Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-20
ALEXANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 90.
In MIR. Thaddeus Sterens,s speech in the

gentleman from Alexandria came to me, one
of the judges there, and told ne Of the case Of
an old gentleman who had bought some seven
teen thousand dollars worth Of property under
tax sale of the United States, but that the
rebel whose property it had been came recently
with the President pardon and an order for the
restoration Of the property: and an ejectment
has been broughtiu the State court, land beyond
all question the recovery will be had" He
then added God willing. and living, there
shall be.a question propounded to this House
and this nation, whether portion Of the claims
OF loyal men shall not be paid by the confsca-
ted property of rebels" There is general
impression here, that the gentleman from Al
ezandria one of the judges there, " who Is in
communication with Stevens on the GoAfsco-
ton question, is known by name in this COM
munity. The "Confscation' torture will
probably be attempted BY the next Cougeis.
Itis foreshadowed. A Washington telegram
10 the Philadelphia Press says; Mr.. Stevens
will speak Oh confscation 10 few days. He
will show the manner in which the laws passed
eonfscating the property of the rebels have
been abrogated BY Presidential pardona and
rebel State courts - Devilish ingenuity is
racked to invent pains and penalties upon an
oppressed and suffering peope-lu time of
peace, and when if there were any maenanim-
ity in the victors they ought 10 be proud to
show it!
La the Senate, on Tuesday, when the Radi-
Gals there we're talking about the "cruelty" in
the South towards the freedmen AID the
Union men, that is, Radical tar and tarpen-
tine characters MIR. McDougall, Of California,
said, The knew as we'll as any man could know,
that all this talk about Southern cruelty was
falsehood This Governor Hamilton, Jack
Hamilton, or any other Hamitca, laughter
came hele with tears in his eyes and groaus in
his chest, and prated how he had suffered,
when every one knew that he had not suffered
at all. This is the case with nearly all these
Flandercrs of the South and the Southern PEG.
pie, who are in Washington seeking for Office
and 'spoils. They have never ''sutfered,'
or lost dime, except in suffering" from the
contempt of honest men, for their base conduct
and losing" the salaries of offices they are in
competent to fill
4 Joint resolution was introduced by Mr..
Banks, in the House of Representatives, yes
terday, read three times and passed, directing
the Secretary of the Navy, on application of
tn,b 20 no
transportation, to Charleston, Savannah and
Mobile. of any supplies of food and clothing
that may be contributed by the people OF the
United States for the use of any ortion Of the
people of the Southern States who may be suf
fering from the failure of crops, or other causes.
The editor of the Lynchburg Eirgipian,
records late scene, in the Senate at which he
was present, and says :--"Tbc last words Of a
Senator with whom we conycrsed were, tell
the people Of Virginia to remain out of the
Union forever before they dshonor themselves
by accepting degrading terms aud becoming
the instruments of their own intamy.' And
with heavy heart we turned from the marble
halls aud glided domes of radical legislation to
noble old Virginia, only dcarer because of her
chains and desoation.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: THE
Postmaster in Bridgewater, Rockingham CO.,
has the following notice, in large letters,
prominently posted up: No papers loaned
at this otfice!' If every county Postmaster
would do his duty to the Press in this regard
as fully as the Postmaster at Bridgewater is
doing his, the improper aud reprchensible
practice Of borrowing newspapers from
Postmasters who have no hight in the world
to loan them, would be broken up.
Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in the Senate,
yesterday, 10 reply to the charge against the
President of refusing to execute the laws pass
ed Tor the protection of the freedmen, said
that no Radical could impugn the loyalty of
Secretary Stanton, yet, in response to the in
quiry Of the Senate, he has reported but three
cases Of outrage, and declared that none others
had come to the knowledge OF the War De.
partment, nor so far as he knew of the Presi-
dent
Some of our Contemporaries are discussing
the subject Of Virginias portion of the land
granted by Congress to each of the States for
the encouragement of instruction in agricnl,
tura and mechanic arts, the value of which is
vsriously estimated at $4,000 to s2OO,0OO.-
Will the Radicals ever permit Virginia to have
any of this land?
There has been considerable migration of
colored people from Georgia to Mississippi
The Columbus Georgia Sun learns that consid-
cradle numbers Of them we're coming back on
foot from Mississippi to their former homes.
The West, it seems did not turn out to be the
"El Dorado they had imagined or been
taught to believe.
The Richmond Times says that Judge Alex
sndpr Rivns Of the VIRGINIA Court of Annpalc