Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-23
ALEXANDRIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY %.

The National Inteigencer intimates the
future course of the President upon the late
Reconstruction Act-which is that he will eX-
ecute the law according to the terms of the
law The article referred to- also speaks OF
what the President may do, if an occasion
comes, or is forced upon him in which ne must
consent TO be dsobeyei or supplanted from
his constitutional jurisdiction or assert his
constitutional rights; ) that is, 1t says no body
is authorized to announce what he will do,
then and in that event. We have no idea OF
any collision If he executes the law, as
Congress intended-and he now knows what
IS intended fully-it will be hereafter just as
it has been in the passover since the Presl-
dent has objected to the measures Of Congress.
Governor Peirpoint has commenced his cleo
tioneerng tour and specialization" in favor
of the "Coalition Radical Party" and Is re-
ported as making long address at ''Whites-
vile, on the 18th instant; in the course Of
which, We observe, that he again doled out his
stale charge that the conservative Viry ina
white people have been aud are engaged ia
forming political party in Opposition to the
co!Ored people an assertion which we have
before characterized as considering the true
circumstances and the real efforts Of the Rad
ical party most impudent, and totally drsil-
tute Of facts to support it. l. is Peirpon' and
his Radical clique, who have keen and are try
ing to band the colored peopl in antagonist to
the white people who are not Radicals.
A dispatch from Gen. A. j. Smith, dated
Fort Harker, July Goth, to General Sherman,
states that reliable information had been
cei7el that Bishop Lamy aud party, recently
reported to have been attacked near Fort
Larned, and eight men killed and the women
taken caplives, passed Fort Dodge, fifty five
miles west OF Fort Larned, in company witt,
q large train on the 10th instant The report
ed massacre must therefore he false. We are
reoeed to see that the distressing rumor re-
ierred to, is incorrect.
The Lynchburg News asks why 10 not
the loiling thousands of our large cities, who
are pent up in badly ventilated dwellings,
located in filthy alleys and narrow courts and
streets, seek the more healthful country, where
with one-Ealf the labor and not one hundrcdth
the privations they can realize a living for
themselves and tamilies?' In Virginia there
is ample Scope and verge enough" TO make
themselves comfortable and prosperous.
1t is reported" that in his interview with
the judiciary Committee Of the House Of
Representatives, on Saturday, before which
he was called as witness 10 the impeachment
case, Gen. Grant "took occasion to express
himself as heartily and unequivocally in SYM
patty with the measures enacted by Congress
for the restoration of the South" This may
or may not be so-but we think, it is qnte
likely.
1t is said that all the bills passed at the re-
cent session Of Congress have become laws
either by the approval of the President or
passage over his vetoes, with the exception Of
the bill striking out the word ''white' in the
existing statutes in the District Of Columbia,
so as to remove the present discrimination
against colored people in the election to Office
and to occupy seats in the jury box.
Late advices from Vera Cruz report that
the body of Maxiulilian will be delivered to
the Austrian legation. The remains are now
on the way to Vera Cruz, where they will be
put on board the Austrian steanr irigatc Eza
beth, which is due at New York about the
first of August There is no truth in the
report that the foreign colsnls have Lcen
molested in Mexico
Montgomery Blair made speech at Rock
bridge, Va, Oh Saturday, in which he de,
nouDced the Radicals He said that PreS
dent johnson dedicated the Conservative party
By retaining his enemies in office. Mr.
Blair advised the President to rid himself of
Secretary Stanton and make General Grant
temporary Secretary Of War
The report FROM Mexico that Escobedo has
issued proclamation denouncinE death to
all strangers, and citizens of the u. s. particu-
lary, threatening contiscation, &c, is not
credited. We DO not know, however, what
such a Liberal gentleman as Escohedo
may not do
Some of the Northern Insurance Offices
have recently suffered considerably from the
loss sustained by large fires in the Northern
aud Northwestern cities and towns.
The COURSE OF THE EXEcrT1vE-- 1t is uu-
derstood, in we'll informed circles, that the
President will cheertuly and promptly enter
upon the execution Of the reconstruction aut of
the last session of Congress, giving, il occasion
requires, explicit Instructions to the command.
ing generals. The utmost care will be taken
to guard against possible collision with the
generally understood wishes of Congress. It
is believed, however, that all the Cabinet are
agreed uunn the ME that The proSi.A....t