCas0n that the WAT bctX( CO
the two tribes is no: carried OF 10 q giost:r *
tcut Sod that the last OF Tie Sioux are 10. cy.
terminated. It is a we'll known fact on the
border tina! when Crow and Sioux meet ouo
| has to eio. and gentlemen who spent a per
! ton OF his li(, 10 the ln1iau country tells mo
that upon ooc ccclsion party Ct Crows came
into Que end 0! tho town 10 Wish 10 vas sta
| toDed ard a party Of Sioux Into The other end,
snd that their chiefs having business with the
tuWD,' people, and wanting % transact it quietly,
| aad kooHlog that bco:sicd would bo tho in.
e1itable e6d if they m,t, quickly withdrew their
| rtspt ct!vo bands. aud eaon returned on a dny
| Wtco he was certain The other would not be
| prrsent.
Mr. Beck, fIrUcrlJ of Alexandra, but now
| OIL this clIy, has just roturned from tip
to Csrcu sp inGs. llo says the comraoy
there is 50 largo this year that tx.rs
! accom- moda:ions havo 10 DO made Tor thcm.
| Among the visit o:s lie saw wero Mr.. R>dophe
Clnuehtou ani his mother. Mrs. II. o. Cfaush.
ton. folm :rly Of Alexandria. lie says ha. from
what be learned at Capeu and at Winchester
nc believes the deb: payers aud the rcaf jasttrs
hate c:ch other 10 such degree that oirhrrralh
tr thun sac the other sutc s;fu would b. y lline
:yr thn Stcto to 60 Tor Garfield. and that be b.
| lltVcs VNeina'a vote 10 The c:mins contest will
| be cast i1r The Chioipo pomnct; bus il must
be remembered that Mr.. b. OK is o republican,
end tha: IS homes, 10 this resi- est. nay with
reason be credited with being the father Of his
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