Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-11-19
ALEXANDRIA,


ALEXANDRIA,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 80
ATA LATE meeting Of the South Carolina
Rangers Charitable, Association, composed of
the members Of tie late Confederate Rangers.
held in Charleston, Mr. Dibble, 1the orator OF
he occasion, thus spoke, in behalf Of bis; COM
fades:: s'The issue ofthe war we have in good
faith accepted; eand whileoto its injustice and
the mode of its prosecution weaecannot refer
without indignation, having yielded to!our des-
tiny, we have forever sheathed the sword.
We have renewed our allegiance to the United
States government; we are obedient to the die
tates and requirements of its laws and if to be
dismembered is yet the destiny OF the great re-
public, other hands than ours must shatter the
structure. The sane principle that made,sus,
in support Of; Southern rights firm and coura
geous, will make Gus true to the oaths which
we have taken to defend the constitution and
the Union of the States. yNo;just charge:ofi
present disloyaltyi can be laid; at our doors;
We have solemnly buried secession; forit,. with
US, there will be nosresurrectioh. -
The ARMY.-The New York Commercial
says: '"lhe roster Of the reconstructed army
has at last been completed with a few excep2
tons. General Grant first made a3list, which
he submitted to theSecretary Of War. T. Mr.
Stanton struck off many names, substituting.
others of Officers who are bis friends, or who
were recommended by his friends, and sent the
revised list to the President Mi. johnson
again changed it, making room for those who
are recommended by the adherents to the Ad
minstration. The Commercial further says:
"Every exertion is being made to get the new
regiments into the field before the meeting OF
Congress, as disposition has been manifested
to abolish them General Grant is very anx-
ious that. they be retained, as he says that
there are not.troops' enough to properly guar
antee peace at theSouth and4on the prairleS. =
REPORTS FROM WAsH1NGToN.---lr s-report
ed in Washington that conferences have been
held between the President, Chief, Justice.
Chase, Generals Grant, sSickles and Dix, re-
Gently, on the subject of the admission of the
Southern States to representation In Congress.
The prevailing opinioa seems to- be, we are:
told, that so long as the President and Con-.
gress are divided IN opinion, the Southern
States will remain unrepresented. There is,
said to be desire to effect some amicablc ar
rsngement of these differences, but thus lar
nothing definite has5been accomplished. - ! /
FIRE IN PETERSBURG VA-Phelix HallY
the only theatre in the place, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour, yesterday morning.-
The building was insured for eight or nine
thousand dollars in the Metropolitan Office,
New York, " ich covers only about one-balf
Of the loss Harry Macarthur closed an engage
nent at the hall, on Saturday night. Ills
company lost all their wardrobe. The fire
was accidental. ..s-..r,s
DEcLINEI IN Prices. -Ehe wholesale price.
current this week reports "a decline IN cotton, a
decline 10 provisions, a decline in oils, q decline
in wool, tallow, leather, naval stores, metals,
bonds, stocks, &C., &C. In the ,necessarles Of
life we hope that men in the retail trade will
recognize these deolensions in price, and give
consumers some Of the bene6ts.-2W. r. E'rpreSS
The New, York Sun, in. an excellent article,
on Learning a Trade, says The idea
that manual labor is not respectable, is one
of the absurdest things inthisage.of ABSURD
ties No person with thimble,full of brains
will say anything5of3 tire kind. and those silly
creatures who do, say SO are generally the de
generate scions Of hard working mechanics.
Every boy, whether rich CIR poor, high or low,1
ought to learn a trade mot that he should
always works at it, but that he may have it as
areserve capital together with its influence in
farming his character ''5;gfI,,s ,zes,z1 rzlsro:5
ga .Ho- for Brazil meeting has been called
in Claiborne Parish Better hoe ia Claiborne
Parish. "'--Neao Orleans Rtcapsne, One of the
editors of the Louisville Courier has recently
returned from Brazil, He says the stSouth,
poor ruined, and desolate as she is, is worth
hundred Brazils yet. 't .,5, e,5 s..-,ss,.s4
The Convention of the farmers Of, Virginia,
to be held in Richmond, next Tuesday, under
the auspices OF the Virginia State Agricultural
Society, bids fair to be an Important assembly,
both as regards the number aud character Of
its members, and the purposes for which they
meet. ssao2 80 2. as-.f.9.asl :h2TEssst
The numerous sales lands in different por-
tons of Virginia togpersons from the North,
completely disprove, the reiterated assertions
Of the Radicals, that the Southern people will
not suffer Northern people to live among them.
5,@ News from Mexico slfs ss:s5;<sy
Official advices received (by the Mexican
M;nicfnrf ar Wash;n or nm ,ort fEot "a Meyi