Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-10-01
ALEXANDRIA.


ALEXANDRIA.
TEE REVOLUTION in Spain appears to have
been successful. The Capital, most Of the
principal cities, and large portion of the
country are in the hands of the revolutionists.
The Queen has retired or fled into France. A
provisional government has been formed, and
we wait to see what will be the next move.
ment.
Hunnicutt meets the Richmond City Cen
trail Committee more than half way-scorns
their reputation of him--denounces them as a
miserable, mptible clique photographs y
them individually, &C. He invites all good
Radicals to come and hear hin1-to come out
from among the carpet, baggers, &c. Hun
nicutt is, beyond question, at this time, in a
rage, and his bold and defiant language shows
that he is backed by the colored people in his
section of the State.
To-day the contemplated Grant and Colfax
demonstration takes place in Philadelphia. A
very large crowds expected to assemble. Every
effort has been made to draw as many people
together as possible 1t is called the Radical
Sailors and Soldiers Mass Convention. It is
said that supplies have been prepared to feed
10000 people for two days We shall have,
we presume, immense 'sglorifcation' over the
meeting.
In Baltimore yesterday very skilitul coun-
terfeit $40 on the Third National Bank Of
Philadelphia was passed. The vignettes and
whole face of the note are fac smile Of the
genuine note, and therefore difficult Of detec-
ton. The engraving of the back Of the note,
however, is rather defective-not as good as in
the genuine. Look out for counterfeits.
The New York publishing house of D. APP
pleton & Go. have not only madea donation of
books to the Petersburg Library Association,
but have offered to sell any books purchased by
them at half the catalogue price, and are now
filing an order Tor some five hundred volumes
on these terms. 1t gives us pleasure to record
such instances of liberality and generosity.
II is said that the fashion for gentlemen's
full dress in Paris, this winter will be small
clothes with silk stockings. Gentlemen who
have not been kindly treated by nature, will
supply themselves with false calves. Rutfled
shirt fronts and full rufles at the wrists will
also be Indispensable.
AS the time for the Presidential election
draws near, the excitement in the North and
West increases, and the contest deepens.-
Meetings are now being held all over those Sec
tious of the country, and speeches made by the
prominent politicians on both sides. The Con-
servati7es are full of hope and confidence.
1t is the opinion of the Petersburg Index
that the great majority of human beings who
ha We the misfortune to survive teething and
the long array of infantile maladies, and arrive
at what are facetiously called years Of discre-
ton, spend the remainder of their lives 10
making and in lodging trouble.
The Radical newspapers set down South
Carolina as certain for Grant That State hav
ing majority Of co]ored people, they think
they are sure or them-with the aid OF the
white leaders, and the Freedmen's Bureau
there But even there, there may be "a slip
between the cup and the lip.
There is now in New York, Mgr. Michael
Chaldary hIaronitc prelate, and mltrcd ab-
bot of the ancient Order OF st. Anthony of the
Desert. This Prelate is, also, Chorepiscopos
and Vicar General Of the Archbishop (of the
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An account is given in the Chicago Post, at
length, of the attendance Of General Grant at
church in Chicago, few Sundays ago -
Nothing remarkable, whatever, occurred. He
went to church and stayed there till the SER
vices were over.
The National Intelligencer states that the
reported conversation between the Pres-
dent and Governor Smith, Of Alabama, pub
lished in the Washington Chronicle OF yester-
day, is not authentic.
There is to be Democratic meeting held in
New York next Monday evening If the
weather be favorable, it will, probably, be one
OF the largest political meetings ever held in
that city
Gen. Sheridan addresses a rescript to the
Boys in Blue, - telling them to vote for Grant
and Coltax. Is this military orler?''
THE STATE ELECTIONS which came off on
the 18th of October are Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Nebraska. The vote of Pennsyl-
vania, to which attaches so much Importance,
has been since 1860 gradually declining 50 far
as the Radical majority is concerned. Ia 1860
the majority for Mr.. Lincoln was SO, 6lS. In
1oeA The nainritu fnr Mr. Lincoln decEnad To