Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-01
ALEXANDRIA.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY i.

81 e.aALEXANDRlA.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY /.
The Washington Chronicle says: we IN
derstand thatthe Joint Committee on Recon
rstruction has under consideration the various
bills and plans which have been submitted to
it for the rehabilitation of the Southern States,
and is endeavoring to harmonize conflicting
views upon that subject It is beloved that a
bill will be framed and submitted to Congress
.torits action, having in view the illustration OF
any, attempt apon the part of the supreme
Court Of the United States to recognize the
Southern States in their present condition.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltl-
more Sun says :-s'Detective L G. Baker has
arrived here, in obedience to a summons to
appear before the House judiciary committee,
to testify upon the impeachment. It's said
Baker is anxious to aid in the impeachment OF
the President Mr. johnson discovering, some
eighteen months ago, that Baker had placed
several OF his detectives in the halls and ante
rooms of the White House, called the chief
detective before him, and after giving him
severe lecture for his assurance, ordered him
to be gone and not show his face again upon
the premises. "
Several prominent citizens of Brooklyn
have projected plan of an excursion from New
York to Palestine, Egypt, the Crimea, Greece,
and Intermediate points of interest They De-
lieve that select company Of acquaintance
and friends, j so in number, can easiIylbe made
UP in Brooklyn and in New York. The New
York Post states that Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher has engaged passage for himself and
family, and many other gentlemen have made
application to join The party with their families
The company, it is said, will be Vigorously
selected Aheml
The Westover manuscripts, containing "a
history of the running Of the Dividing Line
between Virginia and North Carolina; jour:
ney,to the Land of Eden Proceedings OF the
Commissioners to Lay Out the Bounds Of the
Northern Neck Essay On Bulk Tobacco Pay
ing Debts in Country Commodities Planting
Vineyards and Making Wine; and other mat
tiers of interest relating to Virginia about the
year l72O, are shortly to be published in two
volumes g~aa.4e .lEt.
1n:,the official reports from Gen, Wilson,
COL Pritchard, and the subordinate officers,
engaged in the capture of Mr. Jefferson Davis.
sent in to Congress, yesterday, not one word is
said Of Mr.. Davis having been taken in amy
costume but his own Had it been otherwise,
it would certainly have been stated. Thus is a
miserable SANDER, promulgated at the time,
now refuted in the quarter where it might have
been denied from the first, but was not. "
Yesterday, in the House Representatives,
Mr.. Maynard presented a memorial from six
hundred citizens Of Virginia. for the setting
aside Of the present State government and the
establishment of provisional government
Referred to the Joint Committee on Recon.
struction This is the petition that Southern
Loyalists" have been 'fooling and fddling"
about in Washington, for some time
The report Of the Committee on Courts Of
Justice of the House Of Delegates, in defence
Of the Stay Law, and the constitutionality Of
that law, is an able paper-and shows without
doubt, at least, one thing; that learned law
yers and jurists have come to very opposite
conclusions with regard to this whole tier,
and that much may be said Oh 10th sides .
Yesterday, in the House of Representatives,
a bill was introduced 10 incorporate the Burg
larry Insurance Company of the District of
Columbia The capital stock allowed is one
million Of dollars, which may be decreased to
five millions at the discretion Of Congress. The
bill was referred to the Committee on the
District
Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Griffin, have not
added anything to their regulations OF to their
credit with the rational and rchecting people
of the country by their recent course, in rela-
tsonlo the burial of The remains of tie late
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. 1t was not
kind-it was not magnanimous.
Gen. Butler is said to be in Washington,
urging on the ''impeachment; and prosecut-
ing claim against the government, for a man
in Washington Territory, for two millions of
dollars So
The argument before the. Supreme Court of
the District Of Columbia, in relation to the
Test oath required by the rules Of that court,
was commenced, yesterday, by Mr. Bradley.
Hon. Phillip johnson, Representative in
Congress from the Eleventh District of Penn
sylvania, died suddenly, in Washington, yes
terday. L
Victor Cousin, the celebrated French meta
physical philosopher, died at Paris, on the 18th