Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-02
Conflict Of Ideas.

The New York Evening Post devotes an
elaborate article to "reminiscences Of the orig
inal formation and subsequent action of the
Free Soil party Of 1e48, and of the career
thus far of the Republican party. Its spe-
eial, practical object, is to show that, while
the Wing wing of that party has shaped its
policy hitherto, they must not persist in SO
doing, if they hope or wish for the co-opera-
ton of the Democratic section. The pith
and purpose of the article are sufficiently
Swallowed forth in the following paragraph:
Gov. Seward and the Wing leaders OF
New York never surrendered the connection
with their old party until the last ray of
hope had departed of securing Wing ascen-
dency in the country, or of establishing Wing
ideas in the administration Of the Govern
ment. Democratic Republicans regard their
principles as essential to liberty, and there
fore even more vital than the question of
Slavery itself, because they will be necessa-
ry to the success of our institutions. ANY
attempt, therefore, of the Wing leaders to
make the Republican party the means OF
bringing the Government under the control
of Wing ideas, will at once reduce the Re-
publican party to the same condition in which
those ideas left the Wing party.
The New York Times thinks there is very
little ground for the charges of the Post
against the Wing wing Of the Republican
party, and adds:
From the day that party was first organ
lied, the Democrats who joined it have had a
full and equal share in the Offices it has be-
slowed, and in declaring the principles and
purposes of the party itself. They have had
an equal number of delegates at State Con-
ventions,-ther most active and efficient
leader has a seat in the Quilted States Sen.
ate,-no platforms or professions, upon mat
tiers of either State or Federal policy, have
been adopted without their assent, and in
all respects they have been admitted to
full participation in the counsels and gui-
dance of a new organization.
Mrs. TooDLEs PERSoNIFIED.-A washer
woman and her daughter. named Meekens,
have been arrested in Pittsburg, Pa, on
suspicion of being receivers of stolen goods,
from the fact that large quantity of all
kinds of valuable household articles, sill
yer ware, costly shawls, de-, were found
slowed away in boxes and barrels on their
premises. ':At the examination, however"
says the Pittsburg Dispatch, the only tangi-
BILE ground Of suspicion seems to have arisen
from the improbability Of Mrs. Meekens-
who, together with her daughter had work
ed almost dailyat the washtub and at house
cleaning, hired out by the day or week
having purchased such costly goods. Their
appearance gave ample testimony of hard
labor the hands of both being apparently as
rough and hardened rs those of a man ac
customed to the toughest employment. The
old lady, as well as her daughter, are well
known, and persons who know them best do
not doubt their honesty. Like Mrs. Too
dies in the play, they seem to have man
ifested sort Of monomania to purchase
the most costly but to them apparently use
less articles, paying therefor out of their
hard earnings The old lady says she never
passed an auction store that she did not pur-
chase something. At one time she purchas-
ed a lot of gilt edged china-ware at Mozart
ney's auction store, which she paid for and
had it boxed up. 1t remained at the store
for six months, at the end of which time she
sent for it. The box, with the ware in it
us originally packed. we saw at her dwelling
We also noticed mahogany divans, a costly
bureau and very fine rocking chairs, which
were purchased and paid for at times, just
rs they were able to earn the money by their
labor.