Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-10
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10.

ton of Conservative candidates for any Office
in the State, no matter what may be the
strength of the Radicals in every courtyard
no compromises about candidates being able to
get this or that Radical vote, or being accepta-
BILE to this or that section Of the Radical party
adopting as candidates those who as Conser.
vatives will oppose Radicaism, and have no
afiliation with the Radical party.
We published, yesterday, from the Rioh-
mond Dispatch, an explanation authorized by
Judge Alexander Rives, as to his sentiments,
and intended course, in regard to the present
condition of affairs in our State and expressed
our pleasure to hear that he even yet processes
some Conservative opinions, Notwithstanding
his highly otjectional course, in political point
Uf view, since the war We have just enoup b
Of the leaven of old party feeling left in us, to
think that whatever of Conservatism yet lin
gers in tue breast Of the gentleman TO WHOM
we aIlu lie, is owing to the old principles he i'm
bibed, from the constitutional party with which
he was once, in better days. associated. 81 GRACE
wrote:
Quo semel est imbuta recens. servabit odorem
Tesla di IA. ;.
And a modern poet, in our own language,
has given the same idea, in the beautiful figure
"You NAV shatter the vase i you will,
But the scent Of the .oses will hang round it
still" 80. @is
Pity it is that the vase was ever shattered
There was another farce" in the Senate,
yesterday, when Mr.. Vickers Of Nd, appeared
to be sworn TO- Mr.. Sumner r'se and offered Il
reso 'ution providing tor refersnc, ''to the
Committee on the judiciary, with instructions
to inquire whe her the State Of Maryland has
arepuDlcan form of government, so as to be
competent at this time to elect Senator OF the
Unmed States Upon this he delivered him
self ola speech in which he discussed the af-
fairs and politics of Maryland, and he was
followed by Mr.. Nye in similar strain, partic.
ularIy heavy upon Gov. Swami. Mr.. Reverdy
johnson replied in few words, aud the Sen
ate was about to vote upon Mr.. Conness' mo-
tioI, when Mr. Sumner rose and stated that be
had accomplished bis purpose in offering the
resolution, and he therefore withdre,o itl Mr.
Vickers then took the prescribed oath aid was
duly installed.
The newspapers are giving different accounts
of what The President intends to dc, and what
be wi!lnot do, on the Impeachment NATTER
Some say that he is to object to the Jury
majority of them-as having formed and ex-
pressed an opinion against bin already and that
be will object also to the competency OF the
Senate to try him, ten Of the States not being
represented. Others, again.say he will resign.
Others, still, that he will meet the charges and
stand his trial upon the law and tae evidence,
confident that they viii not be able, with any
show ofjustice, to condemn him But these
are all mere coniectures Nobody knows but
himself, and his counsel, and his intimate
friends, what will be his course
The Richmond Whig says it confidently ex-
poets to see the black population in Virginia,
entirely submerged under the tide Of white i'm
migration that must soon set in. Every man
who comes will be producer, tax payer, and
a white man. What then will become of black
ascendancy and of the Hunnicutt and Under
wood tribe of whites They will ''sink out of
sight" and their present dukes of marmalade
and marquises of ice cream be no where
Capt. p umacker has arrived in Washington
from Switzerland as an agent Of some Swiss
people who wish to emigrate to this country and
form settlement. One hundred and twenty
families are ready to come here as soon as Plu-
macker says the word. This number can be in
creased to 1000 before the end of the year
He has determined to select settlement either
in East Tennessee or Southwestern Virginia.
The New York Sun says, though the Pres.
ident has been the aggressor in the present
case, the act is not of such an atrocious nature
as to afford adequate ground for impeaching
him, and quotes John Bright, the English Radi-
cal, as expressing an opinion that the Impeach-
men Is hazardous as we'll as wrong measure.
Gen. Hancock, on the 9th ult., asked to be
relieved from the command of the Fifth Mill
tary District, in consequence of the unreasona-
BILE interference of Gen Grant, in the affairs of
the di.trict. The President does not wish him
to retire; the Radicals are extremely anxious
that be should.
The Senate has removed the injunction Of
secrecy from the papers connected with the
cas-, OF Mr.. Stanton, including his original nou,-
iuation by Mr.. Lincoln, the vote by which he
was cou6rme d, the suspension of August last,
the attempted removal on the I'D ult., a.nd all
the proceedings thereon.
Thesweekly report Of the 'esignat;lon of the
present Secretary of the Treasury Is out. Some
creditthe report-othera do not.