Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-02-25
ALEXANDRIA.
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY Is.

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY Is.
THE TRUE CoURsE-GOoD ADvICE.-In
the present situation Of public affairs, we hear
tiy endorse and recommend the good advice of
the Richmond Enquirer to the people of Viz
GINA. That paper says To our harassed
fellow citizens VIC recommend pattcncc,-pn
tlence not despair! We had trusted that
the heroism of endurance would 10 longer be
tested. 1t may prove otherwise though VIC
still hope for much from the justice of the Su-
premc Court and the humanity Of the PTcsl-
dent. "A good citizen meyer despairs OF the
republic" But whatever obstacles arc thrown
in our path by unfriendly and hostile lcgisla-
ton, let US not be paralyzcd III our Industrial
activities. We owe duties to those who look
to US for living We must still SOW and reap.
The sun will still shine and the showers will
still fa,-thank God for that Let US ad-
dress ourselves to bustaey,-let us put behind
US the cares of state and the gloom of politics,
let us, until the present inscrutable provi
dence be overpast, dismiss from our thoughts
what We cannot control or affect, and let us
WOO the earth for her treasures and her in
crease, and commerce for its rewards Let the
ring of the anvil and the song OF the plough
man, and the workman, replace repinings over
wrongs which we may not arrest. y
The Washington correspondent of the Bal,i-
more Gazette says "A BILL reported by the
Judiciary Committee was passed by the House
last night by strict party vote. 1t not only
indemnifes every Federal officer, military or
CIVIL against responsibility for all the outrages,
robberies and cruelties, of whatever character,
perpetrated during or since the war, but stops
the execution of the judgmen of the Supreme
Court in respect to military tribunals In re-
ply to question by Mr.. Cooper, Mr. Wilson,
chairman Of the committee, distinctly declared
that the bill would prohibit civil courts from
reviewing the proceedings of military courts in
the past and that it was intended 10 prevent
just such action a. the Supreme Court had
taken in the Milligan case. The other decision
Of the Court--that in reference To the test oath
appears to be disregarded on all sides
A very curious memorial has been received
by Senator Anthony on the subject Of recon
struction. 1t purports to come from citizens
Of Doniphan county, Kansas, who say that as
reconstruction is the order of the day, they
hope Congress will appoint corps Of engineers
to 80 reconstruct the boundaries Of the States
requiring it, that we may have q 'civilized"
&c
Massachusetts, annexed to Rhade Island, he
Eastern Shore of Maryland to little delaware,
and Maryland, Old Virginia, New Virginia
and strip Of Pennsylvania formed into geo
metrical States,'' sad the upper peninsula of
Michigan ADDED to Wisconsin.
The New York Express says THE rcvo-
mtionists now in power tell US,
THE more you oppose, the worse We will act
Very WE'LL say we-but We shall not the less
oppose Military despotiSm is not to be sub
stituted among US in this country, and over
such States Of the old original Thirteen as
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, without
opposition. On the way to the Dsxati Sea of
aespoti>ln We will ever keep on demonstrating"
In the Senate of the United States on Fri
day week, in the course Of debate upon Ste
vens's bill, Senator Johnson, of Maryland,
said: IF Virginia ceased to be State when
going into ilsuGfeetlon, then she had ~ ri ght
10 consent TO the formation of West Virginia,
and the two Senators from that State, now on
this floor, had no place here The passage Of
shis bill would establish this fact
Queen Victoria is again to appear as the
leader Of the London fashions GA February
p she is to hold drawing room, in which
she will for the first time leave off uourning,
and the foreign ministers have received ins,ruc-
tons to congratulate her Majesty Oil her reap
pearaDcc in the state ceremonies This draw
ing room, it IS thought, will give great impetus
to the London season
The various ministers and c1nsuls Of the
United States, in Europe, deny most enlphati-
cally the charges made against then, Of having
used disrespectful and insulting language to-
wards the President of tue United States, and
the administration The person. who made the
charges Is denOunceu as SlanueIer.
1t is admitted that zone right still remains.
The Charleston Mercury says though the
Southern people are denied every political
right, one right still remains-the right to
work There Is, it continues an abundance of
work before US; work enough to occupy our
hands and brains for years to come
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John Il. Surratt was arraigned before the
Criminal Court at Washington on Saturday
last, and after the usual formsities were gone
through with, the Court fixed upon this day,