Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-24
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

| OTATE OF ' lhGlNlA w. HE ", " ~. OtaAN]nA
CoMpANY.-In the Circuit Court in Baltimore,
on Tuesday, before Judge Pinkuey, the argu-
ment in the case of the Commonwealth Of Vir.
GINA VS.. The Chesapeake aud Ohio Canal
Company, and William w. Corcoran, George
W. Riggs, of the District Of Columbia j.
Bayard r. Smith and Horatio Allen, of New
York, and J. Phillip Roman, trustees under
! the mortgage given by said company;
John S. Cuttings, Of Baltimore county;
Allen Bowie Davis, of Montgomery county
Charles H. Carter, of Prince George scounty,
and Mrs. Isabella Brown of Baltimore city,
holders of preferred and repair bonds. Isaac
D. jones' Esq, and Marshall & Fisher, and
Charles j. NJ GRynn, Esq, appeared for the
canal company William and Benjamin Price
appeared for the Potomac bondholders ; Ber-
nard Carter for Charles II. Garter; Messrs.
Brown and Bruno appeared for Mrs Isabella
Brown and Horatio Allen, Of New York ; and
tings Richard J. Bowie for Allen Bowie Davis;
J. Bayard Fl. Smith for himself and Corcoran
and Riggs
The object of the bill in this case-Which
was filed by Nelson and j. P. Poe and Bradley
T. johnson for complainant, is to have an ac
count stated between the State Of Virginia and
the Canal Company, and for the appointment
Of receiver of all the tolls and revenue OF said
company, for an injunction against the Canal
Company it's agents, &c, to prohibit the u.s.
ing, applying, Or expanding any OF the said
nett tolls and revenues to or i0r any purpose
whatever, other than the payment and dis
charge of the prior liens thereon of complain
ant. The prioritics claimed by complainant are
$2000,000 Of repair bonds guaranteed by the
State of Virginia, which were taken up by the
State as they fell due after January |, 1853,
together with the interest thereon, and also to
the discharge of the liability Of the complain
ant for any overdue coupons on repair bonds
outstanding; also the payment OF $4,000 OF
said certificates transferred to Selden, Wlthcrs,
& Co., and the interest thereon, and to the
payment OF all other coupons upon said pre-
terred bonds The counsel representing the
different defendants to the suit read their ans
wers to the BILL The answer ofthe company
admits all the allegations of the bill material
to the decision Of the question The other ans
wers in connection with the agreed statement
of facts, present the disputed points. They all,
with the exception ofJohn S. Cuttings, deny
the priority of the repair bonds, and insist that
the 81, 700, 600 of bonds issued, were preferred
bonds.
MIR. d. Jones, OF counsel for the canal com
pany filed an exception TO the jurisdiction CT
the court, ''for the reason that the complain
ant in the bill OF complaint has shown that the
State Of Mary land has such an interest in any
decree which may be passed IN the cause as to
render the State necessary and indispensable
party to such cause -; but as neither the COM
plainant nor this court, nor any other existing
authority, can make the State OF Maryland
defendant in this cause, this court cannot take
jurisdiction Of said matters set forth and ailcg-
cd in said bill of complaint" The argument
of the case was commenced by j. i. Poe, Esq,
and will probably be continued tor several days.
ELECTION IN VIRGINIA-Thcrc seems to be
a probability that the election will be soon Or
dcrcd in Virginia. The funds necessary to de,
fray the expenses OF the election will it is con-
Gdenty assumed. be soon voted by Congress.
What success will attend the efforts to induce
Congress to dispense with the registration re-
qured by the Reconstruction acts, We are not
prepared to say, but we arc prepared to expect
anything and everything. 49,.
The 7th section of the Supplementary Re
construction Bill provides that "thc Boards Of
Registration shah have power, and it shall be
their duty, commencing fourteen days prior to
any election under said act (meaning the origi-
nal Registration act) and upon reasonable pull
lie notice OF the time and place thereof, to re-
wise for period Of three days the registration
lists, and upon being satisfied that any person
rot entitled thereto has been registered to
strike the name Of such person from the list.
And such board shall, also, during the same
period, add to such registry the names OF all
persons who at that time possess the quafca-
lions required by said act, who have not been
already registered" &C., &c.
Under the new registration thus directed by
Congress it is claimed that the names Of q
large number OF vagrant negroes not entitled
to be registered will have to be struck from the
lists, and that the white lists will be augmen-
ted by some several thousand new voters. 1t
is now proposed that this solemn act of Con
gress shall be changed in order to prevent the
augmentation of the white lists. Such tinker
ing is unworthy Of the Legislature of a great
nation, yet we may expect everything to be
done that will tend to give the advantage to the
Radicals. Butwe are encouraged to believe that
should the additional outrage be perpetrated,
we will still be enabled, if anything like COM
the election, to defeat the Constitution. The
white majority under the old registration u.s. in
round numbers, fourteen thousand. -Rtch.
IFhig
GRANVILLE MoNTELLE, who was arrested in
Randolph county, West Virginia, for horse
stealing, the other day, interrupted the magis-
trate who was questioning witness, with the
remark :-"Oh, stop all this nonsensc--I stole
the horse-Ive got term Of p years to serve
out in the pcnitcntary.
The Arkansas Senators were admitted yes
terday, sworn in, ard took their seats The
first "Recoustruction" Senators. The Repre-,
scntatives were sworn 10 to day. They are
| ALL out and out Radicals otherwise it is prob
able they would not have been admitted
''There's a difference to be seen" &c.
| The Phillips trial in Richmond has COM
menccd. We hope our fellow townsmcn on