Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-11
ALEXANDRIA.
.TUKsDAYEVRNING, FEBRUARY II.

Gen.t Grant, OF FeDruary 50, lnSC., Will De
transmitted to the House and com munic ated to
the public to-day The House took a new step
yesterday, under the lead Of Mr.. Thadd us
Stevens. The papers and evidence In the i'm
parchment matt r were taken from the COM.
mittee on the Judiciary, to which such sue
ject would appropriately belong under the rules
ofthe House, and given to the Committee on Re
construction, with s'leaves to report at any
: time" This is considered as a significant move
in the direction of impeachment. The sub
Reconstruction Committee met yesterday and
continued the examination Of j. B., Stillson.
correspondent of the New York World, who
was before them on Saturday No new facts
were eicited. The committee meet again to-
day, when it is understood that Gen. Grant
will be ready to appear and testify. ra 81
The Baltimore Sun well says that the theory
lately promulgated by Dr.. Parrish, of Pa, that
habitual drunkenness is "a disease and that
its victims cannot help getting drunk, is false
intact and vicious and densordzizing in tendency.
=.'Man is endowed with reason, will, and
other attributes for. the very purpose of con-
trolling and regulating his physical passions,
and therefore is not irresponsible, like the
brutes. w hen Incorporate habits, or any other
evil habits, become formed, they may be strong;
but, in forming them every man is free agent,
and 1t Is worse than nonsense in pubic teach
er to proclaim to the youth of the land that in
temperance is thing that "cant be helpel.
There is no such paralysis to the efforts Of a
man struggling to resist the peculiar ptations
of his nature as TO make him believe or even
apprehend that the tendency he struggles
against is irresistible There is no such pre-
text for those who wish to 60 astray as the
consolatory idea that they can't help it.; no
such inspiration and help to virtuetas the as
surance that it can triumph if 1t will. !"
The latter-day philosophy of Dr.. Parrish is
simply calculated to increase the evils and the
horrors of intemp erance; and, We repeat is
false, vicious and ,demoralizing. It is simply
the old cry Of every man who. ruins
himself by the. use. of liquors; and the
same excuse may be used for crimes Of all kinds
and all grades, with just as much sense and
reason, in the one case as in the other. "A
disease !" Yes it is--a fearful disease. But
it can be easily avoided BY any one who chooses
by simply keeping away from intoxicating
drinksl And to do this requires him only to
be. a man & .Ts. rg--~s.f
Some of the officers and many of the pri-
Yates engaged on the side of the Federal gov
ernment in the late war, are said to be getting
restiue under the ''infiction" of Gen Grant, as
the ''be-all and end-all, y of that war;-and
rather think that a monopoly Of the praise, and
the power, and the authority, and the station,
as rewards for services, is not just nor necessa-
ry. They further say, that Gen. Grant is not
the man who deserves, to the exclusion Of
others, the honors bestowed upon him for
closing the war; though he was Gin at the
death. .s ss,5. 49,.
There was nothing better calculated to excite
disgust-nothine which did create more dis
gust-than the late ''ring" formed by the
''shoddy aristocracy,' and upstart rag and pa,
per, and greenback clique, in New York, for
a political party, of which they were to be pa
irons, and Gen. Grant their chent It would
have been an impudent thing even for men of
learning and intelect-but for asses to cut
Such caper, mainly because they are bloat
ed with money, is iutolerable -.
The New York correspondent Of the Phila-
delphia Ledger says: Business men begin
to look upon the impeachment as something
that may eventuate in serious results. Here
tofore, the impression has been that no such ex-
tremities would be resorted to, but the devel-
opments to- day of what is going on at Wash
ington are doing much to prepare the public
mind for new excitements and new uncertain
ties
We published paragraph the other day
showing that, whatever may be reported about
the business of New York, real estate in that
city does not decline. The New York Herald
says: within the past ten years there has
been an immense increase in the price of real
estate in this city. If we were to set down the
advance at fifty per cent we would probably
not exceed the averages" ~
The Richmond Enquirer informs US that
Hunnicutt is a collapsed demagogue" and
that in the Convention she has now fallen so
completely that the most stupid and illiterate of
the loyal leaguers" delight to hold him up to
the derision Of, the grinning galleries. -
The proposition for a removal of the national
capital to the West, received much larger
vote in the House of Representatives, than we
supposed it would Seventy-one to ninety,
seven, really, does not look like an absolute
certainty of permaneace.
Dr. Alexis Caswell, has been elected Presi-
dent of Brown University to suncoad Dr Sears
he is learned man. He was once a Profess
sor in Columbian College. D. G.:
Dispatches from the West say that in all the
Northwestern States, the cold on the night of
the OH Tho Of