Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-30

What the House of Representatives did
with the Alabama reconstruction bill, will
be seen by reference to the abstract of the pro-
ceediDgs of Congress, on Saturday, published
in another column. In the debate on the
subject, the National Intelligencer says, MIR.
Stevens secured a very large audience, as be.
proceeded to crack his whip at the Senate, and
then, having tested its quality, to lay it on the.
shoulders of Mr.. Bingham, to whom he APP
piled some not very fattering expressions. Mr..
Stevens backed squarely down from disposition
the other day, that to admit Alabama against
The wishes of her people would be piece of
Legislative Injustice" But his amendment,
allowing everybody to vote, men and women,
,7as rejected without adiscussion
A number of citizens of Northern birth, liv-
ing in Richmond, have addressed an appeal to
the people of the Northern States, in relation
10 their course with regard to the South, and
me situation Of affairs among us. They show,
IN briet manner, the true spirit of the south
ern people, and the gross manner in which it
has been misrepresented by the adventures
here in quest of the spoils Of office. We agree
with the Richmond Dispatch that those who
have issued this address, who make this volun-
tary effort in behalf of the people with whom
ihey have cast their fortunes, deserve our hear
~ cooperation and sincere gratitude
On Friday, in the U. S. Circuit Court at
Chicago an important decision was given by
Judge Drummond, to the effect that witness
called as an expert can compel the payment of
MS fees as an expert, and that, too, before be
gives his testimony. The case in which the
decision was given was that of Clark against the
city of Chicago, for injuries sustained by falling
into hole in the sidewalk DR.. Beebe was
called to testify as an expert in medical science.
He refused to testify unless ne received fees
az an expert, to the amount of $25. The
Judge decided that he was right, and the fees
gere paid.
The Washington Chronicle talks of the lab
solute and irresponsible power which Andrew
johnson claims to exercise" and of the "slaves
Of the power of our absolute President. "
Probably, this is intended for Slight irony
II We were called upon to name man who
claims no absolute power, and has no absolute,
Or hardly, indeed, any hnd of power, we should
Immediately say-Andrew johnson. Hc is the
most "powerless" individual, almost, in the
whole country.
The State department. has been recently in
correspondence with the British government,
With view to forming treaty recognizing the
fights of naturalized u. S. citizens, and fixing
definitely the law of expatriation which has so
long been an open question between the two
governments From the tenor Of the latest
official dispatches received from the British
ninistry, it is said, to be quite sure, that the
matter will be arranged satisfactorily.
In consequence OF the bad repute into which
the Carpet Baggers,' who are roaming about,
in the Radical interest, have fallen, it is said,
shat they are discarding those harmless recepta-
oles of few cotton shirts, and Radical documents
aud are purchasing, Or borrowing trunks of
all kinds and descriptions. The trade in trunks,
it is, also, said, has much increased of late, in
The South and South West. Its an i'll
wind that blowsnobody any good
The historian who described the decline and
fall of Rome, picturing the 'ast scene Of alp
says, "the people-the great Roman people
was but mob, a vile collection of Greeks, Sy-
rians, Africans, barbarians, enlrancbised slaves,
and liberated gladiators, made worse because
their ahinities were not natural, and their
national legislators were personally corrupt and
politically dishonest" What lessons are taught
by history!
Cards Of the Programme under MIR. Ben.
iNade's administration, are in circulation, Civ
ing the names of the members Of the expected
Cabinet-al Radicals of the deepest dye
'cerulean in their hue THE cards differ in
names; but not quality or political color. 1t IS
admitted that the new President and his new
Cabinet will be ''unit" in all that ultra Radi
calism may expect or require.
A dispatch from Richmond states that the
j. S. Grand Jury,in Underwood Court, have
found amsU indictment against Jefferson Davis
It covers fifty pages of manuscript, detailing
all the alleged offences since the commencement
Of the late war
Cleaver, who was convicted of ahenious crime
in Washington, last spring, but who obtained
"a new trial" and was, afterwards, used as a
witness against Surratt, is said to be at large
and has not had the new trial. Curious
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