Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-11-02
ALEX ANDRIA.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2.
The CASE OF THE BALTIMORE Police Com

after full and patient hearing witnesses Tor
and against the accused The Governor, IN his
decision, reviews at length both the facts and
the law bearing on the case, in all its branches.
He declares that the monstrous abuses and
evils which he describes, and for which he
holds the police commissioners responsible,
must now cease; and finally announces the ac-
ton which he has determined upon as follows:
II deem it due to the oppressed voter, to the
good morals of the city, to the promptings Of
common propriety, to the just tights of all,
without regard to party, to renlore the conf
ntssioaers of police Upon the. decision be
ing made known, there was considerable ex
Clement on the streets in Baltimore and sew
eral personal rencountres occurred between IN
dividuas. A despatch from Baltimore dated
yesterday afternoons says.:7-''lt is understood
the Police Commissioners had an interview
with Gen. Grant this afternoon. They in
formed the General Of their view of the case,
and claimed that they we're perfectly able to
preserve the peace the city. General Grant
also had an interview with the newly appointed
Police Board. What took place is not def
eral advised them not to attempt to establish
their authority by force, but to rely entirely
upon legal measures before the courts. 1t is
understood they design to apply to Judge
Martin, Of the Superior Court, tomorrow, to
be sworn in, when it is the purpose OF the
counsel for the Board to appear and argue the
case. The Commissioners have very large
force on duty. Special patrolmen have been
sworn in, and all the station. houses are guard
ed. The city is quiet General Grant has
returned to Washington. Mr.. Latrobc also
went to Washington from Annapolis .
The NEXT ELECTION IN V1RG1NrA.-Ihe
Richmond Times says Absorbed as the PEG
pe of Virginia are in close and umemittlng at
tention to their private affairs, and indifferent
as they have become to poiticsl matters, they
must not forget that at the next Spring cleo
tons they must elect Governor, a Lieutenant
Governor, an Attorney General, a full dclega
ton of Congressman and members Of the Gen
eral Assembly. And We trust that, without
the slightest reference to any trucking and
slavsh policy of expediency, aud with that
calm and heroic dignity which is the distin-
euished characteristic of Virginians, that they
will exercise their liberty as electors, as fear
lessIy as if there was no Radical despotism at
Washington, disgracing the nation and tramp
ling upon the Constitution
AMNESTY AND FORGIVENESS. In the letter
recently ADDRESSED by the Secretary Of State, Mr..
Seward, to Sir Frederick Bruce, the following
passage occurs:
IL 7 - IL,
offences involved in these trials are in their
nature eminenty political 1t is the opinion
of this government that sound policy comedies
with the best impulses of a benevolent nature
in recommending tenderness, amnesty and for
giveness in such cases. .4:
We do not propose to question either the
philanthropy or the wisdom Of the sentiments
thus announced by the head Of the State De-
partment of our Government but to call atten-
ton to the glarng discrepancy which exists be-
tween principles and practice. Mr. Davis still
lengaishes in the walls of his stone casemate at
Fortress Monroe.
POSTAGE STAMPS enve'ops,
stamped cents, made of cheaper quality Of
paper than those heretofore Issued, are fur
nished by the Department at $32 50 per thou
sand, (being 50 so exclusive of postage) and in
proportion for less quantities. The better
quality at,$S4 so per thousand is not, how
ever, superseded, but will be supplied as here
tofore, and, if desired, will be ruled for the
address without additional charge. Upon all
letter and official size envelopes there will be
printed across the end, without additional
charge, the Names business and postothce
address Of parties, and q request to return it
unclaimed within given time-the whole not
to exceed four lines-when ordered in quaint
ties Of FIVE hundred and upwards OF any specl~
fed denomination.
TIE u. S. DISTRICT CoURT, Judge Under
Wood presiding, convened at Norfolk, yester-
day. Very little business beyond delivering
the charge to the grand jury was transacted
in consequence Of the absence Of District At !
torney Chandler. 1t adjourned until the
first Tuesday in December. In administer
ing the oath to the jurors, the portion re-
curing the oath Of allegiance to the Govern
ment was omitted. In his charge the Judge
said their attention would be called, when the
court next met, to offences against the revenue
and postal laws. No reference was made to
the case of Mr.. Davis.
ssWEsr VIRGINIA. The Wheeling Intelli-
gencer sums up the results Of the late election
in West Virginia, and comes to the conclusion
that the Radicals will have SO large majority
in the next Legislature that the ratification Of
the proposed constitutional amendment is
highly probable, and that-we let it speak for
itself 4. 49, 5a
sIfthe commissioners of old Virginia come
over here making propositions of reunion, they
will be politely, but decidedly, informed that
Barkis is not willin. :"