Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-05-08
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8.


WEDNESDAY, EVENING, MAY 8.
Capitalists and those who wish to invest in
real estate, or to commence profitable farming
operations, at little expense, have now the
finest field in the world opened to them, in the
cheap lands of the Northern Neck of Virginia,
the region round about Alexandra, and in old
Virginia generally, and which are now offered
for sale. Very much of this land can be pur-
chased at the most reasonable rates-and being
easily titled and highly susceptible Of improve.
ment, with labor and capital applied, it would
bloom and blossom as the rose. The rivers
aud creeks abound in fish and oysters, and
other ~luxuries of the water, fruits of all kinds
are plentiful, the country is still we'll wooded,
and the soil peculiarly adapted to the produc
ton of all the cereals. We do not address our.
selves to spectators, but to those who really
wish to buy lands to settle on them, and live
among US. They will find here advantages
which they could not obtain in the West, to
say nothing of the contiguity to neighboring
markets. where all agricultural productions
meet with ready sale.
The manifest reluctance-as wise as it IS
natural-of the great body of the Southern
people, to be hurried into politics, or political
dissensions, or political parties must be evident
to every mau who has an opportunity Of know
ing anything about public sentiment. The
white people wait patiently under the law as
it exists they desire to CONFORM to the law,
to obey it, and to offer no resistance to it what
ever. When the time, under the law, comes
for them to act, they will do SO, and they will
act, With no reference 10 parties, but, for what
they may believe to be the best Interests of
their State aud their country. They are salts
fed, already, that it is their duty and their
policy, to exercise the modicun Of power By
suffrage, which is allowed them in the support
for Offices of trust of Conservative men, VINO
to establish Conservative measures, as far as
possible, under the circumstances. This the
law permits, AS is expressed On its face, and
they will not go behind it, for purposes which
they canuot approve, and at which their jndg-
ments and feelings revolt.
The newspapers are encouraging a very
ridiculous thing, by appending an Hon. to
the nalne OF every man who holds an office,
and, in many cases, to those who have only
tried to get one. BY courtesy and use the
prefx OF 'Hon.' was, in forlner aud better
lDu, .li,uo3 ~ oof,aI Can,tor. md Ranrscon.
~tatives in Congressman to few high officers
o! State, and judicial officers. Further than
that, the practice was not tolerated. Take up
any newspaper, now, and the difference will
be seen. Many persons, We know, to whose
names, the now unmeaning and absurd prefix
is attached-would be glad, as far as they are
concerned, if the fashion" were altered
They laugh at it Us much as other people do
and thirE that, Gas 4 custom, it would be more
honored in the breach than in the observance. "
The plain addition of Mr.. or Esq, to mans
name is a sufficient mark of respect-and all
else is superhuous, if not worse.
We publish for record, and as an anomalous
document, the charge Of Judge Underwood to
the Grand Jury of the u. S.. Circuit Court
sitting in Richmond. The abstract of it, given
by, telegraph yesterday, VIC had supposed
might be an exaggeratlcn or an unintentional
Misrepresentation of its contents. But "tbe
reality surpasses the anticipation. 1t has
been met with one common burst OF indigna-
tiou from ,he.press in Richmond, and, VIZ arc
informed, from the bar ana the citizens gener-
ally of that place. The comments of the press
are of the most severe and scathlng character.
A letter from Fortress Monroe, published i'll
the Baltimore American says: The most
gratifying reports have already bcca received
from the counties and registration districts OF
this State upon the south side OF the James
river, which furnish conclusive evidence of the
conciliatory manner in which the inhabitants
are receiving the registering officers, and
assisting them in carrying out the preliminary
measures of the Reconstructed bill"
A dispatch from Richmond dated yesterday
says: "A colored man to-day attempted TO
ride in a car appropriated to whites, was put
of. The case was laid before the Grand Jury
OF the U. $. Court. A large meeting of col
ored people to night, was addressed by Messrs.
Haywood, of Massachusetts,, and Marsh, of
Virginia. Both favored confscation.'
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The New Orleans Times. Crescent, and Pic.
ayune, it IS reported, have received au admo-
milton from General Sheridan not to indulge
in denunciation of the reconstruction law
How strangely do these "warnings'' to the
press sound, and how strangely will they read
in history
One of the agents for the sale of Detective
Bakers History Of the Secret Service