Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-11
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 10.
Mr.. J. M. Bolts addressed large meeting
of colored people at Culpeper Court House. on
the 4th of July He is to be candidate for
the State Convention, after reconstruction.
He wss in favor of universal suffrage, univer-
sal education, and universal amnesty Of the
rank and file of the late Confederate army
He advised the colored people to send five Of
their own color to the Richmond Convention
on the lst of August He expressed himself
emphaticaly aginst con6scation. lie was Sc
we're in his denuncation of the leaders Of the
South, the Democratic party, &c.
The National Intelligencer speaking OF the
efforts of Mr.. Logan, of Illinois, to prevent
the representatives of Kentucky from taking
their seats in Congress, says: ut Repre-
sentative from Kentucky should be excluded
from his seat in Congress only because he
voted for candidates who were likewise voted
for by returned rebels, what should be done
with Representative from Illinois who is
shown to have advised and influenced, and
even furnished money to men to go into the
rebel army and fight against the Union, and
the flag, and the Government
Accounts given by newspaper correspondents
especially in these latter days-of interviews
with noted characters are hardly ever relia-
BILE. Hence, we doubt, altogether the ''con-
versations' of Thaddeus Stevens, as reported
by the correspondent of the New \ ork Herald,
now going tie rounds Mr. Stevens could
hardly be so un10,Se as to say many things
which are attributed to him.. In a speech in
Congress yesterday, he ''disclaimed aud repu.
dated, these reported Conversations
The Washington Star of last evening says ::
"rhe bill introduced into Congress by Mr..
Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, to enforce the consti-
tutional guarantee that the States shall have
republican (State) Governments is now rapidly
growing into favor among the Radical mem
bers The point aimed at by Judge X. is to
provide that hereafter Congress shall be re-
CURED to sanction any changes made in State
Constitutions
The Judiciary Committee OF the House hav-
ing charge Of the impeachment, instructed
the Chairman, Mr. Wilson, by vote of seven
to two, Messrs Lawrence and Williams being
in the negative, to report that there has not
been sufficient time to prepare the report Tor
presentation, but that the committee will be so
prepared on and after the 10th Of October
next. Mr. Wilson so reported on yesterday.
Information has been received at Washing
ton Of the death Of the Hon. Allen a.. Hail,
United States Minister to Bolivia, at La Paz,
the capital of that Government, May %, 1857.
He was formerly connected with the press for
several years, in Nashville, Tenn and subse
quently Register Of the Treasury, and Minister
to two Of the South American Governments
The developments made By Committee Of
the British Parliament concerning the atroci-
ties perpetrated in different parts Of Eonland
under the direction Of several of the Trade
Unions, are exciting in that country great ID
ulXuatlO0, DOuG VI Tue are Stait-
ling, indeed The London papers are publish.
ing the details
We ale sorry to see it stated that very dull
times are prevailing in financial circles 10 Rich
mond. Two business houses closed on Tues
day, and it is rumored that some OF the princi-
pal hotels will have to close for want of paying
patronage. If it is dull in big Richmond"
what must it be, in other towns of the state
The Marlboro Md, Gazette, an excellent
PAPER, has entered upon its thirty second year
The editor in mentioning this, says IN
looking oyer the subscription list We find the
names of but forty-six of our original subscrlb-
ers.' But the places Of the dead aud gone
have been supplied by their descendants.
meteor, Of very extraordinary size and
bnlliaDcy, was observed from various points in
the Vest, Gu the night of the "a OF July. 1t
was seen from different places IN Missouri,
Ohio, Indiana Illinois, and Kansas
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1t Is now said that the statement that the
u. s. steamer Susquehauna had sailed for
Mexico with dispatches for Juarez, demanding
the release Of Santa Anna, is entirely IN
founded
There is train of cars on the Virginia Cen
trail Railroad, from Richmond to GordonsyiUe
on Sundays; but none from Richmond to
Staunton on Sundays
The Universities and Colleges, at their late
commencements, scattered with liberal hand,
their honors. In especial has the title of D.
D. been, as usual, profusely bestowed,
One OF two of the gentlemen whose names
were mixed up, with the proceedings of the
first A lha1n rlo moatinr 10