Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-15
ALEXANDRIA.
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH Is.

FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH ID
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Drake, Of
Missouri, who, at the time of the Camp Jack
son affair. made speech in front Of the Office
of the St. Louis Republican, telling the people
''they must unite todrive back the Lincoln hire
ngs, avowed himself radical, aud denounced
the Southern people in terms exceeding in ha
red and bitterness anything which has yet
come, even from Massachusetts,. MIR. Logan,
too, the other day, made an assault upon the
South, denouncipg the people in the sevcrest
manner. He is an out going Radical. And
yet in 1861, he wrote letter against 'coerclng
the Southern States. % and declared that war
would inevitably overthrow all our institutions
and result in despotisn,." The Springfield Re-
publican states that at the first OF the war
'Logan's disloyal speeches and acts in Illinois
caused him to be put under duress by the mill
tary commander at Springfield" Most of
these violent, ultra, rabid Southern Loyal
list" were, originally, according to their own
showing, ''rebels Of the deepest dye" Ham
ilton, formerly of Texas" Hunnicut', and all
that tribe, were "secesh' in their own slang.
a work is to be published which will attract
considerable attention. and excite much curl
osity, although the author and subject are
1epulsive enough The SENSATIONAL pros
pectus Of this book states that it is to be His
tory of the SECRET SERVICE" by L. G. Baker,
the Detective; and then it adds: For start
ling developments and thrilling adventures this
book eclipses the famous experiences of Fouche
and Vidocq, The marvellous narratives Of
Baker are all attested by the highest official
authority 1t will contain the only official his
tory of the Assassination conspiracy. 4 full
history Of this great, startling aud terrible
crime, from its inception, in tho hsunts of
7illainy to the burial place Of Booth, has never
yet been placed before the public. The work
also fully exposes the nefarious system By which
Presidential pardons were and are SO readily OBJ
tanned in Washington. The morals Of the Ma
tional Capital are thoroughly ventilated, and
there are some strange revelations concerning
heads Of departments, members Of Congress,
female pardon brokers, and distinguished mill
try characters This work will be ready tor
delivery On the lst day of May
The New York World com plains that from
the Nava! Register of 1867 it appears that
numbers OF congressman are filing places with
what it calls manufactured midshipmen,"
who are appointed from the untcpresented
Southern States, in which they lever resided
and do not belong, Il gives Il list of fifteen
rnidshipmen who reside in New York, Pennsyl
vania, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Con
necticut, and Massachusetts, but who figure on
the navy roll as having been appointed from
Louisiana South Carolina, Tegas, Mississippi,
Georgia, and Arkansas States within whose
borders they probably never drew breath
The Washington Chronicle Iredc tina,
the electoral vote Of Alabama will lie cast for
the Radical candidate for President in Noyem-
Der, 1868, no matter how radical he may be
himself, or how radical the platform upon
which he stands" If this is uscertuinal, Ala
hama goes in, " as matter of course. And
if a large portion of the white people are to be
aisiranchised, and all the colored people to be
enirancbised in the South, the same prediction
may be made of other Southern States besides
Alabama. The goal to be reached is the cleo
lion OF Radical President and the retention
OF power in the hands Of the Radic1s: in Con-
gress, and every where else
The Richmond Enquirer says: I'VE hope
that the military authority will suspend all
electous throughout the State, which it does
not intend to allow to he held under our State
laws and municipal charters,-urt after the |
registration is completed. Ih S will give no
lnconvcnince except in case Of the Legislature,
s the constitution provides that all officers un-
er it whether elected or appointed, shall con-
stnue to discharge their duties after their terms
have expired ''untl their successors are quail |
fed
by vote OF A. yeas 10 25 nays, the Virginia |
House OF Delegates yesterday passed bill to
prevent drunkenness and disorder st elections. |
The provisions Of this bill are strinsent--for |
bidding all persons, licensed or unlicensed, from
selling or giving away liquor, either by whole
sale or retail, at any locality near a place of |
voting. and Furnishing every offender by Il 6ne
CT not less than twenty no more than one hun
drcd dollars, and by imprisonment moi exceed
ing two months,
RECONSTRUCTION, says the National Inteli- !
sencer, is still the subject of discussion in the
Senate The question was debated yesterday,
whether it was republican to force governueuts
upon communities by military power against
their consent, and whether people Sc brought
into the Union would be agreeable and con,
tented associates in the same