Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-03-20

a revolt which broke out IN MOntGVldCO,
and which threatened to become serious, had
been suppressed.
Congress.
In the Senate, yesterday, the House bill 10
exempt certain manufactures from Internal lax
was again under consideration. Mr.. Morgan
moved TO strike from the taxable list ''reined
sugars and the products of sugar rctincrics. "
After considerable discussion, the amendment
was rejected Mr.. CONFESS moved to strike
from the taxable list the following: Turpen-
tine, coffee (roastcd Or ground) and articles in
tended as substitutes for coffee, spices and
mustard, refined sugars and products of sugar
reGncrics, sugar candy and confectionery, da-
monds, emcralds, precious stones and imlta-
tons thereof, and all jcwclry, being the article
struck out by the House and restored by the
Finance Committee. This was agreed to. The
tax on petroleum was reduced to onc-hall the
| present rates. Amendments proposing rcduc-
| ton Of the tax on Whiskey 10 81 per gallon,
and to fifty cents, were voted down. The bill
was finally passed. and now goes back to the
| House for concurrence in the amendments
made by the Senate.
In the House Of Representatives Mr. Bout
| well, from the Reconstruction Committee, re-
ported bill providing that in case Of the
removal OF the Chief Justice, by death or
otherwise, The duties OF his position shall
dev0lvc upon the Senior Associate Justice I'M
til another Chief Justice shall be appointed
and duly qualified The bill was passed with
out division Mr. Banks introduced .
bill (which was rclcrrcd) providing for the bet
ter regulation Of mechanical labor in the navy
yards in the u. s. and the compensation there
of. Eight hours is constituted days work
for all the employees A bill to continue the
operations OF the Freedmen s Bureau for one
year from May next, was passed. During The
debate Mr. Eliot, Of Massachusetts, referring
to a remark Of Mr. Wood about General How
ard, said the charge that he (Gen. Howard)
was an anal gamationist was entirely false. As
part of his remarks, Mr.. Eliot read letter
from General Howard denying the charge Mt
terly The Civil Appropriation bill gave rise
agreed to providing that no money appropriate
ed by the bill shall be used to pay commissions
for the purchase, sale or conversion Of bonds
or notes Of the United States An amend
ment aboliahing the present system Of revenue
cutters was also agreed to. Without voting
upon the bill, the House adjourned until to-day.
EXPLANATION 1.-The following "ezplana-
ton took place in the Virginia "Reconstruc-
ton Convention, Oh Wednesday:
Bayne arose to privileged question. He
denied the accuracy of the report in the Dis
patch As to dis word impudent, it was called
impudencn in slavery times to dare to take off
dar hats and not to look up in their marsters
face but if he was impudent, it was because
it was taken off his labor and put in de repor-
ter's head De gentleman from Petersburg
had denied ever using sech language towards
him.
Mr. Platte: II do not deny that | called
the gentleman scOundrel."
az TO what he should say. He at length con-
patch reporter lie got completely mixed,
and spouied and suffered out what he evident
ly intended as a scathing denunciation of that
unfortunate parsonage.
''Colonel Platte, in his place in The Con-
venton, yesterday, denied that he used the
term NEGRO" in denouncing poor Baync. -
The reporters unanimoltsly reported him as us.
ing that word, and our own reporter, before
completing his report, consulted even Radical
members as to whether the gentleman had put
it before "scoundrcl, and they corroboraled
his own impression. We do not mean to i'm
.pugn the ColonePs vcracty, but better men
have, under the impulse Of passion, employed
language which in cooler moments they did not
think it possible they could have uttered j.
Rich. Dispatch.
In the town of Caledonia, Canada, a few days
since, a man was drunk at an inn. While in
an inseDsible condition, six women and four
young men made up 4 party to worry him.
These stripped the incbrate and first amused
themselves by pinching, tickling and otherwise
matrcating him. The women, not satisfied,
then procured hot irons, burning STICKS Goals,
&c., and began to scar and roast their victim,
who struggled and groaned piti1ully, but to no
purpose He fingered for some days in agony,
and finally died. The Guelph Advertiser,
which tells this fearful story states that ''the
jury can find nothing in the case to excuse such
ruthless barbarity."
A few Radical Southerners now in Washing
ton, who dislike Gen. Grant, held meeting
on Monday evening and after some talk de-
cided in favor of Mr. Wade for the next Presi- |
dent and Senator Wilson for Vice President.