Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-19
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TuRsDAYiEVENING, FEBRUARY 10.

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TuEsDAYiEVRNING, FEBRUARY 49,
HAMILTON, of Texas formerly, is stirring up
tho Southern Republican Association in
Washington. He made epeech on Monday
night, and proposed resolutions in favor of APP
plying Elliott s. reconstruction bill to all the
Southern States, which were adopted He
declared that il. his opinion President johnson
was less an usurper than Congress was an op-
pressor, and the South could not be restored by
the present bill pending before that body
Neither Greeley nor Beecher could any longer
be considered representative men of the Repubt
licanf party ;they were behind the times; and it
Was the duty fthe association to express itself
eandidy. He believed that Congress was SOW
ing the seeds of another revolution How long
and bloody it would be the future alone can
determine. I t.s,Hunnicutt' was also present and
madea speech, declaring that he had mo faith
in the present Congress. . ...-
The ttWAsHINeToN NEGOTIATIONS. THE
Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives what purports to be narrative
of the negotiations entered into by certain Re-
publican members of Congress, calling them
selves conservative, with President johnson.
The. object appears to have been to ascertain
whether some measure could not be agreed up
on for the. restoration Of the South which
would receive the assent OF the President and
at the same time the support Of portion of
the Republican members Of the House. 1t is
asserted that in the interviews subsequently
had with the President by committee Of. Re-
pubhcans delegated to wait upon him, Mr..
johnson entered into frank explanation of
hisgiews on the ubject Of restoration, and at
ter hearing what the committee had TO- say,
made such promises Of cooperation as were
satisfactory to all present" ~
ARRIVAL OF SURRATT About FIVE O. clock
yesterday afternoon, the U. S. gunboat Swatara,
Captain Jeffries, commanding, having on board
John Fl. Surratt, arrived at the navy yard in
Washington, thilty-one days ilom Lisbon
Commodore Goldsborough is also on board
Surratl has not vet been removed, and by
orders from the Navy Department, commani-
cation with the shore, or vice cerSa is strictly
prohibited. 1t is probable that he will be
placed in the custody Of Marshal Gooding and
imprisoned in the county jail in Washington.
''Whi,her are We Tending in national
affairs, may well be asked now. There are
mournful and serious subjects for reflection in
the queries Of the Richmond Wing when
the Radical programme shall have been con
>ummated 10 the destruction of the Coustitu-
ton, and Of civil liberty in ten States what
then? Are We at the end of Old troubles, or
the beginning OF new? How long will the rule
of two hundred tyrants endure? How soon
willbegin the dynastic wars among rival Gen
erals for the imperial purple? How many
Caesars and Pompeys, Octaviani ard Antonys
shall We have? How many long years OF
bloody and destructive wars before we reach
the calm haven of settled despotism?'
In the House of Representatives, yesterday
Air. Cook offered resolution directing the coin
held by the Secretary Of the Treasury, by or
der of the President, and claimed by the Bank
of Virginia, the Farmers Bank of Virginia,
and the Exchange Bank OF Virginia, to be paid
into the Treasury, with right to the claimants
to prosecute their claims thereto. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
Gov Orr, of South Carolina, addressed
large meeting of the colored menof Charleston
last week, in which he advised them to remain
at their homes, and avowed himself in favor of
giving the right Of voting to colored people who
can read and write and have property to the
amount of $3.50 He exhor,ed them to 20 to
work, to Re industrious, and not to NEEDLE with
politics
Ats meeting Of coored people in Washing
ton, it was resolved not to vote for any body
whose principles are not known to be in sympa-
thy with equality, and justice before tie laws
That is who are not in favor of general suffrage,
without distinction
Virginia exchange paper says: " More
than ever is it now necessary that every South
ern boy should learn tradc--should take off
his coat, roll up his sleeves and go at some
thing, by which he can make a living, and
support himself"
Washington Geographic dispatch to the
Richmond Dispatch says, that Mr. John NJ
Bolts hes prepared plan for Reconstruction, !"
which has BEEN submitted to the President,
and will probably be laid before Congress.
Brownlow telegraphs to the Washington
Chronicle that the Negro Suffrage bill has
passed the Legislature of Tennessee, and ends
the dispatch with-''My regards to Andrew
Pharoah"
Tbaddeus Stevens, yesterday, in debate in
the House Of Representatives, characterized