Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-03-19

Sunday next the pastors of the different
churches here, should authorize collection to
be taken up among the various congregations
the proceeds to be applied, under the direction
Of a committee of ladies, to the Relief Of the
Destitute and suffering in the South. If their
suggestion be adopted, further notice will be
given And we sincerely hope SO benevolent a
proposition will be warmly seconded, and sue
cessfully carried cut, by our citizens and that
whilst, in the Churches they attend, they are Civ
ing thanks to the Almighty for all that they may
enjoy, they will have the happiness to contrib
ne out of such means as have been left to
them, to the comfort and happiness Of those
elsewhere, who are pining under affection, re-
duced to poverty, and unable to maintain them.
selves aud their families Such charity will,
indeed be twice blesse9-blessed TO those who
give, aud to those who may receive.
THERE IS 4 GREAT AND NOBLE FIELD for
philanthropic exertion in behalf Of the African
race how in this country, before the people Of
America an enterprise full Of benefit TO the
colored ropulation-an enterprise. which looks
q
contnent--to the restoration Of the cvlored
man to his own and-to the establishment of
Republic where he can have unmolested and
of right, his own government, and his own
laws, - where he can regulate his own concerns
where he will be the free citizen of free
country~where he has soil, and climate
adapted to his nature and his wants--an3
where he can have full and free scope to enjoy
all the comforts and blessings OF life unmolest-
ed, and without infringing upon the rights Of
others, or without coming even in contact
with the prejudces Of others. This enterprise
is the American COLONIZATION SocIETY--And,
yet, who of all those who are now pretending
to be the peculiar friends Of the colored people
who are melting them TO band together
against the citizens who employ them and
furnish them with the occupations by which
they earn they daily bread--who are constantly
prating about their ,tghts-who are seeking
their votes who are pandering to their
worst and basest passions of malice and i'll will
who are sending them to the polls who
are deluding, and deceiving, andmoling money
out Of them in thousand ways-who we say,
of these pests, ever have word to say in be-
half of the American Colonization Society, its
aims, and objects2 Not one No voice of
theirs is raised In aid of the best scheme
ever yet proposed for the benefit of the eolored
race. They can make no political capital, OBJ.
tain 70 Offices, pull no wires, by advocating
the cause of the Colonization Society. Their
Occupation would be gone it that were to be
the mode of showing friendship to the African
race!
The Washington correspondent Of the Balti-
more Sun says: 'The result of frequent rejcc-
tons of nominations for the same Office has
multiplied the work of the administration in
the matter of filing the Offices 90 an average
about threefold, and if the Senate continues to
reject 10 the same ratio as heretofore, an adj
journment of Congress will find about ore
third Of the officers without an incumbent. A
the case now stands, there is a dead 'ocl he
tween the Executive and the Senate the latter
cunnlngly determined to force j. q f5rmer to
nominate out and cut radicals - or none but
those who FIRST make their pea, .e with the rad
lcal Cangressnen OF the s. ,yera districts TO
3bich the nominees beloo't.
4 new phase OF Rad, realism is developed in
the attempt to pfe7g1t legally elected u. S.
Senator from the State of Maryland from tax
ing his seat, On the ground that common ru-
NOR was that the Senator had sympathized
with the South during the late war" Mr.
S. Trumbull and Mr. Fessenden both opposed this
attempt. The debate on the matter was to
have been resumed to-day.
law of Congress, just passed. Furnishes the
adulteration Of Kerosene oil With fine and i'm
prisonment. The extent to which, the adulter-
atoms are practiced at the present time is not
generally known. The most common adutera.
ton is by mixing naptha (which is inhammable
at any temperature) with the Gil, 1hua making
a mixture which endangers the lie Of every
one who burns it.
A letter from a correspondent at Bristers-
burg, Va, dated the 18th inst, says that on
the morning of that day, in the vicinity of that
place, g Mr. James ". Arlington shot and
killed Grey Eagle, measuring 6 feet, inches
from tip to tip of its wings and its main talon
was inches in length.