Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-06
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA.
A dispatch from Washington says: Gov.
Wells, of Virginia, in his interview with
President Grant, obtained no satisfactory IN
formation as to the time the Constitution
would be voted on in the State. This will not
be determined until thorough registration
shall be completed, and Gen. Candy, who has
not yet become entirely acquainted with the
political situation, shall recommend the most
convenient period for that purpose" Another
dispatch says: Several gentlemen who par
ticipated in the recent Conservative Conven
ton in Virginia have arrived here, and were at
the White House yesterday, for the purpose
Of urging the President to endorse the action
of that Convention. They also wish 10 get the
President to fix as early day as possible for
holding their election. The President did not
indicate what action he would take in the
matter, but said he would confer with General
Candy, who, no doubt. iully understood the
ondition OF affairs in the State, and who
would advise him OF the time most acceptable
to majority Of the people The President
Gll not De drawn into the support of any of
the political parties 10 that State He will
allow them to work out their political future
IN their own way"
A change seems to be coming "over the
spirit OF the dreams of the leaders of the ultra
radicals IN Virginia. We yesterday referred
to Gov. Wells letter virtually giving up the
Acknowledgement clause IN the proposed Con
sttution, aud now We have a letter from Judge
Underwood, IN which he expresses his salts
faction at the stand taken by the Richmond
State Journ,l against the constitutional
Test Oath, and says that ID was incorporated
IA the Constitution whilst he was absent, that
he was in favor o. striking it out then, and
now will very readily concur in any measures
ct with any OF our ielow.eitzens that look
30 the attainment OF 50 desirable result. -
All this shows tha, the ultraists are tindiog
nut that they have been running their coulter
rou lag in the ground
II we We're required to prefer the Walker
ticket, on the ground set forth By some of its
bNSe'AoA 4Ai%uNSf VIC ouVuiu hCStSSSC oUOul w.
even as an 0ltelaatire. But We 'prefer" to
think that the indiscretion OF the "recommen-
cations" to which we Gmde, il produced by
the zeal rather than .Ae Judgment Of those
who urge them. The Conservatives prefer
the Walker ticket 10 the Wells ticket, because
!. is the hes: presented to their choice. Simply
this, md nothing more. Their DO not include
i tals choice any approval Of the former
course in politics of those on the ticket, or
any reference to an administra ton party or a
Grant party, &C., &c.
The Washington correspondent Of the New
\ ork Times states that the "peran bulating
c)mmittees appointed By the House al Repre-
seatatives during the last session Of Congress
70 travel over the country for all sorts of pur-
poses have, though their respective chairmen,
drawn their draft on Sergeant at Arms Ord
way, through whom and the clerk OF the House,
Mr.. Mcpherson, warrants have been sent to
the Treasury Department. The total amount
appropriated for the contingent fund was
$1,000 Seven OF these committees have
drawn SIS 900 Of this amount leaving only
= ,O10 to pay expenses until next December.
\ cores pondent, in a neighb,ring county,
who once fell in their clutches, Che being en-
,irely innocent of the charges alleged against
him asks US what has become Of the two
government detectives who commenced their
career in Alexaudria, soon after the commence
men, of the late war p" One Of them is dead
gone to his last account, to answer tor his
crimes The other was, and may be still, IN
some pententiary. suffering deserved punish
ment here on EARTH for his villainles.
Mr.. Forrey, 10 his last occasional letter,
written FROM Savannah, alleges that the North
ern visitor can easily find abundant materials
for criticism and complaint, but has to admit
that life and property are to-day as safe IN
Georgia, Florida, and South Carolioa as they
are in Pennsylvania The tone OF Mr.. For
ney's letters would intimate that dissatisfaction
j. felt at the want of Rehabilitation at the
Sjuth.
I'll. C. Whiteley, of Boston, has been APP
pointed chief Of the secret service bureau of
the Treasury Department., in place OF VIM. Z.
Wood. Whitley was a detective under Gen.
Buter at New Orleans. He was also the de-
tective who was engaged in working up the
Ashhurn murder case in Georgia, some time
aso.
There are older houses in the u. ). than
tie Minot House in Massachusetts, mentioned
N the Gazette few days ago. There IS
building in St. Augustine, Florida. older than
the Mnoi House. Tor one.
The statements purporting to come from
Capt. John Webster. aged l04 years, who IS
now in the Sailors Snug Harbor, on Staten
Island, are more than doubted, 10 several par