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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-25
RocERIEs AND PROVISIONS.
w F. HENDERSON,
GROCERY, LIQUOR
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,

NO. 20. NORTH ROYAL ST,
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Is now receiving one of the largest and st
selected stocks ever offered to the country-tradu
and the citizens Of Alexandria, consisting in
part Of six hhds. R. r.. English Island and
Cuba New Sugars.
20 bbls Crushed, GRADUATED and Powdered
Sugars.
10 hbls 4 b and G Coffee Sugars
20 Portland, Phiada s Stewart Syrup.
20 sacks Rio, Laguyra and Java Co!fecs.
) hhds New Hams, Shoulders and Side Bacon
40 boxes Brown and Yellow Soap.
20 " Colgates Toilet Soap.
70 Tsllow Candles.
20 - a. D. Candles
10 bbls Pittsburg Coal Oil.
20 Assorted Crackers
20 Paptap co Family and Extra Flour.
20 G.. r. Hatchers Extra s. Super Flour.
10 Columbia Mills Extra Flour.
20 Super and Fine Flour.
20 Old Va, Thompson & other WHISTLES
10 . In casks French and Dom. Brandy.
Sherry Wines.
~ boxes Factory Cheese.
10 English Dairy and Pineapple Cheese
20 bbs Labrador, PASSPORT and Potomac
Herring.
20 chests and chests Gunpowder, Imperial,
Hyson, Japan and Black Teas.
20 boxes Warren's Yeast Powder.
gross Of Extract Coffee
10 bbls Baltimore Pickles
20 Cider Vinegar
10 boxes English and American CASTLE Soap.
5 bbls Virginia Buckwheat.
70 doz Backing, Whi:cwash & Scrub Brushes
70 boxes New layer Kaisins.
10 bbls Baltimore and n. Y. Ground Coffee.
10 boxes Virginia Celebrated Tobacco.
70 Pipes.
so sacks Fine and c. A. Salt
10 dozen Smiths Brooms.
% Painted and Cedar Buckets.
30 rcums Wrapping Paper.
gross Axe Handles.
kegs English Soda
TOGETHER WITH
Canned Fruits, OF all kinds.
Italian Maccaroni.
Mustard, AlIspice, Cloves, Sardn"S.
Bottled Brandy and Whiskey.
Wine, Scotch Ale, Brown Stout.
Olive Oil, French Mustard, Tomato Catsup.
Cocoa, Broma Gelatne, Chocolate.
MusOns Backing.
Corn Starch, Hecker's Furina.
Boxers and Stoughton Bitters.
English and American Pickles.
Common and Parlor Matches,
CARROTS Snuff,
Saltpetre.
Cigars.
Goldfish
Wash boards.
Wooden Trays, Bowls,
Candle wick, &c. feb 22-tf+
JAMES E. HENDERSON. R1cHD. W. AVERY
s. AVERY,
I'll Successors 10 John r. Henderson,
Would respectfully call the attention of their
friends and the public generally to their large
fresh and well selected stock of
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,.
consisting in part as follows: Old Government
Java, Prime Laguyra and Rio Cotfees; all
grades Of Raw and Refined Sugars; Superior
qualities of Gunpowder, Imperial, Young Hy
son and Japan Teas Stuartr53 celebrated Honey
Syrup, Family and Extra Flour, English and
American Pickles, Canned Lobsters, Fruits,
&c, and other articles generally kept in our
line, all of which we shall sell ut very low hg-
ures for cash. Soliciting the trade Of the old
house, we will endenvor to please all that may
favor u8. Goods delivered TO al parts Of the
city free Of charge.
T. B.-Produce Of Ill kinds purchased or
SOLD on commission. = feb l0-lm
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-25
MAYORALTY.

TOR MAYOR.-TO THE VOTERS OF
Il ALEXANDRIA, Having served this com
munity to the best Of my ability, respectfully
announce myself for reelection, subject to the
decision of the voters on the first Tuesday IN
March, (5th) 1861
feb 5-te HUGH LATHAM.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-25

REMARKs.--The market opens quiet, with
very light receipts No change in Flour or
Grain Plaster has declined.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
Go! the Poor Endlan!c

y Correspondent of the Springfield
Republican, who is among the Arkansas
Indians, and does not like the "noble saw
age" says:
"As he is usually pictured with digni-
fed countenance, resembling Daniel Web
ster about the time he said, Gas for me,
give me liberty" we may as well tell you
that he looks like the Evil One, minus
horns and hoocs. An utterly depraved,
diabolical countenance, so filthy that it is
alive with something besides animation OF
expression, the shrewdest finky eyes, and
the look of Shylock bargaining for the
pound of flesh His very smile is like the
grin of skull, which Victor Hugo calls
the satire of laughter" OF the wife of a
chief he says: "Mrs. Black Kettle is a
hag beside whom Meg Merrilcs is We
nus, and the Witch of Endor Hebe
She is a survivor of the Chivington mas
sacre, and has ten bullet holes in her body;
but there is enough of her, such as it is, to
stand it,"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07

lie sentiment at the South, or it wifully
and Indignantly falsifies it. 1t eau take
either horn of the dilemma it chooses.
1t is in this way that the people of the
North are deceived and the feelings of ap-
prehension and hatred kept up between
the two sections. What is to become of
the country if this agitation Of party dem
agegues is ever to continue and the truth
studiously be concealed from the people !?
How is it possible for the hatchet ever to
be buried so long as leading journals of the
North persist in misrepresenting every
thing South, and make their readers be-
lieve and act upon lie? We appeal to
the Republican press to cease this unfair
and unpatrotic mode of warfare. 1t is
corrupting to society and destructive of
every public interest. There is nc feeling
of hostility to the Union at the South.
1t is hard that because We protest against
oppression and oppose legislation which
the Legislators themselves concede is with
out warrant in the Constitution, We should
be set down as disloyal refractory, and in
imical to the country. There is no JUS
tice no truth, not even common honesty
and manhood in this disreputable and dis
organizing mode of warfare It is a
shameless insult TO the public intelligence,
and an imposition on the popular creduli-
ty. 1t may triumph for time, but AS
sure as there is God to vindicate the
right, these SANDERS will come home to
roost.'
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07

The parsons, who seem to have an apos-
tolc keenness Of scent for the loaves and
fishes beyond any political pointer that
shifts up the odor of good things from
afar, have been after General Grant, Of
fering him the Presidency and progncsti-
eating his election with the prophetic spi
rit that always inhabits the corporeal tab
ernacle of the Lords annointed. Grant
was rather non committal, the spirit not
having moved him at the moment; but he
has since expressed his willingness to as
sumo any responsibility the people may
impose upon him. This places him in the
race, so far as his own wishes are concern
ed The Republican papers come out in
great numbers in favor of his adop-
tion the party-candidate. 1t is strange
fact that this expression of sentiment in
favor of Grant as q Radical candidate fol-
lowed Immediately after the thrashing the
party met with in the late State elections.
The Tribune denoun ,es ths attempt to
force him on the party, aud still sticks to
Chase, notwithstanding the reputation of
his doctrines and the decapitation of the
niger by his own State. Whether the
parties thus coquetting will separate in
lovers quarrel, or fall into each others
arms, the capricious character of the ter
der passion renders matter of doubt
But there's many slip between cup and
lip, and there is no telling what new de-
velopments may take place during the
next twelve months. Grants present po-
stion is rather dubious, as he appears to
perform the duties of the War Depart
ment in sort Of mechanical way which
does not afford very decided evidence Of
what his views are on the Joints in con-
troversy between the political parties. We
can hardly believe, however, that he would
undertake to lead Radcalism, and at its
head attempt to storm the ramparts of the
Constitution and lombard the Union.
Even his fame would fail to inspire conf
dence in that enterprise. If he will use
his influence to restore the supremacy of
law over military usurpation, to maintain
the local independence of the States. the
rights Of all classes and the supremacy Of
the white man, he can be President as easy
as he coul1 roll off log; but with Rad
ical programme to carry out, he will have
as much chance to reach the Presidents
chair as a shad would have to ascend a
creased liberty -pole.-A. T. Mercury.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
Radical OratOry.

The Cincinnati CommerciH gives the
following specimen ofradical oratory:
The Hon. James NJ. Ashley, the distin-
guished gentleman who smashed the in
parchment movement in the Thirty-ninth
Congress by making speech in favor OF
it, is giving the benefit Of his talent to the
Republican cause in Western New York
Saturday night he spoke in James Hall,
Buffalo. On the financial question he re-
ferred to the exemption of incomes of less
than 81 1000 As to taxes he displayed
his intimate knowled re of the whole sub
ject and his popular proclivities in the re-
marks following:
Tobacco, whisky, wine and cigars are
taxed triAe; silks, satins and gewgaws,
etc, bear the brunt of the taxes. The
man who dresses his wife out in silks that
she may flame out, and who will drink his
bottle of wine, at FIVE dollars bottle, ought
to pay" [Applause.]
If we repudiate, Mr.. Ashley said, it
would, among other calamities, bring up
on us foreign war, and
"Well let them comefon the fellows say,
rolling up their sleeves while their eyes
stick out like snow balls on a barn door.
Oh yes, you are mighty brave now, but |
remember when you beloved like suck
ing calf for peace, peace.
Thus Mr.. Ashley smote the rascals on
all sides. When he came to the negro
question he observed:
During the war 4 100000 men stood
by the stars and stripes which had always
been the flag of stripes to them. "
That may be so, but it strikes us there
are rather too many negroes in the esti-
mate Four millions four hundred thou
sand black men indicate total negro pop
ulation of at least twenty millions. We
doubt the existence Of hat number upon
this continent.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
How Loyal Negroes Treat other
DarkCyS.

Four grocs-men--pregnan with SUI
frage and the loyal league-vict;ms ofig-
uorance and delusion entered our town in
military custody on Saturday afternoon
last, coming from the Ridge. The leaguefs
had invaded, with force and arms, the
premises of our well-known fellow-citizeu,
Burrell Boatwright, Esq, of the Ridge,
for the purpose of arresting another mig
ger who was not a Lacquer. The latter it
is said, had difficulty with a Lacquer. and
the president of the league had issued
despotc orders tor his arrest-dead or
alive and for this purpose had appointed
squad of ten men, all of the household
of filth.
These ten, of whom the president HIM
self, Moses johnson, was head and leader,
armed to the teeth, presented themselves
at Boatwright's to seize the infidel in Mr..
BoatwrIght's service. Young Sumpter
Boatwright demonstrated with them, and
induced them in some way or other to quit
the premises and, upon their doing so,
reported the case to headquait tcrs. Maj
Walker acted promptly, and the ringlead-
ers were arrested Hence the procession.
After night in our calaboose, they were
transplantcd to hike1.-Egcfcld, (S.
- fdretfiS,r
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
The Question Falsely stated.

We take the following from the ST.
Louis Democrat Radical:
1.-The most costly way to pay debt is
to repudiate it. TO pay in greeubacks
sum which We have promised to pay in
coin is reputation"
The question is falsely stated by the
Democrat The Government never prom
ised to pay the 6ve-twenty bonds, amount
ing to near s2,O0O,OO0,0OO, in coiu-
Those words sin coin" are in ten-forty,
bonds, but we're left out of the fve-twenty
bonds because it was designed that they
should be paid in legal-tenders. The ten
forty bonds were advertised by the Gov
ernment, in nearly all the papers of the
United States, as the ';only bonds whose
principal was payable in coin." They
were taken by the capitalists upon The
strength Of that representation. The le-
gal-tender act provides that all debts, pub
backs, except interest on the public debt
and custom house duties. The Democrat,
therefore, as the organ of the b0DdhOlders,
proposes to pay in gold that which the
government promised to pay in greenba cks.
1t proposes that the people shall be swim
died out of some $500. 100000, constitu-
ting the difference between gold and legal
tenders, on the So 600, 600, 600 in five
twenty bonds. This sum, of which the
people are to be robbed, is to be made
present gratuitously to the bcudhOlders.
We are against this wholesale stealing
for the many for the benefit of the few
We are against the Government paying
debts in coin THAI it only promised to pay
in legal tenders. We are for adhering to
the contract with the bondholders. The
Democrat is for repudiating it, in order to
get something better for their benefit.
That is the issue between us correctly sta
ted Cm. Eng.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
We Protest.

Under the above caption, the Macon,
Georgia, Telegraph thus portrays the per-
sistent misrepresentation of Northern pa
pers and radical orators in regard to the
sentiments and purposes of the Southern
people:
1t is discouraging to the hearts of
those who honestly desire to see the coun-
try once more united and at peace, to
see respectable journals at the North still
using the language of ribaldry and false
hood when they refer to the Southern peo-
pie. The New York Times speaks OF our
sending enemies to the Union to Con
gress-a charge which it knows to be false.
What right has it to characterize people
who have given every evidence of their
desire for peace, as enemies of the coun-
try: II is either grossly ignorant Of pub
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07

The arprehensions Of rising Of the ne
groes may or may not be we'll founded,
with reference to any particular locality,
at the present time. But apprehensions
having reference to the dispositions Of the
negroes to rise, and the probabilities that
they will do so, at some time. are we'll es-
tablished. The teachings of radicalism in
general, with respect to equality and the
superiority Of the nego over the southern
whites; and Of Thad. Stevens, Huuicutt,
and other republicans in particular, with
reference TO confscation, will just as sure
ly produce an uprising among the negroes
as that the sun gives light.
The whole negro population of the south
Is organized into secret associations, many
of whom are armed, and all of whom are
ready to obey any instructions which may
be issued by their leaders. Every radical
newspaper which reaches them from the
north is filled with denunciatiors of the
southern whites, and fulsome eulOgies of
the sooty cattle whose votes are wanted for
the next radical presidential candidate
Incited by these accounts, the negroes have
come to believe that they are the salt of
the southern soil, and that the extermiua-
ton of their white neighbors would be
God-service. 1t is certain that, if there
be not a negro insurrection, it viii not be
the fault of the scoundrelly demagogues
in the north whose lips and newspapers
are constantly filed with malignant lies
concerning the south 1t is true that
these lies are not for the purpose of Incl
ting the negroes to riot, but for the sake
of keeping the sympathy and votes Of
their radical drpes here in the north
Whether intended or not, the effect upon
the negro is the same, and will end in his
attempting to possess himself of the effects
of the ''dislvyal' and ''traitorous" white
men by whom he is surrounded.
Such an attempt, although lamentable
beyond all conception, will not be without
its compensations 1t will be drowned in
the blood of those who are the actors in it,
and sharing their sutfocation will be many
of the white wretches whose teachings are
hurrying this country toward the cOndi-
ton Of st. Domingo Chicago Times.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
.Iac0ksinS and Indians.

The radicals are cultivating niggers and
exterminating Indians. In this policy
they are certainly doing themselves a
grievous injury. They are injurng them
selves, because the indians can be made
voters; and. as all know, the supreme OBJ
ject of r:iicaism is votes
The Indians would net only make vo-
ters, but radical voters The Indian is by
nature an abolitionist. He will scalp
white men, but he will not scalp negroes.
The white radical braves are scaIping
white men, women and children indis-
criminately III the south They scalp no
negroes. Does not this trait show that
there is an intimate likeness between the
nature of the Indian and your radical?
Again, in looking over the names which
the children of nature have selected for
themselves, there occurs another marked
resemblance to certain radical features and
peculiarities. Thus, at the late grand
pow WOW there was present big Iniun
known as "Sitting Bear" Undoubtedly
this is an photographed perversion of
Sitting Bare" aud reminds one unmis-
taklbly of the indecent radical rump which
sits in Washington. Ofthe same connec-
tion is another chief known as "Over-the-
Buttes."
In Kicking Eagle" we discover anoth-
or resemblance to the radical bird of free
dom bird which once di6 some tall
screaming, but which is COW reduced to
an urgraceful recalctrant biped. Then
there was "Stinking Saddle Cloth" a rel
ativc and close imitator, no doubt, of the
great radical General Pope, who once, for
so long time, had his celebrated 'head-
quarters in the saddle" "Little Horn"
has recognizable radical characteristics; as
has ''Poor Man." and likewise ''Bear Runs
Over Man." which refers to the black
supremacy which radcalism is trying to
establish over white men in the south
big Bone" is of course the material from
which to make a Jacobin editor an orator !:
while "Crown" represents the despotsm
or centraism which old Thad. Stevens and
company are trying to establish over the
country. "Satana" is the visible expo
nent of the presiding genius Of black re-
publicanism aud Parted Lips" the en-
blem of the open -mouthed, brawliug dem
agogues who have control of the "God aud
humanity party"
From tn CSC examples, our Jacobin fell
low-citizens will see that, after the Afri-
cans, their next best allies are the Indians,
and that, in destroying them, they are
wasting the raw material of Jacobin vo-
tcrs r. Chicogo Tiw,S.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07
Was IL RPnuSliatfOu1

On the 18th of July, 1867, an act was
passed authorizing national loan and
for other purposes" and acting under the
provisions of that law the subscription
agent of the government issued proposals
for the new National loan, bearing interest
at the rate of seven and three-tenths per
cent. per annum. The announcement was
made that pursuant to instr rciions from
the Secretary of the Treasury" these ev-
licences Of Indebtedness should be in the
shape of notes redeemable ut the end Of
three years in gold, and that the interest
would be pa d semi-annually, at the mint
also in gold. Holders had the option,
at the time their bonds matured, of con-
vertng them into six per cent. gold bear
ing bonds, having twenty years to run.
This was plain contract, and these sew
en-thirties, as they were styled. were the
first application made by the Government
to the people for loan.
For two and half years the interest
was promptly paid in gold But at the
date of maturity, in 1864, payment of the
principal was declined. and also the inter
est remaining due on the same, except on
condition that the principal would be ta-
ken in legal tender notes, then at a dis
count of from fifty to sixty per cent. as
compared with gold. An application to
the Treasury Department was cavalierly
responded to, despite the solemnly pedg-
ed faith of the nation, by the Assistant
Secretary, who said that the sevon-thirties
were " considered on parity with all the
temporary loans of the government, all of
which it had been settled custom of the
Department to pay in lawful money"
This is plain statement of the facts,
and We give them without comment We
leave off as We begin, with the query,
Was it reputation !? and if the answer
is in the affirmative, "Who are the Repu-
ators ~ Phi. Age.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-11-07

Once upon time, no matter whether
That time is past. or is to come, or present,
Two neghbor- sat, to pass away foul weather.
In friendly chitchat by the freside pleasant
One was a Copperhead. No doubt he was
One who preferred his Lord to master Sambo,
And for one moment of the Union as II was
Would give age of Abolition jumbo
T'other was Rad, and no doubt he was
One who loved the modern gospel preaching,
Which in the churches. as you heard 1t, was
But rigmarolc of Abolition teaching
Both were farmers and from their dress tits certain
They had no surplus in the bank AT present
And as the light showed dimly through the curtain
Their faces wore a look by no means pleasant
blast The times" says Rad Il want some money
To paw my taxes. they are so high this year;
Certain il seems 10 me now very funny
They keepa getting higher every year"
Il well remember when they used to be.
Notihalf so high a. they are at present
True" says Cop, that's as II us,d to be-
Those Democratic days were very pleasant
Rad did not seem to like this rude Interpolation
Into the tenor of his halfway musings.
And sat moment in a deeper meditation
Refecting on the cause OF all MS iooslnSs.
Aslength he spoke. But now tn. warts ,;e: over
II seems to me that this eternal pOther
About the niger is almost run dry"
1T is not hard to tell the reason why
Replied the Cop. IF you II think upon II.
And the day j. surely drawing nigh
When every will hare TO think upon il.
We've had war; and we've freed the niggcr,
But have TO pay the cost of all
The bankers lent money and now with rigor
For interest on the bonds they press the call.
''Greenba cks good they say for you and 1.
To get enough of them is our PRAYER,
But gold for int rest on Our bonds. they cry,
TO pay us in such stuff is hardly fair
And now we have the Freedman's Bureau too
Which costs about eleven millions more,
And many other items. old and new,
Which press upon us still with burden sore
Protection is pig from the same sow.
Which costs us more than we can rightly guess.
IL does not mean protect the poor mans cow,
But means protection To the rich man 5 mess.
'-Once we had n war to save the Union.
The Union they say ii did discover.
And the Rump is trying reconstruction,
They say upon better plan than ever.
.''Tis You sec, to make the nigger equal
To the white man in this land OF freedom,
But il means a You will the sequel
To kick out both when they no longer need EN-"
T. FCGIr, ESQ