Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-02
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long leave of atsancc General Pope is to
succeed General Hooker. There is also to be
change in the Middle Department. General
Hancock is to take command at the West 10
place Of Pope, and Gen Schofeld is appointed
to succeed Hancock
The Savannah Herald says that certain new
Corners, who are engaged in planting on an ex-
tensvc scale in that section, paid the freedmen
in valueless jewelry and trinkets, and the party
has gone North for further supply to meet
the next payment The freedmen discovering
the swindle are dissatisfied, and threaten to
leave without fulfilling their contracts.
A Texas editor, reviewing the Civil Rights
bill and the Texas papers that pretend to ap-
prove, says: We've buried the hatchet-yes,
and We eaten dirt enough to cover it forever;
but as some emphatic writer says, blamed II
we have much respect for the man who pre-
tends that he likes it. >"
The Charleston Courier publishes decision
Of Judge Bryan pronouncing the test OATH
which was intended to prohibit attorneys Who
had in any way sympathized with the South IN
the late civil war from practising in the courts
of the e. S." unconstitutional. Judge Bryan
is u S. Judge.
DR.. Farr has announced that there are IN
England and Wales alone n ore than one million
Of child!css families, while other authorizes
affirm that our race is 50 far less prolific than
in former times that in the large towns two Chill
dren to each married couple has come to be the
average number.
According to the Philadelphia Ledger, Gen
eral Sherman seems to have very poor opin-
ion CT Canada, for on recent visit to Sandusky,
Ohio, the question of Canadian annexation be-
ing discussed, he said, I'VE don want Canada;
but if we should, a campaign ofive days would
bring it,.
Hon. 3. Gratz Brown, the present Senator
from Missouri, has written a letter declining to
be candidate for reelection. He avows HIM
self in favor OF universal suffrage, and expresses
his regret that the people of Missouri do not
agree with him in this particular.
Calls are made for the instant removal Of
Gen. Fitzpatrick from his position as Minister
to Chill. If what is said is true the respectable
people Of that country connot consent that he
should remain there, a.: visitor, with his
friends, to their friends.
The House of Representatives, on Saturday,
adopted resolution to inquire into the ap-
pointmcnt and confirmation Of Mr. Albert 81
more as Collector Of Mobile, it being alledged
that Gilmore was "a rebel, and cannot take
the oaths, &c
The Conference Committee of the two
Houses Of Congress on the tax bill had two
meetings on Saturday, at which the tax on
some articles Of minor Importance was deter
mined upon. The tax on cotton has not yet
been settled.
They are handing around the hat at the
North for a contribution Of fifty thousand dol
lars to Willim Lloyd Garrison, who has been
ali avowed disunionist and enemy of the Con-
stitytion for great many years.
Hon r. c. Grier, Justice Of the Supreme
Court of the U. S., was attacked at Williams
port, Penn, few days ago, by paralysis, while
in attendance upon the District Court Of the
q. S. in session there.
Commencement this year at Princeton Col
lege, New jersey, was marked by laying the
cornerstone Of tbs new Astronomical Obserya
tory. General n. n. Halsted presided over the
exercises.
The freedmen are behaving badly in the
Sumter district Of South Carolina, and a de-
tachmeat Of regulars has been sent there from
Columbia to perserve order.
The Common Council of New York have re-
ported against celebrating Independence on the
ground that there arc no funds for the purpose
in the city treasury.
Several dreadful cases Of murders committed
by the freedmen upon white people, including
women and children, have occurred recently in
Georgia
The Seventh Regiment of New York city
have under consideration visit to the Paris
Exposition in 1867.
Recent letters from Egypt speak in very en-
couraeng terms Of the prospects Of the Suez
canal
The New York Herald has drawn a frghtul
picture Of the majority in Congress.
The western people will show front, ere long
against the new prohibitory tariff.
THE EXPRESS COMPANIES AND TIE RAIL-
RoADs-At the close of the war many of our
various railroad companies, being much in need
of money, agreed to transport the freight Of
the Adams Express Company in consideration
of certain sums advanced by that company on
condition that said railroad companies should
not transfer freight for any other express COM
pany unless such ompany should advance sim
liar sums The amounts advanced as annual
prepayment of freight were as follows: Peters
burg and Weldon road S70,OO0 Orange and
Alexandria road, S5S,000; Virginia Central
road, $4,000 a loan of $4,000 was also
no1n r., tho Tirginia and Tannnsson road on