Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-11
ALEXANDRIA,:
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY II, 1860.


CoHGREss-The Senate, yesterday, pas
sei the modified Homestead bill. The
House Of Representatives passed the Tariff
bill, reported by the Committee OF Ways
and Means.
The CoSsTIrrTIoSA UNION CONVENTION,
assembled at Baltimore, composed Of repre-
sentatiyes of the political Conservative SEN
timent of the whole country, have adopted
as the Platform of their party for the COM
ing contest, and, we hope, for all future
contests. the CONSTITUTION of the country
the UNION of the States-and the Enforce
ment of the LAWS. \ strong, staunch plat
form, upon which, we hope, the PEOPLE will
stand and on which they will place the men
selected by them to administer the affairs of
their government.
And the same Convention has nominated
and recommended as next President, and as
one upon whom they can rely with conf
deuce, JouN BELL, of Tennessee, we'll
tried, experienced statesman-an honest,
high-minded citizen-a patriot IN heart and
in his principes--a prudent, conservative
politician, and WIG, devoted to the main
tenance of the Constitution, the preserva-
ton of the Union, and the authority OF the
Laws.
The Convention have selected as the asso-
ciate of Mr. Bell upon the Ticket, the elo-
quent son of Massachusetts,, EDWARD EVER
Eta statesman without reproach.
Many have supposed that if what are call
ed the Tennessee resolutions" (which were
not adoped by the Charleston Conventlon)
are taken up and adopted by the adjourned
Convention to be held in Baltimore, all will
be we'll, and harmonious again, with the
Democratic party. On the contrary, the
Richmond Enquirer says, that the first OF the
Tennessee resolutions-theo only one referring
to the Territorial question-neTer shonld be
adopted, being "ambiguous, equivocal, and
uncertain, and declared against by every
prominent man of either section" There's
another platform therefore, according to this,
to be smashed.
The following is a list of the Delegates
and Alternates, from the Wings OF Virginia,
to the National Convention at Baltimore -
Delepates-Samuel Watts, Travis II. Epes,
VIM. Martin, Edward D. Christian, VIM. L.
(ioggin, Marmaduke JON ns"n, Geo. I. Yer
bv, l.. T. Tayloe Robert f. Scott, n. b.
Meade. A. H. II. Stuart, James Mltherow,
YIN. J. Dickinson. George W. Summers,
Waitman I. Wiley. Alternates-Thomas
l.. Pretlow, Daniel Lyon, George Towns,
W. w. Henry, Alex. Rives, Peyton u: Cole
man, Robert Saunders George W. Lewis,
Henry w. Thomas, VIM. Andrews, Charles
II. Lewis, VIM. Copeland, Isaac }. Lett
wich, Arthur }. Foreman, James ;. W heat.
1t is popularity about the great split at
Charleston that both sides appear quite san
guine. The Douglas men say that the plat
form and adjournment were both successes,
aud that his nomination Will be secured by
Douglas delegations chosen IN the place OF
the seceierS. On the other hand, his oppo-
nents, and among them the Washington
Constitution, say that whatever else may be
said of the Convention, 1t must he owned
that the popular sovereignty men VIII no"
have to try some other man. since MI. Doug
las can BY no possibility overcome the oppo-
sition made to him in the Southern States.
The members of the Methodist General
Conference, in session at Buffalo, have been
startled by the reception of petition de-
manding that Ministers Of the Methodist
Church be prohibited from using tobacco IN
any form. The document emanated from
Massachusetts. and was greeted with consl-
derable hilarity, one member suggesting to
those in his vicinity that although it was adj
visable for the brethren TO be versed IN all
ordinary worldly matters, yet It was appar-
ent that the people did not desire them to be
..up to snuff in the literal sense.
Even the "Seceders" from the Charleston
Convention, if they want TO make any head
way at all, will have to advise MIR. lancey,
their leader, to take back seat. The pub
lication of his scarlet letter" urging the
generalization of the Cotton States into rev.
olution," finishes him politically, for the pre-
sent, except as a geneialissimo OF plSunion
movement.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, the author
of Don Quixote," "Galatea.' ''Exemplary
Novels" &C., was born at Alcala, in New
CASTLE, in l547, of an ancient but poor taml-
". He died in his sixty-ninth year, on the
23rd of April, 1916; and Shakespeare died
within few days of him.
The Abolitionists, of all shades and colorS,
are holding their annual meetings IN New
York, led on by Garrison, Wendell Philips
and other incendiaries. The usual amount
of blasphemy, treason, and stuff, is poured
forth by the speakers.
Every respect has been paid TO the memo
~ of the late Coy. Tazewell, in Norfolk, by
the members of the Bar and the citizens
generally. Hugh Blair Grigsby. esq, has
been requested to prepare a discourse ON the
life and character of the deceased.