Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-08-17
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA.
AUTHORIZED" STATEMENT. The Rich.
mond State Journal, Of yesterday, says: we
are authorized to say that all rumGfs to the
effect that Gen. Candy was about to issue his
proclamation declaring the result of the cleo
lion, are without foundation. The General has
40 idea when be will be able to promulgate it.
lie still holds to his determination to enforce
the law by exacting the test cath, and in this
is sustained by the President, his Cabinet, and
all prominent Republicans; but no opinion,
has, as yet, been given by the Attorney
General.
From all quarters of the country almost, we
continue to receive distressing accounts of the
effects of the drought. We could fill nnr col,
umns with the details as furnished by our ex-
changes-but it is unnecessary to do Sc. The
corn and tobacco crops suffer most severely
The fields are parched, the gardens dry, and
withered, the streams low, water scarce. Had
there not, fortunately, been good wheat har-
vest, we hardly know what the farmers would
have done. Such showers as have fallen In
this section of the country, within the last few
weeks have been slight and partial. Every
body is anxiously hoping and praying for rain
We may add, however, that old Observers
those whom people call weather wse-predict
from the signs, change OF weather, and that
We shall have rain very shortly. We trust they
may not be false prophets.
Mr. Garrett, the President of the B. Il o.
X. K. in his report OF the business OF the
A. Al Il
eSts Of Pennsylvania have urgently pressed his
company to advance materially its tatitf rates.
Ii was urged that with an advance of one
dollar ton, which would make difference In
the net receipts of the company Of $780, 900 Il
month, the great demand for coal would still
cause the full capacity OF the company to be
used. To gain one million eight hundred
thousand dollars year was great temptation
offered by the monopolists TO JOIN their cOm0-
nation. But Mr.. Garrett, looking to The 10
terests OF the public, aud, as We believe, to the
interests Of his company in the end, refused to
Join the monopolists." We are not the special
admirers Of Mr.. CARROTS railroad course, nor
Of the policy of the railroad company over
which he presides, (rather, indeed, quite the
contrary, but it is no more than Just that his
action in this matter should be noticed and
commended.
That humbug, the "Imperialist, in New
York, reviyes the old story of Gen. jackson s
having made formal proposal TO zen. Lee, at
the battle Of Fredericksburg, to nave the city
hombarded, and then for hir1 (Gen. j "to
march in his corpse, OF twcntythousand men,
stripped 20 the waist, with unloaded mus&ets,
II mo, N bo n he'd a
shirt on his bach" There was some talk in
camp, at tie time, among the Confederate
soldiers, that if Gen. j. had been permitted,
lie would have gone into Fredericksburg and
driven the Federal troops out-but the tale to
which reference is made, Is altogether without
ioundation-as has been stated over and over
again, BY all qualified to know.
If accepting the situation" means that
tie Conservatives OF Virginia are to turn Ra1i-
Gals: or to support ultra Radical principles or
purposes, then, they do not accept the situa-
ton. Set that down as certain. There may
be as much palavering, and backing and filling
as you please-but the Conservatives of Eir-
GINA will not turn Radicals even under du-
ress. Ii accepting the situation means a
sincere desire for restoration OF peace aud
union-obcdience to the 4aws-and DISPOSE
ton to do every thing in their power to show
this disposition and desire by their acts then,
they accept the situation.
The steamer Hornet LETT Philadelphia on
Saturday, having cleared for Liverpool via
Havana. Suspicion was aroused that it was
intended to violate the neutrality laws in aid
ing the Cubaus, and the Hornet was followed
by the revenue cutter Miami, with u. S. Mar
shall Gregory on board. The Hornet was cap
tured on Sunday morning, but nothing contra
band Of war is reported as being found. Her
decks were laden with coal and wood. The
vessel is now lying at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard
The newspapers are publishing what probes
SEES to be I copy of the original OF paper filed
in North Carolina, many years ago, signed by
the parents OF Andrew johnson, binding him
10 serve regular term Of apprenticeship at
the respectable trade he afterwards followed
This paper is said to be extant 10 Maine or
Vermont we forget which. There is moth
ing either rich or race in the document, but
the question is 'how the ID it got there
that is in Maine or Vermont?
Mr.. WIN. p. Wood, late Chief OF Secret |
Service Division, Treasury Department" is
spending some leisure hours, in making pamph- |
lets containing sundry curious charges against |
Mr. Boutwell,, the Secretary of the Treasury,
and showing up the proceedings of the "Se-
cret Service Department under the former
and present regimes. 1t is a precious pic
ture OF matters and things iu the Detective
line" We have three of these little pamph-
lets before us.
Tho Baltimore Gazette remarks, with truth,
that throughout the whole its dealings with