Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-06

THE NEXT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The New York Herald says the Democrats will
have eighty-four members, which is more than
third of the next House of Representatives
Seventv-six members make over third, and
the Tribune comedies eighty-thrae to the Dem
ocrats The Tribune makes an error IN claim
ing Republican as chosen from Kentucky
and possibly it gives US one too few from view
Jersey. In Connecticut we may falrly expect
two more members to add to our list, and we
can hardly fail to elect one Democrat there.
| We may thus count on eLectip9 from elghty'hVe
! TO eiehty-eight members in the next House OF
| Represen natives.
This destroys the two-thirds majority tut
it will not be suffered to stand so. The Rad
Gals. following the custom they have already
| instituted, will expel or uUseat suthclent num-
| her. saw some ten or twelve Democratic mem
| bers, so as to secure their two-thirds majority
| We hear all over the country OF defeated Rad!-
Gals who are to contest the seats OF Democrat
| ic members Nat. Int.
WASHINGTON ITEMS. Moses Smith, very
aged colored man, died yesterday at the report
ed age of 100. But this Is doubtful. He came
from Smithfeld, Va.
The Radicals in this city have determined to
give Gen. Grant public reception upon his
return to Washington.
| On Wednesday night last colored man was
shot at or near Magruder's store, across Ben
ning's bridge, by some party unknown. 1t IS
| thought the wounded man is one of i gang OF
desperadoes, who received the shot while
proving about where he had no business
The colored population, uniformed and armed,
paraded the streets last night in preliminary
preparation to give the President elect an ex-
! tensive ovation on his arrival IN this city.
Information received from Gen. Grant IS
that he will be here about the 10th inst.
Gen. Candy expects to leave this city on
Tuesday next, to assume command in Texas.
| Gen. Schofeld has gone to West Point, and
expects to remain there four Or i've days.
SOMETHING NEw.-We are indebted to our
excellent Postmaster, Mr. George W. Taylor,
for something new in the shape Of Pipe, made
of charcoal, by the patentees and manufactu-
rers. A. S. Paterson & Co., No. Al East Sc
cond street. Cincinnati, Ohio. Being made
from pure carbon in the form OF Charcoal,
| which is so porous that cubic inch OF 1t IS es
timated to have surface Ola least hundred
square feet, and which also possesses the re-
markabe power of absorbing and condensng
this Pipe secures to the smoker the same lal-
munity from the poisonous properties OF tobac-
co, that the charcoal filter effects in decolorlz-
ing and purifying foul water The absorbent
quality of charcoal does away with all moisture
in the pipe, so that 1t can be smoked untll every
particle of the tobacco is consumed, thus com
binng economy with an important sanitary con-
dtion - Winchester Times.
TELEGRAPH DISPATCHES. "A brute entered
the office of the Western Union Telegraph
Company few days o,and offered dispatch
addressed to lady, couched in language 50
profane as to raise the question Of the pTo-
priety of its reception, Are we supposed
to know or recognize the language OF a dis,
patch Must we not accept everything offered
to us2 Are we to be the judges Of the moral
ity of messages? Such are the questions which
sometimes puzzle receivers in the performance
of their duty La the case referred to, the APP
peal was made to the chief executive officer,
who promptly endorsed upon it as follows -
| This message must Re reiu 'ed, no matter
what the consequences may be. This was
formerly, and we trust now Will De the
understood rule No brute should be allowed
to use the wires for the conveyance OF bis vul-
aarty.
TIE L. S. SENATE The election OF repub-
lican Senators in place Of Messrs. Hendricks
and Buckaew, the certainty that another will
| be chosen to succeed Mr. Doolittle, the retire
| ment Of Mr.. Dixon to make way for Slr. Buck
inpham, and of Mr.. Patterson, OF Tennessee,
together with the change made in consequences
of the resignation of Mr.. johnson, Of Maryland,
leave the democrats weak in numbers in the
next congress. There will be sixty-eight mem
bers, if we leave out Virginia, Mississippi and
Texas. OF these the democrats will have two
each in Kentucky and Maryland, one in Cali
fornia, one in Minnesota, one in Ohio, and one
in Georgia, or eight in all. Unless they gain
the Legislature in Nevada or New FORK, and
| they can have few hopes Of either, the mem
bers will be sixty republicans to eight demo
Gratis Wash. Rep.
CALIFORNIA WHARF.-The San Francisco
| papers report that certain sections OF San
Joaquin county produce forty bushels OF wheat
| and eighty-fve bushels Of barley to the acre.-
| The Chill Club wheat, however, raised IN Los
Angeles county, yields eighty bushels Of wheat
and one hundred bushels of barley to the acre.
These immense crops, it is stated, ore produced
without the use OF any kind OF manure or fer
| tizer, except rain and sunshine In England,
| in soils under the most perfect state Of cultiva
ton, thirty two bushels of wheat per acre is
considered very fine crop. From twenty
sight to thirty bushels per acre is the customa-
ry yield of the rich grain growing countries.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. On Tuesday morning
last terrible accident occurred on the railroad
in the western section Of this city Three Ger
man laborers, employees on the road, were
walking on the track on the way to their work,
when they saw train approaching them. They
stepped then to the other track in order to let
it pass, when at that moment the regulating
engine of the wharf came upon them from the
opposite direction and knocked them down and
ran over the entire party, killing two Of them
outright and wounding the other so badly that
he died shortly afterwards. - Cumberland Md. J
Tel.
| A NOVEL Ret ON TILE ELECTION.-TWO