Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-01-08

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is to bea eommemorated tonight by grand
banquet Of Democrats and Conservatives at the
Metropolitan Hotel, in Washington. The regu.
lar toasts will responded to by Judges Black,
Marshall, and Marvin by Senators johnson,
Dixon, and sDoolttle; by Gov Parsons, and
Gen. Geo ". Morgan and by Hon. Messrs.
Pruyn, Boyer, Cox, Blair, Brooks Burke,
Merrick, and others E '.a... 5,.;. ,s.=
Mr. Reverdy johnson has written letter to
Mr.. John Lee Carroll, Of the Maryland Senate,
in replyto q letter requesting information rela-
tive to LisNote on the reconstruction measure
before Congress, he. says that his vote on
that billlWas given safirmatively because he be-
lieved ii; was the best terms the South would
receive, and # rejected at that time, would te
followed by more stringent enactment, and
that his vote has been approved by many
prominent Southern citizens, amongst them
Gems. Johnson, Bsauregard, Longstreet, and
others. M s4.zA2 -.-----.-- ~. rsssi \.
Gov. Bullock, of Mass. in his message to
the Legislature, says that it is high time to re
spindle (thatis the word for Massachusetts,;
spindle )ssst in motion, every laborer supplied
with work; land in order that this may be
brought about,he recomends 'magnanimity 10
the defeated" and hopes to hear no more Of
'confscation and attainder tor the Southern
masses, and of 'silliberal and unfriendly leg
islation." $3.50 ,;i tol2i&Eg
The evidence taken in the contested election
case from Ohio, now before the House Of Rep
resentatives, Morgan and Delauo, shows the
utter incompetency Of some Of the voters. AS
the Washington Express says, it is painful to
think that the policy of the government may
be controlled by such imbeces Yet utterly
iucompetent.as are those poor creatures, they
are not whit less qualified than thousands
whom it is-now proposed to convert into free
and independent voters"
The statement Of the Public Debt, on the
18th of January, 1868, is Debt bearing coin
interest, $3.50, l02, O9l.SO; Debt, bearing
currency interest, $32S, 49l, 230,O0 matured
Debt, not presented for payment, SIS, 81, 640.-
SO; Dett, bearing no interest, S407, S6l ,290.
So Total Debt, $2,642, 326, 253 49, Amount
in Treasury, coin, sos 430, 253.67 Amount in
Treasury, currency, 25, TO, a49.n; Total la4,
2OO SOB. SO. Amount of debt, less cash in
Treasury, s2,50S, 125, 65O.lo.
Edward NJ. .Spilman, ESD, county superb
tendent for Fauquier, publishes call in the
Warrenton Index to the several committees in
that county, Itolmeet and appoint efficient and
working men'as superintendent for their res
pective districts, which superintendent will
forthwith carry out in detail the plan of organ
ization indicated BY the State Convention.
The Fredericksburg Herald says: 'The Vir-
ginia delegation to the Commercial Convention
which met in Savannah, Ca, some years since,
will remember the very handsome entertain
ment given at the princely establishment Of
Charles Green, esq, and lady, They will grieve
t. hear of the sad demise of this excellent lady,
who died in Savannah on last Christmas day. ;"
The New York Herald and the New York
Tribune seem, both, disposed to acknowledge,
that whatever may be thought or said of his
course, President johnson is man Of much
more ability than they had previously given
him credit for; and that he has shown great
perseverance, 6rmness, and many OF the quail
ties of astateSman.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Wilson, of Mas
sachusetts, introduceda bill to vacate the off,
ces OF Provisional Governor, Secretary of State,
State Treasurer Comptroller General, and Sur
veyor General, of the State of Georgia, and
authorizing the,a Constitutional Convention,
now in session.at Atlanta, to fill said Offices.
A dispatch from London, dated yesterday,
says it is expected thatsthe Government party
will offer planin Parliament for the pacifca-
ton Of Ireland, the basis therefor being prop
osition to placetthe Irish people upon the same
political and religious level with the people Of
England. % es'SZa1
The Richmond Di,pa;ch, in view of the ex-
pected collapse o. Hunnnicutt, thinks that
hereafter he may be best remembered by the
cocred people, '.sby the hat he SO often handed
rcund,' and into which they were tools enough
to deposit their contributions. 1
The schooner George Washington, from Bal
timore for Norfolk, which was run ashore on
the 3lst ult., on Back river shore, east end of
Old Point, has gone to pieces, and it is feared
all on board pcrished IS s.1a"
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Secretary Seward was before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations yesterday, in
regard to the St, Thomas purchase. He entered
into long explanation concerning the same.
We are satisfied (says the New Y ork Herald)
that with all the professions amongssthe Radi-
Gals Of faith in Grant, they are working their