Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-05-21
: ALEIX.A. NDRIA. I.
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TsEBlrke ths most philosophers
ssnan chat England ever produced sale, and it is
10 consider his Eords1G19 s5:riS@. Vol
10 ssssThefe isnoqu qualification dor Government
.bbat virtue and wisdom, 1aetuator pTesumptiye.
Wherever they are actually found. they have,
ID RhafeVer, state condition, profession Or
trade, the passport Of heaven. to human place
end honoF. q Moe TO, the seuntry which lwould
imadty and mp0usly rejeets the serNics of the
talents and virtues CIVIL military or religious,
that are given to grace and rs serve it; and
would condemn osobscurity everything formed
Ito: sdlfase lustreoaa glory around a'State. +
syWoe TO the country, too; that passing into the
goppositece2 treme, considers a low education, and
9 near Contracted view Of things, as prefer
able title to command ann nd. ' o9ad s..a Ta6so II
IL" The,su periItendent of the three telegraph
lines in Washington were, before the fnpeach
ment Managers yesterday, apqlq rec required to pro-
duce all the dispatches sentby Private ipdivid-
ualsfor sepefaFdays before the renditionof the
verdi on the Il ii article. Thjsproceeding Of
toe managers is regarded Zas a. high handed
outrage. Mr.: Woody was again examined,
and reiterated that the $4,000 draft. hereto
lore spoken of, had nothing to- doaWith. the
Impeachment. whatever, but. declined to be
forced 70 give the managers an account Of his
own priyste affairs, There was some talk Of
him ID but > 'sshabeasp cor
PRS obeing suggested, he was discharged until
to-day. Gen. Boynton Of Cincinnati, it IS said,
testified that.Senaterlsoss said to him, on the
18th or 14th inst. chat he Ross would vote
10: CONVICTION on the eleventh, article .sz:rn
i,ieHarper's Magazine has the Pinkerton storv,
about the conspiracy to assassinate President
Lineolu, on his1w1vas from Illinois to Washing
ton, dressed up, in the most approved sensa !
tional style. Itis quite. probable that the whole
story is Nero ffabrication as certainly it isevs
identity not trust worthy. The Baltimore Ca
szctte says that ttssHarpers Magazine has en-
balmed npoEe falSehoods than, have ever been
collected together, even imam impeaehinentre
eord,''5 and, Of these, the Pinkerton story looks
llikeono ofbhe hugest of its tales3ns i9Eagt
It's SC, very seldom we agree in opinion with
once, that We think as. It does concerning the
danger Of. OVERRIDING the land agency business
established by Mr. Seward and further, that by
that agency may betaequired too much worth
less territory as we'll as too many worthless
people 77having on hand at this present writ
ing quite as much of both materials, especially
the latter, as can well be supported" by any
LgoFernmentsl95He r,lrsat at .Yl.l.r<%G
i;vAAs dispatch In, the New York Times says that
"Senator Fessenden has received a letter from
one Of the Associate Justices of the Supreme
Bench of M Massachusetts,, saying that his opin,
ion In the in eashment case IS sound in law,
and will ben sustained BY half the Radical
members Of the bar3of Boston az !3o1@ ,.G Z
Leonard Scott & Co., New York, have re-
published the April number Of the Edinburgh
Review: Contents: Tue Philosophy Of Auguste
Cqmte';1 Western. China; the Monks Of the
West Technical and Scientific EDUCATION
Bunsen's yMenoirs;s the Irish abroad : the
FIenGh in India; the3Disraeli, Ministry, ii
The Washington Chroacle enuneates, With
pleasure, that G. W. Geo. Wilkes, Spirit of
the Times has marked down Tor Slaughter
certain prominent men, and that he will make
them smell powder Phe Chronicle has
caught AZ. once the highly fgurative style! y
balf the ultra Radicals persist In driving out
ssofthe party the "Recusant Senator's and
those who sustain them, and think with them,
they maymake a bigger split than they In
,tended4r:If there isto be a diuided Radical
party, the game may be up! ae4 s.t'....4 =
acj saa4GaR 49, - ~ -;2J -
-ySPhs New York Herald predicts d 'revoIu-
ton in oEagland growing out Of the present
ministerial ,tcrisis" there W hat kind Of
revelation ? Very probably a revolution
which will roll one ministry, out andr Foil auoth-
e one in. s, ITO, - ''*3s = '
s MI Mr. Dickens has safely arrived at his home
tiaEngland, and the press generally is warm in
its expressions of regard fJr him, as we'll as in
frank and cordial friendship for this country
The tendon Times is particularly friendly
The Working ren of Virginia complain
: .nowaard justly, o.. the taxes which are eem-
Stunning their hard-earned money. How much
those taxes will be increased, if the proposed
constitution is adopted, no one can tell
The corner stone of the Masonic Temple, to
be built IN Washington, was laid yesterday,
with impressive ceremonies. The President
was liu the procession with the MNasons, he
being q member of the Order. zgitlfa sasa4l
alEotg ff: = 49,
Reports are started, in Washington, that
conviction viii be accomplished on some
efthe articles Of impeachment, whent vote
IS taken. u But most people stall think the