Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-24

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! FURTHER RELATIVE TO THE SUPREME
Court The Reconstruction Committee, call
/ ed by the National Intelligencer, the Directory
of Authorization, yesterday held meeting, at
which eight members thereof were present,
who we're treated to the following, drawn up
by Mr.. Stevens, and discussed at lenth:
"Be ii enacted, &C., That appellate juris
diction OF the Supreme Court Of the United
States shall not extend to any act done, or
which shall be done, or to any proceeding had !
or which shall be had, und.r and by virtue of
the act eutirled AN act tG provide for the
| more efficient government Of the rebel States,
passed March, 1867, or of the several acts
supplementary thereto; aud oil such cases now
penling in said court, either by appeal or
otherwise, from any decision or proceeding
| had in the premises in any district or circuit
court Of the United States, shall be dismissed
by said Supreme Court, and no record Of any
proceeding had .ur which may be bad before
either of the district comm anders under either
| Of the slid acs, shall be removed to or review
cd in any other tribunal, either upon habeas
corr us, quo acurranto, or in. ANY manner what
ever. ...l.-
| It is said thst the vote upon the bill in com
mttee was: Yeas-Messrs. Stevens, Bing-
ham, Paine, Boutwell, and Beaman. Nays
Messrs HuIburd,. rep Brooks ard Beck.
| Mr.. q, Hulburd's hesitation must have eX-
posed bin TO some danger Of repetition from
Mr.. Stevens OF his famous and furious blast at
a CO. worker who scrupied at something too
hard even tor Il po'ician-''Eo hell with your
conscience. ~
TRAIN, (the irrepfessible George Francis
has sent the following characteristic telegram
over the cable -....-.--.-- .,-.-.------.-.-,
BRIrIsH JAIL, Monday, II NJ My first
gun is fired = ord Derby quails-Revolution-
Kuczkowshi- ireland for the lrish-,American
citizens rights in Europe-Alabama-or war
galvanze johnson and e Seward-are they
Americans Adams British Toady.
- GEo. FRANCIS TRAIN. ~
| 1t il somewhat expensive to send telegraphic
dispatches across the Atlantic, but Train has
made money, and, like other rich men, is vii
Hing to spend it freely for such Injuries as he
out of his Dispatch but that makes no differ.
ence to him, so that he gets it printed over his
own signature Indeed, she less ineligible it
| is the better, since plain facts could not be
made half sensational enough for his. purpose.
He lives only for notorlety, and ls perfectly
reckless of expense in his efforts to acquire it.
And not only is he reck less Of its expense to
himself, but equally different as to Che trouble
in which it may involve others. 1t would
doubtless have been the browning act of his
existence if he could have succeeded In dragging
his country into a war with England and the
greater its cost in money and precious lives, the
greater would have been the glory of Train as
the immediate occasion of the conflict Wash.
Chronicle .1...ysr....s
THE TRUTH IN "A NUTSHELL The New
York World, in reference to the cry of shard
times that is heard now, in all parts Of the
country-but especially in the West-thinks
eit is passing strange, that, with very few ex-
ceptons, the people all clamor for hairs Of the
dog that has bitten them The cry of the peo-
ple is for more irredeemable paper money, as
it there were any special virtue in greenbacks
that would ease them Of their troubles. 1t is
specie, not greenbacks, that is needed. Just
so long as the taxes are high and Congress per-
sists in keeping over one fourth of the country
under military rule at an enormous expense;
Just so long as thousands of men orc employed
by the government to do the work Of hundreds;
Just so long as our business transactions are
based Oh currency that is vaueess the mo.
ment it passes beyond the limits Of the United
States, Just so long must the people expect to
suffer" That's in few words, the marrow
of the matter Et.-# I-..... -..e 3