Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-05-04

ace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and. Gerritt.
Smith on it, for twenty. FIVE thousand dollars
each, and the remaining twenty-five thousand
dollars ii given by citizens of Richmond. This
was done by INSTRUCTIONS from the parties
named. & Ex.s senator Bright, Of Indians Was.
in court, and Gen Lee; and Mr. Seldom were
ingshegcity as witnesses, It is thought the,
trial viii take place in the last of May. tstc
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In the Impeachment case the closing argu.
ment Oh tho part Of the Managers, BY Mr.
Bingham, was commenced to-day. It is I'M
derstood he will occupy two days he case
may be given to the Senate BY w ednesday.-s
The first business will be the disposition OF the
various orders regulating the final proceedings
which have been offered during the trial. and
postponed until after the close Of the argu-
ments.ai ibist thought the Senate may spend a
day in the settlement Of. these preliminary
questions Then will come the discussion,
rotably ID secret &c ssion, on the evidence and
points of law involved 10, the trial Upon the
latitude gigeno to- the debate in his consulta-
ton viii depend the date Of the completion of
hfis t89iEE4
A oorresp6ndent1ofth the Cincinnati CONNER
cial describing recent visit To- tbe freedmen en-
the estate at Arlington, in Virginia, says: In
this freedmen settlement there are two hun
dred dsthirty six tene ents, giving lodging.
to two thousand dependents, besides the hos
ptalinnates.t The expenses Of the settlement
everything included, are $4,000 a, month";, Six
huparsd acres of the best land Of the Arlington.
estate has been surveyed and staked into lots Of
an acre apiece, II ieh are letrout to the contra
bands at So q yeir per acre. Anegro ration cost
SO SO q month, 1.-The same with soldiers. The
settlement at Arlington casts large vote at ell
elections in the county of Alexandria!
The Richmond Enquirer says:-.t'sThe .ua-
toward results, In the States to the South, in
the late so called elections, have added to the
previous political 6 loom, and made more immi-
nent tha peril that confronts us. lUnder oraf
nary circumst ances these disasters might ma
uraIly enfeeble our efforts by discouraging our
hopesli Under the actual circumstances they
must but arouse our energies. This is the
properieeing and the proper spirit. Lst'us all
strive, earnestly, aud together, if possible to
save Virginia. The proposed Constitution
for her is worse than those adopted 10
the other Southern States al .ttat sa.'s' i.t.tt
We published OF Saturday an account of a
speech-a kind Of official exposition to
some colored peoplein Richmond by Gen. Whit
tlesey, Bureau man. It must have been read
with surprise by every right thinking man il,
indeed, people, In these days, can be surprised
at any thing. The Richmond Wing calls it
an incendiary harangue and calls the. atten-
ton Of Gen. Schofeld to this new effort in be-
half Of Africanization. r...ll
According to the latest reliable information
from Bremen. aver 5000 persons left that
port alone during the week preceding Easter,
for the United States in four steamers and
seventeen; sailing vessels, and the steerage ac-
commodations Of the steamers have been secur7
red ins anticipation already UP to the end of
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All accounts concur In representing that len
nessee, ass reconstructed, z under the rule of
ernment, and the most disturbed and unsettled
of any Of the Southern OF, Southwestern States.
The example IS not calculated to induce people,
in the South to desire any such Reconstruc-
ION ,,ssiiad 3ns i}E3at ai& - &'!aNi ~
Among the members elect to the Senate
OF North Carolina is Bedford Brown. Living
in the county of CasWefl, where he was born,
and whrre there is ,colored majority Of seven
hundred, himself in former years large slave
owner, hereceiyed large number Of the votes
of the. colored people.
A newspaper in New Mexico having made a
violently abusive attack upon Judge. Perry e.
Brocchus, the members of the bar of Sante Fe
have all signed paper Vindicating the charae
ter and official course Of Judge b., and declar-
ing the attack upon him unwarrantable and
unjust. ss.;.: gas
In North Carolina and Georgia, where the
Conservatives made hard contest, in behalf
Of their rights, the Radicals, with the aid Of
the colored people have secured the. entire con
troll of both States, electing ali the State Off
GERS and adopting the Radical constitutions. s,
Mr.. Stanton has moved from the War De
partment to his own house again, having be-
come satisfied that all danger of bis being ejec-i
ted is over. l.,J. ...5,. ...1 81 ..3t4
We have horrible story, referred to in the
New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, and given
in detail, as rumor, in Mississippi paper
relative to reported outrage, by colored sol.
der, Of daughter Of high Federal officer at
Ship Island, Of the seizure Of the black man,of
the killing Of him, tying his body il sack,
and throwing him into the gulf &c, &c. The