Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-14
ALEXANDRIA,.
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY IA.

a LIZA IN DRlA.
:. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY IA.
It will be seen that the IMPEACHMENT ques-
tion. has been qatashed in the Committee on
Reconstruction. Whether it will be revived
again, ne do not know. Already rejected by the
House of Representatives, and now rejected by
the Committee to which it was specially refer
red, it looks as if this miserable effort to in
crease disorder in the country, would be al
lowed 'stoasleep the sleep of death" 1t is
full time. The Washington Star says:-''Mr.
Stevens is greatly chagriued at the result
though be says te did not expect much different.
He says that the Radical party is virtually de-
feated,and all through the cowardice OF It's own
members He attaches much Of the blame to
Grant and his friends who, he says, became
frightened and demoralized; for what reason
he does not exactly know. It is his firm be-
lief, that had the friends of Grant, as we'll as
Grant himself, kept their hands off, nothing
could have saved Johnson.
Is is said in a dispatch, that the new Consti.
tuition in Alabama, has been defeated by Is, 900,
in the vote under the Reconstruction law
and, Notwithstanding frauds without number
to assist in pushing it through. The Spring
field Mass, Republican, (Radical) admits that
the progress of the election has developed
more plainly and forcibly than anything else
has Or could, the reasons why the constitution
ought not to succeed, and why the present
course of reconstruction ought to stop" The
Washington Chronicle has the following dis.
patch from Montgomery:
1.-THE official and reported returns from SO
counties show 62,322 votes for ratification, be-
ing 333 less then half the registered vote and 6,
GA less than were cast in the same counties for
convention in October The remaining %
counties cast for convention 20, 2Sl votes The
total vote for ratification will be not far from
1900, or about 1000 less than half the regis
tered vote of the State including the registra.
ton Of last week, supposed to be 1000 or
5000. A committee will leave the State on
Saturday Tor Washington, to urge the passage
of the resolution introduced in the Senate on
Wednesday by Mr.. Sherman"
The London Times commenting on affairs in
this country, thinks that Congress is changing
the framework Of the Government so fast that
people are beginning to inquire whether there is
such thing as the Constitution remaining in
the country" The inside view Of the matter
is, that whilst, undoubtedly, there is on pa
per and parchment "a Constitution rema ming"
the Radical dominant faction pay no more at
tention to its provisions, when they stand in
the way Of their plans and purposes, than if it
WAS not in existence-which the Times would,
of course, consider as amounting to precisely
the'same thing-"and which, in fact, it does. "
The House of Representatives has refused
to admit Mr.. Brown Of KY, to his seat in the
House, on account of disloyalty-the same
house in which Logan, Stokes and that set,
occupy places! Mr. Brown showed that his
position in 1861 had been precisely that Of the
leaders Of the Union party in Kentucky, viz:
Messrs. Guthrie, Harvey, Prentice, Critten-
den, Rousseau, and James Speed, and that this
position Of neutrality was even endorsed by
President Lincoln himself as satisfactory.
NIr. Stanton has issued number Of special
orders signed by order of the Secretary of
War" but all the special orders beginning
"By direction Of the President" are signed
by command Of General Grant" and then
follows the signature of the Adjutant General.
The New York World says that Mr.. Bel
mont is of Mr. Pendlctons opinion in regard
to the payment Of the principal Of the five
twenties in greenbacks, though differing from
Mr. P. as to the Importance of it as a practi-
cal question now, or for some years to come.
The newspapers report with what truth We
do not know, that the Congressional Temper
ance Society is sadly in want of ''Reconstruc-
tion," and that some of the most eloquent
temperance orators on former occasions are not
showing itheirfaith by their acorkS
Whilst the Bank of France is fush-$2O5,
100000 il go!d-there is considerable distress
throughout the Empire amongst the people. The
latter being one Of the consequences of the
former. .ia@a
The Washington Chronicle announces that
every interest Of the Republican party is sup
porting or satisfied with Grant" OF course
New, PUBLICATIONS. we have received
from the Bookstore Of Geo. e. French, King
street, the following -
The January number of L. Scott & Co.'S