Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-04
VIEWS OF THE DAP.
s7o sho,o the ver:y age and body Of the times. .

ern Express Company, charged with robblng
the company of about $4,000 at West Point,
Mississippi, on the 10th March, was arrested
on Saturday morning by Mr.. Charles II.
Erhman, route agent of the Harnden Express
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and some
$4,000 in gold and United States currency
found upon his person.
The colored people celebrated, at Richmond,
Virginia, yesterday, the anniversary OF the
evacuation Of that city. The procession was
quite large. They we're addressed by Hunnl-
cutt, who advised them to beware Of Southern
whites and cling to the Republicans. Senator
Wilson was in the city, but did not address
them.
It is understood that Mr. Sumner, chairman
Of the Senate committee on foreign affairs, OPP
poses ratification Of the Russo American
treaty. and will move its postponement until
next session. If the matter ls pressed now by
its friends, not only will it not get two thirds
vote, but hardly majority for its ratification.
Benjamin g. Ewel president Of William and
Mary College, in Virginia is now seeking aid
in New York to rebuild the institution. 1t is
the oldest, ornext to the oldest, seat of learning
in America, and was destroyed by T. s. sol
diers during The war.
The anniversary celebration of the Jefferson
Society of the University of Virginia will take
place on Friday evening, April 18th inst The
reader on the occasion will be John 7. Basel,
of West Virginia, and the orator, Frank u.
Moore of Virginia.
Gen. Sickles, commanding in South Carolina,
has issued an order prohibiting elections tor
the present, announcing that he will appoint
Sherifs and other civil officers, upon the expi-
ration of the terms Of the present incumbents.
The actual gross receipts from the working
Of the Atlantic cable from the opening of the
communication with America from the 18th OF
July last to March II, averaged sSl3 (about
$4,000 per day, including Sundays
Some Radical members Of the Connecticut
Legislature attribute their signal defeat in
Connecticut to the effort Of Congress to force
negro suffrage upon the Northern States.
A man named David Horth has been sen
aenced in New York city to pay fine Of S25
and to ten days Imprisonment tor beating Ii
eat 8 brains out with bis clutch (?)
The property known as the Gold Ridge
farm, in Prince William county, Virginia, was
disposed of, the other day, to G. A. Wherlock,
for &63 000 or 800 PEI acre
The Ohio House has passed the Senate
manhood suffrage resolution, with all amend
lnent DISTINGUISHING "sebel5' and deserters, by A
vote Of e. to %.
Our advces by the cable are to yesterday ~
The negotiations looking to the acquisition Of
Luxembourg by the French Government have
been stopped.
General Burnside was yesterday reelected
Governor of Rhode Island. All the Republi-
can candidates for Congress and State Offices
were chosen.
Late news from Montana says the mining
operations this season will be extended, and
estimates the yield of precious metals at $780,
100000.
The mayor Of Memphis offers reward OF
$500 for the murderer Of Gen. Bankhead, and
the same amount for Ferguson's murderer.
The extensive wooden mills OF b. Schoiield,
at Manayunk, Pa, we're burned last night.
Loss $3.50, 900; insured for 900.
Richard G. Parsons, Of Ohio, was yesterday
appointed marshal OF the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Gen Sherman is to make IMP to Europe,
this summer. He will sail from New York in
June.
Mr.. TUCKER's SPEECH. The Richmond
Examiner gives an account of the recent meet
ing of the colored people in Richmond, at
which Hunnicutt made a speech, and then
adds
"Hunnicutt then introduced Mr.. Tucker, of
Alexandria, who first proceeded to euoglze
the Immaculate Hunnicutt, and then launched
forth in Fourth Of July Grafton, of an hour
in length, in similar ven The only points
success if they continued united that the
taxes would in future have to be paid by the
property, and that they must seek to ally
themselves with the poor white people OF the
South, land make common cause with them
against their common oppressors-the dfastoc-
racv" He cautioned them to beware OF rebel
influences, and above ALL never to take advice
from their enemies They must also be on
their guard against the insiduous wiles Of the
rebel papers, and remember who called them
balloons, and Abraham Lincoln all ape, and
told them the Yankees had horns on their
foreheads. will you trust such men p
[No! Mol ADD then Mr.. Tucker subsidized
RAILROAD TRAVELLING IN THE EAST
lNDJEs.-Thc worst of our Inconvenience in
railroad travel are Insignificant compared with
what is endured in the East, it the following
from an India journal is to be relied on