Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-29
ALEXANDRIA,.
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE %.

Neither The President nor the Secretary Of
State have at all distinguished themselves by
speech making during the late risit&to the
North. The President took care to abstain
from current party politics, reiterated simply
his former opinions in favor Of union, peace
and reconciliation, urged good feeling and 'res
.toration, and returned his thanks everywhere
for the courtesies and Inequalities extended to
him. The most noticeable speech of Mr.
Seward wasthe one in which lie gave Massa-
chusetts an ect1a -,tlourisA-which, considering
the estimation in which he is, at this present
lime. held in Massachusetts, and what that
State is, doing in opposition to his oppressed
views and feelings, must be considered a re-
markable evidence Of returning good for evil''
and praising those who ..dispitefullyP use,
OF rather abuse u.s.. II IETE @ss7l,
Among the prizes awarded at the Paris
Exposition are Gold Medals, to Cyrus. ~.
Field Of New York, for the promotion of the
system OF ocean telegraphing; to Steinway &
Sons OF New York, and Checkering l. Sons of
Boston and New York. for pianos; to e. H..
Mccormick Of Chicago, for moving machines;
to Wheeler 4 Wilson, of New York City, for
sewing machines; Elias Howe, OF New York
for invention of sewing machines; Grant Loco
motive Works, Of Paterson, N. j., for locomo-
tigsysteam engine; J. NJ HUMPHREYS, of Ten.
anessee, for cotton; F. G. Williams, OF Rich
mond, Va, for tobacco; j. p. Sarrazire, of
louisiana, for perrique tobacco. l
General Schofeld lately completed an in
srection tour which he has been for some time
making among the different cemeteries in Viz
gipia:14S Adj. Gen Thomas recently On visit
5 to- this State, Was also engaged 10 similar
duty, and on his return to Washington with the
concurrence Of Gen. Scho6eld, suggested that
all the small cemeteries On the peninsula and
in the vicinties Of Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Suffolk should be broken up and the bodies of
the soldiers who fell on the peninsula and on
tho South Side, be re-interred in one Ma
tional Cemetery, which it is proposed to esab-
l;sh between Fortress Monroe and Hampton.
The question is asked-''if Andrew Jackson
were alive, and to have "a member of his Cabi
net In opposition to him as Mr. Stanton is to
the present administration, or Commanding
General like General Sheridan writing such
letter, as was recently written to General Grant,
would he retain the one 10 the Cabinet, or the
other in his post? Certainly, everybody
knows he would not But then Andre'0 Jack
son is not alive. aaat....
The PRESIDENT; was most kindly and hospi.
tably received by the authorities and citizens OF
Baltimore, yesterday. AT the earnest call OF
the citizens he made short speech. He and
his suite, in company with the Governor OF
Maryland, will visit Annapolis today, at the
invitation Of the Maryland Convention. lie
will return to w ashington this afternoon.
Mr. VIM. w. Forbes, of Buckingham coun-
ty, Va, who was in the Virginia Convention
which passed the ordinance of secession, who
signed the ordnance, and who sustained the
CoDfederacy until its downfall, has been APP
pointed one Of the Registers 10 Bankruptcy in
this State Reason: He has Joined the Radi-
Cal party = .a..sts .- ~ "
The New York Tribune, 10 stating the
pointsFo the Radical platform OF Pennsylvania,
uses the following language: Not one word
is said of hanging men who have surrendered;
not one word OF the confscation Of property;
and the resolution for impartial suffrage was
referred to committee
In New FORK yesterday, in suit against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company tor
allowing iron to rust on their Whalt while in
transit, a verdict was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff for s5,72l. .s
1t is said that the next statement from the
Treasury Department, relative 10 the public
debt, &C., which may not be issued until the
lst of August, will show decrease of several
millions Of dollars. r
There is said to be no intention on the part
of the President to remove General Sheridan
from his military command in the South. -
Some OF bis orders maybe revoked, but nothing
more.
The New ok Sun complains of the extent
to which immigrants arriving at New York
are imposed upon and swindled by the rascas
who hang about the places where they land.
In Mauritius, the yellow fever is said to
have carried off ten thousand of the inhabitants.
RADICAL SYMPATHY. is his last
publication says 538
'On the premises Of no respectable white
person; in the mansion of no honorable private
citizen; no lawfully convened public assembly;
in no nationally moral or religious society; in
no decentIy kept holel; in no restaurant worthy
Of the patronage Of white people; in no reputa
bic store or shop; IN no place whatever where
sny occupant or visitor is of Caucasian blood
should the loathseme presence of any negro or