Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-11

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ALEXANDRIA.
The Baltimore Gazette says:-''In New
York yesterday morning money was dearer,
stocks were lower and securities declined The
telegraph announced the fact that the bears
were again locking up currency. In Baltimore
it has been difficult for some time past to have
Q check cashed, unless indeed 1t was tor very
small sum. Checks are certified and used as
currency. But even this measure does not re
lieve the banks sufficiently to allow them to
meet the wants OF the community, and last
week several of them sold portion OF their Sc
curities in order to provide additional currency.
The newspapers are busily engaged in max
ing their opinions as to who will compose.thoc cab
met They know no more of the matter than
we do-not even those who profess to be "best
informed" Several of them say that Mr..
Stanton, Mr.. Wade, aud Mr.. Horace Greeley
will certainly come in, aud that Gen. Slckles
is to be sent to Mexico. We presume this
will be sufficiently Radical to suit the most
esetreme taste.
Letters from Washington state that Gen.
Grant has already received about 500 written
applications for office. He has given Gen. Ba-
deau, his Secretary, orders to destroy all such
missives without showing them to him. The
consequence was, yesterday that Badeau had
pile of waste paper around his table two feet
high" This action, on the part of the Presi-
dent elect, is much to be commended.
In reference to Gen Grants position as Gen
eral of the Armies of the U. s., and the APP
pointment of his successor when he resigns
his commission, the Cincinnati Commercial
says that the law creating the grade of General
does not contemplate succession. When Gen.
Grant resigns, the office will expire with tie
acceptance of his resignation. The highest
rank will then be Lieut.. General
On the 7th of August next, o total eclipse Of
the sun will be visible in part of the United
States. The eclipse will be partial throughout
the Union, hut total in Iowa, Central Illinois,
Southern Indiana, Kentucky and North
Carolina following line from northwest
to southeast, beginning 10 Iowa between 4
and p. M, and ending on the North Carolina
coast few minutes past six.
10 the Hall of the House of Representatives,
yesterday, where few members had assembled
previous to the adjournment, Mr.. Oliver }.
Dickey, at once became an object Of curiosity
by reason of his being the successor OF Thad-
deus Stevens. He does not resemble the ''Old
leader" of the House in any particular physi-
ealy, nor in many mentally, so much as IN his
bitter and uncompromising radiraism.
1t is stated that in opening the November
session Of Congress once adjourned to De
cember-yesterday in the Senate Rev. DIR.
Grey offered" prayer, half devotional and
halfpolitical-and in the House, Rev. DIR. Boyn-
ton Offered prayer three quarters political
snd one quarter devotional This appears to
be nice calculation.
On Saturday last, Gen. John A. RawlnS, chief
Of the staff OF Gen. Grant, delivered a speech
toa very large assemblage in the city Of Ga
lena, Illinois, in which he went for making the
United States an "Ocean Bound Republic
taking in Canada and Mexico Go ahead !
Excelsior Acquisition The whole boundless
continent &c, &c.
A dispatch from Washington states that
"Mr. Montgomery Blair advises the Democrats
to press Gen. Grant to select his Cabinet from
among Conservative Republicans like Messrs.
Trumbull and Fessenden, and promises him
the support of the Democracy for his Admin
istration!" This may be so-but We doubt it
exceedingly.
1t will be seen by the foreign news, in snoth-
er column, that basis of settlement of the Ala
bama claims and other matters in dispute be-
tween the United States and Great Britain,
has been agreed on by the Minister of the
United States and the British Ministry.
Mr.. Frederick Dickens, the latest surviving
brother of Mr.. Charles Dickens, the author,
died in England recently.
PROPOSED SALE OF VIRGINIA AND TENNEs-
SEE RAILRoAD.--It is reported that there is
movement now on foot, to sell the States in-
terest in this road to the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. From all the information
that reaches US, through various sources, we
cannot doubt that the subject has been mooted,
to say the least There is an estoppe, how
ever, of the whole scheme just here-no organi-
zed authority in the State can ALLEVIATE her IN
.erest in this great work. Only the Legislature
has authority in the premises. The consoda
ton bill, which passed the General Assembly,
at its last session, only gave the right to ex-
change State stock for State bonds, in iquida