Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-02-03
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= Another portion Of the. Radical programme
Is. now announced Its pass a.law by Con
gress, enforce, the guarantee clause Of th e
+ Const = uarante eing arepublicanform
:of government to each State-2"'with a provi-
$40 sion compelling every State that, changes its
formaofa government to submit the same to the
representatives Of all the other States. which
are partners In this Government for ratifea-
ton This it is said will nationa2i:se the
United States of America. = Verify it will
and with a vengeance: This project is elabo--
rately recommended in the columns of the
Washington Chronicle. What next. -
9: The National Intelligencsr has, an article in
which It contends that ssnearly all the Offices
are filed by the 'confdants3 Of the President s
immediate official advisors, who work hard to
sustain the Radical party in all the States of
the North Z. And it argues that s'the camp
should be cleared Of neutrals, open enemies,
and especially ofspies. r. This policy it supports
in view Of the present existing state of affairs
not as general rule-and the crisis which is
impending & But The Senate aud the recent
law Of Gongress, tits said, prevents:the apph
cation of the propose rule, to great extent:
Rev. ". c., :Hoyt, Secretary of. the Central
Centenary Committee, has prepared asumma-
" Of the Centenary contributions Of the. Meth
odist Episcopal Church. 1.-The totals for con
nectional and local objects are embraced in the
returnsei The Central Illinois, Detroit, East
Genesee and Minnesota Conferences have not
yet reported. The Philadelphia and Michigan
ConferenceTepori are incomplete. The grand
total isover eight millions Of dollars, so far 3
A letter addressed by Ex-Governor Perry,
of South Carolina, TO Capt 0. N. Butler, of
that State, but now residing inBstimore, gives
agraphc and most deplorable picture Of the
present condition and future prospects .Iof the
great Southern sectionnof our country. He
shows. how the, South, in its present situation
costs the country HUNDRED millions instead of
adding asst should, a. hundred millions to It's
resources. yi.,sai 5ass: 81 E.sqga a~a#
The 'sVesuvius" news, transmitted by At
lantci Gable, and which, it is now said, wa all
false, shows that the public has no more guar
anty for trutts@ byn"telegraphic dispatches.
from Europe, then they have by similar dis
patches over the wires nsthis country. How
ever the Vesuvius news was not designedt to
operate: upon stocks, gold, or grain, OR cot
ton, or tobacco or business that's one comfort.
THERE'S a difficulty in Maryland, relative 10
the issuing7of the Commission to Mr.. Hamil-.
tom the newly elected Senator from that State,
10 consequence Of a construction of the law
requiring one of the Senators to come from the
Eastern Shore of the State. The subject has
been preached 10 the Legislature, and will be.
resumed on Wednesday T. . @.i- s.,.,s
Sensational paragraphs are set aaoat in the
newspapers, relative to: difficulties with Eng
land, concerning what are called the Alabama
Claims, II is more than probable that negotin:
tions on the subject will be renewed by Mr.
Thornton" the; new British Minister What.
will be the result, of course, no bodyyet knows.
Ones ontditY in the newspapers is; spistos:
and coffee are to be provided TOR Messrs Snead5
and Bowden of the Convention b" Another
is, that this is mistake, and that it should
read coffee and oysters! " aa.as .a6: 3ssa=I
A large Conservative Mass Meeting was,
held, in Philadelphia. last Friday, at which
strong resolutions were adopted condemhing the
course and policy of the Radicals 10 Congre 81:
The Richmond Dispatchth thinks that the Vir
GINA Convention is inclined tostollow the ex-
ample Of the Alabama Convention in establish.
ingqa ntest OATH. ss.s.-..ls s-s;gs !ae7j3-; IS
TheaSeDate was nottin session on Saturday
The House was engaged in the discussion Of
the. Kentucky contested election case. sa2s
Sunny ITALY: Italy IS anything Just
now but sunny Ii A correspondent of the
London News writes from Florence: -7@ "a a. 2.
II recollect being greatly amused, some years
ago, at the ast0nishment and dismay OF an.
elderly country woman, who having come to
Florence to enjoy the benefits of a mild and
sunny cline, was terribly taken aback by the
spectacle which presented itself to her gaze
when, the morning after her arrival, she looked
forth from her windows in the Gran Brettagna,
on the Lung Arno, and the first sig ht that met
her eyes was that Of party of Anglo-Floren-
tines skating away most vigorously On the ght:
she ruefully exclaimed, that have lett Aber-
deeDshire! A like disenchantment has fallen:
to the lot of those cuuntrymen and country
women whom the hope of soft Favonian breezes
has this year attracted to the South. Snow
high in the streets-snow interrupting all rail-
way communication--snow keeping imprisoned
all over the country those members of families
Who had gone to spend the New Years day
under the ,paternal roof-snow retarding minis