Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-26
ALEXANDRIA,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL;2e, 1866.

There probably neverwas, inany leommuniy
ty, more unanimous, determined and heart
felt condemnation of any proposition, than that
which is now expressed in this place against
the recent movement Of Senator Wade. Ithas
been sprung upon US without consulting the
wishes or feelings of our people; it is prejudi-
cial to all our interests volatiye of our rights,
insulting to our State, detrimental to our hopes
of future prosperity, and calculated to produce
present mischief and future trouble. The re-
PROCESSION Of Alexandria to it's, present State
was acceded to by the General Government, by
the State of Virginia, and by the people direct
lyinterested TWAS acquiesced jn BY the peo-
pie of the whole county. Alexandria became
an integral part and portion Of the Common
wealth Of: Virginia To take it from the juris-
diction of the State, to transfer it in the man
ner proposed would be as great an outrage, al
most, as history has ever recorded, in the dis
memberment Of States and the arbitrary ope
rationrof despotic authority. There is no more
right to- transfer, Alexandria to the General
Government, without the consent of tie State
ofVirginia; than there is to annex Rich
nlond or Norfolk. The case is too plain for
argument. AS to the local injury to be infict-
3D. every man knows what that would be, I'M
der the circumstances. We repeat what we
have said before, bad as the times are, we can
not believe that this outrage. will be allowed to
be perpetrated. aEas.sE III
80 q )
Official advices were received Monday by the
Government from Commodore Rodgers, COM
handing the United States squadron in the
harbor Of Valparaiso, to the effect that be, in
conjunction with the British Admiral, have
protested against the bombardment of that
city by the Spanish fleet, and that they have
insisted that ample time shall be given tor the
removal of neutral property, and the women
and children, and that,if this demand should be
refused, they should resist the bombardment
with force: The Commodore has the double
turreted monitor Monadnock, and five other
war ships with him, a force amply sufficient to
make him master of the situation ~
Every now and then the persistent falsehood
of the Radical papers that Northern men are
not safe in the South that mo Northern
man can live in the South, :! &C., &C., is con!
tradicted by their own witnesses. The last let
rof the Norfolk correspondent of the New
York Tribune says: Many Northern men are
coming to Virginia to locate, purchasing fine
estates at a very low price, and depending on
freedmen for their labor General Patterson
is negotiating for fine estate Of nearly thou
sand acres, the property of MI. Stevenson. I.
" The Norfolk Virgipian has changed proprie-;
tors, Mr. Hope, the former editor, retires,
and has curtailed it's proportions and reduced
it's price somewhat The Richmond Enquirer
resumed publication yesterday, and looks ex-
ceedingly we'll The Richmond Dispatch has
enlarged its dimensions-and the Times has
changed its form from quarto to folio.
The tax bill was reported to the House yes,
terday from the Committee of Ways and Means.
The bill, it is said, reduces nearly cne-ffth the
rates of internal taxation. The committee has
followed very closely the notifications recon-,
mended by the commission appointed to revise
the internal revenue system. The bilmay pos
sibly be somewhat altered
The exports of cotton from New York ran
ahead Of all precedent during the week ending
on, Tuesday, having reached 22,211 bales, of
the currency value Of $3.50, 100, oran average
Of about one hundred and seventy five dollars
a bale. . 50 t''.. q ~.
The Richmond papers arc quite unanimous
in the opinion that the 'sstreet-shooting bust
ness in that city, should be put down. -
There has been enough Of it. =. .. a
Gen. Grant, it is said, returned to Washing
ton, yesterday.
Judge VIM. G.. Krebs died in Baltimore re-
Gently e.a.a
--LATEST FROM EUROPE: The steamship
City of Boston, from Liverpool on the 18th,
via Queenstown 18th instant, has arrived
The difficulty between Austria and Prussia
continues to be ,regarded as critical. It is as
sertained that Prussia refuses to comply with
the Austrian request to withdraw her orders
for the mobilization Of her corps de a7naee.
A letter from George Peabody to Queen
fictoria7 acknowledges her Majesty S published
letter, and expresses his warmest qualification
and thanks. He says he will value the Queens
Portrait as the most precious heirloom he can
II, leave 10 the land Of his birth, where, together
with the Queen S letter, it will ever be regarded
as an evidence OF the kindly feeling of the
Queen towards citizen OF the United States.
The cotton market has further declined, and
there is quite panic. BreadstufEs steady and
firm. - t-'..'.-,.= 80.
" LoUDoUN COUNTY, VA.-Col. Elijah Y.
White, has been nominated by a county con-
vention as candidate for sheriff. The contest
will be between him and Mr.. S. G. Luckett