Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-08
ALEX ANDRIA.
The Geographic dispatches from New Or.
leans: state that recent letter of Gov. w ar

The Geographic dispatches from New Or
leans: state that therecent letter of Cow Var
moutsa,4 OF Louisiana, charging the commission
OF murders and eutrages upon the white PEG
pie Of the State sshas completely eradieated the
good feeling which his speech TO the crowd on
Canal streetcreated on the part OF the Conser-
vatiYes. !. Ia the State Senate Mr.. Jewell of:
fe,ed q resolution that a committee of three be
appointed to1ait on Gov: W armouth, to OBJ
tain from him the time and place of the one
hundred and fifty murders which he says have
been committed in the last six weeks, and also
toobtain the letter of District Attorney Huds-
peths alluded to, which charges tie indiscrini-
nate murder Of men, women, and children in
the Eighth judicial District. y This resolution
was. finally referred to a joint committee on the
condition Of civil affairs -Where it will probably
die. 1t is BY wholesale and calumnious
charges like those made by Yarmouth, that
agitation is kept up, and the blacks arrayed
against the whites ''Let US have peace. -
In noticing the removal Of Rev. 3. G. Muir
laugh, of the Cabin Point Episcopal Church, in
Surry county, Va, to q, parish in Maryland,
(which has caused much regret among the peo-
pie where MIR. N. lived, the Norfolk Journal
remarks that the reverend gentleman was en-
deared to his congregation, and others, BY many
strong ties, for, during theswar, he was arrest
ed by the Federal authorities:and kept prise
ner at Fort Powhatan several weeks, sentenced
to be hung by order of Gen.. Butler, and was
finally released The charge against him was
for aiding the rebellion. We presume Gen.
Butler was sorry, at the time, that the hang.
ing did not take place. But the incident calls
up many "reminiscences. We had. occasionally,
here, during the war, military and civil govern
ment officials of the same H'kidney," in their
apparent hatred and malice towards our people.
Who, Of the citizens Of Alexandra, then here,
will ever forget the scene in st. Paul's Church,
when minister was dragged from the chancel,
and the church filled with an armed mob Of
soldiers, (pistols and swords in hand, because
he. would not pray as they wanted him to pray F?
Who can forget the prowling, hireling Detec-
tiyes Baker and Morton, and their career; the
deportations to the Old Capitol; the incarcera-
tions in the prisons and guard houses; the
placing of citizens as ia "Guard" upon the rail-
road, TO s'prevent Mosby from making an at
tack on the trains;,.' tho barricades, and the
driving Of unofending people out of their
houses; the contemplated exile from their
homes of men, helpless women, and little chill
,dren; the robberies; the burnings; and the
thousand other enormitics committed upon an
unarmed community, within the federal lines,
surrounded by federal troops, and held as pris-
oners of war. It was said, at the time, by a
Union man, that if the officials engaged in this
work, or who permitted tito so on,-or failed
to punish those concerned, had, on purpose,
set themselves to force people to become
'kebels, they could not have pursued more
sure and certain course than was adopted and
persisted in, throughoutthc war, inAlexandria.
{. The Secretary of War, Gen. Schofell, in
reply to an Inquiry, writes to Gen. Rodman,
that in his opinion, the Eight Hour Law for
workmen on Government work, never intended
to give ten hours' pay for eight hours work,
and that until some definite clause is inserted
in the law by Congress, regulating the question
Of labor under it, he desires that all employees
engaged in public works in which the War De-
paitment is interested shall receive pay in pro
portion to the hours they labor-that is, eight
hours pay for eight hours work. He adds
that if the Government employees desire to
work ten hours they can do so, receiving pay
for ten hours work. -.
Il general election for members Of the House
of Colnmons Mil take place in Great Britain,
and ireland, as soon as certain legal require
ments to ascertain who were qualified to be
placed upon tho register as voters shall have
been complied with. Mr.. Disraeli's reform