Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1865-11-01
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"WEDNESDAY -EV ENING,,ssN CIV fl NE IS q.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
A letter from Richmond says ~ alters
!. are dull here. The government has with
drawn from tie banks here, over mallen OF
clrrency withia the past week, 50 that money
IS exceedingly tight More will be Withdrawn :,
chs week. We have recently had three fali-
ares. the result.of high rents and over done
business. There.are FIVE times as naany goods
in Richmond aas the peoples necessities re-
quire. -
The newspaper Business ia Virginia It is
said. IS much soEesdone. = More newspapers
sare.printed than are sHanted, and several, ltds
thought, will stlecurab IN different parts :ot
the State. 81 Us ss
The Exchange Hotel in Richmond was
opened yesterday by W. !. Darlington q 60.
LISA splendid establishment now, equal il
not superior to the paln,v days when Freder
lex Boyden fourished asats proprietor.
Thomas j. Morrison, for many years Cashier
of tie Farmers Bank Of Virginia, at Wythe
vile, died last week.
Mr. james G. Carter, died at his residence,
in the northern part of Albenlarle, last week.
It IS, as The Baltimore GazetseWell remarks,
a pernicious to confound an adminlstra
ton with the Government, by adopting the
fallacy that to condemn the Administration is
TO be disloyal to the Government. SYDNEY
SMITH once characterized in his biting way the
cry Of Attack us-you attack the Govern
11lents asthes sof6ciaa malefactor screen, and
added t'If this notion is acceded to, every man
who desises at present any advantage from
s naisrule has itin fee-simple; and all abuses,
present and future, are without remedy.
Jeremy Betham puts the case in his heavy,
!. numbering way, still more strongly. and clenches
it with a series Of illustrations he says
$50 far is it from Icing true that mans
aversion or contempt for thehands BY which
:. the powers Of Government are administered, or
even for the. system under which they are
exercised, is proof Of his aversion tor the
Government itself, that, even In proportion to
the strength Of that aversion or contempt, It is
proof Of the opposite affection. hat he
wishes for is not that there may be no hands
at all to exercise those powers; but that the
HANDS may be better regulated not that those
b powers should not be exercised. All govern
ment is atrust Every branch of governments
trust, and immemor!ally acknowledged to be
So It is only by the magnitude Of the scale
shat public differ from private trusts com
plain OF the conduct Of person in the charac-
ter Of guardian In SO doing, do | say, that
guardianship is a bad institution? | complain
of an individual in the character of a CONNER
cial Agent. In SO doing, DO say that com
mercial agency is bad thing? Does any such
conceit ever enter into the head OF man as that
OF suspecting me of so doing?'
The sum of thisis: that=there is all the dit
ference imaginable. between the administration
ola trust, and the trust itself.
The State Convention of Arkansas bas adopt
ed the constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery; has repudiated the Confederate debt;
and has prohibited slavery, hereafter, in the
state President Johnson has sent on dis
patch to Gov. Murphy, to this effect:
There. will be no interference with your
present organization Of State government. L
have learned from D. W. Can't, and other
sources, that all is working we'll, and you viii
proceed and resume the former relations with
the Federal Government, ard all the aid In the
power of the Government will be given. IN re-
storing the State to It's former relations.
Senator Dooittle, in q. speech recently de-
yered in Milwaukee, gave the views of Gen
eral Grant on negro suffrage, as follows:
1.-The other day, when Gen. Grant, was here
spending several hours with him in free con-
yersation upon this subject among Others he
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