Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-28
ALEXANDRIA,:
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH %.

some or tIleT> efFOrS Oh ADMINISTRATORS, one vi
the pnrest, best, and most conservative parties
ever formed in this or any other government =
and labors to show that their teachings and
doctrines arc carried out by the Radicals fthe
present day Why, the TRUTHS, the principles
and the practices of the, old Federal party were
exactly the reversible antipodes OF those
of the Radicals Did The American ever read
the Federalist, and compare the exposition,
there given of constitutional rights, guarantees
and restrictions, with the modern notions on
those subjects as enunciated by the Radical
eaders2 Light and Darkness / White and
Blackl Hot and 7Cold! They are as different
as it is possible to conceive different things 10
be! IF it were allowed for men 70 rise from
their graves, we should :, think Washington,
Marshall, Hamilton, Jay, and their compeers,
would stand in bodily presence among us, and
rebuke the mutlatioa of their noble work,
committed by sacriligious handsin this year
of grace! They were constimtionalists, con-
servatives Of conservatives-admi &C.
knowledging and maintaining all the enumera Z
ted reserved rights Of the States. They were
for National Government, ior special purpo-
ses in preference to Confederation; but they
made Constitution intended to form such a
of the States, as they thought. fully secured
They never dreamed, in this country, of the
humiliation of State Rights and The substitu-
ton Of Military Authority for Civ;l government.
The mournful story of Minnie Boxer, now
Mrs Dean, of New York, which has been 60
ing the rounds of the papers, which we copied
few days ago, in the Gazette, and turns out to
be an entire fabrication, invented by a female
in one Of the asylums Of New York, who
represented herself to be Mrs. d. The real
Mrs. Dean and her husband are living comfort
ably, virtuously, and happily together in the
vicinity of New York, in which city Mr.. Dean
is respectfully engaged in a wholesale commits
sion business, and is well known and honorably
regarded. This was an artfuy contrived aud
we'll told tale-and reminds US of the story Of
the death Of the bride during the lombard
nent of Charleston, In the late war, which was
believed by every body, for long time. I'm
The Bureau of Statistics at Washington
gives the total value of domestic exports from
the United States during the year 1866, at
$l72,06l, 129 OF this sum the principal
amount was on cotton, the ca ports Of which
footed up ISL, $50, 3lS Gold bullion, ST, 3337,
72S; silver bullion, S.. S95, 037 gold coin, S.
5Ss,8G0; silver coin, 1914, 500; nanuac-
lures of gold and silver $2S,093. The bread
stufs figure up 800, $40, l04. The export val
ue Of oils amounted to ST., 240, 5TI3, nearly all
Of which was petroleum. Provisions amount
ed to sl4, 252, At, Of which $5,635, C70 was
cheese alone Tobacco, ST ,842, pa Aeii-
cultural implements, S596024 Coax ST.
051,
What is called reliable information has been
received at Washington that Mazimilian only
waits in Mexico to make the best pecunary ar
engagements that he can, and that he will Ger
tainly leave the country before the first Of July.
But then, there is nothing reliable from
Mexico, The truth as to affairs OF events in
that country, cannot be obtained Witness
the circumstantial account Of the alleged mas
sacre of prisoners by Escobedo, which is now
contradicted. But nobody knows wheGhsr the
contradiction itself is or is not false.
The Maryland Radical Convention, which
met in Baltimore, yesterday, passed reaolu,
tions urging upon Congress tie necessity of
guaranteeing to the State Of Maryland re-.
publican form Of government" advocating uBi- |
Versal suffrage, and declaring the intention of |
The Radical party in the State to take no part |
regarding The convention authorized by the |
Legislature 10 frame a constitution, except to |
vote against the holding Of any such convention.
1t is evident that Maryland is The next point
of attack.
The Washington correspondent Of The Bali |
more Gazette afirms that it is reported and
lntmates that it is more than a rumor-that |
the Secretary Of War insists that the re-assem-
bling Of the Virginia Legislature oa the 10th
proximo, must be prevented by military or
der. If SO many strange things did not take
place, we should be inclined not to credit this
report. But there is no knowing now what
will happen
The New York Tribune, speaking of Abbott's
historical romances, calls him lone Of the
most unscrupulous Of the new school of histo-
rical white washers" The misfortune is, tool
that the does not white wash decenty He
merely daubs
A dispatch from New Orleans dated yester-
day, says that reports from points above the
city on the river state that the leyees are Civ.
ing way, and the whole lower valley will prob
ably be inundated. f,ssss 4
The Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Maryland
and the District of Columbia, resolved yester-
day to separate, by vote of 10 to 3. The
PotomacC Chapter of Georgetown voted against it.