Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
There is much interest in Radical circles in
Richmond, in regard to the appointment of the
new Governor. Two committees has, gone to
Washington 10 protest against it. Gov. Pier
point is also there. He is said to be ''iodig-
nant." A message from Gen. Grant, 1t Is
stated, has been received, directing Gen. Scho-
field to suspend MS order until further orders.
A dispatch from Washington, says, that Gov.
Wells is to DO "~iDaugurated" to-day.
We have already announced the death of
Philip Williams, esq, of Winchester. He was
seized with apoplexy whilst attending to his
professional duties in the court house, before
the circuit court, and died 10 a few hours after
he was removed from the court room. The
court through respect for the deceased, ad-
iourned for that day, and the members OF the
bar adopted resolutions of respect to his
memory. - -
The Convention has finished all the reports
before it, and will adjourn this week.
Four ringleaders of the coal pit disturbance
have been b%rought,to Richmond for trial.
The IMpEAcHMENr.-The New York Her
aid expresses the following decided opinion, in
the following very decided language: "There
never was. such a failure. There never was
such a stale, fat and improbable conclusion to
anything that SO thundered and threatened in
the prologue: Impeachment is the old case of
forty crows put into the pompouS character OF
a great political process. Forty crows, as we
are all aware, would hardly cover the number,
even as stated by those most moderate in
speech. Some said the fight darkened the
heavens, and at the last it was barely possible
to prove the presence Of one solitary little
blackbird. So the nation that was assured its
liberties and peace were in danger from the
countless and heinous crimes of the Executive,
finds, when it comes to evidence in court, that
the prosecution cannot prove enough to send
a juvenile delinquent to the House Of Deten-
taken up by the prosecution, and what has
been shown. On Monday we had the windy
and grandiloquent opening Of Butler. Since
that it has been proven that the President
ISSUED an order for the removal of Stanton
not that he had removed him OF had not the
right to remove him or issue the order; the at
tempt has been made to prove that the Presl-
dent conspired with soldiers to oppose the laws,
and this has resulted in clearly proving that he
did not so c%onspire. And now the prosecution
is proving what the President said in his pub
lie speeches, proposing to trench upon that
most sacred right-absoIute freedom in the ex-
preston of opinion. What is proved here that
can authorize the removing 4 man from an
office in which he was placed by the will of the
people? And what is the whole result so far z?
Only that a grand occasion has been given for
Butler to strut and fret and plume himself in
the public eye. Only a chance for this vaporer
to show to the world that there is no sphere Of
human cndeavor in which he not equally in
capable"
COURTESY SELFIsHLY CONSIDERED Some
merchants and landlords and restaurant pro-
p~rietors know the value Of courtesy en- the
part of their employees; some..do motor know
ing it, they wilfully neglect their own interests.
The only safe rule to be followed bya mer-
chant is to compel every clerk in his employ to
be as courteous to the small purchaser as to the
wealthy customer. Even if it were not true
that small purchases make in the aggregate very
large sales, there is a constant danger, where a
clerk makes any distinction, that he will make
a serious blunder. He will mistake a modest
costume or an economical purchaser for an evil
dence of poverty. The keenest students of hui
man nature are very frequently deceived. and
our ordinary clerks are not particularly shrewd
students OF human nature or in any other d.
rectIon. ,.~.. ,--....-.,.
We speak Of this matter purely from a bust
ness standpoint.
In restaurants it requires very little that isl
displeasing to turn a man to other doors.-A
little neglect, a litt,s insolence, a little lack Of
courtesy. The same is true of hotcls-we need |
hardly repeat here the complaint Of many ira
vellers-the manners of hotel clerks.
If we may appeal to business men, on the
ground of policy, 10 insist on courtesy, what
shall we say to those who occupy public offices,
and have no special interest in the politeness of
their employees2AW W can only remind the en-
ployees themselves that they will feel more
pleasantly themselves if they try to make 9TH
.ers feel pleasantly. Courtesy to the public will
make them more agreeable friends in private
better husbands, brothers, sons. An uncour-
teous word or look hardens the heart. whether
it be directed to a stranger or a friend. Here,
then, is a purely selfish consideration which
should prompt to kindness and politeness of
manner, even where no money depends upon it.
-Lynch6urg Nrgamaan.
r BISHOP QUINTARD, of Tennessee, has writ
ten, a very severe letter against certain amuse-
ments now in vogue, which is published. The
character of the letter will be seen by the fol-
lowing extract ;i. 49, = t@o+4
"Fairs, suppers, rafaes, lotteries, balls, and
all such denominations, at once destroy, all true
principles of. making an offering to God, as an
act of holy worship. [ believe that in proper
ton as they are made use of, the life Of my
congregation will decline and the usefulness of
a pastor be destroyed !; he will be a CLOUD to
rain. not over Arabia. the. Happy. but over the