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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

The President has appointed Cornelius Wen
dell to be commissioner, in conjunction with
Generals Blair and Buford, to examine the sew
eral sections of the Union Pacific railroad and
telegraph line
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

TITS said that the names of all ''Conserva-
tive" and stDoubtful' clerks in the Depart
ments in Washington have been procured, and
that the ultra Radicals anticipate and urge
general sweep" in the event of Grants
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

A cable dispatch to the Associated Press,
dated at London on the 10th, says the ques'
ton Of the settlement of the Alabama claims
has been referred for arbitrament to the En-
peror of Russia The dispatches to the U. S.
government yesterday announce that the King
Of Prussia is. to be the arbiter. These are cur
rent rnnnrfs -------:. --------.- -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

USE-FURNISHING GOODS.
We ask the attention Of housekeepers TO our
stock Of
LACE CURTAINS.
We have especial bargains in these goods
some at very low prices, and some worry elegant.
. ALSO
t@'- OIL CLOTH,
for floors and tables.
FLOOR CLOTHS, DRUGGITS, &c,
with everything in our line, very cheap.
Call and examine at No. 81, corner King and
Fairfax street.
oc22 +. l., WOOD
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22
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GRAPE VINES, &c.
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5000 Philadelphia Raspberries.
5000 Asparagus Roots.
1000 Cabbage Plants Of the choicest varsity,
for sale at very low prices, if early application
is made. COOK g & ELLIE,
oc 81 107 King street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

Charles A Chipler, clerk in the third audi
tors Office, in Washington, having received a
circular asking contribution in aid of the
election of Grant and Colfax, replies that he is
q democrat, and cannot contribute. He says
he we'll understands that the circular means
''your money or your Office but even at the
risk Of discharge he must refuse to comply.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

MIR. John Quincy Adams in one Of his re-
cent speeches at the South, stated that he does
not blame the Southern people for refusing to
,ratify the fourteenth amendment to the Consti.
tuition and the Lynchburg Virginian says
! ''Weare informed that Mr.. Wilson, whose
Radicalism no one doubts, confessed that he
was not surprised at the rejection of the con-
stitutional amendme nt by the Southern States,
and that he would have done exactly as they
!, did had he been in their place
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-22

The Galena Gazette gives quitea graphic ac-
count Of the reception of the news of the re-
cent elections in the parlor Of Mr.. Washburne' S
residence. where Gen. Grant and his friends
had:assembled, and into which te!egraphic wires
had been run. Gen. Grant is represented to
have been undemonstrative and calm-his
friends, much alarmed, at the first returns, but
afterwards, of course, jubilant.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

name of the whole country and OF the world,
of civilized men, to refuse this petition. III
these squatters have a just claim-and In the
case of one of them at least this claim Is de-
nied-let them be paid in money for their lana
at a fair nay, at a generous valuation; but let
Congress absolutely refuse to acknowledge their
right to settle upon the land itself, and SO de-
feat the object for which the Valley was ceded
to the State. That object was one OF the
largest and noblest that any State any where
or Mt any time in the worlds history, has pro-
posed to itself with a view to the health ana
enjoyment of its people; and the fact that the
General Government gave the land Tor such n
nurpose. and that the State accepted 1t, showed
a high state of civilization. Barbarian or halt-
civilized States do not so respect great natural
wonders nor propose to devote them to the
enioyment of the world. 1t will be day OF
long regret and modification when this
noble purpose shall be frustrated and
the high ideal of State shall be sacrificed to
the mercenary grasping of squatters. If Cali
fonians do not see their own interests more
clearly, and if they will not respect the rights
of the whole country, it is the bounden duty
of Congress to protect us in the possession OF
this most splendid of Natures gifts to the
American people, and not to suffer this dis
credit to be put upon us in the eyes OF the
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24
THE YOSEMITE TALLEK.

A Congressional Committee has now under
consideration a bill Of great Importance, which
concerns not only the State of California but
the whole of the United States; and not only
our own country, but, we may well say, the
whole civilized world. 1t is a bill giving the
authority of Congress to two men 10 take the
hirst steps in making the most magnificent val
ley in the world mere private possession;
and if it shall pass it will not be long before
some of the most interesting features of the
famous -Scmite--neXt to Niagara, the great
est wonder of America-will have disappeared
before the AK and saw of these specializing
squatters. The facts are simply these: A few
years ago Congress passed an act giving to the
State of California, in trust, the Valley of the
Yosemite, TO keep it for ever as a great pub
lie pleasure ground; to permit no settle
ments in it, to prevent the destruc-
ton of its scanty timber, and to preserve it, as
far as possible in its natural state, for the de-
light of visitors from every country and for
the study of scientific men. California ac-
cepted the trust on these conditions, and ap-
pointed Commission consisting of such men
as Frederick Law Olmsted who at that time
lived in San Francisco, and had passed an en-
tire year with his family in the Yosemite,
Professor Whitney, the geOlOgist, and few
other well known citizens, to lay out roads,
build bridges, and, while doing what might be
necessary TO make the Valley accessible, to
keep its beauty unimpaired, and prevent its
suffering any injury 1t was almost too much
to hope that a scheme at once so simple and
so grand as this could be carried out without
interference from mercenary people. and, &C.
cordingly, IL was not long before two squatters
put in q claim for some six hundred ont of the
eleven hundred acres contained in the Val
ley. They did not ask for an equiva-
lent in money; they wanted the right
to settle on the land and occupy it,
and they pressed their claim so vigorously
that the Legislature of California naturally
tender toward squatters, granted it at last,
in defiance of the acknowledged right of
Congress to refuse its consent to such a
breach of treaty. Gov. Haight vetoed the
BILL when it came before him for signature,
on the simple ground that the State had
accepted the Valley in trust, on certain
clearly defined and MISUNDERSTOOD conditions,
which she had no right either to forget or to
violate. But the Legislature easily passed the
bill over the Governors veto; and the two
squatters, secure of victory, appealed to
Congress to ratify what the Legislature had
granted. Nor was this all. Confident in their
ability to persuade Congress to stutify ITSELF
they have not waited for its permission, but
have put up saw-mlls and gone to work to
cut down trees in the Valley-where, owing
to their being so few, every tree is precious
and are making haste to plant themselves
beyond the peradventure of q removal.
Certainly, we do not think we make too
large claim when We ask of Congress. in the
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

Mr.. Summer in the Senate yesterday reported
Gen. Banks's bill for the protection of Amerl-
can citizens, with the provisions providing Tor
retaliatory measures stricken out. The creden-
tials of the regularly elected Senators from
Arkansas were presented and they were sworn
in. The Executive and Legislative and Judi
cial Appropriation bill was then considered
until the hour of adjournment. In the House
the credentials of the Representatives elect
from Arkansas were presented and referred to
the Committee on Credentials. The remainder
of the session was almost entirely occupied III
discussing the Tax BILL The tax on whisky
was fixed at so cents per gallon, by vote of
81 to 81 In the evening session very little
progress was made with the bill.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

The line which divides the pathetic from the
laughable is sometimes as thin as the edge OF
the sword bridge over which good Moslems
walk to the houris and unlimited sherbet OF
Paradise. One frequently encounters para
graphs in the newspapers at which it would be
properest to groan, and at which one can hardly
help giggling nervously-just as the death OF
Polonius, the old rat behind the arras, has
something of the flavor of comedy, or as Mer-
cutio expiring with his mouth full of epigrams,
is droll to the last. Voltaire has somewhere
an extremely funny account of the Jelo de SO
of an old Prussian baron who had charge OF
some part of the public domain during the
delightful days of Frederick the Greats amiable
father. The poor man cut down few trees
to warm himself; the skin-f king immedi-
ately stopped his meager salary for year,
whereat the wretched nobleman Gas Voltaire
says) cut his throat with his only razor" We
are sorry for the old gentleman, but 1t is i'm
possible not to laugh.
These reflections have naturally arisen rs we
read of what is called an Enoch Arden case,"
with difierence,) which has come to us from
Cheyenne. A Mrs. o., thinking her husband in
heaven and herself veritable widow, became
Mrs. II. The original o. turned up uneIpsct-
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

The last new dodge for swindling the Gov
enment out of its bonds is the modest request
of the heirs of the defunct Saratoga and Sack
ett's HarbOr Railroad Company for loan of
Government bonds at $4,000 a mile to pay
the expense of building a railroad from Sara
toga to Lake Ontario, Through the Adirondack
mines and the timber regions of the Northern
Wilderness. For twenty years the proprietors
of these woods, lakes, and mountain streams
as the poet styles them, of these tax lands"
as they are known at Albany, of these :" cats
" and dogs" as they are styled in Wall-st,
have tried to seduce private capital to
"breathe upon the dry bones of their valleys
"that they may live" by building railroad
through them, and private capital has reso-
lutely resisted every such seductive allurement'
Now the Government is asked to build mill
tary road where no troops will ever be required
to 90, and at an expense of three millions of
dollars to spoil a very good country for trout
fishing and deer hunting.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24
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So- c,1,vpy No sA5 Broadway-Day and Eve
Great National Painting "Ths New Repuehc VI
BROADWAY THEATER-This Evening at O.
Flssh OF Lightning" J. X Mortimer, Mi" bAhepeUr
Rvv.NY,s NEW MINSTREL HAIL-Th Evening
T,Dw,pV Bu,das adjoining Academy oil MUSIC new
York H." Bryants Minstres y
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p.SsaSs DTbi. Evepng at 8-BIhbtOB Ofs New Organ.
FuTH-AvH. ART GALLERY, corner fonrteehth-s''-
D.s sad Eysnine-Last week Of "The Old Oskeu Bucket
FOWLER & WEIIss FREE LECTURES, No S9S
Brsdway.-This Afternoon at1
NrRIo's GARDEN-Ths Evening at "a" The
White Fawn" PsriseBne Ballet Troupe
OLYMPIC THRATER - This Afternoon at II. and
gtepng st a. Humpiy Dumpty" g. L. FoI Mdhe Ssngah
SAN FRANCIsCO MGNsTRELs, No; 5S5 Broadway
This Bvening Birch, Wsmbod, Bernard and BaekuA
SoMFRvIIIE ART GALLERY No. 30 Fitth-ave'-
Ks9blhaclfs Grand Cartoon; Era Of the Reformation"
wAIIAcK's-This Evening at s.-"Lottery OF Life"
Jo Broughan.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

The act relative to capital punishment re-
Gently passed by the British Parliament pro-
vides that all executions for crime shall be
secret, and shall be carried out within the walls
of the prison in which the criminal is confined
at the time of execution, in the presence of
the Sheriff, the Surgeon, aud Jury. This is
a long step toward the ultimate abolition of
the death penalty. For the objects of capital
punishment can only be to protect society by
the removal of the offender and to make an
example of the criminal that shall be terror
to all evil doors. The former end is attained by
imprisonment for life. The latter is not attained
by a secret execution. For an execution is an
example only to those to whom it is shown,
either directly or through the statements OF
others. To carry it out secretly is an adms-
sion that public executions do not have a
reformatory, but brutalizing effect. Secret
executions can only have the same effect In a
milder degree. We are glad that the great
criminals of England can no longer derive the
criminals secret pleasure from the notorety of
their crimes and the publicity of and interest
felt in their execution. But we rejoice still
more that another step toward the abolition OF
the Death Penalty has been achieved.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

edly. Then Mr.. and Mrs. H. took poison and
expired, whereCpon the cOnsiderate o., seeing
that his unreasonable return had pro-
duced such fatal consequences, partook himself
of the fatal cup and died Also Everything
was thus comfortably settled; indictments for
bigamy were prevented; actions for damages
were allayed, and there was no reason under
the sun why the three should not have been
buried in one tomb.
Here, then, are sufficient materials for five
act tragedy. and, indeed, we have great num-
Der of tragedies, good and bad, founded-upon
this very circumstance of No. refusing to re-
main dead after having been duly mourned.
If men and women in real life were at all like
men and women in heroical literature, we
could see tine prOpriety of a general suicide OF
all the parties to the unfortunate vicissitude OF
blameless bigamy. 1t might befall any puta-
tive widow OF widOwer of a nuptial disposition
in these days of much travel and many rail-
ways and immense facilities for going to the
uttermost parts of the earth. 1t is only the
coming back that makes the matter awkward;
and it is the duty as a Christian and gentle
man for the successor of the late Potts to
evacuate when it is discovered that the late
Potts is still early enough for all practical pur-
poses. If Potts pleases to be magnanlmous,
and to go away like lamb on discovering the
real state of affairs, even then all will be
serene but the violent severing of these mar
riage double-knots by the rash means adopted
in the case under consideration does not
morally help matters at all, even if help were
needed of that description where there has
been no real guilt The parties are buried,
but the scandal remains most unmlstakaby
above ground. The best thing to do after the
fatal discovery is to obtain about five dollars
worth of advice from the cleveTest attorney In
the neighborhood. OF course, it is easier for the
returned wanderer to howl at the top OF his
voice:
And she was married married to another NINA
And did 'sCape from want, and war, aud famine,
To perish by the fasehOOd OF woman y
OF course it is easier to go off at once to the
chemist for a shilling's worth of his strongest
mortal-coil- -shuffler. The easiest course, how
ever is not always the wisest.
We have not made these desultory remarks
without serious purpose. The facility with
which suicide is resorted to in France, and the
logged pertinacity of Englishmen in taking
the leap in the dark, have not yet been suffi-
cienty initiated to establish in America q
national Characteristic At best, except in we'll
marked cases of dementia, it is cowardly
refuge, and is quite as likely to awaken the
contempt of the observer as his pity. Natu-
rally, however, it is one of the most contagious
of follies, and whoever, when confronted by
cruel fortune, seriously contemplates deed as
contrary to the law of his existence, should re-
member that, in ending his own life, he may
be assuming the responsibility of many self
murders yet to come-an endless, CHASTITY train
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

The Pope on Monday delivered two sep:
arate Allocutions, one on the cOnvocatlon OF
an Gcumenical Council, the other on the re-
forms recently introduced into Austria. Moth
ing is said in our dispatch about the contents
of the Allocutions, but, from what has formerly
been ascertained concerning them' 1t may De
inferred that the one announced the beginning
of the Gcumenical Council for the 9Th OF De-
cember of the present year, while the second
lamented the Austrian reforms. The Papal
Government obstinately refuses to consent to
the modification of the COncOrdat.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24
TIE CH4RITTES or NEW- YORK.

We published few days ago a table, conn
piled from annual reports presented at the May
Anniversaries in this city, of the sums contrib
uted for the support of charitable institutions
in New York, rcmarking at the time that 1t was
defective, and by no means fairly represented
the Hberalty of orr benevolent citizens We
have now better gage by which to judge how
far we have fulfilled the good Samartan's part.
From most interesting volume on The
"Charities of York, Brooklyn, and Staten
"Island," just prepared by Henry j. Cammann
and Hugh n. Camp, we obtain the best view
which has yet been given of the vast reach OF
our practical benevOlence, and the terrible
amount of suffering which in this gay and
bustng city calls loudly for the help OF
Christians. Omitting municipal institutions and
dispensaries, it appears from this valuable
book that New York contains thirteen hospitals,
and no fewer than thirty-nine miscellaneous
charities which are classed under the general
name of asylums Among these almost every
form of sickness and suffering finds alienation.
All classes, all religions, and both sexes, are
alectionately cared for. There are hospitals
for special diseases; asylums for the widow,
the orphan, aud the aged; refugees for women
i'm the path of temptation, and retreats for the
penitcnt, where atoncmcnt may be made for
the past and preparation for the future. There
are societies for searching out the sick and
destitute in their miserable homes and press
ing upon them the charity which they are too
proud to ask or too deprayed to appreciate.
There are asylums for the little va
grant children, homes for unprotected
working girls for decayed gentlewomen, and
for fricndlcss emigants; and, last of ALL for
the incurably sick there is n cheerful retreat
in which the close of their days may be passed
in comfort We shall get a better idea of the
good which these institutions have effected by
looking at the number of persons whom they
annually relieve than by counting the dollars
they spend. The numbers of the patients and
inmates, as we gather them from this book
end other sources, are as follows:
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

Several of the societies from which we have
no returns-such as the Society for Improving
the Condition of tho Poor, the Five Points
Mission, and others-are among the most ex-
tensve of all in their operations; so we may
say that the benevolent organizations included
in the above table probably relieve every year
at least $4,000 persons. In addition to this, the
last annual report of the Metropolitan Board
of Health shows that the dispensaries afforded
relief to 19j423 persons, and the charitable
institutions on Blackwelrs, Randalps, and
Wards Islands to 1862 mOre-making grand
total of over $4,000 persons reached every
year in New-York by the hand of private or
official benehcencc.
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

The Report of the Commissioners appointed
by Great Britain to consider the revisions
required in their Neutrality laws recommends
the adoption of such laws as, had they existed
and been enforced during our Rebellion, would
have put an end to the so-called privateering"
of the Rebels from British dOck-yards. 1t
recommends the passage of an act prohibiting
the fitting out within British dominions of any
naval or military expedition against Powers at
peace with them, and making such act a mis-
demeanor and authorizing the Secretary OF
State, upon being satisfied, &c, to issue his
warrant for the arrest and search of all vessels
so fitted out, and to prosecute them to con-
demnation in Admiralty. The act recommended
will further provide that all prizes captured by
vessels so fitted out may be condemned and
restored to the owner, whenever brought into
any British port. Though the Committee does
not discuss the question whether these pro-
visions are required by international law, it
is obvious that, so far as international law has
for its object the preservation of peace, it
would fail in its purpose if it required less.
The tacit confession of inadequacy in the
British Neutrality laws which the Report
makes, despite all attempts to the contrary,
should aid our new Minister III settling the
Alabama claims,
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

They are a reading people over in Springfield
Mass From tabular statement in The Republican,
il appears that s4OO copies OF daily papers are READ
headinQ the list the number of TRIBUNEs being $500
copies per week Also 1900 copies of secular and 6o4
COPIES of religious weekly papers taken; aud the
monthly list foots up 1875. In these enumeratons
the Springfield publications not taken into ac-
count The surrounding towns are supplied by a
Springfield dealer with 10000 copies Of all publica-
tons weekly: and of these Il 90 90 North, 1900
West, l4O0O East. and 1000 South. ''r-
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

We hope the report that Menoth Garibaidi
is preparing another expedition against Rome
may not prove to be true. There is not tne re-
motest possibility of the success OF such an
expedition at present, and all the heavy sacri-
fees il would undoubtedly cost would be made
in vain. The hour of the liberation of Rome
is soon to come; but ill-timed instructions can
Jalov IL
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, published this morn
Jug, contains complete summary of Home
and Foreign news, and full reports of the Po-
litical movements of the week During the
Campaign it will be especially thorough in
everything relating to the political questions OF
the day, but its agricultural and other depart
ments will not fail to receive their usual at
fnnfinn
New-York tribune., 1868-06-24
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