Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-21
ALEXANDRIA.
!. TUESDAY i EVENING. JANUARY q.

g S. KsDAY :EVENING. sJANUARY2 q. 8
IS PASSAGE nFsTHR MILITARY BIcoHsrRuc.
,sssssssss.sss sisqssE TON BILL,
g dispat Oh received By us from Washington,
CHS evening, announces thatthe Military he
aconstruction Bill passed the House Of Repre-
s : senta.ives today, bya strict party VOTE and
EEs without amendments. 8 LIZ go
30 An account Of arecent interview with Presi:
dent johnson is given BY 4 correspondent of
the New York World. We have, in the gen.
j. eral, quite So shrinking back from these re-
ported conversations, not TO say q decided dis.
IS belief in their correctness. One half of them
ssthat have been reported, have turned out to be
= either false, or exaggerated, or misrepresented
Nv That degreeEof credit ought, therefore, to be
given to this conversation, we do not know /;
but as. the writer is circumstantial. and bis
astatementgappe pears to have been prepared elab-
oratefy and With care, it is probable that the
reported remarks of Mr.. johnson are nearly
correct. That. is our impression. The sub
stance, then, Of this conversation, as given BY
the correspondence the New York World, is,
thatthe President thinks the Radicals in Con.
sagress desperate :" that the leaders are ca pr
BILE of employing any means, constitutional or
to get rid of the President, or
=. = 70 shear away lis power that the present
measures of these Radicals are revolutionary !;
ythat the new Reconstruction bill assumes a
light in Congress to do away with the Presi'
szdent altogether, and make itself the executor
as well as the legislator for the government, &C.
Then come inquiries on the part of the CORES
.pondent as to the duties of the President in
sssuohIa crisis, and the reported answers Of the
President to the questions; to wit: That the
President is obliged by his oath to defend the
Constitution Z; that the President sIofce under
ssthesconstitution is to- be- maintained; that the
Supreme Court under the Constitution is also
to- be, snaintsined.a The statement concludes
with the following 80" s1. &C., z..s1. -
The President said: a revolution, such
AS these beadlong spirits seem determined to
fprecipitate may Aaue If 1t Is suffered to 90 on,
an effect more damaging than that Of the last
clC1l 1Cur.9afFZ IZ.gE}sE{ H. 49, /.
So The, President pardon me-has been un-.
derstood TO express his intention to exercise all
the authority vestedin him by the Constitution
.-eto repel these revolutionary measures. ''.t.ta
The President said Mr. johnson, with
resolute gesture, has already expressed bis IN
..teution to, perform his duty. AS to what tha,
lightly on the table, and drumming with his
fingers during the pause, it would be rather
premature, just now, even to suggest NE 10lH
leaue special measures for special occasions aoite
then arise / have confidence in the good sense
OF the army, and certainly believe in the peo-
,ple.sjI believe in the young men; they will
.netspermt revolution to be accomplished,
even though added the President, in q Sc
rious, but not at all threatening tone, 1t might
benecessay for the people to take the matter INTO
their o1on hands. - 5. a5 ~ =
IA communication was received by the Sen
ate yesterday from the Secretary of the Treas
ury relative to the disposition of captured and
abandoned property 10 his department.. The
Secretary states that household furniture,
family relics, pictures, books, &C., which were
usually taken by the military tor. temporary
use, were restored to the owners whenever the
conditions in his circular letter of September
e, 1865, we're complied with. The value Of
such property was small "
l"Usually taken by the military for tempo
rary use !''''-stWere restored to The owners
+, whenever the conditions" &c. tho value
of such property was small l.! The ITEM
porary use. in this place-was, boxing up the
stolen property, in many cases, and sending
the boxes by railroads and steamboats, to the
.North-a seizure, "con6scation" and no re-
turtle value Of the property was great
And here was only q specimen of what occur
red all over the South. Itwas here, liz many
instances, plumber, wholly without excuse.
Neither the government, nor the Generals in
command, knew one half or one quarter OF the
stealings- carried on. The carpets, books,
pianos, pictures, household utensils, &C., &C.,
taken off have never been returned: They
adorn tho parlors, fill the library shelves, and
are made useful in the kitchens Of those who,
without authority, conveyed" 5 them away
and keep them. They are in the hands OF
thieves and the receivers of stolen goods
The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Times processes to give, 'son his own re-
sponsibility,1 statement of the Stanton al
fair denying that Gen. Grant had committed
himself to carry out the Presidents plans con-
corning MIR. Stanton. This correspondent says,
ION his own responsibility, that con Wed=
nesday Gen. Grant again called on the Presi-
dent in company with Gen. Sherman, and, ID
discussing The question, called the President 8
attention to the apparently authorized charges
Of duplicity and bad faith that appeared in
print that morning. Mr.. johnson promptly
repudiated any connection with them and said
they were wholly unauthorized - - rs. j
3 We.shall probably hear more of this 1t is
too grave amatter to be thus surred over by q
Washington correspondent ola newspaper,
"on his own responsibility. - ~