Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-22
ALEXANDRIA.
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2.


crnment Of Virginia, existing at the time Of
the passage of the reconstruction laws. Mr..
Tucker shows that this State government, Or
ganized under Mr.. Lincoln's auspices, at
Wheeling, in june, 1861, and called the re
stored government of Virginia. was 'srecog-
nized by each House of Congress separately
by Congress, by the President, by the Supreme
Court - and was eput into its Capitol as the
rightful government by the military arm Of the
Federal Government that is to say, by Pres
ident Johnson-in May, 1865, without a whis-
per of dissent or cavla from any man 10 the
land north Of the Potomac river. And yet it
has been destroyed by Congress-for political
purpose
The New York Evening Post (Republican)
assails the tenure of office bill, tho Radical war
upon the judiciary, the hostility to the execu
tive branch of the Government; and advocates
the sacredness of the constitutional forms and
relations Of tho several divisions of the General
Government as paramount to any special and
temporary end It says: The tenurc-of- Office
act, or the law which regulates the number of
Judges on the Supreme Bench, in order to Sc
cure majority of them to party, is as real,
though not 80 formidable, an attack upon our
institutions, rs secession itself.
The Warrenton Index pays deserved tri
butte to the character and talents OF Gen. Eppa
Hunton, the Conservative candidate for the
State Senate from the Prince William District,
whenit says he is a true representative of
his race, a gentleman in every sense OF the
word, and with the ability and experience that
the exigency Of the times requires" A gal
liant soldier, an excellent lawyer, real Virgin
ian, he receives as he deserves the confidence
and esteem of his fellow citizens. 4
The President, on Saturday, sent to the
House of Representatives, veto of the bill
for the admission of Arkansas to represents
ton in Congress, an abstract of which, contain
ing the principal points, we published on Sat
urday The bill was Immediately passed over
the veto in the House by a vote OF yeas Ill,
nays 81. 1t will 60 to the Senate to-day,
where its passage is confidently expected, and
the Arkansas Senators and Representatives
will at once be admitted
The National Intelligencer calls to mind the
fact that although many Of the New England
ship owners were extra loyal and extra
''6erce' in words during tho war, yet, just as
soon as the Alabama commenced her career,
they issued orders to transfer all their vessels
to foreign flags and what is still moro remark
able, they sought that of our greatest rival on
the ocean as a means of ensurirg greater pro-
lection to themselves
On the 23d ultimo the Grand Rabbi OF the
Israelites and the patriarchs of the Christian
churches held private audience with the Sui
tan of Turkey, at which they formally express
ed their thanks to him for the late reforms he
has instituted, and the guarantees he had Civ
en- of his good faith and liberality in placing
Christians and Israelites 10 his new Council OF
State.
L. j. Mccormick, the great moving machine
manufacturer, and one Of the most liberal mind
ed men in the Great West, has just donated
one of his incom parable machines to the Fe-
male Orphan Asylum of Richmond, through
Mrs. Gennet, treasurer, as "a slight evidence
OF his appreciation Of such a needul and noble
charity.
Mr.. Shackelford addressed the people of
Rappahannock, in an able speech on the 18th
inst, which was we'll received and made a most
favorable impression. Mr.. S. will make ap-
pointments for addresses in the other counties
of the district.
The genius and merits of young Mr.. Richard
N. Brooke, son of Mr. James V Brooke of
Warrenton, as a promising artist, are highly
spoken of In Philadelphia. Some of his works
are mentioned in the newspapers with much
commentator.
The amended Tax bill was reported in the
House of Representatives on Saturday. The
bill reduces the tax on whiskey from two dol
lars to sixty cents per gallon, and on the high
er grades of tobacco from forty to thirty two
cents per pound.
Mr. Charles Dickens, on his return home,
published in All the Year Round, the remarks
he made at the dinner given to him in New
York, in relation to his criticisms on American
manners in Martin Chuzzlewist-as an apology.
Some friends of the President, in Washing
ton, according to the correspondent OF the Bal
more Gazette, 'claim that he will receive the
largest vote on the first ballot 10 the National
Convention. Doubtful.
There are said to be at this time, one hun
dred thousand gallons of whiskey (?) in the
bonded warehouses of Richmond, on which
the owners are either not able or do not care
now to pay the revenue tax.
The Department clerks in Washington have