Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-07
The Richmond Enquirer says:-"If half the

The Richmond Enquirer says :-'' If half the
reports which have reached us are true, 9
number of officials connected with the Freed,
mems Bureau, the machinery of registration
of voters, and with the military department.,
must have violated, in the grossest and most
uublushing manner, the order against inter
fering with elections, at the late election Of
delegates to the Convention" However this
may be, Of a great many of these official, there
were honorable exceptions, who deserve credit
for their general course in the matter and
who must, have been disguised at being wit
nesses of the array of the blacks against IN en-
of their own color
Mr. Edward McCook, of the u. s. legation
at Honolulu. writes to the State Department
that Russian America isnot the desolate coun.
try it is sometimes represented to be-but that
it contains much land that is as well adapted
to cultivation and stock raising as many parts
of New England land that its fisheries, forests,
&C., are very valuable. There has been great
deal Of writing to prove that the newly &C
quircd territory is just precisely the opposite
of what the world has always believed it to be,
and what Russia evidently thought it was
Occasional (Forney) in his last letter in
the Washington Chronicle, says sVirginia is
now, as during the rebellion, the hot bed of
treason" This is simply, a monstrouS, great
big yfbh Upless, indeed, it confnunds ideas,
and thinks that opposition to the schemes of
Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and
the other ultra Radical leaders, is treason -
(which case,it is correct; with this exception
that New. York, is the Shot bed, b" as just
proved BY the recent election, and Virginia is
only an open garden. ara3 Is 4 ..l5
The Philade]phia Press and Washington
Chronicle appear asrad7ocatcs Of &c n. Grant S
nomination as tho Radical candidate for Presi
dent Both papers claim that Grant is in
hearty accord with the Radical party. The
followers and train bearers will hasten to pur-
sue the same course. The, Radical defeats all
over the country, only secure the nomination OF
Gen. Grant, who, though not wanted by tie
leaders, is eagerly adopted, as good enough Rad
ical for the present.
For once, the Radical papers do not "foow
suit" We have not yet Seen that any one Of
them responds to the sentiment Of the Wash
ington Chronicle, that 'stbe results of Tues
days election present an aggregate OF sub
'stantial. encouragement to the Radical p
The sentence was read to very decided Radi-
cal yesterday, and his emphatic, bat uct polite,
response was--'sD-n the Chronicle - :,
The Baltimore Sun says: some of the strong
est arguments in favor of doing business on a
cash principle In the fact that at present the
branches of trade which are the dullest are those
10 which the longest credit is given. Houses
that do a nearly cash business, it Is stated, at
the North, have the best trade, and the lie, st
inconvenience in meeting their obligations. :
In his address at the Agricultural FAIR at
Danville, Mr. Charles Venable advis eil the
young men of Virginia and North Carolina to
seek their fortunes in tilling the eart'n, to find
land and work, to eschew politics and let pro-
LESSONS alone, as the readiest aud toast effect
ual mode of reconstructing their shstte red for
tues Most excellent advice. az ar+,...s.
The Baltimore Gazette says: ;'Notwith-
standing the enormous majority, sixty thousand
cast by the Democracy OF New; York, Baltimore,
in proportion to voting population, has done
better. The figures in New York show about
$40 Democrats to every 100 Radi Gals, whilst
here We have about 40 true men to- every 100
destruotives." ~
The Providence Journal says the wages Of
the operatives are to be reduced this week in
several OF the largest cotton factories in Rhode
Island, and that if the times do not improve
an entire or partial suspension of work must
soon occur by the concerted action of the man
information has been received that Sir Ed
ward Thornton has been appointed by the
British government as Minister to the United
States. Sir Edward holds the matter under
advisement, and the British government is
awaiting his acceptance or declination
Astronomers are preparing the minds OF the
people for another meteoric exhibition, to oc-
cur on the fourteenth of this month, The
maximum of the display is calculated to occur
ut about half: past twoso' clock a. M, on Thurs
day of next week. lei
The European dispatches announce that
Garibaldi's plans have been Frustrated, his
army defeated and dispersed, and he himself o
close prisoner, Many of the Italians had
thought him 'inyincible,' as well as 'irrepres-
sible :" It would appear that he is neither.
The Parliament Of the Dominion Of Canada
Was to b formally opened yesterday afternoon,