Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-06-13
ALEXANDRIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10.


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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 10.
BUREAUCRATIC proceedings of the meet
ing held in this place last night, to consider
the subject of emigration, will be found in
another column Of to-day Gazette. Though
the attendance of the land owners was not
large, there were several influential and intel
lgent gentlemen present from the adjoining
counties, and along the lines Of the railroads.
All were impressed with the Importance OF the
subject, and all seemed anxious to unite heart.
lily in measures to increase the population and
labor of our State, so as to deyelope It's great
resources, and increase its future prosperity.
The plan Of organization proposed by the COM
mittee appointed for that purpose, which is
set forth in the proceedings referred to, was,
after free interchange of opinions, and the
expression Of the views Of different gentleman,
adopted with entire unanimity. Nothing Wis
ionary, speculative, Or inpracticable, was in
Guided in the contemplated action in behalf Of
the purpose designed by this movement. 1t
is proposed to begin here, in this section Of
the State, plain, business like effort, to bring
in labor and capitalize inducements being,
cheap lands, fine climate, healthy country, con-
tguity to market, cheapness of transportation,
facility for shipment, and a prudent people
who are kindly disposed, peaceable and order
]y, and anxious to have around them industri-
Gus working men, and thrifty cultivators of the
soil We need not add how sincerely we hope
that all the good anticipated may result from
the proposed organization how cheertully
We shall assist in carrying out its objects. And
we further hope that no time may be lost in
putting into efficient working order the details
agreed upon as the commencement Of this new
and additional effort to resuscitate old Virginia.
Washington dispatches report that the Ex-
ecutve board Of the Radical Congressional
committee, have had meeting with The INA
tionar' Executive committee of the Radical
party, at the Continental Hotel, in Philadel
phia, at which they agreed upon ''Gnal ar
engagements for more vigorous canvass of the
South in the interest of the Radical party, and
it was also resolved that no speakers be sent on
this mission who would advocate any more
radical ideas than those contained in the Mill
tary Reconstruction bill now in operation.
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A Radical meeting, at Warrenlon, Fauquier
county, Va, was addressed on the 10th INST,
by Lieut. Winfield j. Chase, l.. A. Jackson,
colored man, and DR.. Fl. G.. Brown, an agent
of the Radical Congressional committee A
Loyal League was formed principally composed
of colored men, Radical resolutions were
passed, and Horace Greedy and Gerritt Smith
censured
Paris dispatches of yesterday state that the
subject of general reduction OF The military
establishments by the Great Powers is gener-
propose visitingSt Petersburg and Berlin in the
fall. The North German Parliament will re-
assemble at Berlin in August.
The ''high contracting Radical parties in this
State have, it will be seen, formed "cOall-
ton, and both wings will operate on the
same slime" Mr. Bolts and his clique will
move in harmonious concert with Hunni cutt and
his tail in the effort to Radicalize the State Of
of Virginia.
Additional doubts are thrown over the au-
thenticity of the late address Of Macmillan to
the Mexicans II it should turn out to be 4
counterfeit, it will, We hope, be the last issue
of bogus" news from the prolific source which
has furnished News from Mexico, for 4 long
time past.
In ho IN
of Washington city, Judge Fisher yesterday
granted the motion of the District Attorney
and discharged the present jury, and ordered
twenty-six talesmen to be summoned IN order
to select new one.
The steamship Champion, which left
Charleston on Sunday for New FORK, took, as
part of her freight, within a fraction Of Two
thousand barrels of new potatoes, al! raised
within short distance Of Charleston
The advices from the Central and South
American States show those countries to be, as
usual, 10 state Of revolution, or disturbance,
quarreling all round, and making fuss
generally.
Mr.. Senator Chandler, in recent speech,
in Kansas, announced that he was in favor of
Selling Canada, to pay the Alabama claims on
England" Go ahead This is ''progres-
sive!''
The points of Mr.. Stanbery's supplemental
opinion were laid before the Cabinet on Tues
day. 1t is said that he will decide that mill.
tary commanders cannot remove civil officers,
The U. S. sloop of war jamestown, at San
Francisco, had 81 cases of yellow fever, and
deaths, on board, during her voyage from