Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-26
. ALEXANDRIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26

- sc GEN. GRANT.-It is commonly thought now
- that GEN.. GRANT will be the ''Radical" or
Republican candidate for next President
not that the leaders exactly like him, or are
exactly certain that he will favor their schemes,
y projects, and policy-but because, they are
3 afraid not to take him up-lest, spontaneous
movement on the part of the Northern people
should be made in bis favor, which might
place him out the pale of party organization,
and elevate him to the office OF Chief Magis-
trate, irrespective of the aid of their political as
; sociatioDs Gen. Grant, is, just now, in some
respects, like Monk, the restorer Of the Stu
arts to the throne of their ancestors. He is
reticent, silent, processes to keep aloof from
faction and intligue-to have nothing 10 do
with the plans of the leaders and to desire
only the restoration Of the country. 1--WE do
not mean to say, by any MEANS that Gen G's.
character in many other respects, is similar to
that of Monk. But how he thinks that res
toration should take place-whether on the
principles adopted by the President in whole
or modified, or on the plan of the Radical
leaders in whole, or modified, nobody knows.
Its alleged. 90 the one hand, that he is rather
? Conservative, on the other, that he is rather
Radical It is affirmed that he is not the po
itical adherent of President johnson and ii
IS confidently asserted that he is aos the politi-
cal ally Of Thad. Stevensa Whether intended
or not, precisely, at this crisis, just such
course, is likely, moro than any other, to bring
about the results desired by Gen. Grant s
friends, whether personal, or political: or 9TH
erwise.
Gov. THOMAS SWAMI was yesterday elected
by the Legislature of Maryland D. S. Sepa-
tor from that State The final vote stood
For Mr.. Swami &c, for Mr.. Creswell, "a, for
Alexander Evans, of Cecil, 6; for John W.
Crisheld, of Somerset, l, and for George R.
Vickers, of Kent, l. This result, was reached
by the waiver of claims on tbs part of the
Eastern Shore of the State, she majority of
the members from that section conserving to
the temporary repeal OF the act which restrict
ed the selection to that shore, and the most of
them voting for Mr. Swami, resident of the
Western Shore.
ELECTION OF SECOND AUDIToE.-A Dis
patch from Richmond, received at noon, informs
us of the election, by the Legislature yesterday,
Of GEN. ASA ROGERS, of Mddleburg, as
Second Auditor of the State, by ffEy-six
majority.
Mr.. STEVENS reconstruction bill was na5
disposed of yesterday, as his intimation of ne
previous day Indicated He did not press tae
motion to lay it on the table, but expressed
wish to have the House make some disposition
of it to day.
A dispatch from Washington. says THE
bill amending the acts organizing the several
Territories and comforting suffrage therein,
without regard to race or color, has become
law without the Presidents approval 1t was
presented to him On the 18th instant, and as
ne has not returned it with his objections with
in the ten days allowed by the constitution
after it had been presented to him, it has
necessarily become law, in like manner as if
he had signed it. The bill repeating the am
nesty and pardon authority given to the Presi-
dent, becomes law in similar way.
The New York Herald says " t:...appears
that there are to be some amendments to the
Income Tax, and that incomes below one thous-
and dollars are to be exempt from taxation
The best amendment Congress could make to
this tax would be to abolish it altogether"
Gen. Howard Of the Freedmen's Bureau,
has issued circular prohibiting hereafter
agents of the Bureau from exactng any fees or
charges for services they may render in connec-
ton with contracts between freedmen and their
employers
Holden, the North Carolina man, having
been "rebe," according to his own showing,
up to ls64-writing and publishing the most
"secesh' articles, cannot, it is said, take the
oath" under his own bill to reconstruct" his
own State.
In the House of Representatives, yesterday,
Senate bill for the relief of Mary j. Dixon, of
Alexandria, Virginia, was referred 10 the Com
mittee of Claims.
The removal of what is called the Fair Build
ing at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
Seventh street, in Washington, has at last
been effected.
Hon. Benjamin g. Harris, Of Maryland, is
still detained from his seat in the House of
Representatives, by the continued illness of his
wife.
A collision occurred, yesterday on the Lake
Champlain Railroad, by which one man was
killed, and many seriously injured
We receive our New Orleans exchanges now
frequently, as we used to do, in old times, five