Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-12-30

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'.'.u'lon' now SO often assailed in the BODY
80 Fa'cn ne Is member. He is one of the
specis :. tue men OF the best days of the country
.Yrg@--elt to us, In nign position, where his
9 Talents can be seen and exercised, for good If
We had majority OF the Senate composed of
such men-or men even approaching to him
the country would be restored to peaSe and
prosperity!
Wendell Phillips continues vigorously to OPP
pose the nomination Of Gen. Grant as the Rad
aie1l candidate for President. Phillips is "a
power in, the extreme wing of his party
among the ultraists and extremists. But bis
opposition will help Grants cause among the
moderate" Radicals-if there is or can be
SUCH q party. At any rate Phillips lead is not
sGons which the knowing ones" wish to follow,
just now.
30; 20 The Conservatives of Virginia have made
arrangements for complete and thorough
- political organization. There will be no noisy
y demonstrations, nor unnecessary meetings =
But every arrangement towards etfecting the
desired object will be made in quiet and
sel;9fderly manner The Conservatives desire at
this time no political excitement they pre-
fer, united and determined action!
:, The National Intelligencer thinks it is por-
ton Of the Radical programme, in relation TO
- the Presidential election, to 'muss up mat
tiers, about counting the votes OF the Southern
States &c, &c, so as to defeat an ell ction in
~
iIselected by the Senate from the two highest on
20 the list voted for, the Pre- ident of the United
States.
Some of the baser Sort Of the Radical
presses have the impudence and cruelty to
.;isneer at the accounts of the distresses of the
s1sSoath, and to intimate that they are manufac
z,tnred for effect Then, thev are manufactured
by the officers Of the government and the
agents of the freedmen Bureau the by the
Radical travellers and journalists themselves
Some Washington correspondents Of the
Northern newspapers, apparently tired OF re
porting or fabrioating accounts of interviews
with Gen. Grant, drop down to, interviews
With Cen Grants father!' We dare say that
e9aBe father will be as ''reticent" as the son. as
HsTsoon as he finds out what use these interview
o,ascekers make of bis conversations.
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tas 1t will be seen that Gems Pope and Ord
70 have been transferred from their commands of
e6the Third and Fourth Military Districts, into
I. which the Southern States have been divided,
C6aud that Gen. Meade takes command in place
&c If Gen. Pope; and Gen. Giem in place Of
ss;',General Ord.
.DIsFRANcH1sED WHITES Senator Wilson
sefeceptly made statement that only $4,000
I;s whites bad been disfranchised in the South.
aoSome time since we printed large portion of
rs asa -speech made by Senator Buckaew, Of Penn
-lnsylyania, which showed clearly enough that
IIs1the Massachusetts Senator might have added
s5oanother cipher to his figures, and been nearer
aslthe truth Probably Mr.. Wilson, if indeed, he
~ made any calculation, confined it to those who
applied to be registered and were refused.
number of those whose cases wee so clear
;.ahat they did not consider it worth while to
Imply for registration must be much larger.
ALT has been estimated as high as SO, 900 in the
single State Of Louisiana =
THE Springfield Republican makes this
calculation
ytIn ten reconstructing States the aggregate
white population is one third more than the
black The voters should bear about the same
proportion but $685. 900 whites and 6lT000
blacks are registered If the proportion were
II accordiog to population, there should be S23.
rs 600 whites 10 ST. 900 blacks. Here is a loss IN
:, some way of nearly 800 900 white voters.
Il; How many of these are disfranchised by law,
and how many have neglected to register, it is
impossible to tell. According to the registra.
ton lists, the whites have msjorities in Arkan
:, sac, Georgia. North Carolina, and Virginia,
y According to the &C nsus tables they should have
msiorities also in Alabama, Florida Louisiana,
and Texas leaving only two States, South Caro-
lima and Mississippi, where the blacks have
2a learmajorities.
'ai The argument of the Republican is practical
= and uuanswerable There are to-day fully three
.; hundred Thousand white men disfranchsed In
. this country What spectacle!
WATER. Mr.. Nortons marvellous invention
50 for discovering the existence of water on the
VI most arid land is attracting immense attention
9 Ia Paris, and experiments are daily made Wl'h
1t in the neighborhood of Paris. The Empe
Tor has purchased the machine, and personally
superintends the experiments going hin the
marx of st. Cloud The instrument consists
of long iron tube, terminating 10 sharp
point which, forced into the ground, has never
failed within twenty-five minutes to Drlng "a
Ter to the surface.
,s,,, BALLooN1Na. There is in England what is
called 6 The Aeronautical Society, of which
.hs Duke Of Argyle is President, and the object