Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-19

OF q private GapilaiiSt! IL gu, WHdt lotC " III
terest is paid, and who gets the money Some
Of this fund has been in possession OF the U; j,
S. more than five years.-Neao York journal
of Commerce.
Has there ever been list published Of the
property "oonfscated" and sold In this place
and the adjoining counties, during the war, or
since2 If NOT. there should be. 1t should
state owners Names actual value, amount sold
for. to whom sold, when, and how much Of
the proceeds was deposited in the Treasury,
expenses OF sales and commissions to officers
engaged in selling, and the reasons for the con-
fscation and sale-with all other needfu par
ticulars of said confscations and sales.
A gigantic speculation some say fraud
upon the Usage Indians, was ventilated yester-
day in the House Of Representatives. 1t is
thought the action taken may arrest the con-
irmatiou Of the treaty now before the Senate,
providing for sale of 100000 of acres of the
finest land in the world, covering about one
sixth of the State of Kansas, to the Leaven-
worth and Galveston railroad company, and
this company consists Of one undivided citizen
of Chicago! The price is fixed at nineteen cts.
per acre, payable in sixteen years, and the body
of land is nearly as large as all Of New England.
Until paid for and patents issued the land is to
be free from taxation There are now 10000
settlers on the land, all Of whom would be
placed at the mercy of this railroad proprietor.
There is authority from Chief Justice Chase
for denying the truth of the paragraph in the
papers that he (Chief Justice Chase called on
the President for the purpose of urging the re-
tention of Mr.. McCulloch as Secretary of the
Treasury. There is no truth either in the
statement published that III the interview be-
tween the President and the Chief Justice, Mr..
johnson said his first choice for President is
Chase, next Hancock, and next Hendricks.
No such conversation occurred.
Some time ago the judiciary committee Of
tie House was directed to examine into the
truth of published statement that Justice
Field of the Supreme Court, had, 10 advance
of an opinion by the court, pronounced the re-
construction laws unconstitutional, One or
two witnesses were examined at the time, but
the subject was almost forgotten, until ycster-
day, when Mr.. Boutwell, reported the resolu-
ton back, and the committee was discharged
from its further consideration.
A notice of the death of Mr. William r.
Barbee, the sculptor, will be found among the
items of Virginia news. He was, undoubtedly,
a man Of genius in his art, as his works will
testify. The Coquette and the Fisher Girl,
with several busts, show his powers Of concep-
ton and execution. He was engaged on the
Lost Plead, which was only in tho clay-but
likely to be, had he lived to finish it, lis master
piece Admired as an artist, he was justly cs-
teemed as a man.
The fiat has, apparently, gone forth that Col
orado, with population not equal to that Of
one of the wards of New York city, is to be
admitted without delay. The Senate will thus
be strengthened by the addition of two more
available Radical votes, the House with one.
The constitutional amendment will receive
the valuable acquisition of another vote, and
the influence of New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, still further diluted.
The Committee of Ways and Means of the
House of Representatives, are expected to re-
port the amended tax bill to the House
to-day On whiskey the amount of tax
to be collected will be left blank, to be put
in by the House, aud over which there will be
considerable contest, with indications that it
On tobacco they will probably reduce the rates
considerably.
The Radical leaders and presses bitterly de-
nounce all rebels and ''rebep' sympathizers
except those who have Joined the Radical
ranks, and enlisted in the Radical service, since
the war. In their cases, no matter what may
have been their offences, while the war was 60
ing on or before the war, ''all is now we'll - They
are even ''patted and praised. " Rebels are
only rebels when they are not Radicals.
COL Frank Rufin, who bears name identi-
fed with the agricultural interests Of Virginia,
has written an able letter to the Albany Guilt
vator, 10 which he discusses at great length
the advantages to be derived from investments
in the lands of Eastern Virginia. Col. Rufin
gives the average price, taking his data from
land sales, at $3.50 per acre for farms with
buildings and improvements.
Complaints are made in the large CONNER
cial cities about the decline and stagnation in
the shipping interests. We are told that
scarcely vessel is being built or being char
tered in any of the great ports, and that there
is vast depreciation in the value of the CAPT
tai hitherto invested in the mercantile marine.
The Congress Reconstruction Committee
held a meeting yesterday The subject of the
Virginia registration was still! under discussion