Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-15
!. ALEXANDRIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15

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SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY Is.
The SENATE SENSATIONAL. The Nation
al Intelligencer commenting on the late s'Sen
sation' the Senate, about the railroad affair
here, says:
"We know nothing but the general facts Of
the particular case in question, but we dc
know that if wrong has been done, or injury
inflicted, the law provides the same remedy
and redress that every other citizen is COMPEL
ed to seek under similar circumstances, and
that it is gross courage" upon the dignity
and decency of the Senate to drag such mat
ter before it for political effect and personal adj
vantage Mr.. Sumner says 'the courts are
too slow for justice In such case" that IS to
say, too slow tor the sensation desired and tab
time and money. The regular course of law,
which every white citizen is compelled to en-
ploy to redress grievance, is not fast enough
for negro; so Congress must stop the public
business, and legislate for every petty case Of
alleged assault which might be tried before a
justice OF the peace. This is fair specimen
Of Radical craftsmanship, wisdom and justice.
We apprehend that when Mr. Sumner and
others shall have examined more closely into
all the facts of the case and of character, they
will be less anxious to ventilate their chivalry
on another occasion, and perhaps repent of
some OF the gratuitous zeal which they have
already exhibited. The engineer is likely to
be hoisted with his own petard, and Mr.. Sum
ner may find himself complicated in manner
not peculiarly creditable, after having invoked
the intervention of the Senate, and volunteered
as the champion of this heroine"
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MILITARY ORDERS johnson s
order to Gen. Grant creating new military
division, with Lieutenant Gen Sherman as it's
commander, and headquarters in Washington
has been officially promulgated by Gen. Grant
In the same circular the President tells Grant
that, until further orders from himself, he
Grant will not assign any officer to The per
manent command of the Military Division of
the Missouri. Grant follows this up with an
order stating that "Major General Sheridan,
the senoir officer in the Military Division of the
Missouri, will temporarily perform the durie,
of Commander Of the NJ ilitary Division Of the
Missouri, in addition to his duties of Depart
mert Commander The latter portion of the
Presidents order appears to have been direct
ed at Sheridan; and Grant, by assigning him to
temporary command of t1at DIVISION compeIs
the President, If be desires to ger rid ct him
there, to again remove him from position. Mr..
Wilson has given notice of his INTENTION to Of
fer a resolution inquiring by what law MIR.
johnson created the new Department to which
he has assigned Gen. Sherman.
The MINT-The Commissioners appointed
to examine the Mint at Philadelphia, make a
favorable report of the operations at that es
Enlistment Mr.. Rusgles, at meeting Of The
Commissioners, exhibited a specimen Of the
proposed International coin Of twenty-five
francs, recently struck by the Government of
France, which was found, on examination, to
be Of full weight and twenty, four millimetres
in diameter, little exceeding the American
half-eagle and British sovereign. The Com
missioners in resolution express their salts
faction with the proposed coin, and in their
opinion the importance and the value of
speedy unifcation Of the coin of the civilized
world. AS soon as the new machinery already
ordered is put up, the Mint can promptly exc
cute the new coinage, as contemplated by the
bill already introduced 10 the Senate for the
uni6cation of the coinage1 without interfering
in any way with its regular business operations.
A number OF gentlemen, says New Y ork cor
respondent, met at the Astor House on Thurs
day, for the purpose Of perfectiug an orgauiza-
ton for the purchase of Virginia lands from
insolvent owners and throwing them into the
market, in small lots, for the benefit of
men of moderate means. A Colonel Martin,
of Railway, n. j., seems to be chief engineer
of the movement.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun says: 1.-THE Sherman bill 10 admit
Alabama, if it shall pass at all, will not sue
ceed by strict party vote. Several radical
Senators have been outspoken to-day in oppo.
sition to the proposed law, and Gen. Butler
says he will oppose the bill If it shall ever reach
the House."
1t isreported from Richmond that Hunpicutt
and HawxhurSt have "hitched teams" the
former to advocate the claims of the latter for
Governor, while Hawxhurst is to use his in
fuance in securing nomination for Hunnicutt
fer Congress from the Richmond District. IA
nice kettle of fish -
The Washington Chronicle says:-"It is
rumored that the military force 10 the depart
ment of Washington is to be largely increased.
What necessity there is for this increase is not
apparent"
The National Intelligencer thinks that the
Radical temper in the Senate is daily grow
ing more ultra, rancorous and proscriptve -
We think it will be difficult to reach "a lower
eep."
A SAD CASE oE HARDSHIP On Saturday
night last young man named MCGUIRE of
respectable appearance and decently dressed,
met sergeant of police, and told him he had
stolen two small bars of steel during fire. He