Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-17
ALEXANDRIA.
TUESDAY. EVENING APRIL.l7, 1866.

ALI1AA1NIl IOlA.
TUESDAY. EVENING, APRIL II, 1866.
FOREIGN NEWs.-By the arrival at New
York of the steamship City of New York we
have advices from Europe to the 9Th instant.
The Austro. Prussian situation is unchanged.
The pacific rumors announced by the previous
steamer are not confirmed. The French regii-
ments usually assembled at Chalons during the
summer season are ordered to pitch their camp
there two months earlier than customary, and
it is also rumored that a French. army Of obser
walton will be organized for the purpose of
watching the frontier of the Rhine The French
troops in Mexico are to be withdrawn in three
detachments- first in November next, the
second in March, and the third in November
1867.
The secret treaty between the Emperor Max
imilian and the adult Iturbide family, is pub
lished in the newspapers; by which the Iturbides
agree not to return to Mexico, in consideration
of liberal pensions allowed them, and the En-
peror is to take under his care and protection
the infant grandchildren of the former Empe-
ror Augustin Iturbide. Mrs. Alice Green It.
urbide gives up her child to the Empress, and
entrusts him to the guardianship Of the new
rulers.
Tho Northern papers have kindly vouchsaf-
ed to make known to an admring world that
General B. F. Butler has magnanimously de-
cided not to reply to the structures of General
Grant, but to uncork himself in a more COM
prensive work, in which he proposes to give
a complete history of his military career!
The amount now in bank, deposited as the
proceeds of the late great Southern Relief Fair
in Baltimore amounts to $4,000, and it is
supposed that ty the time the receipts are all
handed in it will fall but little, if any, short Of
$4,000. The entire expenses are estimated
within $4,000
The probabilities are, that the constitution
atty of what is called the Civil Rights Bill
will speedily be tested before the Courts. -
President Johnson in his veto demonstrated its
unconstitutionality, and we hope the judiciary
will sustain his opinion.
The negroes at Norfolk turned out in pro-
cession yesterday, when difficulty occurred
between the latter and some whites, in which
one white man was killed, and his brother and
step mother mortally wounded-order was re-
stored by the military.
Mr.. Stevens proposed to the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday, to subscribe for the
Washington Chronicle, for the use of the for
eign legations but it was mo 60, that
time.
w. W. Boyd, Senator in the last State
Legislature, from the Boutctort district, died
recently in tbatcounty.
Some interest is felt in the decision of the
case Of Major Gee, which was to have been
made on Saturday at Raleigh,N. G., and which
involves the question whether the President S
peace proclamation has the legal effsctto sus-
pend the proceedings Of military commissions.
Major Gee was on trial before military court,
and motion by his counsel to quash the pro-
ceedings was rejected, on the ground that an
order from the War Department. ola date sub
sequent to the proclamation, had been receiv-
ed, which was tantamount to an order to con-
tinue the trial. A writ of habeas corpus was
sued out, and decision is to be made whether
military commissions are to be continued
The President has the sole power over the sub
iect He can restore the right of the habeas
corpus if he chooses, in any State where it has
been suspended. Intelligence received from
Raleigh states that the writ was granted but
Gen. Rogers refused compliance 1t was ar
gued by the prisoners counsel, on Saturday,
that the Uuited States was not represented
A decision is reserved until the 2Sth inst.
The following is the conclusion of an article
in the Washington Chronicle:
There is class of men at, the South, how
ever, about whom there can be no doubt, and
whose loyalty is above suspicion--we mean the
blacks. There is scarcely one Of them but can
take the test oath. We do not see why the
Offices at the disposal of the Postmaster Gen
eral should go begging while this element re-
mains at the South. We are certain of one
thing, however, and it is time the present Adj
ministration understood it: the loyal people of
the United States-who are largely in the
majority. thank God-would rather have a
black loyalist than white rebel entrusted with
ofhce"C!)
JUDGE UNDERWOOD is, just now, the subject
of more newspaper comments and paragraphs,
than usually fall to the share Of any man exer-
cising judicial functions. His legal opinions
are referred to in very off hand, and quite in
decorous manner. The Baltimore Transcript
quotes him as an illustration of the famous
saying of the old Chancellor Ozenstern, while
the World thinks if he is an authority
onlaW, SO was the Western County Court,
when the Justice said, 'andif the Court knows
itself, and she think she do, it am That the
Judge has been very unfortunate in some Of
his judicial opinions, there's no doubt among
legal men, or the public generally. -.